Active Learning
Learning is best seen as an active and not a passive process. In practical terms, active learning means keeping your mind alert as you study, so you can react to the material as you take it in.
Active learning will help you retain the information you're studying and access it more easily. The kinds of active learning techniques shown below won't just help you keep your focus and stay alert. They're also a great way to process information and really make it your own.
For instance, rather than simply reading a page of text you can:
- Summarise, in writing and from memory, what you've just read
- If you're a visual learner, you could create a summary in sketch form
- Imagine you've been asked to give a quick talk on what you've just learned and summarise it out loud (you might even want to use a dictaphone or tape recorder to record what you come up with, and then use it for revision later)