How to Learn in the 21st Century

At this time (the 21^st century), "memory and learning" research has reached at a level we can utilize for improving how we actually learn. This research field has developed certain specific strategies that enable us to create our own "specific tactical plan."

Memory Palace Technique, a Tool for Memory Athletes

The memory palace is a very ancient technique, which dates from the ancient Greeks and Latins. Orators in the Roman Senate used this technique to remember the concepts they had to develop in public. To be effective, this technique requires that the places in the palace be always the same and always in the same order.

How to Learn More by Studying Less?

Being intelligent within … (a) subject is often a factor (of) just how much exposure you have had to it. - Scott Young, a "Marco Polo" of Learning.

To learn more in less time, it only depends on motivating yourself. But, in the first place, Why do we fail to motivate ourselves?
This is because majority of learners use low-efficient study methods when they want to learn more; and this takes more of their time. In turn, this more-time-requirement leads to a tendency of preference for "ineffective study methods".

Therefore, what do we have to do to motivate ourselves?

How to Write Warrants in Research Arguments?

An example of argument based on reason: We are facing significantly higher health care costs in Europe and North America _claim, because global warming is moving the line of extended hard freezes steadily northward. _reason

An example of a general principle that justifies relating your particular reason to your particular claim: When an area has fewer hard freezes, it must pay more to combat new diseases carried by subtropical insects no longer killed by those freezes.

Like all warrants, this one says that if a general circumstance exists (an area has fewer hard freezes), then we can infer a general consequence (that area will have higher costs to combat new diseases).

NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW ANIMAL DEFENSES EVOLVE

The article, SOCIAL OR STINKY? NEW STUDY REVEALS HOW ANIMAL DEFENSES EVOLVE, by the University of California – Davis is about how animals defend themselves against carnivorous animals. The researchers found out that animals that are active in the night and under threat form others use “noxious spraying,” while those are active during the day and fear from from “birds of prey….live in social groups” to defend themselves against predators.

WHY OLDER PEOPLE ARE MORE FORGETFUL THAN YOUNGER ONES?

A study published in the Journal Topics in Cognitive Science tried to examine the current measures used to show that older minds are more forgetful than their younger counterparts. The study, headed by Dr. Michael Ramscar of Tübingen University, found that these methods are “flawed” and have not taken other critical factors into account.
The writers argue that older people, like old computers, have more information gathered from experience and it takes more time for the brain to process these information. This contradicts the general assumption of ‘as we age, the capacity our brains decline.’
They argue

My Experience with MOOCs–College Writing 2x: Principles of Written English

Source: edX

 

Introduction

Principles of Written English is an online introductory level university course designed for learners of English. The course has attracted 40,000 registrants around the world. It is offered by Berkley University of California for free through EdX. EdX is a non-profit created by founding partners Harvard and MIT whose mission is to bring the best of higher education to students of all ages anywhere in the world, wherever there is Internet access ( http://edx.org ). The course will continue five weeks and includes a required final essay.
Luckily, I am one of the registered students of the course