The best tips to learn

1. Author: José Chacón
Teacher: Barbara Oakley, Phd

2. The best tips for learning
Index
A.- How this project will be used in my life.
B.- Three best tips for learning:
1.- Chunking
2.- Sleep
3.- Procastination
C. -References

3. The best tips for learning
A.- How this project will be used in my life.
This project will be a key tool to be used when I start a Financial Analysis post-degree program in
April 2015.
Given the complexity of the sujects to be covered in the post-degree program such as:
- Finance for companies
- Investment projects
- Securities markets
- Principles of Finance and Accounting
I think that the best tips for learning project, will help me to master the sujects above mentioned,
and therefore to achieve my goal.
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4. B.- Three best tips for learning:
Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning
How to Learn," video 2-1 What’s a chunk?
1.- Chunking: definition: is the mental leap that helps
you unite bits of information together trough a
meaning (2014 Oakley: 54)
What is a chunk?
Chunks are pieces of information that are bound
together trough meaning (2014 Oakley: 54)

5. The best tips for learning
How to form a Chunk:
1.- Focus your attention on the information you want to
chunk.
2.- Understand the basic idea you are trying to chunk.
3.- Gaining context so you see not just how, but also
when the use the chunk.

6. 2.- SLEEP
Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning
How to Learn," video 1-7 a The importance of
sleep in learning
The importance of sleep in learning
1.- During sleep your brain makes a housecleaning to eliminate toxic products.
2.- Your brain erases trivial aspects of memories and simultaneously strengthen areas of importance.
3.- Your brain rehearses some of the tougher parts of whatever you are trying to learn.
4.-Sleep has been shown to make a remarkable difference in people ability to figure out difficult
problems and to find meaning and understanding in what they are learning.

7. 3.- PROCRASTINATION
Definition:
"Is the practice of carrying out less urgent tasks in preference to
more urgent ones, or doing more pleasurable things in place of less
pleasurable ones, and thus putting off impending tasks to a later time,
sometimes to the "last minute" before the deadline"
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrastination)
Procastination is a single, monumentally important “key-stone" bad habit.
(2014 Oakley: 86)

8. The best tips for learning
Typical Procastination Pattern
Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning How to Learn," video 1-4 a procastination
preview

9. The best tips for learning
Procastination is like an addiction. It offers temporary
excitement and relief from boring reality (2014, Oakley: 87)
Like any habit, procastination is something you can simply
fall into. (2014, Oakley: 88)

10. How to overcome procastination
The pomodoro technique
Is a technique that’s been developed to help you focus your attention over a short period of time
(2014, Oakley: 103)
Source: Barbara Oakley , Mooc "Learning
How to Learn," video 1-4 A procastination
preview
You can overcome procastination by using the Pomodoro Technique as follows:
- 25 MINUTES
- NO INTERRUPTIONS
- FOCUS

11. 4.- References
Oakley, Barbara (2014) A mind for numbers, USA
Jeremy P .Teacher/Penguin
Coursera(2014) MOOC
"Learning How to Learn“
(www.coursera.org)