Notes for learn how to learn course
- Focused: for familiar
- Diffused for new ideas (create new neuro connection)
- Go back and forth between Focused and diffused mode
- a little bit every day
- metaphors very powerful for learning
- learning difficult things take time
- Practice makes permanent
- Working memory
- Chunk: focus, connect
- Academic learning: create chunks, a network of chunks
- Focus on and connection
- Must focus, get rid of all distractions
- Understand first
- Learn the context (big picture), so you know which chunk to use. So learning major concepts and then dive in.
* Focused attention
* Understanding
* Practice
- Recall from material
- DON'T passive reread
- Side note on margin to synthesize concepts are good idea
- Illusion of competence (you are not actually learning)
- Test to make sure you know you learned. Making mistakes helps you learn better.
## Chunking * Seeing the big picture