This power point will help you to learn about learning.

1. Alejandra Roncancio.
Bogotá- Colombia.

2. • First, I'm going to talk about the great experience I had in
this course.
• For me, it was very helpful because it showed me how
my brain works, also helped me to learn and understand
more the English language (I’m not so good with this
language, so sorry for the bad grammar), and also to be
more positive about my learning.

3. Like the professor Barbara Oakley show us, this is what focused and diffuse mode
looks like if our brain were a pinball machine. It means that the focused mode is
when we concentrate intentionality on something specific we are trying to learn, is
much more easy to learn on the focused mode because you related it with known
things, but in the diffuse mode you see the things more amply, from another point of
view.

4. One example of those modes is when you pick up a SITP bus or a regular
bus, the SITP bus has the same route and it stops only in some specific
places but in the regular bus the stops change every time but finally they
has the same destiny.
SITP BUS REGULAR BUS

5. First. ¿What is a chunk? A
chunk is an agrupation of
pieces of information that
are together for the use or
the meaning, like when you
think about a Zebra
After that you star thinking about a
lion or your dog or a horse,
because your brain has a “chunk”
about animals.

6. • Now you probably be asking yourself ¿how can i form a
chunk? Well, the answer is very simple with just 3 steps.
• STEP 1.
Focus your attention: focus all your attention on what you
want to chunk.
• STEP 2.
Try to understand the main idea of what you are trying to
chunk.
• STEP 3.
Practice, practice and more practice. But be careful
because you DON’T have to practice 100 times in one
hour just for that day, you have to practice a few times for
some days.

7. You don’t have to kill yourself studying the night before the test, you have to
study almost everyday because your brain also needs time to relax and not to
be stressed, a good technique of learning is the “pomodoro” technique, you
just need to study very hard during 25 minutes, with no distractions or music or
noise, just very very focused on what you are trying to do and after those 25
minutes you have to give some “prize” letting the brain gently change the
focus and to relax.

8. • You have to fight with procrastination, because is like a
computer virus that don’t let your computer work
normally.
Procrastination is when you
need to study but you say “oh, I
have a lot of time for that, I’m
going to do it tomorrow” but you
say that EVERYDAY! And is
when for the day before the test
you are so stressed studying
and trying to learn everything.

9. Here are some techniques that will help you to fight with
procrastination

10. 1. Use a diary: This can help you to know when you finally “has arrived
to the goal” and especially to let you know what helps and what don't
with the methods you are using.
2. Commit to some routines and tasks every day.
• The most important of this tasks is to write them the night before,
because it keeps your brain focus on those tasks.
• You have to retard the rewards until you finish your task.
• You NEED to belief on your new learning system.

11. • AND FINALLY, I’M ALEJANDRA
RONCANCIO.
• THAKS FOR LEARNING ABOUT
LEARNING.