Friday, January 21, 2011

How to Learn Faster and Remember More



It’s sunny outside yet you’re stuck studying. You must know this stuff for tomorrow. It gets worse. Your smart aleck friend walks by saying “You know you’ll only remember ten percent of what you’re reading right now.” She’s citing an oft-repeated study that shows that, six weeks later, you’ll only remember four percent of what you are passively learning by reading.



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Yet that familiar study has been debunked. Or rather there never was a study that showed people remember:

10% of what they read


20% of what they hear


30% of what they see


50% of what they see and hear


70% of what they write and say


90% of what they say as they do something with the information


People do NOT remember 10% of what they read, 20% of what they see, 30% of what they hear, etc.,” learning expert, Will Thalheimer emphatically explains.


So the percentages aren’t proven yet the levels for accelerating learning are. You do learn faster and remember more when you move from passive to active, meaningful, repeated engagement in what you are learning.


Your Useable insight


You’ll learn more and remember it longer when you:


• Actively and repeatedly practice what you are learning, as you are learning it, and when you continuously relate it to something concrete that matters to you.


• Teach others what we are learning.


So, skip the percentages and speed your learning by adopting themethods described in Dale's Cone of Experience. After learning this it may be helpful to sleep on it.



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See links here http://sayitbetter.typepad.com/say_it_better/2009/09/how-to-learn-faster-and-remember-more.html


Posted via email from Kare Anderson on Coummunicating to Connect

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