I am a teacher in France, and It seems to me that in too many instances, we privilege memory over thinking and understanding. In my specific field (French literature), a colleague had students writing down pages of the daily lesson and telling them to memorize them, ( like "magisters" did in Roman times), even though they didn't know what the pages were about. It worked for those who have very good memorisation skills - which is not my case- but for the others it was a tremendous source of unnecessary stress and a disaster in terms of grades. Furthermore students who performed well in the evaluation had forgotten everything in a matter of a few weeks. That is why this video is so important: to remind people that understanding is the key to real learning. Someone who understands a concept, will think that she or he owns it. Empowering learners is essential.
i'm at 3:16 but this is the exact issue I'm struggling with. When learning something I WANT to and I NEED to understand it right from the beginning in order for my brain to actually understand it. So if I'm learning about how the processor in a computer works i need to know every single little bit about it from the beginning and probably the back history of it for me to think that I understand it. Which for some things isn't possible. Like even an Intel processor, even the workers there don't fully understand all of it. So it gets overwhelming for me, I don't know how to learn every single thing about something ;-;
Thank you for highlighting this topic more, this topic really popped up in my head out of nowhere or just because i am somewhat good in memorizing things rather than learning 😄 so i tried to find out which is more better and helpful for a human and then i found your video, in my vague experience i ll say memorization and understanding go hand in hand with each other but yes understanding something is better than the latter
But how does understanding work? Is it the way the neural connections are made? I understand how an internal combustion engine works, but I don't understand quantum physics no matter how much I'd like to. Where does intelligence come in to play?
This is really brilliant! Thanks so much. I have a couple of degrees too and I’ve become much better at retaining and reproducing information specific to my area quite well at this point in my life. I have never reconciled my increased understanding with my improved results until right now. Omg. I have lightbulbs going off in my brain thanks to you 😀 Cheers Chris, that was the best 5 or so mins of my life *subscribed 👌👏🤓
This is the best guideline i have seen so far....Thank you so much Sir...This just sink into my head because I have been battling with this issue of memorising and it's been bothering me..
What about teaching kindergarten ? Ages 4-5 ? Can I just teach them to memorize the letters and sounds or is there something deeper they need to understand about the letters? .. idk why but I’m heavy on repetition and memorization but I hope I’m not doing it wrong
@@ChrisLovejoy Thank you so much for your response! Please speak more about this. I really wish my parents and I knew this growing up because it’s unfortunate to spend so much life time in school, to not retain majority of the information. It’s like I wasn’t ever taught certain things. If I could do it over I would. I have one more question for you: For Social Emotional Learning like understanding empathy, saying sorry and knowing why we should say it and what that really means etc. How could we teach that to children where they really understand these concepts? Even if you could do a video on that to go more in depth I would appreciate it.
I think pursuing understanding vs memorising is a big part of it. The other stuff in this video series helps too - like using spaced repetition, having a central reference document, etc
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I like the idea that i should be able to recreate something thats understood from other core principles. as it is at least a way to verifiy if i understood it. I just have to be careful to that i understood some levels before aswell (so i dont reach the right conclusions but from wrong premises) - so maybe i should be able to think 2 levels down from a new idea (whats the premis and the premise of that premise) and two levels up (what could i do with that new info, where may it be applied) and maybe aswell sideways (maybe putting it in other words that dont change the content)- that way i should be able to answer many variations of testing my knowledge for example i knew what an anova was and that a planned contrast is based upon an a priori hypothesis - i knew that this a priori hypothesis would be done before hand - but in the exam they asked if it meant: before data sampling/before doing my F-test/ or just before testing for contrasts.
I just needed someone to confirm my bias toward understanding and not memorizing content 😅 . Thanks for being that person. Great vedio!
I am a teacher in France, and It seems to me that in too many instances, we privilege memory over thinking and understanding. In my specific field (French literature), a colleague had students writing down pages of the daily lesson and telling them to memorize them, ( like "magisters" did in Roman times), even though they didn't know what the pages were about. It worked for those who have very good memorisation skills - which is not my case- but for the others it was a tremendous source of unnecessary stress and a disaster in terms of grades. Furthermore students who performed well in the evaluation had forgotten everything in a matter of a few weeks. That is why this video is so important: to remind people that understanding is the key to real learning. Someone who understands a concept, will think that she or he owns it. Empowering learners is essential.
i'm at 3:16 but this is the exact issue I'm struggling with. When learning something I WANT to and I NEED to understand it right from the beginning in order for my brain to actually understand it. So if I'm learning about how the processor in a computer works i need to know every single little bit about it from the beginning and probably the back history of it for me to think that I understand it. Which for some things isn't possible. Like even an Intel processor, even the workers there don't fully understand all of it. So it gets overwhelming for me, I don't know how to learn every single thing about something ;-;
Me too
This is by far the best explanation I've gotten concerning understanding what you read or study.
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haha thanks man!
Thank you for highlighting this topic more, this topic really popped up in my head out of nowhere or just because i am somewhat good in memorizing things rather than learning 😄 so i tried to find out which is more better and helpful for a human and then i found your video, in my vague experience i ll say memorization and understanding go hand in hand with each other but yes understanding something is better than the latter
But how does understanding work? Is it the way the neural connections are made? I understand how an internal combustion engine works, but I don't understand quantum physics no matter how much I'd like to. Where does intelligence come in to play?
This is really brilliant! Thanks so much. I have a couple of degrees too and I’ve become much better at retaining and reproducing information specific to my area quite well at this point in my life. I have never reconciled my increased understanding with my improved results until right now. Omg. I have lightbulbs going off in my brain thanks to you 😀 Cheers Chris, that was the best 5 or so mins of my life *subscribed 👌👏🤓
wow, thanks 😁😁😁
Remembering secondary consolidation
Memorizing compaction.
I spent my whole life memorising those books and now I regret not having fun with those interesting contents
You can't remember each and everything by understanding
Great explanation!
This is the best guideline i have seen so far....Thank you so much Sir...This just sink into my head because I have been battling with this issue of memorising and it's been bothering me..
glad it helped! :)
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I'm having trouble remembering stuff so I'm trying different techniques to help me
Excellent, don't worry about subscriber count, just keep sharing good stuff....(and I know that's what you already are doing..)
You really deserve more subscribers.
Thank you for telling me this
I have one doubt... the thing we understand also get stored in memory or where does it stores
Well I have to memorise in Geography staff like names of places, rivers, mountains, etc..
Ha yeah, for some stuff it _will_ just be a case of memorising. Anki is great for this!
Use map of rivers
what happens if you understand but cannot give a perfect answer but rather if u memorise modal essay u will get the marks
Same with me
Understanding things make help for gaining knowledge help in jobs etc .
Memorising help to pass exam , we forgot the information after 3 days
Thank you so much sire. Great information and info here, from Malaysia 👍✨😁
What about teaching kindergarten ? Ages 4-5 ? Can I just teach them to memorize the letters and sounds or is there something deeper they need to understand about the letters?
.. idk why but I’m heavy on repetition and memorization but I hope I’m not doing it wrong
in my opinion that's fine at that stage - to get the initial building blocks for learning there's quite a bit of rote learning required I would say
@@ChrisLovejoy Thank you so much for your response! Please speak more about this. I really wish my parents and I knew this growing up because it’s unfortunate to spend so much life time in school, to not retain majority of the information. It’s like I wasn’t ever taught certain things.
If I could do it over I would. I have one more question for you:
For Social Emotional Learning like understanding empathy, saying sorry and knowing why we should say it and what that really means etc. How could we teach that to children where they really understand these concepts? Even if you could do a video on that to go more in depth I would appreciate it.
@@michellement2158 sure, added it to the list!
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can anyone share me differents methods for understanding concepts
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How do you keep so much knowledge on your mind.
I think pursuing understanding vs memorising is a big part of it. The other stuff in this video series helps too - like using spaced repetition, having a central reference document, etc
Sir can you tell on what should I focus on exam ( as I am a jee aspirant) or learning subject?
New subscriber!! very knowledgeable content! keep it up Dr! :D
thank you! :)
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Is ACCA difficult ?
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Great video!!
thanks!
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Thanks!
I like the idea that i should be able to recreate something thats understood from other core principles. as it is at least a way to verifiy if i understood it.
I just have to be careful to that i understood some levels before aswell (so i dont reach the right conclusions but from wrong premises) - so maybe i should be able to think 2 levels down from a new idea (whats the premis and the premise of that premise) and two levels up (what could i do with that new info, where may it be applied) and maybe aswell sideways (maybe putting it in other words that dont change the content)- that way i should be able to answer many variations of testing my knowledge
for example i knew what an anova was and that a planned contrast is based upon an a priori hypothesis - i knew that this a priori hypothesis would be done before hand - but in the exam they asked if it meant: before data sampling/before doing my F-test/ or just before testing for contrasts.
thanks for the video
Thank u❤️❤️
New subscribe hereee... also moving from healthcare to it so very interested in your content 😊
Awesome! :)
Bro please slow u r speed of talking
Haha yeah my bad
This seemed like 5 minutes of fluff... Even the example of the kidney was not explained properly.
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I dont understand what understanding means xD
For me its too fast. You talk too fast. If you notice this.