Learning how you learn best can help develop the ability to transfer learning from one context to another and from short-term memory to long-term memory
Somebody needs to quietly break the news to this year’s crop of high school grads. “Learning? It hasn’t even started yet, so get good at it — you’ll need to be an effective learner for the rest of your life.”
In fact, Wu found that one important way of staving off cognitive decline is by learning new skills as a child would. After just 1.5 months learning multiple tasks in Wu’s study, participants age 60 and older increased their cognitive abilities to levels similar to those of middle-aged adults, 30 years younger.
“As human beings, learning is one of our primary activities — it’s up there with foraging, mating, playing, and working. We start learning at birth , we learn at fantastic rates through our early years, and we keep on doing it as adults pretty much up until the end.” Most things that enter working memory are not sent to long-term memory, but some things our working memory decides may have some value later on are transferred to our long-term memory, where they reside until we need them to accomplish one sort of task or another.
Understanding all this is part of becoming a better learner and is called “metacognition,” or learning about learning.
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