Learning Strategies

John Hattie: Visible Learning Pt1. Disasters and below average methods. Hattie effect size list - 256 Influences Related To Achievement  John Hattie developed a way of synthesizing various influences in different meta-analyses according to their effect size (Cohen’s d). In his ground-breaking study “Visible Learning” he ranked 138 influences that are related to learning outcomes from very positive effects to very negative effects. Hattie found that the average effect size of all the interventions he studied was 0.40. Therefore he decided to judge the success of influences relative to this ‘hinge point’, in order to find an answer to the question “What works best in education?” Originally, Hattie studied six areas that contribute to learning: the student, the home, the school, the curricula, the teacher, and teaching and learning approaches.

(The updated list also includes the classroom.) Become a More Productive Learner. Executive Summary Today we consume more information than ever — but seem to retain less of it.

To become a more productive learner, you can try four things. First, focus the majority of your information consumption on a single topic for several months. Instead of spreading your attention over a variety of topics, do a deep dive. Second, put what you’re learning into frameworks. Why Distraction Is Not Your Enemy – Personal Growth. We live in an era of distraction.

Teachers, researchers, and productivity experts love to remind us of our inability to stay focused. Technology seems to be “eroding human memory,” “creating irreparable damage to brain functioning,” or “diminishing our ability to do deep work.” Either you are focused, or you are wasting your time, they tell you. Future - An effortless way to improve your memory. When trying to memorise new material, it’s easy to assume that the more work you put in, the better you will perform.

Yet taking the occasional down time – to do literally nothing – may be exactly what you need. Just dim the lights, sit back, and enjoy 10-15 minutes of quiet contemplation, and you’ll find that your memory of the facts you have just learnt is far better than if you had attempted to use that moment more productively. Although it’s already well known that we should pace our studies, new research suggests that we should aim for “minimal interference” during these breaks – deliberately avoiding any activity that could tamper with the delicate task of memory formation.

So no running errands, checking your emails, or surfing the web on your smartphone. (Deliberate) practice makes perfect: how to become an expert in anything. We’re faster, smarter, stronger, more emotionally-intelligent and artistically-gifted than ever before. Take a look at any profession in the world today. From music to maths to track running, the previously-impossible is being achieved every day. Where does this continuous, steep upswing in the standards of excellence come from? No, there hasn’t been a surge of extraordinarily talented people being born. Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It. Double Loop Learning: Download New Skills and Information into Your Brain. No Pain, No Brain Gain: Why Learning Demands (A Little) Discomfort. Become a More Productive Learner. Renowned Physicist: There Are Only 2 Problems That Stop People From Achieving Anything. Sadly, most people completely miss this and don’t achieve their goals… “The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”

Winston Churchill Think about your biggest, most important goals.

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Curriculum: The Key to Boosting Knowledge Retention—Even Among Adults Who Haven’t Been in a Classroom for Ages. How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Issue 17: Big Bangs. I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague.

So it’s a little strange how I’ve ended up now—someone who dances daily with triple integrals, Fourier transforms, and that crown jewel of mathematics, Euler’s equation. The Key to Learning Almost Anything – Personal Growth. Several months later, I was reading a book by Tim Ferriss — I know, I know, peak-broflake self-improvement life-hack drivel, but sometimes you’re just curious what all the fuss is about — The Four-Hour Chef, and I came across a section on how to shoot a basketball.

I had no real idea how to shoot a basketball, I’d never actually seen the mechanics of spelled out before, and it was the first part of the book that legitimately piqued my interest. (Sorry, Mr. Ferriss.) So I studied up. The very first step, before even gripping the basketball or setting your feet, he wrote, was to find your dominant eye. Memory. Seven Steps To Learn and Master Anything As Quickly As Possible.

This rule, developed by Anders Ericsson and popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, damaged me for years thinking I needed 10,000 hours to succeed at anything, states that you need 10,000 hours of “deliberate practice” to reach master-level potential.

For instance, as Gladwell writes in “Outliers” (but Ericsson disputes in his book “Peak”), The Beatles got their 10,000 hours playing 20 hours a day in strip clubs in Germany before they wrote their first album. Mozart played piano for 10,000 hours by the time he was 12 years old. Story after story. So I felt frustrated. I feel frustrated. This Is Exactly How You Should Train Yourself To Be Smarter [Infographic] View the high resolution version of the infographic by clicking here.

Out of all the interventions we can do to make smarter decisions in our life and career, mastering the most useful and universal mental models is arguably the most important. Over the last few months, I’ve written about how many of the most successful self-made billionaire entrepreneurs like Ray Dalio, Elon Musk, and Charlie Munger swear by mental models.

I’ve collected the 650+ most useful mental models from the best mental model curators in the world. The Seek > Sense > Share Framework. Seek Sense Share — Inside Learning Technologies [This article appears in Inside Learning Technologies January 2014] Simple standards facilitated with a light touch, enables knowledge workers to capture, interpret, and share their knowledge. Personal knowledge mastery is a set of processes, individually constructed, to help each of us make sense of our world and work more effectively. But what we loosely call knowledge, using terms like knowledge-sharing or knowledge capture, is just an approximation. The Generalized Specialist: How Shakespeare, Da Vinci, and Kepler Excelled. “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Do you ever ask kids this question?

We live in a one-track world, but anyone can become a polymath. I travelled with Bedouin in the Western Desert of Egypt.

When we got a puncture, they used tape and an old inner tube to suck air from three tyres to inflate a fourth. It was the cook who suggested the idea; maybe he was used to making food designed for a few go further. Far from expressing shame at having no pump, they told me that carrying too many tools is the sign of a weak man; it makes him lazy. The real master has no tools at all, only a limitless capacity to improvise with what is to hand. The more fields of knowledge you cover, the greater your resources for improvisation. We hear the descriptive words psychopath and sociopath all the time, but here’s a new one: monopath. The monopathic model derives some of its credibility from its success in business. A brief summary of effective study methods.

EDIT: Reworked and moved to Main following Gunnar_Zarncke's advice.

Related to: Book Review: How Learning Works, Build Small Skills in the Right Order, What are useful skills to learn at university? This article is organized into three sections focusing on attention, processing and recall respectively. The advice in each section is roughly organised in order of usefulness, although your mileage may vary. When Memorization Gets in the Way of Learning - The Atlantic. Memorization has enjoyed a surge of defenders recently. They argue that memorization exercises the brain and even fuels deep insights. They say our haste to purge old-school skills-driven teaching from our schools has stranded a generation of students upriver without a paddle.

Six Brain Hacks To Learn Anything Faster. Whether it’s a new technology, a foreign language, or an advanced skill, staying competitive often means learning new things. Carol Dweck: A Summary of The Two Mindsets. Top 10 Evidence Based Teaching Strategies. Most teachers care about their students’ results. What works in education – Hattie’s list of the greatest effects and why it matters. [UPDATE February 2015: Over the past few years, numerous people have commented on my last paragraph as being an overstated and overheated conclusion, unwarranted by the data and of no help in advancing reform.

Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus. Talking to Yourself (Out Loud) Can Help You Learn. A Stanford researcher's 15-minute study hack improves test grades by a third of a grade — Quartz. A brief summary of effective study methods. Can You Make Yourself Smarter? Science: This Super-Simple Learning Hack Can Help You Master Any Subject. Introduction to the Improvement Kata. Popsci. In music, you have scales. In Jiu Jitsu, it’s drilling. The Secret To Learning New Skills Twice As Fast. Whatever your ultimate reaction to the long, fractious, exhausting election campaign last year—whether you're still sorry for Hillary, optimistic about what Trump might do on infrastructure and jobs, or just disgusted by Trump—we can agree on certain things, perhaps. Though power did pass efficiently and peacefully from Obama to Trump, it did so under a cloud; or at least with question marks about the functioning parts of our democracy itself.

The growing gap between elites and the general electorate, the rise of populist parties, increasing partisanship, a lack of trust in institutions (like the media, or election officials), a sense that mainstream parties, or Congress, don't respond well to people—these are all manifestations of a democracy that isn't working well. Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills.

How to cram for a test: A step-by-step guide to hack your brain so it can study better and memorize facts — Quartz. Anders Ericsson: How to become an expert at anything. Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect. How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math - Issue 40: Learning. How To Be An Expert: 8 Proven Secrets To Superior Skill. Second-Level Thinking: What Smart People Use to Outperform. There’s a better way to get smarter than brain-training games.

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Anyone can learn to be a polymath – Robert Twigger. This is the kind of music you should listen to at work. Time Management and Productivity. Hacking Knowledge: 77 Ways to Learn Faster, Deeper, and Better. "Study Less, Study Smart": The Best Ways to Retain More in Less Time. How To Learn New Skills Without Hurting Your Bank Account. Better Ways to Learn. The ultimate guide to learning anything faster. The Neuroscience Behind Stress and Learning. The Growth Mindset. Education Week. The Learning Myth: Why I'll Never Tell My Son He's Smart. Cognitive Exhaustion: Resting Your Mental Muscle.

Threshold Theory: How Smart Do You Have to Be to Succeed? To Make Big Gains, Avoid Tiny Losses. Checklist: Are you doing these five things to be the best? Avoiding The Overconfidence Trap. Rubber Duck Problem Solving. Study Skills and Tutoring. Thinking and memorizing; test preparation and taking menus. The Learning Toolbox - Cornell Notes. Uk.businessinsider. Back to Basics: Perfect Your Note-Taking Techniques. Smart Wisdom: Note taking made easy.

Here's Why, How, And What You Should Doodle To Boost Your Memory And Creativity. Visual thinking. Sketchnotes 101: The Basics of Visual Note-taking. How To Get Started With Sketchnotes. Download Mendeley Desktop - Manage and Share Research Papers. VideoNot.es. How to become smarter by doing less in the information age. The Buffett Formula — How To Get Smarter. How to Understand Everything (and why) — Metamodern. How To Teach All Students To Think Critically. The Impoverishment of Attention. Buzzword: Micro-learning. The Single Most Proven Way To Get Smarter And Happier. Learning to Learn: leveraging your circadian rhythm. How long does it take to learn a new skill? 20 hours. Learning To Learn Faster: The One Superpower Everyone Needs. Robert Greene Mastery. Interview with author of "The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything... Fast" (plus excerpt)