Now that I’ve dedicated myself to learning several skills I feel like it would be doing a disservice if I didn’t have a system where I can learn the most effectively.
The problem is: I do not believe I am learning things in an effective and efficient matter, I want to gain clarity on what steps can be done so that I learn better.
My best guess for how to solve this is to learn and implement encoding techniques into my life through Youtube Videos.
Notes:
Watch a Khan academy video: take brief notes
Encoding is moving information from temporary to long term memory.
Rote rehearsal
least effective encoding technique, say the same thing over and over again. Not an effortful technique.
Successful encoding techniques tie in existing information into previously known information
Chunking
became easy because were in 4 sets of categories that make sense
Using previously encoded memory is very helpful for connecting new information
Mnemonic Devices
Imagery - the crazier the images the more likely you are to remember it
Pegward - one is a gun two is a shoe three is a tree. 1, 2, 3.
Method of Locis - locations instead of verbal anchors.
Self Referencing
You using the information, how it relates to you. Preparing to teach allows you to remember it a lot better.
Making your own fantasy when using the information is good?
Spacing
Cramming it all at once vs doing it a bit at a time.
spacing out your study sessions allows you to remember that information long term a lot better. 5 hour single session, vs 5 1 hour sessions over a week.
Optional Practice - give up the belief that you do stuff on your own, lose the shame in asking people stuff you don’t know. Being vulnerable enough to admit to other people that you would like their help.
The Learning Coach
Orders of Learning
Low and High orders:
deep processing occurs at high order
happens when you have clear organizational structure in your brain. Navigating information that makes intuitive and logical sense.
Not memorizing groups of things, its very logical.
Can do the explain it to a 5 year old.
Bloom’s Taxonomy
Remembering
Understanding (still very isolated), don’t want it to be isolated (working memory?)) can explain it
you’ve got seconds to encode it into long term memory, if you miss that window, you are wasting time.
it will already be late, its in a memorization box.
As early as possible jump to higher order learning:
Apply (execute, implement, solve, testing on individual concepts)
Analyze (bringing ideas and comparing them against each other)
Looking at ideas in relation and comparing and contrasting the relationships between them
Evaluate
Which relationship is the most important. What the nature of that relationship is and how important it is in the grand scheme of things.
Create
Solo Taxonomy
always need to try to relate to each other and the bigger picture.
Some people will naturally do this. Or flick in and out of this method of thinking.
You don’t need to spend much time at all on the lower levels of thinking. Not try to memorize or understand something.
brain automatically does the lower levels of thinking. memorizing, understanding, and application of it.
Naturally it becomes more organized.
Don’t try to go bottom up, you have to organize the information in the big picture, sort of organize the information against each other. So each piece of information knows where to fit. if you read and write something straight away you’re not letting your brain organize it first. Never committing anything into your notes until you’ve figured out a way to orgnize it with other concepts and the bigger picture.
Big picture relevance. As information gets harder and harder repetition gets harder.
Train your cognitive load tolerance
as soon as you write notes there is a burden, not a good thing in certain situations.
The way you write notes is not effective, reducing your cognitive load and offloadding it into your notes, more work for yourself in the future and wasting your time.
Get into the habit of slowly incresaing your cognitive load capacity, How does it relate to what I just learned and the bigger picture.
Gradually expand your tolerance for cognitive load. Most encoding techniques require a level of cognitive load. A fundamental skill for any encoding technique.
ie Chunking, non linear note taking. Chunk mapping, layering, interleaving, microlearning, space repition in a healthy way, revision techniques,
Will take some time, but will contribute and benefit you.
Going bottom up for the taxonomy chart to increase cognitive load.
I now have greater clarity on the first step before learning encoding techniques: which is increase cognitive load.