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"Learning styles" are a myth

Empirical research does not support notion that you learn better when you receive teaching in a form that matches your "learning style". 

You learn better by going wide and using your aptitude and resources to learn across multiple forms or styles. 

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Formulate Mental Models

Being able to extra key ideas from new material, organise them into a mental model and connect that model to prior knowledge helps acquire complex mastery. 

It also helps to put new knowledge into a larger context, which helps retain information by giving it meaning

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Failure is a part of the process

Failure is not a indication of limits but a badge of effort and a source of useful information - when learning is hard, you're doing important work and you will often fail and struggle but this will help you identify areas for improvement and also prime your brain for new learning. 

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Develop a Growth Mindset

Intellectual ability is not hardwired from birth and everytime you learn something new you rewire/change the brain. 

We are born with genetic gifts/pre-dispositions, but we have a large amount of control over our capability through learning and development of mental models to reason, solve ...

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The immutable elements of learning

To be useful, learning requires memory so its there when we need it. 

We need to keep learning and remembering all our lives. 

Learning is an acquired skill.

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Learning is deeper and more durable when its effortful

If it is easy, it is here today, gone tomorrow - like writing in sand

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We are poor judges of when we are learning well and when we're not

Actual productive learning is hard and goes slower - so instead we go for things that feel productive, but those gains are temporary. 

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Retrieval Practice is a far more effective learning strategy than re-reading

Recalling facts or concepts or events from memory (e.g. via flashcards) strengthens memory (through stronger neural pathways) and interrupts the Ebbinghaus Curve of Forgetting which is essential for memory.

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Incorporate Spaced Repetition and Interleaving

Spaced Repetition of practice of a task or Interleaving of the practice of two or more subjects leads to retrieval becoming harder and feels less productive.

However it is more effortful and ultimately leads to longer durability of memory and more versatility in application of learning. 

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Try solving a problem even if you don't know how

Trying to solve a problem before being taught the solution leads to better learning, even when errors are made in trying. This is known as the Generation Effect. 

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First Principles are important

By being able to understand or extract the underlying principles or rules that separate different types of problems, you'll be more able to pick the right solutions in unfamiliar situations and apply your learning more effectively. 

Acquire this skill through Interleaving and varying your p...

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Use Testing to identify your areas of weakness

Testing helps to calibrate our judgements of what we think we have learned and overcome illusions of competence. 

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Re-reading and cramming is ineffective

Rereading text and massed practice (single minded rapid fire repetition) of a skill or new knowledge are the most popular but least productive strategies.

They make you feel fluent or that you are gaining mastery but are ultimately wasteful uses of time, leading to illusions of competence. ...

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Use Elaboration

Overcome limits to what you can learn and remember through the process of elaboration.

This is giving new material meaning by expressing it in your own words and connecting it with what you already know. 

All new learning requires a foundation of prior knowledge - the more you can exp...

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How to learn effectively and "Make It Stick"

Empirical research over the last decade shows that what we know today on how to learn is wrong.

The growing science of learning shows that there are effective, evidence based strategies that are not intuitive which replace those ineffective techniqu...

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Founder of Meta (www.metalearn.io) and Marketing Manager at ReadCloud, helping students to grow and learn how to learn effectively.

Learning how to learn is a fundamental skill that I was not taught when I was younger and had to actively seek out and understand myself. Develop this meta skill and you'll be able to apply it to all parts of your life.

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Myth: Your brain has a preferred learning style

Myth: Your brain has a preferred learning style

Learning styles suggest that our brain has a preferred method of intaking knowledge. One popular theory suggests that our brains may prefer visual learning over kinesthetic and as fun as this sounds there is little research to back up this concept.

A large-scale study was done but found

1. Ditch Your Learning Style

1. Ditch Your Learning Style

Do not be so focused on your learning style. Studies show that learning styles have very little effect on our ability to consume information. 

The myth is still very prevalent today, but it is less about how we learn and more about what we are learning. 

The key is to interact with th...

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