How to Understand Better: Structuring In the previous section we understood how learning occurs when you make connections between information and relate it to what you already know. The spider web analogy is a great tool to understand this. Every time you learn something new, you begin to form associations and place it in your web of association in a way that relates to the knowledge surrounding it. Hence, forming a bigger picture of how it's relation. When you think about something you begin to think in clusters of ideas, if you are thinking about School, you may not only think about the word, you begin to think about your journey to school, your friends, your teachers, all the good and not so good memories you have associated with it. Mind maps better notes - reading sentences takes lots of time- use sketch noting as a picture is worth a thousand words Testing Mixing
Rehearsal Rehearsal is one of the two aspects of learning i.e. rehearsal and remembering (retrieval). Rehearsal is the repetition of information again and again to maintain it in the working memory or to aid it's transfer to the Long Term Memory. Rehearsal can be divided into maintenance rehearsal and elaborative rehearsal . Maintenance Rehearsal (Rote Memorization) Maintenance rehearsal aka. rote memorization is done by simple repetition of information without linking it to previous knowledge or by adding meaning to it. This will keep the information in the Working Memory (Short Term Memory). By pure repetition of the information, it can be kept in the short term memory forever until the cycle is broken. Although rote memorization is good for quick recalling of facts and it helps develop fundamental knowledge, it may have several drawbacks. As rote memorization doesn't have any asso