How do "niu" people learn

Recently, I met many "niu" people, such as Zhao Yong, Liu dingyi, Mao Xianghui, Fang Xingdong, Liu Dong, Zhuang xiuli, Qiu, Zhao hongjun, and Li Chaojun, one question I like to ask is, "How do you learn? ", Although the answers vary, they are similar in essence.

　　Zhao YongThe teacher said, "what I want to do every day is to learn. The work process is to learn. I am also studying the report process for you. I have learned a lot from you, but you don't know. I have been studying in my spare time. I used to read a lot of books and read everything now, including the brochures sent to me by others on the way. I can learn everything as long as you want to learn."

　　Liu dingyiThe teacher has read more than 10 thousand books, and has been able to keep thinking during his studies. He has summed up many things. He can say that he has integrated things in many disciplines, so that he can create a scientific research.

　　Mao Xianghui"I think I should follow a balanced principle: My input and output should be balanced. Under this principle, I can tell you what the patterns of daily life and learning are. First of all, I am a diligent learner. I get up very early every day. I will write at a very early time, because this is my output method. Then I will view some emails from others. Dozens of emails are sent to my mailbox every day, asking questions and collaborating with me. Then I will answer other people, which is an interconnected effect, to communicate with others. Then I will spend some time reviewing what I saw yesterday. There are a lot of social software tools to use, such as blogs. I am maintaining three to four blogs, as you know. After this time, I will enter the working status. It takes me a few hours to communicate with others, face-to-face or by phone or other means. It takes about six to seven hours to study every day, such as "Seven Habits of efficient people" and some historical books. I have a book in my bag, a book at the bedside, a book in the bathroom ...... At this time, I may take all the time to read some classic things. Do not always pursue the latest and most fashionable things. Because something on the Internet may lose its systemization, we need to learn something systematic through reading, so the Internet has a great advantage in terms of updates, including blog, Google, however, this is not enough. We still want to read some classic things. I will read books every week. This is also a way of inputting. I will think about it two hours before going to bed, where do I not know? I use my meta-cognition to think about what else needs to be updated? What kind of books do I need to buy recently?

For example, if I want to write a "pro-am" theory recently, I will translate it into "professional surplus ". It means professional-amateur, which is a professional amateur. Many people can only read one major at most, but we can turn ourselves into a very professional amateur in many fields through lifelong learning, and even surpass the professional. For example, in the past, we thought that only professional mountain climbers could go to Mount Everest, but now many amateurs have learned to climb the mountain. They are not professional. Many foreign professional athletes are actually amateurs. They may study at a university. They insist on training and become professionals at the sports meeting. So many scientific inventions are like this. You are not necessarily a scientist, but you can study certain fields of interest and become quite professional people in this field. I have recently studied this issue. There is a book called "pro-am age", which predicts that human society will become a combination of many "professional" People in the next few decades, more research results will be presented in this way. For example, many amateurs in the United States are studying the aerospace and rocket theories. They developed a rocket that could send humans to the first space orbit, and even founded a company to run the project, allowing many people to fulfill their own space dream. In order to study this field, I recently found some books, websites, theories ...... But it's not enough for me to learn it. I need to publish it out and output it. In this way, it becomes an interconnected learning body. Under such a principle, I am busy every day, but it is quite regular. In this way, you will become a very powerful lifelong learner and "pro-am" in many fields, so don't worry about your professional problems, don't worry about your employment problems. You will find your own value motivation, and even you will constantly switch your roles to different fields and promote each other. This is something that I hope to bring to you and a personal experience ."

　　Zhuang xiuliThe teacher's success is obvious to all. On her blog, there are new content every day, especially holidays. It is also a good opportunity for teacher Zhuang to concentrate on his studies. My MSN friend list contains Miss Zhuang, who is still busy online almost every night when I want to shut down and go to bed. It is often am, this can also be seen from the time when an article was published on her blog. When I went to Beijing, I met Miss Zhuang and asked her for a difficult decision. She said that she must read more books, think more, and read more classical books. We don't have enough reading resources now, when reading a book, you must think about it. No matter what you do, you must think about why. In this way, your progress will be faster.

In the last issue of "E-LEARNING lecture hall", teacher Zhuang talked about her learning in this way: "To tell the truth, I really studied for a year. I had a holiday in July May 1 last year and started my official study. In addition to school teaching, I spend very little time reading books. I didn't know what to read at the beginning. It is the same as many of our learners. At that time, I started to read "A Brief History of Western education", and then "The History of philosophical development". I also read the history of psychology. After reading this round of development history, including the development history of knowledge and social evolution, we will establish the knowledge structure and framework. But many of them do not know much about it, including the present. At that time, when more things were written, they communicated with the outside, including focusing on psychology, system theory, or pedagogy. There are always excellent learners on the Internet. That is to say, there are many outstanding learners in some aspects. Then, when you go to study and do it yourself, you will create opportunities for your growth. Therefore, I feel that you must do and act. That is to say, after you read a little book, it will produce effective learning. After you accumulate a little bit, it will be easier for you to study later, that is, the phrase "Learn and then do not know enough" just made on the webpage ". I don't know a lot of things. I didn't know it before, but it also laid the foundation for the next step of reading, so I can study it further.

The book itself is very important. Just now, Mr. Mao also said that he has put books everywhere, read them at any time, and make full use of the time. I think this is also an informal learning method. His interactions with others are also learning, indeed. That is to say, the action of learning is full of your life. Then, if you have a learning mentality, your thinking will focus on your problems. Eating, walking, and communicating with others will certainly solve your problems. In this way, your insights into the problem will be continuously improved. However, when I read a book, I learned to improve your thinking ability. Of course, the study of thinking in psychology is a major part and core content of cognition. Therefore, I think the ability of thinking and system thinking is very important to the growth of our learners.

The "professional surplus" mentioned by Mr. Mao just now is actually an interdisciplinary one. from different disciplines, you have learned a better way to think about some problems systematically. However, as far as thinking is concerned, I think there are skills and strategies. In the system theory, "putting any problem into its background and looking at the relationship between the problem and the background" is also in the book Complexity Theory and education. The idea of the whole book is also like this. That is, the whole education must be carried out with systematic thinking, and we must change our way of thinking. This is from the content of reading.

In my own learning behavior, I think it was action at the very beginning. No matter how much you do first, you gradually improve your capabilities and create opportunities for your own growth. It is important to share and communicate more. For example, using the blog tool, you can make some records, review them later, or tell others that you are learning these things, it creates possibilities and conditions for you to learn knowledge in different fields. In other words, some tools need to be gradually used. Tools are very important and their efficiency is different.

The other is to be good at discovering yourself. Everything depends on yourself. When you encounter difficulties, you need to find yourself. There is a kind of mentality, that is, building on the capabilities of others is short-lived, or you have not really discovered the problem. On the instructor's blog, I told a little story: the butterfly is born from the gap of the deployment. If you let it come out, it will go through a very painful growth process and its wings will be able to expand, to be able to fly. If someone helps a butterfly out of the hole, the butterfly will not fly. Therefore, you need to find yourself when you encounter difficulties, and you must find a solution. Some people asked me: what tools are actually used? For example, for email subscription, many foreign websites now have newsletter. If you subscribe to ten people, you can get a lot of information every day. Some are once in January 1, three months, and every day. In this way, you do not have to browse information on a foreign website every day. In this way, the tracking of foreign information is established. You also need to manage emails and browse websites. RSS reader is also important, that is to say, you should not read the content on the website one by one. It is best to use information technology to improve your reading efficiency and scope. Reading speed will also increase as you read more ."

　　Liu DongAs a teacher working in the teaching field, the teacher has become a celebrity in the Education Technology circle through his own struggle. When talking about learning, Mr. Liu said, "I am not a good student. Because I often escape to external departments to listen to lectures, such as those in the Department of Philosophy, I think you should listen more. This is the first class to listen to. Never listen to your own class. The second point is that reading doesn't care whether you can understand it at once. The key is to continue reading. I want to keep reading from college to the present. But now it may be a little less because you are busy at work. Many books may not be read immediately when they are young, and it doesn't matter. We may be very open when we get there ."

　　Qiu published a documentThe teacher is an ordinary physics teacher, but he has made extraordinary achievements and founded the "qiushi de education lab ". Talking about the successful experience, Mr. Qiu is very modest. He said that my research is mainly "the application of the Geometric Sketchpad in Science Teaching". I have been studying this small tool for ten years, we also learned a lot of truth, such as "unreasonable, fog, mistaken, enlightened, physical, and unreasonable ". I spend a lot of time on my website every day to communicate with netizens.

　　Fang XingdongThe teacher read 5000 or 6000 books and wrote on his BLOG: When I left Xi'an and went to Beijing, the most important luggage I brought was several large boxes of over four thousand books ......

　　Zhao HongyuThe success of the teacher's founding of the "Hong Yu music website" can be said to depend on their own passion, and the unit does not provide much support. He spent money on his own servers, maintained his website, and made his own musical instrument. Music has fully integrated into his life. Although he worked hard, he was able to enjoy himself.

　　Li ChaojunHe is now the executive editor of "Information Technology Education for Primary and Secondary Schools" and vice president of K12. In order to engage in resource library projects, he worked tirelessly to conduct research across the country and find frontline teachers to talk about his feelings, summarize the elements that an excellent resource library should possess. Speaking of his success experience, he said: "Do not be afraid of hardships, do it boldly, and do it in a down-to-earth Manner, instead of thinking about it. I can do this mainly because I am very interested in information technology education and passionate about it ." Before that, Mr. Li did a lot of work and even worked as a construction engineer.

To sum up their successful experiences, I feel that there are three most prominent points:Passion + diligence + thinking! In this impetuous society, their enterprising spirit can help us to calm down.