Not memorizing but learning

Not just Memorizing but Learning

“Learning is too important to be left behind in the classroom”(Terry Sejnovsky- video how to become a better learner).

Many things happen in our life that make us realize that we need to learn and what we want to learn and learning to learn perhaps forever .

Nowadays avoid procrastrinating, build chunks and deliberate practice are tools that may help us to LEARN and not to memorize only .


By

German Benitez

E mail : [email protected]


Procrastinating

Chunking

Deliberate practice

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Procrastination is very common ,the people everyday postpone something in spite of being aware that doing that, will be very expensive in a lot of ways.

Procrastinating

procrastination

Procrastination negatively affects individual performance specially when became chronic.

It is clasiffied as a self –regulation failure, as weak will power.

It is very frequent in the academic comunity and among the general population.

Reducing Procrastination by Scaffolding the Formation of Implementation IntentionsKamphorst, B.A. (2012) Faculty of Humanities Theses.(Master thesis) URL http://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/218601

New and Hard challenge?

Later¡¡ ………. Perhaps (as always)

Finally (as always)

Procrastinating

Having a “goal intention” is not enough.

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To overcome the “intention behavior gap”

(procrastination….postponing everything to the next time), having a “goal intention” is not enough.





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How to overcome procrastination???

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step "

Confucius

New habits


How to overcome procrastination???

Implementation intentions

To overcome the Procrastination (intention-behavior gap), it helps to furnish goal intentions with concrete and specific plans.

IMPLEMENTATION INTENTIONS

¡¿How is it?¡¡

The most effective implementation intentions consist of a cue in the environment coupled with an intended action


FOR EXAMPLE ¡¿WHAT IS MY OWN PROCRASTINATION?

WATCHING TV NEWS JUST WHEN I HAVE TO PRACTICE THAT DANCE THAT I THINK I COULD NEVER LEARN¡¡

SO?


AS SOON AS CABLE NEWS START TRANSMISSION

I WILL START TO PRACTICE THAT IMPOSSIBLE FIRST DANCE STEP AS A ROUTINE TO LEARN A DANCE WHICH IS NOT FROM MY COUNTRY

INSTEAD OF JUST WATCHING TV


DIDN´T WORK?OKNEXT TIME AS SOON AS TV NEWS START

TURN- OFF TV AND BEGIN TO PRACTICE YOUR LESSON.

THEN TURN-ON AND WATCH TV A FEW MINUTES.ONLY A FEW.

THEN REPEAT WHAT YOU THINK YOU LEARNED¡


WORKED?

CONGRATULATIONS YOU DESERVE A REWARD

DIDN´T WORK?GO TO SLEEP AND TRY AGAIN IN THE

MORNING

Little by little

• The most effective implementation intentions consist of a cue in the environment coupled with an intended action.

• Sometimes it doesn´t work et all from the beginning however helps .

• Always…• Little by little until the first step.

FIRST STEP




FIRST STEP BEGIN THE BEGGINING

EUREKA¡http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/610334/350wm

START THE HOMEWORK OR WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO

NEW AND HARD CHALLENGE?

AFTER FIRST STEP


FOCUS TEN MINUTESOR TWENTY FIVE

TAKE A LITTLE BREAK AND START AGAIN

YOU DID IT?

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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step “ Confucius

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Animals can learn and remember.

They can not planningor have a language

Everybody can learn

Chunkhttp://www.sciencephoto.com/search?subtype=keywords&searchstring=chunk&Search.x=0&Search.y=0&media_type=images&license=all&channel=all

You cannot eat a big chocolate at once.

Try to eat chunk by chunk .

Taste itSmell itFeel itEnjoy it

Chunk

Chunk


Learning new and difficult topics

maybe as tasting one unknownChocolate First not all the chocolate are sweet or brown ,nonetheless when you try with a little chunk you can appreciate something you wouldn´t have appreciated otherwise.





TAI CHITai chi learning process is a very good tool to learn whatever you need to learn

CLASSIC TAI CHI YANG STYLE IS CONFORMED BY 85 MOVEMENTS

CROSS HANDS ARE “CHAPTERS” OF THIS KIND OF TAI CHI

“CROSS HAND” IS COMPOSSED BY A NUMBER OF MOVEMENTS

WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING TAI CHI THE MASTER GIVES YOU INSTRUCTIONS TO PRACTICE AND LEARNING

ONE MOVEMENT EVERY WEEK

Tai chi is a martial art and prpares you for a real fight where each movement is important

On your daily practice if you doný have time enough to achieve the whole routine, repeat one “cross hand”the best as you can and so will be easier acquiring Mastery

Tai chi learning process is a very good tool to learn generally speaking¡

Chunk


CHUNK

Tai chi learning process is a very good tool to learn whatever you need to learn

The movements are meaningful named

Describing an action or an animal movement or a quality of that movement


ChunkTai chi

Master told me a couple of ancient Chinese secrets:

Practice the 85 movements every day. If you can´t….Practice every day ¡¡

If yow perfectly Know the first “cross hand” automatically you will improve your total 85 movements performance.


Chunk

Once you have started to overcome procrastination

Chunks meaningful are the blocks to build whatever you are learning

The major secret :

• EVERY DAY

Tai chi learning process is a very good tool to learn whatever you need to learn


Finally I asked my master

¿what movement of the first cross hand shall I practice?

He answeredFirst “THE

HARDEST”

Deliberate practice

Improves your performance and avoid a learning delusion

Deliberate practice

Foto de mi archivo personal

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High performance

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Learning is possibleAlwaysIn spanish we said“loro viejo no aprende

a hablar”(old parrot doesn´t learn to speak)

W e are not Parrots¡¡

Mastery

Learning Always

LO MO SE CO

Every day in spanish I use this word to workLOcalizacionMOdalidadesSEnsaciones yCOncomitancias. De los síntomas de mis pacientes

Overcome procrastrinatingChunkPracticing the hardest

Finally everyday or little by little will make us better learners

THANKS

Education

Not memorizing but learning