Learn Better

6 steps to master knowledge and skills from Ulrich Boser (2017) "Learn Better: Mastering the Skills for Success in Life, Business, and School, or How to Become an Expert in Just About Anything", Rodale Books

1. Find values

 Why is it important for you? Why do you want to learn it? 

 Work actively: quiz by yourself, explain to you, make a summary.

2. Set goals / targets

Learning is a kind of management of knowledge. You need to understand what you want to master, what steps you have to take, and what you have already learned.

Find the clear and focused target that is a little bit difficult for you. There is no comfort zone for learning.

However, do not aim too high. Be aware of your meta-cognition and self-efficacy.

3. Develop knowledge and skills

Take you learning to a higher level; develop knowledge and skills systematically with the circulation of feedbacks.

Monitoring your current level (meta-cognition), get feedbacks from others. 

Feel pain and repeat to master!

4. Extend expert knowledge

Extend the realm of  and deepen your knowledge and skills.

Apply knowledge and skills to practices or simulation. Concrete things are easier to understand than abstract things. 

Explain the concepts that underlie a body of knowledge to you or others.

Knowledge and skills are possible to be extended and are uncertain! (so continue to ask why)

5. Relate knowledge and skills to others 

Find the hidden relationships (systems) among concepts, theories, knowledge and skills. 

Look beyond factual information and know how things are connected. (Reasoning about relationships)

What systems are there? Causal relationship? Analogy? - Hypothesis-thinking and concept map are effective. 

6. Re-think about knowledge and skills 

Since you never learn without mistakes and over-confidence, you have to review the degrees of knowledge and understandings. (meta-cognition)

Feedbacks are effective.

Spaced learning is important because it takes time to be retained in memory. 

A time of quiet reflection is needed to contemplate knowledge and one's own thinking.

コメント

このブログの人気の投稿

きっとまたあした。―6+7+8th Anniversary Live "Along the way"を終えて

キャン丁目へと向けたSalut! (サリュ!)

続・「推し」に寄せて