Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn. Thought it was going to be dry but actually pretty helpful.
He goes through study techniques and backs up their effectiveness by discussing research experiments conducted around them.
Chapter 3 is on academic reading and note taking. It's very good.
Penn recommends the read, recite, review method. @Yvonne_McQ comment gave you some really cool ways to do this like The Cornell note-taking system.
Penn's main point is your memory doesn’t work like a camera, so stop studying as if it did. He says you don’t reproduce information with your memory, you reconstruct it.
Penn also argues that repetition is not the most effective means of committing information to memory. Thinking is the key to memory so he says if you want to remember something, work on explaining it.
He cautions the reader with how we summarise. Not all summaries are equal. He gives an example by asking you to try summarise the story of batman the dark night. You could talk about Harvey Dent and the Joker being the pillars of good and evil and how Harvey becomes two face or you can summarise the film as 'Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill'.
Finally he says to treat everything your trying to learn like 50 shades of grey.
As in people picked up the book with an idea of what they want to get out if it before they started. They skiped over the content that didn't match what they were looking for. They extracted the good bits. When they put the book down it's the good bits they remembered.
Read, recite, review. Check out the Cornell note-taking system mentioned by Yvonne_McQ and Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn.
"Big advertisers are using metadata to collect and map any given users’ Internet behaviors for content marketing purposes. I, too, used to steal users’ data. But it was a crime when I did it. Perhaps if I had sent them an ad or two it would have been less illegal?"
I kinda laughed and cringed with fear reading this section and the sections describing life as an inmate.
IMO it worries me thinking about the world he joined full of rights abuse in prison and mass commercial surveillance of our data.
Really interesting that the Queen of England got involved in this. I do hope they get a deal. Currently here in Ireland and we don't know which way they will go.
I don't think the Queen has much of a choice. I think it is a binary choice and she has been forced into it - she can either give her consent or not give the consent, she cannot abstain from it. Either way she would be accused of aiding the other side.
That actually would have been cool. Not sure if they were taken. He has a video where he explains more about it and the background to the names he picked.
To me, it looks like she really did have an accident, discover she would be ok then asked someone to take photos for Instagram. Which is a lot worse than staging it IMHO.
I was just imagining myself in her shoes and thinking that taking photos would be the last thing on my mind. I don't do blogging for a living so can't relate to her. I'm sure you're right. This is her life and she documents everything.
He goes through study techniques and backs up their effectiveness by discussing research experiments conducted around them.
Chapter 3 is on academic reading and note taking. It's very good.
Penn recommends the read, recite, review method. @Yvonne_McQ comment gave you some really cool ways to do this like The Cornell note-taking system.
Penn's main point is your memory doesn’t work like a camera, so stop studying as if it did. He says you don’t reproduce information with your memory, you reconstruct it.
Penn also argues that repetition is not the most effective means of committing information to memory. Thinking is the key to memory so he says if you want to remember something, work on explaining it.
He cautions the reader with how we summarise. Not all summaries are equal. He gives an example by asking you to try summarise the story of batman the dark night. You could talk about Harvey Dent and the Joker being the pillars of good and evil and how Harvey becomes two face or you can summarise the film as 'Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill'.
Finally he says to treat everything your trying to learn like 50 shades of grey.
As in people picked up the book with an idea of what they want to get out if it before they started. They skiped over the content that didn't match what they were looking for. They extracted the good bits. When they put the book down it's the good bits they remembered.
Read, recite, review. Check out the Cornell note-taking system mentioned by Yvonne_McQ and Check out 'The psychology of effective studying' by Paul Penn.