Memorable Learning

How to remember what you learned? 

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn. — Benjamin Franklin

Memory is very important in learning. The mind is built to retain general information about a place. 
Our brain has multiple Memory Systems:

• Naturally super-sized and outstanding 
• Hippocampus 
  • Brain System 
  • Store new information in the cortex 
  • Memory of events and perceptions 
  • Responsible for the memory consolidation process
• Neural Hooks 
  • Built by evoking the senses
    • Smells/sounds
  • Makes it easier to recall the concept and what it means
• Visual and Spacial Memory 
  • Images
    • Connect directly to your right brain’s visual spacial centers 
    • Helps you to encapsulate concepts 
    • The funnier and evocative – the better 
  • Beginning to Tap
    • Try to make a very memorable visual image 
    • Representing key item you want to remember
• Working Memory
  • Temporary 
  • You need to focus your attention to bring things to working memory 

In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In order to convert the concepts into Long-Term Memory:

• Concepts 
  • Draw 
  • Should be memorable 
• Repetition 
  • Solidify and strengthen neural patterns 
  • Sporadically over several days 
  • Increase your spacing – Gradually 
    • A few minutes in the morning 
    • Gradually extend the time between your repetitions 
• Index cards 
  • Enhance retention 
  • Saying (Audio hooks)

• Handwriting 
  • Helps to deeply encode 
  • Converts information into neural memory structures 
• Sleep
  • Mind repeats patterns 
  • Pieces together solutions 

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning. — Krishnamurti