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School Prep (Deep Learning (Scott Young (Week 43 - How to Read a Textbook…

- - - - Big ideas
        
        Figuring out how to use information
        
        What to transcribe in your notes
        
        What to focus on in reading
        
        Using note taking style to foster deep level of processing
      - Process Information at a deep level (DL)
        
        Second Idea
        
        What's important for a textbook
        
        Qualitative
        
        Understanding Ideas
        
        What's the concept?
        
        What's the big idea?
        
        Not solving problems
        
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        Quantitative
        
        Problem Sets
        
        Example problem
        
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        How you must retain it
        
        What you must retain
        
        Uses Flow based note taking
        
        Paragraph or two per chapter
        
        Writes brief points
        
        When mentioning new idea
        
        Jot down/give an example
        
        Time saving measures
        
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        Rewording things in your own words
        
        Creating Examples
        
        Metaphors
        
        Analogies
        
        Reading Technique supports DL
        
        Shallow Processing
        
        Perfect Copies of Info
        
        Hightlighting
        
        Depth of processing
    - - Richard Feynman
        
        Nobel Prize winning Physicist
        
        Challenging people to explain concepts
        
        In simple terms
        
        Feinman Technique
        
        Uses
        
        Understand ideas that you don't get
        
        Remember Ideas you understand but cannot remember perfectly
        
        Efficient way to study before an exam
        
        Use it in 20 minutes
        
        How?
        
        If trying to understand an idea
        
        Walk through slowly to find what you don't understand
        
        Can go to textbook, lecture notes etc to find missing info
        
        If trying to remember for test
        
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        Steps
        
        Choose Your Concept
        
        Pretend You're Teaching the idea to a new Student
        
        If you get stuck, go back to book
        
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        Explain ideas
        
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        Write name of concept at top of paper
    - - How to understand subject
        
        Typically given material assumed to be at your level
        
        If struggling with math
        
        Missing first steps
        
        ground work required
        
        Ground Zero (no knowledge)
        
        Go through step by step
        
        How?
        
        Recursively deepen understanding
        
        Feynman Technique
        
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        Went through chapter
        
        1.) First level of understanding
        
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        2.) Build deeper intuitions
        
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        Think of a pyramid
        
        Foundation
        
        Basic understanding from reading
        
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        Builds on layers of understanding
        
        Provide context
        
        Doing practice questions
        
        Need answer key
        
        Informs you of bigger picture
        
        Why you need this equation/knowledge
        
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        Basic plan
        
        80% Recursive learning
        
        20% Practice questions
        
        As you improve
        
        Do more practice questions
        
        Why?
        
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    - - Maybe
        
        Scheme
        
        Functional PL
        
        The basics are interchangeable
        
        Theory
        
        Language Indepdendent
        
        Could learn theories to solve
        
        Math Importent
        
        Why?
        
        Exposure to ideas
        
        Frame of reference
        
        Unusual Problems
        
        Different perspective
- - - - Flow Method
        
        Scott Young
        
        Holistic Learning
        
        Each bit of info is a single point
        
        Weave interconnected web of information
        
        Forges stronger connections in your mind
        
        Flow Method
        
        Not every detail on paper
        
        Do not transcribe
        
        Create original document
        
        Create arrows and offshoots
        
        reinforces learning
      - Cornell Method
        
        Walter Pock
        
        Paper divided into 3 distinct sections
        
        Left column Cue Column
        
        After class , Write down questions
        
        Right Column Notetaking
        
        During class, use first
        
        Bottom is Summary
        
        Summarize last
      - Write on the Slides Method
        
        Lazy mans way
        
        Best if professor lets downloadable lecture slides
        
        Provides a timeline of lecture
        
        Don't have to write as much
      - Outline Method
        
        Characteristics
        
        Straightforeward
        
        Hierarchy
        
        Bullet Points
        
        Top level bullet points
        
        Lower level bullet points
        
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        Main Points in Lecure
        
        Disciplined
        
        Simple
        
        In Action
        
        On Paper
        
        Summarize at top
        
        Place detailed bullet points down the line
        
        Space out main points
        
        Computer
        
        Evernote
        
        Byword
        
        Preferred
      - Mind Map Method
        
        Main Topic
        
        Subtopics
        
        Tree format