The audience for this post is my students. I have written it so I can give this to them on the first day. I might also make a PPT for this which includes the videos.
Learning how to learn
You’ve been in school for a while now, but how often have you thought about how you learn? Since learning is an activity which will take up most of your time, particularly in your final years of schooling and university beyond, you’d better be good at the actual art of learning. The good news is that you can learn how to learn. The sooner you get better at learning, the sooner you will reap the rewards. So, what should you do?
You should become aware of metacognition, you need to know about ‘distributed practice‘ or ‘interleaving‘ and you must know how your brain acquires and retains information.
Let’s start with metacognition, which is the most important. In it’s simplest form, metacognition is thinking about thinking. Continue reading “The forgetting curve: Interleaving vs Blocking”
t was a really interesting exercise to represent the unit