#### [[litnotes Learning how to Learn]] --- - Explain the difference between focused and diffuse modes of thinking. - Diffuse mode for learning new things like more spread out pinball pins vs. concentration of tighter pins and known way of thinking to solve problem. Binary. - Explain what a chunk is, and how and why you can and should enhance your chunking skills. - Compact package of information that mind can easily access. Interleaving can help. Focus/Diffuse and actually being able to do it yourself. - Summing it up, chunks are best built with focused attention, understanding of the basic idea, and practice to help you gain mastery and a sense of the big picture context. - Related to memory/habit zombies of belief, cue, routine, reward - Explain how working memory and long term memory differ from one another. - Blackboard vs factory storage. Chunks from LM can improve WM. - Describe key techniques to help students learn most efficiently such as: the Pomodoro, metaphor, story, visualization, deliberate practice, and interleaving. - Interleaving is practicing jumping back and forth between problems or situations that require different techniques or strategies. - Metaphors are like models that can overcome einstellung and connect to other knowledge in mind. - Describe actions that hinder students from learning most effectively, such as procrastination, over-learning, Einstellung, choking, multi-tasking, illusions of learning, and lack of sleep. - Procrastination is discomfort and temporary pleasure of avoidance. Also related to focusing on product instead of process. Pomodoro helps. Eat frogs first. - Einstellung is when preconceived notions are interference. - - Describe the most important aspects of proper test preparation. - Start with hard problems but quickly jump to easy ones. Engages diffuse. - Explain the importance of “mindset” in learning. - can prevent learning with preconceived. Use natural contrariness to overcome competitive/cooperative prejudice from others by reasoning with them. - Right hemisphere can show blind spots of left hemisphere's confirmation bias - Breathing practice before prevents cortisol bad worry and gives perspective. Be relaxed right before test, don't cram too hard. - Plan B career, just try to do as best as possible. - Test taking checklist: do whatever it takes to be able to answer "yes", meaning usually to most of the questions on this list. Did you make a serious effort to understand the text? Just hunting for relevant worked-out examples doesn't count. Did you work with classmates on homework problems or at least check your solutions with others? Did you attempt to outline every homework problem solution before working with classmates? Did you participate actively in homework group discussions, contributing ideas and asking questions? Did you consult with the instructor or teaching assistants when you were having trouble with something? Did you understand all your homework problem solutions when they were handed in? Did you ask in class for explanations of homework problem solutions that weren't clear to you? If you had a study guide, did you carefully go through it before the test and convince yourself you could do everything on it? Did you attempt to outline lots of problem solutions quickly without spending time on the algebra and calculations? Did you go for the study guide and problems with classmates and quiz one another? If there was a review session before the test, did you attended and asked questions about anything you weren't sure about? Lastly, did you get a reasonable night's sleep before the test? --- Tags: Reference: Related: [[Deliberate practice is a form of self-scaffolding constructionism]]