How to Learn Without Memorizing Photo by Edwin Stemp Rote memorization is an inefficient way to learn. Just retaining a single formula can mean pounding the same information into your skull dozens of times. If your computer hard drive had this accuracy, you’d probably throw it out. Unfortunately, you’re stuck with your brain. The good news is that you don’t need to learn by memorization. A few years ago, I noticed that smart people seemed to learn differently than most other people. While there are undoubtedly some genetic advantages that allow some people to learn effortlessly, I think part of this difference in success comes down to strategy. Is Your Brain a File Drawer or a Web of Ideas? A computer stores information as thousands of electrical 1s and 0s in a linear fashion. However, your brain isn’t a sequence of bits and bytes, so this approach doesn’t make sense. Other Forms of Learning There are lots of ways you can learn creatively: 1. Connect ideas together by relating them to something you already understand. 2.
The Student Development Centre at Western Have you ever wondered why you have difficulty learning from a particular instructor, whereas another seems to explain things in just the right way? Did you ever question why the course that your friend said was so easy turned into a struggle for you? Do you notice that you and your roommate have different opinions on whether or not to have the radio on while you're studying? The reason behind some of these discrepancies may be differences in learning styles. What is a "learning style"? To put it simply, your learning style (or learning preference) is the way you tend to learn best. Expanding Your Learning Preferences There are 3 learning style preferences discussed here: The ideas are not meant to be the absolute best strategy for each student in all situations. Also from this web page: Confidentiality Information disclosed by students to SDC's Learning Skills Counsellors is confidential.
Diabetes mellitus Type 1 DM results from the pancreas' failure to produce enough insulin. This form was previously referred to as "insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" (IDDM) or "juvenile diabetes". The cause is unknown.[3]Type 2 DM begins with insulin resistance, a condition in which cells fail to respond to insulin properly.[3] As the disease progresses a lack of insulin may also develop.[6] This form was previously referred to as "non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus" (NIDDM) or "adult-onset diabetes". The primary cause is excessive body weight and not enough exercise.[3]Gestational diabetes, is the third main form and occurs when pregnant women without a previous history of diabetes develop a high blood sugar level.[3] Prevention and treatment involve a healthy diet, physical exercise, not using tobacco and being a normal body weight. Blood pressure control and proper foot care are also important for people with the disease. Signs and symptoms Overview of the most significant symptoms of diabetes
Khan Academy - BRAINTEASERS How to Study and Learn (Part Four) In the previous three articles we focused on ideas for helping students improve their studying and learning habits. All of the recommendations come from our Thinker's Guide to How to Study & Learn. This guide is designed to help students think deeply through content and begin to take their learning seriously. In this article, the final in its series, we focus on the importance of questioning in learning, providing suggestions to help students become active questioners. How To Understand The Role of Questions in Thinking & Learning Thinking is not driven by answers but by questions. So, instead of trying to store a lot of disconnected information in your mind, start asking questions about the content. Questions of relevance force you to discriminate what does and does not bear on a question. Continually remind yourself that learning begins only when questions are asked. Every discipline is best known by the questions it generates and the way it goes about settling those questions.
Jerry Sanders (businessman) Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) is a co-founder and was a long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents.[1] He was once attacked and beaten by a street gang[2] leaving him so covered in blood[1] that a priest was called to administer the last rites.[3] He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an academic scholarship from the Pullman railroad car company.[1] He graduated with his bachelor's degree in engineering in 1958. After graduation he went to work for the Douglas Aircraft Company. He eventually moved to Motorola, then to Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1968 Sherman Fairchild brought a new management team into Fairchild Semiconductor, led by C. In 1969 a group of Fairchild engineers decided to start a new company, which became Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). He drove the company through hard times as well.
Mental Math Tricks to Impress Your Friends One thing that fascinates me is performing mental math. Being able to quickly perform additions, subtraction, multiplications etc is a good way to impress your friends. The problem is, I’m not a math genius, and I don’t know much behind simple arithmetic. If you’re anything like me, but you’d still like to learn some basic math tricks, I hope you’ll find this list useful. Simple tricks How to multiply any two digits number by 11 Let’s say that you want to find the product of 36 and 11. Example: What happens if the sum of the two numbers is bigger than 9? Square any two digits number that ends with 5 Calculating the square of a number below 100 is extremely simple. Multiply any two digits numbers with the same first digit and the second digit that sums up to 10 Let’s say that you want to multiply 42 and 48 together. Note that if the product of the second digits is below ten, you have to add a 0 in front of it. Multiply by 9 Quickly find percentages Addition Left to right approach Subtraction ie.
How to Study and Learn (Part Three) In the previous two articles we introduced some of the intellectual skills, abilities, and dispositions essential to the development of the educated person as articulated in our Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn. All the ideas in this miniature guide are designed to help students think deeply through content and develop intellectually. In this article we focus on the analysis and evaluation of reasoning. To analyze thinking, we focus on its parts. In other words, we focus on the purpose of thinking, the questions the thinking is pursuing, the information being used, the assumptions and inferences being made, the concepts and point of view guiding the thinking, and its implications. To evaluate or assess thinking, we apply intellectual standards to the parts of thinking, standards such as clarity, accuracy, relevance, logic, precision, justifiability, significance, depth, and breadth. How To Figure Out the Logic of A Textbook The Logic of a Textbook Go to top
Free Foreign Language Lessons How to learn languages for free? This collection features lessons in 48 languages, including Spanish, French, English, Mandarin, Italian, Russian and more. Download audio lessons to your computer or mp3 player and you’re good to go. Amharic Foreign Service Institute Basic Amharic — Audio — TextbookLessons with dialogues, drills, exercises, and narratives will teach you the basics of this language spoken in Ethiopia. Ancient Greek Ancient Greek Introduction — Web SiteThe UT-Austin Linguistics Research Center provides an overview of Ancient Greek and 10 lessons based on famous Greek texts. Arabic Bookmark our free Arabic lessons section. American Sign Language Introductory American Sign Language Course — YouTubeBy the end of this course you should have a basic bank of ASL words that you are able to use to form simple sentences. Bambara Bambara in Mali — Web SiteLessons from the Peace Corps. Bulgarian Cambodian Catalan Chinese Czech Danish Lao
How to Study and Learn (Part Two) In part one of this article, we introduced some of the intellectual skills, abilities, and dispositions essential to the development of the educated person as articulated in our Miniature Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn. We provided eighteen ideas students need for becoming master students. In this article, we continue to highlight important ideas from the Thinker's Guide for Students on How to Study and Learn. How To Understand Ideas Ideas are to us like the air we breathe. Ideas, then, are our paths to both reality and self-delusion. To the uncritical mind, it is as if people in the world came to us with our labels for them inherent in who they are. If you want to develop as a learner, you must come to recognize the ideas through which you see and experience the world. Essential Idea: To understand our experience and the world itself, we must be able to think within alternative world-views. How To Control (& Not Be Controlled By) Ideas How to Learn Ideas From Textbooks
A Brief Guide to Learning Faster (and Better) Note: This is a long article (4000+ words), I suggest bookmarking it for later if you don’t have time to read it all right now. I spend a lot of time thinking about how to learn faster. The biggest reason I do this is because it’s important. With so much knowledge out there, the answers to most of our biggest problems are out there, but they’re useless if we don’t understand them. People who can grok hard subjects and big ideas will earn more money, live better and have a bigger impact on the world. The second, and admittedly more selfish reason, is that most of my income now comes from working with students. Today I’d like to share with you some of what works. I’ve split this rather long article into three sections to make things a bit easier, feel free to jump to particular sections: How to Learn Faster – The basics of learning betterHow to Learn Anything – Rules of thumb to master hard subjectsTactics for Learning Better – Specific methods to learn faster How to Learn Faster
Successful Learning: Going Cycling with Learning Styles What is learning style? Please refer to the article, ‘Discover Your Learning Style’ (c.f. Successful Learning, Issue No. 8), for a nice introduction to this topic. Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory This theory, which borrows tenets from Jungian typology, classifies your learning preferences along two dimensions, approach and response, when faced with learning new information. Kolb sees learning as being a four-stage process: Approach Dimension Feeling: Being directly involved in a learning experience, vs. Each person has a preferred learning style, which is measured from the interaction between your preferred approach and response to learning tasks. Know thyself What is your predominant learning style? The alternative terms for each learning style are listed below: Knowing your own preferred learning style might help to explain why you face difficulties in learning certain subjects (but remember motivation and discipline play important roles too). Cycling, anyone? Well worth the ride