SoYouWanna.com | Learn What You Wanna Do. "Resist Googling" & 5 Other Strategies For Meaningful Modern Research. “Resist Googling” & 5 Other Strategies For Meaningful Modern Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D It’s the start of a new school year, and many teachers will be planning research projects for their classes. Inquiry-based learning is one of the current buzz phrases, meaning students should ask and answer questions as a primary method in the classroom. It’s a great initiative, but it puts teachers on the hot seat. Most people teaching today weren’t trained to instruct students about researching in a technologically advanced world. 1.
Most adults in a school environment can easily use Google to search for information. Students don’t know how the search engine works or makes money, and they usually can’t judge a site’s credibility even while using it. Google isn’t “bad”; everyone, including students uses it for general information answers. 2. Many schools use LibGuides to keep students off popular search engines and focused on a specific range of useful resources. 3. 4. 5. 6. Lifelong Learning. The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Neurobonkers. A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions.
The report is quite a heavy document so I’ve summarised the techniques below based on the conclusions of the report regarding effectiveness of each technique. Be aware that everyone thinks they have their own style of learning (they don't, according to the latest research), and the evidence suggests that just because a technique works or does not work for other people does not necessarily mean it will or won’t work well for you. If you want to know how to revise or learn most effectively you will still want to experiment on yourself a little with each technique before writing any of them off. Elaborative Interrogation (Rating = moderate) A method involving creating explanations for why stated facts are true. An example of elaborative interrogation for the above paragraph could be: Reference: Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better.
If someone granted you one wish, what do you imagine you would want out of life that you haven’t gotten yet? For many people, it would be self-improvement and knowledge. Newcounter knowledge is the backbone of society’s progress. Great thinkers such as Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and others’ quests for knowledge have led society to many of the marvels we enjoy today.
Your quest for knowledge doesn’t have to be as Earth-changing as Einstein’s, but it can be an important part of your life, leading to a new job, better pay, a new hobby, or simply knowledge for knowledge’s sake — whatever is important to you as an end goal. Life-changing knowledge does typically require advanced learning techniques. In fact, it’s been said that the average adult only uses 10% of his/her brain. Imagine what we may be capable of with more advanced learning techniques. Health Shake a leg.
Balance Sleep on it. Perspective and Focus Change your focus, part 2. Visual Aids.