WEEK 4 - Renaissance Learning & Unlocking Your Potential
1 Focused versus Diffuse Thinking
2 Procrastination, Memory & Sleep
3 Summary & Optional Further Info
1 Chunking - The Essentials
2 Seeing the Bigger Picture
3 Optional Further Info
1 Procrastination
2 Memory
3 Optional Further Info
1 Renaissance Learning & Unlocking Your Potential I
2 Renaissance Learning & Unlocking Your Potential II
3 Optional Further Info
Intro
Using the Focused and Diffuse Modes—Or, a Little Dali will do You
What is Learning?
Procrastination Preview
Practice Makes Permanent
Introduction to Memory
The Importance of Sleep i Learning
Interview: Dr. Terrence Sejnowski 15 min
Summary Week 1
Interview: MaryAnne Nestor
Reading: Focused versus Diffuse Thinking
A Posting about Anxiety, Depression and PTSD from a learner in Learning How to learn
Interview with Dr. Robert Bilder on Creativity and Problem Solving
Interview: Writing Coach Daphne Gray-Grant
Interview: “Benny the Irish Polyglot” about Learning Languages
What is a Chunk?
How to Form a Chunk
Illusions of Competence
What Motivates You?
The Value of a Library of Chunks
Overlearning, Choking, Einstellung, and Interleaving
Summary
Chunking
Interview: Dr. Norman Fortenberry - Learning at MIT
Interview: Scott Young, a “Marco Polo” of Learning
Interview: Author Amy Alkon
Introduction to Procrastination and Memory
Tackling Procrastination - It’s Easier, and More Valuable, Than You Think
Zombies Everywhere
Surf’s Up: Process Versus Product
Harnessing Your Zombies to Help You
Juggling Life and Learning
Summing Up Procrastination
Diving Deeper into Memory
What is Long Term Memory
Creating Meaningful Groups and the Memory Palace Technique
Summing Up Memory
Procrastination and Memory
Interview: Caroline Mitchell on Learning Something Difficult that Others Think isn’t “You”
Interview: 4 Time US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis23 min
Interview: Dr. Robert Gamache, an Award-winning Bilingual Scientist
Interview: Stanford’s Keith Devlin, the NPR “Math Guy”
How to Become a Better Learner
Introduction to Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential
Create a Lively Visual Metaphor or Analogy
No Need for Genius Envy
Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
The Value of Teamwork
A Test Checklist
Hard Start - Jump to Easy
Final Helpful Hints for Tests
Summary
Wrapup to the Course by Terrence Sejnowski and Barbara Oakley
Assignment: Learn By Teaching Others How To Learn
Assignment: Optional Video Project: Share what you learned and your learning strategies
Reading: Renaissance Learning and Unlocking Your Potential
Interview: Part 1: How NOT to Take a Test, Interview with Dr. Richard Felder and Dr. Rebecca Brent
Interview: Part 2: Learning Something New, Interview with Dr. Richard Felder and Dr. Rebecca Brent
Interview: Part 3: The Imposter Syndrome and Dealing with Procrastination, Interview with Dr. Richard Felder and Dr. Rebecca Brent
Interview: Writer John Maguire (readablewriting.com) on the Importance of Putting Objects in Your Writing
Interview: William Craig Rice on learning in the humanities
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