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Learning and Remembering
Most students express a wish to be more
efficient in their studies. Knowing how your brain takes in and processes
information, and then working with this system, will greatly improve your
efficiency.
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taking a
break of 10 minutes for every 50 minutes of work; this will help you
retain information.
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WHY?
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Because learning does
not occur by simply stuffing material into short-term-memory. Learning
occurs when what you put into short-term-memory connects--integrates--with
what you already know (which is stored in long-term-memory). This
connection occurs naturally--and you experience the peak of your
learning--when you stop inputting and relax (although you may think about
the connections that are occuring).
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reviewing
your notes (by doing something with the new material--reading, thinking,
writing, or talking about it) at the end of the day, giving 10 minutes for
every hour of new material you took in and want to retain.
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WHY?
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Because
research has shown that if you don't recall
or review or work with what you have learned on a given day, within 24
hours you will forget 50 - 80% of it.
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reviewing
your notes (see above) at the end of the week, giving 5 minutes to each
hour of new material for that week, then giving the same material 2-4
minutes of review at the end of the month.
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WHY?
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Because reasearch indicates that these reviews are also required to be able
to remember and reproduce something. If you pay attention to the daily and
weekly reviews, the monthly ones may be taken care of in the course of
studying for mid-terms.
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changing
subjects or tasks every hour. |
WHY?
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Because the brain
does not easily assimilate the same or similar material hour after hour.
This means that, when studying, you might read for an hour then do
questions for an hour. And you wouldn't follow French verbs with German
verbs. This also means that anything you want to learn and remember (like
an assignment) should be started early and done over many nights. (Besides
helping your brain take in the material, this sets up a routine of working
with it more than once, which aids the review process that is essential to
learning).
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