The best tips to learn
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This document summarizes three tips for effective learning: chunking, sleep, and avoiding procrastination. It discusses chunking as organizing information into meaningful groups. It describes how sleep helps the brain strengthen important memories and solve problems. Procrastination is defined as putting off tasks, and the document recommends using the Pomodoro technique to focus on tasks for 25 minutes to overcome procrastination. The tips are based on research from Barbara Oakley's MOOC "Learning How to Learn".
The best tips to learn
- 1. Author: José Chacón Teacher: Barbara Oakley, Phd
- 2. The best tips for learning Index A.- How this project will be used in my life. B.- Three best tips for learning: 1.- Chunking 2.- Sleep 3.- Procastination C. -References
- 3. The best tips for learning A.- How this project will be used in my life. This project will be a key tool to be used when I start a Financial Analysis post-degree program in April 2015. Given the complexity of the sujects to be covered in the post-degree program such as: - Finance for companies - Investment projects - Securities markets - Principles of Finance and Accounting I think that the best tips for learning project, will help me to master the sujects above mentioned, and therefore to achieve my goal. -
- 4. B.- Three best tips for learning: Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning How to Learn," video 2-1 What’s a chunk? 1.- Chunking: definition: is the mental leap that helps you unite bits of information together trough a meaning (2014 Oakley: 54) What is a chunk? Chunks are pieces of information that are bound together trough meaning (2014 Oakley: 54)
- 5. The best tips for learning How to form a Chunk: 1.- Focus your attention on the information you want to chunk. 2.- Understand the basic idea you are trying to chunk. 3.- Gaining context so you see not just how, but also when the use the chunk.
- 6. 2.- SLEEP Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning How to Learn," video 1-7 a The importance of sleep in learning The importance of sleep in learning 1.- During sleep your brain makes a housecleaning to eliminate toxic products. 2.- Your brain erases trivial aspects of memories and simultaneously strengthen areas of importance. 3.- Your brain rehearses some of the tougher parts of whatever you are trying to learn. 4.-Sleep has been shown to make a remarkable difference in people ability to figure out difficult problems and to find meaning and understanding in what they are learning.
- 7. 3.- PROCRASTINATION Definition: "Is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time, sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination) Procastination is a single, monumentally important “key-stone" bad habit. (2014 Oakley: 86)
- 8. The best tips for learning Typical Procastination Pattern Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning How to Learn," video 1-4 a procastination preview
- 9. The best tips for learning Procastination is like an addiction. It offers temporary excitement and relief from boring reality (2014, Oakley: 87) Like any habit, procastination is something you can simply fall into. (2014, Oakley: 88)
- 10. How to overcome procastination The pomodoro technique Is a technique that’s been developed to help you focus your attention over a short period of time (2014, Oakley: 103) Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning How to Learn," video 1-4 A procastination preview You can overcome procastination by using the Pomodoro Technique as follows: - 25 MINUTES - NO INTERRUPTIONS - FOCUS
- 11. 4.- References Oakley, Barbara (2014) A mind for numbers, USA Jeremy P .Teacher/Penguin Coursera(2014) MOOC "Learning How to Learn“ (www.coursera.org)