'Make it stick' is a must-read for everyone especially for students because it tells you the truth about effective learning strategies. You will discover that most students are told ineffective learning strategies which explains why only a few students get excellent grades. If you struggle with school and want to level up your grades, read this amazing book that helped me get the best grades that I ever had from an average student to a top-grader! 'Make it stick' is written by two outstanding scientists with an exceptional story-teller Peter Brown and their book will open your eyes to the science of successful learning.
Table of contents
😄 Who must read this book?
👍 How did the book change my life?
✏️ My favourite quotes
📍 TAKEAWAY
📎 Poster Summary
😄 Who is this book for?
Students
Anyone who doesn’t want to forget what he/she has learned before
Anyone who wants to know the best approaches to learning
Anyone who cares about his/her time and wants to study efficiently
👍 How did it change my life?
I realized that my learning strategies were completely ineffective (but like really ineffective)
I became better at memorizing things
I got excellent grades
I now know how to learn quickly without wasting your time
I have more free time to enjoy rather than studying
✏️ My favourite quotes
📒 'Effortful retrieval makes for stronger learning and retention.'
📍 TAKEAWAY
The book first introduces you to the most popular and counterproductive techniques of learning used by the majority of students (you'll see, the number of students who are using the wrong strategies is ridiculous).
Ineffective learning strategies:
❌ Re-reading
❌ Highlighting
❌ Cramming (Believe it or not, this one is particularly popular among the student, lord knows why?)
Shocking right? Most students waste their time highlighting what they have read, re-read again, again in the hope that our brain memorized our notes. This is not going to work guys! So, please stop and use instead effective learning strategies! But what are they?
MAIN Effective learning strategies:
✔️Retrieval ❌ Re-reading
✔️Spacing ❌ Highlighting
✔️Interleaving ❌ Cramming
✔️Retrieval
Means self-quizzing. Relieving knowledge and skill from memory should become your primary study strategy. Asking questions, quizzing, and flashcards.
✔️Spacing
Means studying information more than once but leaving considerable time between practice sessions. Schedule and chronometer.
✔️Interleaving
This means studying more than one type at a time so that you are alternatively between different problems that all for different solutions. Mixing up problem types improves your ability to discriminate between types.
Other approaches that are effective:
✔️Elaboration
✔️Generation
✔️Reflection
✔️Calibration
✔️Elaboration
Means incorporating new knowledge into what you already know. Explain to somebody else in your own words.
✔️Generation
This means an attempt to answer a question or solve a problem before being shown the answer to the solution.
✔️Reflection
The act of taking a few minutes to review what has been learned in a recent class or experience ad asking yourself questions. Asking questions to discover the ‘principle’ that has worked and how to improve better in the future
✔️Calibration
The act of using an instrument to clear away illusions and adjust your judgment together reflects reality. Quizzes, practice tests...
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