Learning How to Learn ( Renaissance Learning )

Metaphors

• One of the best things you can do to not only remember but understand concepts is to create a metaphor or analogy for it.
• Metaphors and visualization—being able to see something in your mind’s eye—have been especially helpful, not only in art and literature, but also in allowing the scientific and engineering world to make progress. 
• It’s often helpful to pretend you are the concept you are trying to understand. 
• Metaphors and analogies are useful for getting people out of Einstellung—being blocked by thinking about a problem in the wrong way. 

Change your thoughts, Change your life

• It is proved by Santiago Ramon y Cajal that if you do a big effort even if you dont have all the intelligence will brain will develop more neurons
• Cajal named the perseverance the virtue of the less brilliant

Exercise, answer the following questions. 

Take a moment now and think about your own learning style. Do you think that you take responsibility for your education? Do you think you spend enough time practicing and studying? Are there any specific instances or areas that you think you can improve upon?  Write your thoughts below.

By taking the simple action of thinking about this and “chunking” your answers, you can have a surprisingly positive effect on how your learning unfolds. 

Teamwork

• The advantage of teamwork is that the rest group can help you as the devil's advocate 
• The left brain side always try to justify you point of view 
• The right brain side is responsible of see the big picture
• Work in team, only if all the members 
• Are focus
• Don't turn the session in social events
• Get to the session with all the information and material

Test Checklist

• Did you make a serious effort to understand the text?
• Did you work with classmates on homework problems?
• Did you attempt to outline every homework problem solution?
• Did you participate actively in homework group discussions?
• Did you consult with the instructor ?
• Did you understand all of you homework problem solutions?
• Did you ask in class for explanations of homework problem solutions that weren't clear to you?
• A study guide?
• Did you attempt to outline lots of problem solutions quickly?
• Did you go over the study guide and problems with classmates and quiz one another?
• A review session?
• Did you get a reasonable night's sleep before the test?

How to start

Start with the HARD problems but jump quickly to the easy ones

• When you fell stuck then change to the easy problems
• This allow been in focused and diffuse mode
• Change to something easy as you get bogged down or stuck

Breath

• breathe filling up your belly not your chest

Hitchhiker's Guide

What the problem is about?

• What are you trying to do?
• What do you want to achieve?
• What information do you have?

ADEPT

Analogy

Diagram

Example

Plain English
Technical description