Situation:
I do not remember everything I learn.
Question:
How can I remember what I have learned?
Possible Answer:
Instead of learning will result in remembering, why not - learning is remembering what you're interested in.
Sense from:
Information Anxiety 2
Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume
Que
Page 249 - 250
ISBN: 0789724103
Learning can be seen as the acquisition of information, but before it can take place, there must be interest; interest permeates all endeavors and precedes learning. In order to acquire and remember new knowledge, it must stimulate your curiosity in some way.
Interest defies all rules of memorization. Most researchers agree that people can retain only about seven bits in their short-term memory, such as the digits in a ZIP Code or telephone number.
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. And both go hand in hand - warm hand in warm hand - with communication. The most effective communicators are those who understand the role interest plays in the successful delivery of messages, whether one is trying to explain astrophysics or help car owners in parking lots.
Multi-level parking garages are generally pretty threatening places. They conjure up frightening images - a favorite site for nefarious activities, clandestine meetings, rapists, and mob hitmen, to say nothing of the fear of remembering on what level you parked your car.
In downtown , I recall there was a multi-level parking garage that used the names of countries instead of numbers to denote each level. In the elevator, the buttons were labeled France, Germany, etc., each in a different typeface. In the elevator lobby on each floor, the national anthem of the country was broadcast through an intercom. While parking garages don't seem to inspire the imagination of the public, foreign countries do. People didn't forget where their cars were parked, and many left the garage smiling.
The developer of this parking garage took a mundane thing and not only made it work, but made it into a cultural learning center as well. This parking garage exemplified the principle that we learn only if we are interested in the subject.
In his book Freedom to Learn, Carl Rogers states that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is "selfdiscovered, self-appropriated" learning. Only when subject matter is perceived as being relevant to a person's own purposes will a significant amount of learning take place.
Information anxiety results from constant overstimulation; we are not given the time or opportunity to make transitions from one room or idea to the next. No one functions well perpetually gasping for breath. Learning (and interest) require way-stations where we call stop and think about an idea before moving on to the next.
I do not remember everything I learn.
Question:
How can I remember what I have learned?
Possible Answer:
Instead of learning will result in remembering, why not - learning is remembering what you're interested in.
Sense from:
Information Anxiety 2
Richard Saul Wurman, Loring Leifer, David Sume
Que
Page 249 - 250
ISBN: 0789724103
Learning can be seen as the acquisition of information, but before it can take place, there must be interest; interest permeates all endeavors and precedes learning. In order to acquire and remember new knowledge, it must stimulate your curiosity in some way.
Interest defies all rules of memorization. Most researchers agree that people can retain only about seven bits in their short-term memory, such as the digits in a ZIP Code or telephone number.
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in. And both go hand in hand - warm hand in warm hand - with communication. The most effective communicators are those who understand the role interest plays in the successful delivery of messages, whether one is trying to explain astrophysics or help car owners in parking lots.
Multi-level parking garages are generally pretty threatening places. They conjure up frightening images - a favorite site for nefarious activities, clandestine meetings, rapists, and mob hitmen, to say nothing of the fear of remembering on what level you parked your car.
In downtown , I recall there was a multi-level parking garage that used the names of countries instead of numbers to denote each level. In the elevator, the buttons were labeled France, Germany, etc., each in a different typeface. In the elevator lobby on each floor, the national anthem of the country was broadcast through an intercom. While parking garages don't seem to inspire the imagination of the public, foreign countries do. People didn't forget where their cars were parked, and many left the garage smiling.
The developer of this parking garage took a mundane thing and not only made it work, but made it into a cultural learning center as well. This parking garage exemplified the principle that we learn only if we are interested in the subject.
In his book Freedom to Learn, Carl Rogers states that the only learning which significantly influences behavior is "selfdiscovered, self-appropriated" learning. Only when subject matter is perceived as being relevant to a person's own purposes will a significant amount of learning take place.
Information anxiety results from constant overstimulation; we are not given the time or opportunity to make transitions from one room or idea to the next. No one functions well perpetually gasping for breath. Learning (and interest) require way-stations where we call stop and think about an idea before moving on to the next.
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