Learning While Writing
When you’ve been struggling on how to learn something effectively, try to put them into your own words.
During elementary years, there were times when I’ve got to run around our school yard three times, once every weeks, because I couldn’t memorize the lesson that our teacher told us to memorize.
At those times, he always asked every student to memorize a couple of new vocabularies or short paragraph in Arabic. I’ve did all I can to memorize them, but I always ended up forgetting what I was supposed to say each time I stand beside him, in front of the class. Then, he told me to go back to my chair to try to memorize the words again.
That incident usually happened about three times, and after that I’ve got to memorize them by the blackboard, in front of the class, before he finally told me to memorize the lesson outside the class. Amazingly, I still couldn’t memorize the lesson, so that he asked me, “Okay, you can not memorize the lesson, so what I want you to do now is give me a three run around the school yards, and then get back to the class.” And the same things always happened every week.
I did better on high school, when I always do my home works while trying to summarize every formula I’ve found into my own words. Unfortunately, I wasn’t even aware if that way of studying is the effective one for me.
In college, I was taking Chinese studies as my major of studies, which was kind of forced me to memorize all of the vocabularies available in our handbooks. I was in a real big trouble during my first year in college, before finally manage to make it up on the second years by rewriting everything I’ve got to learn, and working as a basic Mandarin language tutor for an informal language learning institutions, which forced me to learn a couple of steps ahead of my own students. And that’s when I realize that I’ve got to write everything I want to learn and memorize. Even until now, I am still using the same way to learn. And if you’re feeling that you’re having the same learning problem like me, why don’t you also try to rewrite while summarizing those things you need to learn in your own words?
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February 13th, 2012 at 8:05 pm
Nice article, I like it
February 13th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Nice Share. It makes me also want to rewrite my experiences.
February 13th, 2012 at 9:21 pm
Learning by writing is one of the best way we can do.
February 13th, 2012 at 11:52 pm
Rightly traced….
February 14th, 2012 at 1:12 pm
@ mazfendys: Thank you ^_^
@ Yuditha: Why not? Go ahead sis ^_^
@ Eunike: Indeed, I can learn much better when I put them in my own words ^_^
@ Mdrkarim7: Thank you very much ^_^
February 14th, 2012 at 1:39 pm
Very good advice. I appreciate it.
February 14th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
How nice of you. Thank you ^_^
February 14th, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Wonderful advice which I’ve also done over the course of years. Writing it down reinforces the memory portion of our brains, I believe!
February 14th, 2012 at 6:15 pm
nicely done
February 14th, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Great input you’ve got there tankermone and thank erwinkennythomas ^_^
February 14th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Helpful tip. Since I have a poor memory, making my own notes help a lot.
February 14th, 2012 at 8:41 pm
So do I… glad that it’s useful. Thank you ^_^
February 15th, 2012 at 9:44 am
Thanks for sharing your experiences
February 15th, 2012 at 12:38 pm
Really helpful article….self-development to the fullest.
February 15th, 2012 at 2:04 pm
You too Safa ^_^
February 15th, 2012 at 2:07 pm
FX777222999: Glad that it’s helpful. Thank you ^_^
February 16th, 2012 at 2:08 am
Wonderful
February 16th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
Learning is always good. Everyday you strive to learn something new. thanks for teh share!
February 16th, 2012 at 4:14 pm
You are so right, learning is basic memorizing,the reason why we know our own names is we heard them, then wrote them down and looked at them over and over again.
February 16th, 2012 at 8:11 pm
I remember writing things down when I was in school. It did help a lot when studying for tests and it helped me to make good grades.
February 17th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
@aheed411: Thank you ^_^
@Tiki33: Even until now… I’m learning how to write in English with you all in Triond ^_^
@lauralu: Yup… I was just wondering why no one seems to teach me how to learn this way before that I’ve got to figure it out myself ^,^
Lynn Hollis: Yup agree… did anyone tell/teach you to do that?
February 17th, 2012 at 9:29 pm
quite an observation
February 18th, 2012 at 11:54 am
@ittech: But too slow… I wish that I’ve knew it before, so that I don’t need to make the run ^,^
February 19th, 2012 at 3:28 am
Very helpful tips to learn, thank you.
February 19th, 2012 at 9:18 pm
Very nice article.thanks..
February 19th, 2012 at 10:02 pm
nice share
February 19th, 2012 at 11:30 pm
@Belle Pierdon: Hope it’s useful. Thank you ^_^
@ittech: Thank you very much ^_^
February 20th, 2012 at 12:47 am
good suggestion, dodolbete… thanks for sharing
February 21st, 2012 at 4:43 pm
@rgreenfield: You’re very much welcome ^_^
February 22nd, 2012 at 12:09 am
Good pointers that are very helpful.
February 25th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Great advice, thanks Dodolbete.
February 26th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
@papaleng & stable: thank you ^_^
March 2nd, 2012 at 2:31 am
Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. We all learn in different ways and at our own pace. I love that you were a basic Mandarin language tutor. ^_^
March 3rd, 2012 at 1:44 pm
very good advice. Tapi beneran ya di-strap
March 4th, 2012 at 9:40 pm
If I learned this tip in my childhood, it would save me a lot of time in my study and I could have more time to play or develop other talents.
March 5th, 2012 at 2:36 pm
@Lady Sunshine: Thank you very much for reading it in detailed ^_^
@dwisuka: Thank you. Yoi banget tuh LOL ^,^
@LCM Linda: Lucky you… it took me for a quite sometimes before I realize it
March 7th, 2012 at 8:52 am
nice
March 7th, 2012 at 10:24 am
Thank you ^_^
April 20th, 2012 at 8:15 am
interesting article…Thanks:)