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Students And Executive Improve Their IQ With Meta-Learning

Guest post by: H. Bernard Wechsler

Article Overview: Some secrets revealed to ace your career, and make you indispensable to your organization.

Students And Executive Improve Their IQ With Meta-Learning

Students And Executives Raise IQ By Meta-Learning Have you noticed how many colleges are offering courses On-Line?

E-Learning enrollment is up to six million annually in the U.S.

Harvard, MIT, and commercial schools like the University of Phoenix

want students who will enter their campus exclusively through computers.

Did you notice that the number of students attending the 1,500 American

Community Colleges is six million annually, and growing? President Obama

is awarding them $12 billion to extend their facilities for 2010-2020.

But

Half of E-Learners (On-Line) dropout within 6-12 months. How about the fifty (50%) percent of students attending Community Colleges who quit or are requested to leave without graduating? Why is that?

Many are overwhelmed by Information-Overload because of the amount of complex material they are assigned to learn. About 55% cannot keep up with their homework, and voluntarily opt-out of their sinking ship. Wait, there is more.

Are you aware corporate executives average two-hours of daily reading to

keep up with their company and industry? Email is the tip of the iceberg; add

memoranda, business articles, annual reports, and books with relevant statistics.

Executive-Overload is the books and knowledge they never get around to learning.

So What

Students and executives fail because they have never learned the skills to learn.

Sure they graduated senior high school, but they faked it by the skin of their teeth.

Meta-Learning (meta-cognition) is having the strategies that organize learning and

memory for promotions and success.

Learning About Learning

The first secret of learning is being focused. We must pay Attention (concentration)

and not be distracted by kids, loud music, and thinking about shopping at Macy's.

We must exercise our Volition (will) to choose to learn, and not be of a divided mind wanting to watch America Has Talent on TV.

Modern learning is not the teacher or professor pouring knowledge into your left-ear, it is having the tools and skills to be Auto-Didactic - self-taught.

Is there a strategy in reading a chapter in a textbook, and squeezing out the key

concepts and ideas? Do you think it comes naturally because you passed some

dumb tests in the past?

There are three skills that are required to learn new information.

One, Analyze the text and be motivated to discover the 2-3 ideas that count.

Two, Synthesize (combine) ten ideas into 2-3 key concepts.

Three, Summarize a page (chapter) of text, into two-three essential words, and have an examples available anyone can understand.

Memory

There are three skills to remembering (encoding), and later retrieving new information. First, you must use you Imagination to create a mental movie

linking the new idea with old knowledge you already have. How? It's a skill.

Second, you must Associate new words you want to retain, with old, long-term

memories by linking them together. Yes, there is a baby-easy system to do that.

Meta (pronounced Mee-tah) Learning is Meta Cognition. If you do not have the strategies - you become overwhelmed.

Example

I wanted to remember the name Elton Y. Mears, a professor at Johns-Hopkins.

It keeps escaping my memory. Question: what does his name remind me of?

Elton brings to mind Elvin the Superstar. Y retrieves the word - Why?

Mears brings nothing, so I look for a rhyme - Mears - Beers - Ears.

I remember Means pour Beers in his Ears. Get it? I'll never forget it.

Third, is Location - mentally filing new information so that you can quickly

remember for an exam or to use. Again, there is an easy system, but a little

time and effort is necessary to learn - how-to-learn.

Hint - making a Graphic Representation (doodling), flow-chart, or a semantic-

web, will make new information stick-like-crazy-glue in you new brain circuit.

When you write or type a summary, this physical act adds another one of your five major senses to learning - Kinesthetics complements Vision and Auditory.

New Research

"Learning is both social and computational. It is supported by brain circuitry

linking people, perception (comprehension) and action (behavior). Our brain

works a lot like a computer in organizing (encoding) information in order to retrieving it later."

Your brain uses logic and statistics; we socially learn by looking at another person's face, and watching their gestures like pointing. The Social element in learning is part of joint-visual attention - eye-gazing, pointing, imitation, and by example.

Google: Washington University, professor Patricia Kuhl, 7.17.09

Oh Yeah

Meta (Mee-tah) means: along with, transfer, after, beyond, among, and behind.

Think of Meta-Learning (cognition) as learning-about-how-to-learn, or how to think about thinking. You need systems, strategies, not a hope and a dream.

Meta-Learning co-exists with discovering new knowledge, and capturing it permanently. You encode new information in your new neural network, ready

when you need it.

Questioning Strategy

Here comes a secret that can help students' ace school, and executives become

indispensable to their organization. Asking the right question, and listening

for key words as a explanation is an invaluable talent. It makes you creative.

If you listen to a lecture or presentation, or read a chapter in a textbook,

answer these questions or you learned nothing. You must record your answer in key-words, not a long-winded book.

Who? What? When? Where? Why? Which? - and How? Now type out your new

answers to the questions and review it. If you can use the answers to explain to someone else exactly what you learned from the text using this SEVEN questions - you own the material.

Endwords: would you be more competitive and ace school and your career by

reading and remembering three (3) books, articles, and reports, when your

peers can hardly finish one? Ask us how - it is the basis of Meta-Learning

Meta-Cognition.

Speed Reading Rules.

copyright © 2009 H. Bernard Wechsler

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