Learning How To Learn for Youth

Arizona State University via Coursera

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Coursera
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Free Online Course (Audit)
Languages

English
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Paid Certificate Available
Duration & workload

3 weeks long, 6-7 hours worth of material
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Level

Beginner
Subtitles

Chinese, Arabic, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Turkish, English, Spanish, Indonesian

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Overview

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Based on one of the most popular open online courses in the world, this course gives you easy access to the learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. No matter what your current skill level, using these approaches can help you master new topics, change your thinking and improve your life.
This course explains:

* Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process
* How to avoid "rut think" in order to think outside the box
* The value of metaphors in developing understanding
* A simple, yet powerful, way to stop procrastinating

If you’re already an expert, these strategies will turbocharge your learning, including test-taking tips and insights that will help you make the best use of your time on homework and problem sets.

We all have the tools to learn what might not seem to come naturally to us at first—the secret is to understand how the brain works so we can unlock its power.

Filled with animations, application questions, and exercises, this course makes learning easy and fun!

Syllabus

What is Learning?

In this module, we'll use metaphor and analogy to help you more easily understand key ideas about how your brain works. You will discover two modes of thinking—you can use these modes in different ways to improve your learning. We will also show you a powerful tool for tackling procrastination, give you some great memory tips, and point out why "sleeping on it" can be a good idea!

Tips to Build Your Memory

In this module, we explore the brain’s process for storing information in long-term memory in an easy to understand metaphor involving a school bag, a locker and an octopus. Then, we will talk about some of the best ways to access your brain’s most powerful long-term memory systems, like metaphor, recall, memory palace and rhyming.

Brain Links and Study Tips

In this module, we’re going to talk more about important ideas and techniques that will enhance your ability to learn. You’ll also discover how to avoid “information overload,” and how to recognize your own strengths. Fighter pilots and surgeons use checklists to help them with their critical duties—you can use a similar checklist to help you prepare for tests. Ultimately, you will learn more about the joys of living a life filled with learning!

Taught by

Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and Greg Hammons

Reviews

4.8 rating, based on 854 reviews

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Aedrian Abrilla @aaabrilla

A must-take for young/primary-secondary school-level learners of any inclinations as well as educators to help their students learn efficiently; to go further, consider taking the main Learning How To Learn course and Mindshift, also from the same instructors.
DARLENE LIM @darlenelim

As someone who struggles a lot with studying and suffers from bad study habits, I find this course immensely helpful. This course is filled with tips that can assist me in learning more effectively and efficiently, and I want to give it a 10/10 in terms of content and delivery. All professors were beyond amazing, as they were able to discuss everything in a way that’s easy for everyone to understand. The lectures were also very fun; I really enjoyed the anecdotes that they used to supplement their lessons, as well as the silly little metaphors which really helped me in remembering the topics. I would love to learn from these professors again. Thank you so much!
Sonal P Patel @sonal

It is a great class modeled after the popular class from the team from ...' Learning how to learn '. This one is more targeted toward school kids. It is a nicely designed class and quite an entertaining and engaging instruction for children. I would recommend this class to all youths in the elementary to the middle school level. Nice if the teacher assigns the class for everyone to join and then everyone discusses and practices their new learning skills. It will be a lot of fun learning by practicing what they learn! Learning is fun with peers! :)
Hnin Oo Lwin @helenfhnin

This is not very different from Learning How to Learn. I like this course. I just don't know the reason why this exists as an entirely different course.
Valeria Ceschina @valeriaceschina

Learning mechanics explained, along with suggestions and tips.

No matter if you are a student or not, this course will give you powerful tools to improve both your professional and personal life.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

I really appreciate your choice of topic, teaching methods, course outline, and the rich materials that you have been provided. In my point of view, this course is helpful for everyone, no matter in which stage or phase of learning journey we are, it is going to be helpful for school students, college students, teachers, mentors, and experts. Further, by consideration of lifelong learning, everyone needs some basic skills which were presented in the current course. Therefore, I strongly recommend the course to everyone whom are passion of learning and teaching, particularly pre-primary and primary school teachers, since the can share and practice the tips and skills with their students in their beginning of learning journeys.
Anonymous

(1) I really liked the format of how it was taught. It didn't feel like a lecture but more like a youtube video that I was watching for my enjoyment during my free time so it was not heavy at all. (2) I really liked how they incorporated visuals in order...

(1) I really liked the format of how it was taught. It didn't feel like a lecture but more like a youtube video that I was watching for my enjoyment during my free time so it was not heavy at all. (2) I really liked how they incorporated visuals in order for us to remember terms and what they do. It made it easier to remember and engaging. (3) I love that it is very interactive especially the mini post test at the end of each sub-module, it really reiterated what we have learned. (4) I like how they cut it into small chunks and distributed it to 3 different modules which made it tolerable and seem not long at all. It was easier to digest that way. (5) I also like the fact that the notes provided was the same format with the videos with pictures which they have used to connect different abstract ideas were present as well. (6) I like that we see our progress and seeing how far we've become. It made me motivated and made me feel accomplished. (7) Lastly, I really liked the fact that it changed my intention in joining this module. Initially, I joined for the extra credit. But I misunderstood, I thought the deadline will be on march 25, little did I know march 25 is the deadline of the access not for the incentive. Despite missing the incentive, I am still surprisingly happy and okay with it. I've learned so much things that goes beyond incentives and this subject. These are things that I can use in my daily life and in my journey as a lifelong learner. I am satisfied and I still feel accomplished.
Murtaza Kanorwala @Mazak117

Great Course! Learned a lot from Dr. Barbara Oakley by using new learning technique methods to be more effective while studying for exams or doing an assignment. I would highly recommend this course for all students as it shows detailed information about the procedure of how our brain works and what are some of the best ways to improve our thinking and learn more difficult topics and subject efficiently.
Anonymous

I take this course because I work with small children and something went their coming for firts ttime they oly know about games that is not relative with education.
M. Akhtar Faruque @Faruque

It's really an excellent, informative, and creative course to gain information and learn skills and techniques regarding being an expert to master the tough subjects.Moreover it's a splendid opportunity for educators' to become an expert as well.
Cher Chong @cherchong

A very well planned course that is simple to follow and easy to understand. The instructors spoke clearly and explained concepts simply. Definitely one of the best courses any student or teacher should take up.
Hibah Shabkhez @hibahshabkhez

The science of learning, study tips, test prep strategies etc. are presented in a fun and engaging way. I wish the more 'adult' version of this course had this zaniness and simplicity too. Recommended for all ages :)
Arihant Bansal @arihantbansal

This is one of the best MOOC out there, and in my opinion, one that every teenager should go through. It teaches more than you'll hope and leave you with an everlasting impression.
Anonymous

Anonymous completed this course.

This is a great course. I am a high school teacher and have completed the adult version of this course twice. I am recommending this new course to my students. It is certainly pitched at the right level for high school students and is equally interesting...

This is a great course. I am a high school teacher and have completed the adult version of this course twice. I am recommending this new course to my students. It is certainly pitched at the right level for high school students and is equally interesting for adults. Well done. From a teaching point of view it certainly provides acknowledgement that many of the "traditional" approaches to teaching are beneficial for growing brain-links. I think it is so exciting to have some knowledge of how our brain works. I think this knowledge can set up our students for a greater sense of control in both their academic and personal lives.

Oh! and by the way, the best part of doing the adult version is receiving the "Cheery Friday Greetings" email. Thank you.
Grace Villalona @GRACE777

This course is a 5 star. It was easy to follow and helped me find tips to learn even further than my capabilities.
Pat Bowden @pat

Pat Bowden completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be very easy.

This course was just about perfect, with an upbeat style aimed at young people that can also be enjoyed by adults of any age. Engaging videos, enjoyable exercises, and thoughtful discussion topics were excellently presented. It introduces young people...

This course was just about perfect, with an upbeat style aimed at young people that can also be enjoyed by adults of any age. Engaging videos, enjoyable exercises, and thoughtful discussion topics were excellently presented. It introduces young people to many helpful learning techniques that will help them throughout their lives.

I did find one aspect of the course quite distracting, and in a course about learning, very irritating. The font used in the video slides used a combination of upper and lower case letters. For example, How to SuCCeeD in SChool Without SPenDing all YouR Time StuDying. It's not quite this distracting because in the videos all the letters are the same height, but because D faces the opposite way to d, my left-handed brain had to take a second look many times. As a child, I had a lot of trouble distinguishing between b and d, 3 and E, and s and z. As for N, which way did it face?

This aspect was a huge disappointment for me. Young readers who might be struggling with reading need the learning materials to be correct.

Because everything else about this course was excellent, I have still rated it 4 stars. I'll probably recommend it to my grandchildren in a few years when they are old enough.
Anonymous

The content in itself was already interesting and relevant to our life. The videos were not that long and were not that short either. All of the 3 instructors which was a professor, a neuroscientist and a motivational speaker were all credible and made the learning experience easier to understand. The videos were also very creative and lively so I did not get bored at all. They also provided mini quizzes that were also creative and helpful apart from the end modules that were provided at the end of each week. The modules were also not that long and the topics that were discussed were the only questions included in the said module. The course also provided pdfs and downloadables that can help us even after finishing the course.
Anonymous

I would really recommend this course to anyone who really wants to keep on learning - Remember you are supposed to be a lifelong student - never stop learning. As a matter of fact, I wish I had taken it earlier on. The facilitators did a great job at...

I would really recommend this course to anyone who really wants to keep on learning - Remember you are supposed to be a lifelong student - never stop learning. As a matter of fact, I wish I had taken it earlier on.

The facilitators did a great job at conveying the necessary message in every module. No complicated grammar. Everything is simplified such that anybody with whatever educational background will be able to follow through and understand.

The lessons touched every part of our day to day activities - learning activities mostly. Especially where most of us who are interested in learning are falling short.

Except you are not ready to improve on your learning endeavours, this course will help you achieve more.
Anonymous

What I loved about this course was that it was easy to follow. Everything was straight to the point and the concepts were effectively discussed and explained thoroughly with the use of their learning strategies, such as the use of metaphors. The topics that were taught are helpful, not only in my studies as a university student but also in my personal development. In addition, the quizzes and tasks were doable in the said time. They were also helpful in assessing whether we had learned something or not. Furthermore, I like how they also provided PDF files or handouts on some of the topics. Those were truly helpful to make us effective learners. All in all, I would highly recommend this course to my peers.
Anonymous

I actually enrolled this course to get myself used to Coursera's platform as preparation for other courses. However, the knowledge and tools I've got from the course has exceed my expectation. This gives me the opportunity to revise on my own learning method so far, which were applied and which were not in the pass, as well as learning new concepts and tips for studying.

The "other courses" mentioned above are actually have never been my favorite and I kind of brace myself imaginably every time I think about studying these, despite their importance and usefulness. After Learning How To Learn for Youth, nevertheless, I feel more confident and even relaxed welcoming these next courses.