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6 Study Tips for Visual Learners
Visual Learning
... is learning by seeing the information through images, graphs, and other visual materials.
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Visual Learning
... is learning by seeing the information through images, graphs, and other visual materials.
Study Tips for Visual Learners
- Color Code. Assign color to common themes in your lectures, when highlighting information.
- Organize your notes by compiling handouts, putting tabs, writing neatly, using outlines, to make your notes appealing.
- Study the Graphics. Use charts and graphics in your textbook to easily remember information.
- Draw pictures or figures to accompany the information you're trying to learn.
- Watch documentaries or videos to get a bigger picture and expand your knowledge on the topic you want to learn.
- Draw concept maps to easily categorize a certain subject. Illustrate pictures relating to each subtopic.
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Meta-Learning
It's knowing how to learn. Learning itself is a skill, and knowing how to do it well is an incredibly valuable advantage.
Merely acquiring information is not learning....
Learning has 2 phases
Learning is a two-step process:
- Read/listen: feeding ourselves new information.
- Process and recall what you’ve just ‘learned’: connecting new materials to what we already knew.
Remembering the right things
You should not waste your time by committing unimportant details to memory.
Your focus should be on understanding the bigger picture, on how things relate to each other.
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Re-reading doesn't help
Don't just re-read your notes. When you first read, you extract a lot of information, but when you do it the second time, you read with a sense of 'I know this, I know this.'
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Ask lots of questions
Read once and then quiz yourself. Retrieving that information is what actually produces more robust learning and memory.
Even if you get the answers wrong, you'll still have an idea of what you don't know. This helps guide your studying more effectively.
Make connections
Relate new information to prior information for better learning.
During a second reading, try to connect new information to something you already know.
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Ditch Your Learning Style
Learning styles (visual, auditory etc.) have actually little impact on our ability to learn.
The best way to learn depends on what you’re trying to learn in the first place. The ...
Find Meaning In Learning
If you try to force yourself to just memorize random facts, you’re likely to forget them.
We will most likely remember only the information that was meaningful to us, that we’ve been able to connect to our lives and our experiences.
Learn by Doing
We learn best when we perform the tasks we’re trying to learn.
No matter how good your grades were at college, most of your learning takes place once you enter the workplace and start applying what you've learned.
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