topics:becoming_an_expert_learner
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Become and Expert Learner
Being good at learning is an obvious benefit when you are a student. It also is a skill that will help you in life and in your career well after you leave Portland State. This page provides links to resources that will help you be a better learner.
Disclaimer: There are no shortcuts to learning. Real learning takes work. The information on this page is intended to help you use your study effort more effectively.
Learning How to learn
Quick Links
- Lecture slides on becoming an expert student
- Barbara Oakley's 10 Rules of Good and Bad Studying
- Read the Excerpt from "How to become a straight-A student" by Cal Newport. Scroll down the page to start at “Excerpt”.
- Maryelen Weimer's 7-Characteristics-of-Good-Learners.pdf via Concordia University, Wisconsin. The original article is behind a paywall.
- The Farnam Street blog has a good summary of Carol Dweck's book on growth mindset.
- The Farnam Street blog also has a summary and list of references on what they call accelerated learning. These ideas apply to any subject that you commit to mastering.
Video
- Barbara Oakley's TEDx talk on Learning How to Learn
- Brian Johnson's video summary of Cal Newport's book, "How to become a straight-A student"
Note: You can skip the last 1.5 minutes of the video which are an advertisement for an on-line course.
Bigger Investments
If and when you have more time, you may want to consult the following resources for more information on, and practice with, becoming an expert learner.
- Barbara Oakley's book, A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even if you flunked algebra)
This is the reference book for the Coursera course, Learning How to Learn - Cal Newport's How to Become a Straight-A Student
The subtitle is The unconventional strategies real college students use to score high while studying less - Free Coursera Course on Learning How to Learn.
This course covers much of the material in Oakley's A Mind For Numbers book - Ericsson and Pool, Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
This is a recent book that may be in paperback by the time you click the link.
topics/becoming_an_expert_learner.txt · Last modified: 2020/08/21 11:04 by gerry