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3. Take Notes By Hand
While it’s faster to take notes on a laptop, using a pen and paper will help you learn and comprehend better. When students took notes by hand, they listened more actively and were able to identify important concepts. Taking notes on a laptop, however, leads to mindless transcription, as well as an opportunity for distraction, such as email.
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1. Teach Someone Else (Or Just Pretend To)
If you imagine that you’ll need to teach someone else the material or task you are trying to grasp, you can speed up your learning and remember more.
The expectation changes your mind-set so that you engage in more effective approaches to learning than those who simply lear...
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2. Learn In Short Bursts of Time
Anything less than 30 is just not enough, but anything more than 50 is too much information for your brain to take in at one time. Once you’re done, take a five to 10 minute break before you start another session.
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6. Change It Up
When learning a new motor skill, changing the way you practice it can help you master it faster.
In an experiment, participants were asked to learn a computer-based task. Those who used a modified learning technique during their second session performed better than those who repeated the sa...
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5. Take A Study Nap
Downtime is important when it comes to retaining what you learn, and getting sleep in between study sessions can boost your recall up to six months later.
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4. Use The Power of Mental Spacing
While it sounds counterintuitive, you can learn faster when you practice distributed learning, or “spacing.”
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Taking Notes By Hand: Better Brain Processing
- Keyboarding information verbatim into the laptop does not involve any cognitive engagement like concept and vocabulary mapping, paraphrasing, summarizing or organizing as manual, by-hand note taking does.
- When we use a pen and paper, we are creating notes in the real sense, crafti...
Revision of notes
Revision of notes, done right after the lecture, is a crucial step so that any missing lesson ideas can be filled using our short-term memory.
Hand-written notes are better than laptops as the latter can be distracting, with students checking email or playing games. It also distr...
Laptops vs pen and paper
In an experiment, students were given Ted Talks to watch and were told to take notes, half with laptops, the other with pen and paper.
- The students using a keyboard were more likely to type the lecturers' words verbatim without processing the information.
- The students writing...
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