Tools for teaching others how to learn

Ana Eilyn Lopez

Learn by teaching others how to learn

This presentation pretend to show students of all

ages how to learn effectively using some tools and
techniques learned on the Coursera’s “Learning
how to learn” course.
 Topics
 Washing away toxins in your Sleep
 Solving Procrastination

 Learning by doing Exercise

 Procrastination

When you look at something that you really rather

not do, (procrastinate) it seems that you activates
the area of your brain associated with pain.
 Procrastinate

Researchers have discovered that no long after

people might start actually working out what they
didn’t like, that neuro disconfort dissapears.
What happens when you procrastinate

1. 2.

unhappy feelings attention goes

into a pleasant
task

feels happy
temporaly
During the focused mode, the brain focuses on a subject for a
continued period of time, this is the time for the
Pomodoro Technique for Tackling Procrastination

 Set a timer for 25 minutes without interruptions.

 Focus on the proccess
 Stop for 5 minutes
 Collect your reward!
 Tackling Procrastination
 Keep a planner journal.
 Commit yourself to certain
routines and tasks each day.
 Delay rewards until you finish
the task.
 Watch for Procrastination
cues.
 Gain trust in your system.
 Have backup plans for when
you still Procrastinate.

 Eat your frog first.

Do the hardest thing earliest in
the day, when you are fresh.
Sleep
 Sleep / washing away toxins

Sleep, which can sometimes seem like SUCH a waste of

time—is actually your brain’s way of keeping itself clean and healthy.
 THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP
IN LEARNING
The mechanism by which
a good night's sleep
improves learning and
memory has been
discovered by scientists.
The team in China and
the US used advanced
microscopy to witness
new connections
between brain cells -
synapses - forming
during sleep.
Do your brain a rest and do better on a test

If you don’t get a good sleep before a test,

NOTHING ELSE YOU HAVE DONE WILL MATTER.
 Sleep and learning

Dreaming

about learning
means better
understanding
Exercise
Learning and exercise
Recess
What happens during recess?
EXERCISE

Dr. Terrence Sejnowski said that

exercise it is exactly what your
brain needs. It needs that
moment of pause, of using your
muscles rather than the brain, to
be able to process the
information and to get the
neurons working on it
Learning and exercise
Learning and exercise

For keeping your new

Neurons

alive and to start your

diffuse mode of learning

 References
10 Rules of Good Studying
Excerpted from A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel in Math and Science (Even if You
Flunked Algebra), by Barbara Oakley, Penguin, July, 2014
http://www.aintanerd.com/brain-also-needs-a-daily-bath(image)
https://www.pinterest.com/dimr47/fabulous-frogs/
http://imgkid.com/sleeping-girl-painting.shtml

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http://ww2.kcd.org/CA_Students/WardPaschal/Sleeping/dreams/dreams.html
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