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There's a free course in Coursera called "Learning How to Learn" and it radically changed how I view learning and education in general. I wish I knew about this

There's a free course in Coursera called "Learning How to Learn" and it radically changed how I view learning and education in general. I wish I knew about this when I was a teen. If I take a valuable nugget of information about it, is that real learning comes through experience: using the information, recalling it fron memory and manipulating it in some way. This goes from just writing what you hear to a personal project. Anything behavioral, more than just receiving and thinking, helps to actually learn.

corysama 3y ago
With no qualifications at all, I occasionally fantasize about starting my own school. One of the rules of my imaginary school is that a full 33% of the time, K through 12, is to be spent on meta-cognition. Not simply “study habits”. Mindfulness, physical education, anything that helps bring focus and motivation counts. I find it crazy that the educational system expects children to develop in this axis on their own almost entirely because they are simply expected to do so. I went to well-regarded schools and it’s generous to say they put a minimal amount of effort into teaching us how and why to learn. A frank assessment would be that they hardly seemed aware of the topic…
- galaxyLogic 3y ago
  One tidbit worth mentioning I think is that learning something even if you think you don't know why you should learn it, is that you will learn how to learn. You can then apply that learning to anything. But you are right kids should be taught to see that learning itself is the problem.
- papandada 3y ago
  I have a friend who tutors and teaches music privately, and he runs his sessions very much like this.
galaxyLogic 3y ago
Right because applying it to a real problem means you have to go though the effort of solving that problem. Solving a problem always takes effort, else it would not be a "problem". Again the effort seems to be the key here.

corysama 3y ago

With no qualifications at all, I occasionally fantasize about starting my own school. One of the rules of my imaginary school is that a full 33% of the time, K through 12, is to be spent on meta-cognition. Not simply “study habits”. Mindfulness, physical education, anything that helps bring focus and motivation counts. I find it crazy that the educational system expects children to develop in this axis on their own almost entirely because they are simply expected to do so. I went to well-regarded schools and it’s generous to say they put a minimal amount of effort into teaching us how and why to learn. A frank assessment would be that they hardly seemed aware of the topic…

galaxyLogic 3y ago
One tidbit worth mentioning I think is that learning something even if you think you don't know why you should learn it, is that you will learn how to learn. You can then apply that learning to anything. But you are right kids should be taught to see that learning itself is the problem.
papandada 3y ago
I have a friend who tutors and teaches music privately, and he runs his sessions very much like this.

galaxyLogic 3y ago

Right because applying it to a real problem means you have to go though the effort of solving that problem. Solving a problem always takes effort, else it would not be a "problem". Again the effort seems to be the key here.