Neuroscience and Learning at Home Learning at home provides a unique opportunity to apply many of the strategies and concepts that are listed below – you get to design your own learning! Consider the following examples; Spaced Practice It can be tempting when working at home to rush through all allocated work as quickly as possible leaving the rest of your day ‘free’. This is a mistake. Cramming your learning into a short period does not help long term retention of information. It is far more effective to space each day’s learning out into short periods of work interspersed with rest and exercise breaks. Then revisit and review your work at increasingly long periods over the coming weeks. Elaboration Working at home alone doesn’t mean you need to forgo the opportunity to discuss concepts and ideas. -
Form an online study group and assign roles for each member including:
Taskmaster (your role is to keep our conversation on topic and redirect us as needed) Questioner (your role is to pose 2-3 key discussion questions that will help the group to expand on their current knowledge by linking ideas and concepts) Summariser (your role is to summarise the key ideas from each session) -
Explain concepts to a parent. Dictate your explanations into the voice memo app on your phone and listen back – where are the gaps in your understanding?
Retrieval Practice Retrieval practice is key to consolidating learning. -
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Before you begin a task, spend 5 - 10 minutes ‘downloading’ everything you already know about that topic. Remember to check your class notes and add anything you may have missed. Do practice exams and write your own practice quiz for the next day. Make a set of Quizlet cards for you and classmates Tim Connell Australia