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Book: "The Revolution of learning and knowledge"

I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the strongest motives for directing people to art and science is to escape the disgusting vulgarity and despair of everyday life and to get rid of the shackles of people's capricious desires. A well-educated person is always eager to escape from personal life and into the world of objective perception and thinking, which is like the city of people eager to escape the hustle and bustle of the environment, and to the high mountains to enjoy a quiet life, where through the amid and pure air, you can freely view, intoxicated with that seems to be designed for the eternal tranquil scenery.

　　

--Einstein　　　　　　　　

knowledge is a triple-published magazine, the theme of this issue is "learning revolution", I read it on the Kindle. Inside the article quality is very high, just regret to talk about "learning" related articles only 4. One of the biggest gains in this is the first article, "accelerating times, what to learn?" , I'll talk about it next.

The article first introduced a "Superman" learner Tim Phillis , 33 years old, six pieces of ABS, will speak more than 10 languages, proficient in Chinese sanda, Japanese flow dysprosium horse (a kind of archery immediately), in Argentina took the Tango Championship world champion. He has also written three bestsellers, enduring on the New York Times rankings. He is best at learning new things and getting good results in the shortest time. He used a set of methods--disss (Deconstruct/identification/select/sequence/stakes).

"Deconstruction" is the first step. The content to be learned is accurately decomposed into the smallest unit of learning.

The second step is to pick 20% of the most important content from these learning modules. This is the famous " 28 law ", that a person can use 20% of the effort to get 80% results. This, of course, requires expert help by analysing the thinking process of the best experts when creating the best work. In addition, when looking for an expert, look for extreme or bizarre characters. For example, a thin girl can lift 405 pounds of something. She uses skills rather than genetics or innate physical superiority. Technology is the only thing to learn.

Finally, you have to set yourself a bet to deal with the possible halfway. Especially in adults, it is difficult to keep the enthusiasm and willpower of learning for a long time.

One of the basic assumptions behind his approach to learning is that all human knowledge and skills can be measured, disassembled, analyzed, and reassembled in new order to achieve optimal results. Of course, there is no scientific theory of support, but the personal experience summed up a set of methods.

After this, we say "knowledge and learning that is reshaped by tools". This refers to from the traditional classroom textbook learning to Network learning, network resources as a tool for learning.

The British philosopher, Poland , divides knowledge into two categories, "explicit knowledge" and "tacit knowledge". Explicit knowledge is the knowledge that we have been exposed to in the classroom since childhood, which refers to the knowledge that can be stated by concepts, propositions, formulas, graphs, etc., which is characterized by the ability to pass from one person to another, you teach, I learn, belong to learning about.

In most of our lives before us, learning is being educated, measured, and told what the world is all about. This, to a certain extent, reflects the nature of industrialization, that is, mold manufacturing, mass production. In this model, "teaching" is the basis, efficiency is the goal: learn more the better, the faster the better. Standardized teaching is a reasonable method, the examination is a reasonable result test. As for talent, individuality, passion, imagination, is not within its scope.

Tacit knowledge is a part of human knowledge that cannot be described or understood in general (we know more than we can tell). This knowledge can not be transmitted directly, only in a person's personal experience, experience, discovery and exploration of the process of the hint, it is learning to be. For example, when you tell a child to "not play with fire", he does not understand and will still be playing with fire. Because the knowledge he obtains is explicit, purely cognitive, that is, "Fire is hot", but when he touches the flame with his hand, he experiences much more than a lesson. So, this is called "Why do you understand so many reasons, but still have a bad life"? The learning of tacit knowledge occurs not only in the brain, but also in the various dimensions of the body and the senses, creating associations and connections between information in different dimension. I call it learners to get more "information" than explicit knowledge to learn.

In Poland's view, our understanding of the world is based on tacit knowledge. The tacit ability of the mind plays a dominant and decisive role in all aspects of human cognition, and the explicit knowledge must depend on the understanding and application of tacit comprehension. So, fundamentally speaking:

Knowledge is a very personal matter, with people's emotions, emotions, desires, beliefs related. A good learner designs and carries out his own learning, and must start with the meaning of his own interest.

I really love this sentence! I decided to buy the Polish book later!

In the network age, all information knowledge at your fingertips, previously need to remember the knowledge, now only need to take out search tools, there is no need to remember. So where should we focus our study? should also be like the traditional way of learning rote search to get the knowledge and information? I think it's a waste to memorize a lot of things from the brain. We should think of more important questions.

How does one train creativity, imagination, or insight, how to remain sensitive and curious about new experiences, and how to continuously accept new knowledge to promote their own development? The most scarce ability of this age is not a teacher can directly impart or show to the students, but must be a person in observation, exploration, experimentation, and the study of the people.

George Simon, a Canadian scholar, once sketched the learning model of the internet age. The so-called learning is to form a network to establish an effective connection between the relevant nodes. Learning is not only in the individual itself, but also in the various specialized nodes, the key to learning is to connect the relevant nodes / information sources to form a learning network. This connection allows learners to learn something more important than the existing cognitive state or knowledge system. 」

In the internet age, the internet is changing the way we learn.

Tools are reshaping the value and meaning of knowledge-knowledge is no longer about "what", but about "where." "Knowing where to look for information" is more important than "knowing the information" itself, and the ability to "know more" is more important than "what is known". Experts are no longer people who have a lot of information or facts, but are good at finding and evaluating the authenticity and value of information.

This is both a liberation and a new challenge for us. Freeing us from the tedious and complex memory content, concentrating our energies and using more creativity and insight to process the screening information.

The road ahead is long, remember to protect the inner self-driving force. I know a way to damage the inner drive is to exert external driving forces, such as using a system of rewards and punishments to control a child to do something. Learn 2 hours of reward to eat, otherwise beaten, so that children will not be interested in learning, once out of the suppression of the environment, will never touch the books. I hope I do all the driving force from the heart, the heart is like there is a huge source, gushing out of the power to push me to know the world, find the world, never tired.

Learning is a lifelong thing, a day to eat, a day to learn. Not only to learn knowledge, but also to learn about "learning" knowledge.

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