Introduction
These pages contain some fairly blunt suggestions about what to do in college.
Learning
Human learning has two components : ‘understanding’ and ‘remembering’
Knowing a bit about how the brain works when you’re thinking will help you to see why both understand and remembering are necessary for learning.
Use it or lose it
We can understand something quite clearly, and some time later not be able to remember what it was we understood. If learning means both understanding and remembering, we have to practice what we understand. Without rehearsal, that fantastic circuitry that enabled our understanding will gradually disintegrate and we can no longer reconstruct what we once understood.
The Classroom
The most common misconception …show more content…
You need concentration and effort.
About Interests
You would do yourself a great favor by developing this “curiosity habit” as early on as you can.
Between Classes
A huge number of new college students, when told to study but given nothing specific to do, simply do nothing. So here are some realistic suggestions for study outside class time.
Fill in the Notes
A most useful and highly recommended way so spend half an hour or so of study time is to make sense of these notes, and most importantly, turn lists and key words into real sentences that rephrase what went on. The second most important activity for success was to form small study groups, or pairs, with the express purpose of talking about the course content, their notes, and assigned work.
Assignments
Don’t just do assignments with minimal effort and thought, use them to learn something new.
Thoughts on verbalization
A good English sentences are needed—not just word clusters. You need verbs.
Access and high technology
The internet is a tool, and a very useful one, but as with all tools, you have to be knowledgeable to use it profitably.
Exams
The most important thing in exam is
These pages contain some fairly blunt suggestions about what to do in college.
Learning
Human learning has two components : ‘understanding’ and ‘remembering’
Knowing a bit about how the brain works when you’re thinking will help you to see why both understand and remembering are necessary for learning.
Use it or lose it
We can understand something quite clearly, and some time later not be able to remember what it was we understood. If learning means both understanding and remembering, we have to practice what we understand. Without rehearsal, that fantastic circuitry that enabled our understanding will gradually disintegrate and we can no longer reconstruct what we once understood.
The Classroom
The most common misconception …show more content…
You need concentration and effort.
About Interests
You would do yourself a great favor by developing this “curiosity habit” as early on as you can.
Between Classes
A huge number of new college students, when told to study but given nothing specific to do, simply do nothing. So here are some realistic suggestions for study outside class time.
Fill in the Notes
A most useful and highly recommended way so spend half an hour or so of study time is to make sense of these notes, and most importantly, turn lists and key words into real sentences that rephrase what went on. The second most important activity for success was to form small study groups, or pairs, with the express purpose of talking about the course content, their notes, and assigned work.
Assignments
Don’t just do assignments with minimal effort and thought, use them to learn something new.
Thoughts on verbalization
A good English sentences are needed—not just word clusters. You need verbs.
Access and high technology
The internet is a tool, and a very useful one, but as with all tools, you have to be knowledgeable to use it profitably.
Exams
The most important thing in exam is