Studying In The Twenty-First Century Analysis

Studying in the Twenty-First Century
In the article “What Works, What Doesn’t,” John Dunlosky and other researchers report different types of learning strategies to determine their effectiveness for students and teachers in a variety of subjects and settings. Rating the best and worst strategies that work for students. Method and content are equally important in learning and students are not being taught from teachers. The problem with experts studies is that some strategies may be time consuming and ineffective to students. To start, there were clearly two winning techniques that stood out. The first winning technique would be self-testing and in self-testing students can test themselves on their own time by using flash cards and quizzing
First, in elaborative interrogation, students answer “why?” questions, producing explanations for facts, which makes this moderate technique practical with reasonable time demands. This technique is known to be used when learning factual information. Furthermore, the second runner-up technique is self-explanation, which may help integrate new information with prior knowledge, benefiting kindergartners up to college students. This moderate utility may be unclear when being practical for students. Finally, the last runner-up technique is interleaved practice. Interleaved practice is used for students to practice selecting the correct method and may encourage students to compare different kind of problems. This technique seems to be practical and is moderately
Being a student in college, I am always open to different types of techniques to improve my learning. For example, I know I would be open to trying out distributed practice. It seems to me it would be a great idea to spread out my study time, which instead of just trying to cram in everything all at once. Which in the result, I always seem to forget the material that way. Especially having to take two classes at a time, one being anatomy with a lot of information to learn. So that being said, anatomy has a ton of memorization and longer intervals seem to be key in helping the information stick. Now, coming to an agreement with John Dunlosky, I can recall coming home from school and not actually know how to even begin studying. I knew for myself that rereading didn’t actually work, that it was just time consuming. In time, I found that writing down notes and later quizzing myself based on my notes helped the information stick. When it comes to studying at home, it can be tough, especially since most students are not being taught in school. This article was spot on when it mentioned how students are not being taught simply because teachers were not schooled in effective ways of strategies to learning. In conclusion, this article was very beneficial to