HOW TO BECOME A MORE EFFECTIVE LEARNER

Tips from Psychology to Improve Learning Effectiveness & Efficiency(Adapted from Kendra Cherry, About.com Guide)

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Basics to Improve Your Memory

Improve your focus

Avoid cram sessions

Structure your study time

Good feeding

Enough Sleep

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Keep Learning and Practicing

Gray matter in the brain!

Learn!

Practice!

Rehearse!

Memory should be organized but fluid not frozen!

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Learn in Multiple Ways

Record and Listen

Describe to friend(s)

Ask friend to describe

Taking notes

Draw mind (concept) map

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Teach What you’ve Learned to Friends

In a study group

Idea of sharing

Write a blog post

Update facebook status

Participate a group discussion

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Always Utilize Previously Learned Information to Promote New Learning

Ideas from Chemistry 1

Ideas from chapter 0

Ideas from Previous chapters

Ideas from previous sections

Relational learning

Always relate new information to things that you already know

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Gain Practical Experiences

Practice in calculation

Practice in doing exercise

Practice in reading real life literatures (IRC, websites)

Talk to other lecturers

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Look Up for Answers, Rather than Struggle to Remember

Go to Glossary

Go to Index of the text

Go to Dictionary

Go to Wikipedia

Go to the websites

Trying to remember will only increase the likeliness that you will forget again in the future, because trying to remember just learn the “error state” not the correct response.

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Understand How You Learn Best Learning Habits and Learning Styles are

unique to everybody.

Develop learning strategies

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Use Testing to Boost Learning Every Assignments, Quizzes and Tests can be

used to feedback your learning

Feedback for Final Exam.

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Stop Multitasking

Multitasking makes learning less effective!!

Focus your attention for a scheduled learning time

Source of multitasking: TV, cell phone, game, chatting, other distractors…

Multitasking makes the organization of knowledge in the brain disorganized or loosen…

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