What helps you learn? What hinders your learning?
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719 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 12 Dec 2023 freebie
write blog posts about whatever you want to learn and publish them
so you actually need to know your stuff before you embarrass yourself in public, lol
so basically: teach others :)
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499 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 12 Dec 2023
Teaching others help you break down complex concept for yourself too, especially if you need to illustrate visually that something.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bullen 12 Dec 2023
Basically this but for yourself: The Feynman Technique
Take a paper
Write a headline about a subject you're trying to learn
Write down how you'd explain it to an audience fitting to what you are learning, grandparents seem to come up often...
As soon as you can't explain a concept in simple terms - you've found a hole in your knowledge. Probably a good thing to fill that gap.
Then re-do the explaining. Find a knowledge gap and patch it. Repeat until you know the subject.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 12 Dec 2023
Failing. Arbitrary and arbitrarily enforced rules.
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40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bullen 12 Dec 2023
Learning by doing
I can't read up on a subject and then be knowledgeable. I need to use it for it to stick.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @eightiespleb 12 Dec 2023 freebie
Simple three step process:
- Learning an idea or framework.
- Putting the idea into action.
- After action reflection: what went well, what could be done differently
Personally I prefer to first read and study a bit, for example by reading going through some credible sources, such as a good book, watching Youtube video or chatting with Chat GPT about the topic in step 1.
Step 2. is the first ugly draft. Getting started is more important than being perfect.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 12 Dec 2023
My major hinderance come from getting the right guidance to learn a particular thing as they are plethora sources to learn from
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @fred 12 Dec 2023
i tend to make thorough research on the subject matter
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 12 Dec 2023
By watching Youtube Videos or buying courses on them
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @NoStranger 12 Dec 2023
I'm the type that learn from experience.
I take something you want to learn and break it in the smallest piece possible, then I make something that help me achieve that something and then I go for the next one.
When it's something that needs to be used like a tool or program I just learn enough to survive and add to my knowledge as I need, that way I skip everything that's not needed.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @faithandcredit 12 Dec 2023 freebie
once you realize there are things you don't know the rest will take care of itself i think
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @watchmancbiz 29 Apr
Youtube
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @c590b1622e 23 Dec 2023 freebie
Learning is creating memories via sensory inputs.
As far as math learning goes, which I know also is @needcreations_ specialty, we do not exactly engage our senses of smell or taste very often, leaving us with sight, sound, and touch, which we refer to as "The Big 3". We tend to have stronger retention of memories in which more of our sensory inputs are engaged. Family feasts are a great example of this. All 5 senses are engaged at such an occasion and those occasions are often easier to recall in vivid detail.
There are multiple reasons I enjoy the aphorism "there's a fine line between crazy and genius", but the one that is applicable here is 'talking to yourself'. Certainly the crazy person who talks to the sky every day on 8th and Madison near his cardboard box campsite is talking to himself and is crazy. Is the genius who mutters to himself as he works crazy or is he merely utilizing his cognitive capacity in every way that he can imagine to improve his ability to operate, to research, to problem solve, to engineer, what have you?
I typically encourage students to not only speak aloud when they work (quietly, to themselves), I stress the importance of speaking their work properly, i.e. "seven tenths", not "zero point seven" or "seven over ten".
It also helps to engage the sense of touch when possible with any learning experience.
Short term memories "dump" into long term memory when we go through sleep cycles at night or even if we get a full sleep cycle nap in during the day.
The Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve suggests that, without daily refreshers on a concept, we rapidly lose concept retention, percentage point by percentage point. Refreshing a concept back to 100% right before making a short term memory deposit into your long term memory makes a lot of sense. Before going to sleep at night, thinking about every moment of your day, as best as you can muster, will create stronger memories of that day in your mind.
Likewise, it may be a memory hack to take a nap every day as well. It would need to be a full sleep cycle, and, just like above, it would be ideal to refresh your memory right before your nap of all waking moments since you last slept.