In metalearning, after you understand the knowledge structure of a subject, you have to analyze them using the following process:
- Underline the concepts, facts, and procedures that you are most unfamiliar with. These will be your major bottlenecks.
- Look for the most effective resources to overcome these bottlenecks.
- Avoid resources that won’t help you with these bottlenecks.
After doing this step, use benchmarking and emphasizing-excluding to know how to learn effectively.
References
Young, S. (2019). Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career (Illustrated edition). Harper Business.
- Underline the concepts, facts, and procedures that are going to be most challenging. This will give you a good idea what the major learning bottlenecks are going to be.
- Using your knowledge of the bottlenecks, search for methods and resources to overcome those difficulties. Focusing on these will make your study time more efficient and effective.
- Using your knowledge of the bottlenecks, avoid tools that won’t be too helpful to your goal.
More advance step
- Look at some of the particular features of the concepts, facts, and procedures you’re trying to learn to find methods to master them more effectively.