Are you still doing homework with your children until late at night every day? Master the shortcuts to learning and easily overtake in corners

We adults, who have been students for more than ten or decades, if we ask you: can you study? It is estimated that many people will be confused: Who can\’t learn? Do you still need to study? Of course! Learning is inseparable from the brain. If you master the principles of the brain processing information and learn how to learn, it is equivalent to discovering a shortcut to learning. While others are still motivating themselves with the words \”learning from the sea and working hard\”, you may have already achieved overtaking in a corner. It’s a bit late for me to realize this. In the past two years, I have repeatedly lamented to myself: “I wish I had understood this 20 years earlier!” However, it is not too late to know it now. In addition to using it on ourselves, we can also use it on ourselves. These strategies are applied to children to help them learn smarter and more easily, and embark on the path to academic excellence as soon as possible. Today I will introduce three learning methods, which are relatively easy to master. You can try them. 1. Let your children be primary school teachers. I remember when I was in junior high school, there was a parent-teacher meeting, and the teacher asked the father of the girl who always came first in the class to introduce his educational experience. The father said that they had a small blackboard at home. After dinner every day, he and his wife became students, and his daughter became a little teacher, writing, drawing, and telling them what they had learned that day. For some reason, I always remember what he said. More than twenty years later, when I studied psychology, I discovered that his experience had psychological and physiological basis. Knowledge about memory There are three types of human memory: instant memory, short-term memory and long-term memory. The three types of memory have different retention times: Instantaneous memory: can only be maintained within 1 second and will disappear in a very short time. Short-term memory: Pay attention to information and hold it for less than 20 seconds. Long-term memory: Processing information that can be retained for more than 1 minute, and some can be retained for a lifetime. (Maybe my brain has processed the words of my father, the top student, so I can remember it for so long.) So, how can I remember the knowledge more firmly and make it less likely to be forgotten? The best way is: retell. Scientific research has found that reciting the knowledge you have learned can be remembered more firmly and understood more deeply. The process by which we learn knowledge is the process by which the brain encodes and inputs information. Rehearsal is the process by which the brain outputs information. In the process of output, the brain will re-encode the information using existing information and personalized expressions, and reflect it to the outside, that is, express it in its own language. This process is a process of digesting, absorbing, and reprocessing information. Naturally, you will understand the knowledge more thoroughly and remember it more firmly. I have a deep understanding of this myself. Sometimes when I read a book, I think I understand it, but when I paraphrase it to others or write it into an article, I find that there are many places that I didn’t fully understand, so I have to check and fill in the gaps in a targeted manner. In this process, this knowledge becomes your own. Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. To paraphrase this sentence, retelling is one of the criteria to test whether you have mastered knowledge. 2. Magical Dual Coding If you were asked to teach your children the word \”kick\”, how would you teach it? The conventional approach is: point to the word, read it once, and the child reads it again, and tell him that this word means \”kick\”. if youMastering the dual coding theory may lead to better learning methods and learning effects. What is dual coding theory? Knowledge is generally received by the brain through two encoding methods, one is language and the other is imagery. Imagery methods include the following: Visual: the picture you see. Hearing: The sounds you hear. Kinesthetic: The movement of objects. Physical sensations related to emotions, such as a racing heart. and other nonverbal expressions. These two encoding methods often work together. For example, when you see the word \”scissors\”, your mind will be reminded of the cold and sharp feeling of metal, and maybe the \”click-click-click\” sound of scissors. Scientists have discovered that when we learn knowledge, if we can fully mobilize the two ways of encoding information and combine more visual, auditory, movement, and feeling, the information entering the brain will be remembered more firmly and the impression will be more profound. Let’s take “kick” as an example. After learning this theory, we can add new content. For example, do kicking movements with your child, kicking your legs, kicking stools, and kicking pebbles. Say \”kick\” aloud as you kick. In this way, the child will remember the word quickly. When I make kicking movements in the future, I will naturally think of \”kick\”. In the movie \”The Sound of Music\”, Maria teaches children to sing and inadvertently uses the dual coding theory. The children didn\’t know music scores, so she connected each note with a beautiful thing, made it into a song, and taught the children to sing: \”DO is a little doe, RAY is golden sunshine, MI is To call myself, FAR means the road is far and long…\” The children sang the song, thinking about the sunshine and the deer, and memorized these notes naturally and happily. Therefore, when tutoring children to study, you might as well use your brain more and use the dual coding theory, which may have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. 3. Question-based learning I believe that everyone who has ever been a student has had this eternal question: sitting in the same classroom, taught by the same teacher, with the same content, why do some people become top academics while others have mediocre grades? ? What is the difference between a top student and a bad student? One of the differences is: one is the master of learning, and the other is the servant of learning. One is only good at rote memorization, and the other is good at integrating information. The process of learning knowledge is actually a process of information integration. In the words of psychologists, it means that new concepts enter the existing concept system of the brain, enriching and developing the original concepts. Learning is the process of assimilating old ideas to new ideas. The original knowledge structure is like a tree. It is just a thin sapling at the beginning. Every time you learn a little new knowledge, it is like a branch growing on the tree, and the branches branch off. Slowly, The tree becomes lush and leafy. This is the process of integration and assimilation of knowledge. What happens if there is no integration? Just like a bear breaking sticks, breaking off one and throwing another, in the end, both hands are empty, and you forget what you have learned. Or, it\’s like a messy warehouse, where things are piled up in a mess, can\’t be found, can\’t be sorted out, and are a mess. It seems that both top students and bad students are sitting in the classroom and listening to lectures, but their brains process knowledge differently. Most students are mechanicallyWhen the teacher teaches \”123\”, he will remember \”123\” and will not think about \”456\”. The brains of academic masters are good at integrating new and old knowledge, extending from \”123\” to \”456\”, and even learning \”789\” by analogy. Some people seem to be working hard, but in fact their brains are lazy; some people look relaxed, but in fact their brains are working hard. Over time, the gap widens. So, how to cultivate children\’s ability to actively learn and integrate knowledge? Asking questions is the most basic and commonly used method. for example. Chengzi likes history, and when chatting, I would come up with some questions to discuss: If you could travel to ancient times, which dynasty would you like to travel to? Why? Guan Yu\’s red rabbit horse can travel a thousand miles in a day and eight hundred miles at night. What is the speed per hour? Which one is faster than a car? To answer these questions, it is necessary to use existing knowledge structures to analyze new problems and trigger his thinking. This is the refinement of information. This requires parents to be good at asking questions, good at inspiring, and thinking with their children. Not only in study, but in daily life, such questions will also make the chat lively and interesting. Good questions are open-ended, which can trigger and promote the child\’s brain to select, integrate, and refine information, so it is also called a refinement-type question. Slowly, children learn this way of thinking about problems. When encountering new knowledge and new problems, they will take the initiative to think more about why, triggering further thinking, and invisibly refining the information. Diligence in learning is not just the hard work of \”hanging on the head and stabbing the buttocks\”, but more importantly, the diligence of the mind. Being good at asking questions and thinking is the dividing line between top academics and poor academics, as well as the dividing line between excellence and mediocrity in adulthood. The new semester has begun, and I believe many parents are beginning to worry about their children\’s learning. Instead of being rigidly guarded and watching your children do their homework all the time, it is better to put some thought and skill into helping your children develop good learning methods and study habits. This will not only get twice the result with half the effort, but also benefit your children throughout their lives. Give it a try?