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Active learning is the process of engaging your brain while learning. You use their whole brain to interact with the content instead of just casually reviewing it. This method advances critical thinking skills, intuition, and risk management skills. If your brain feels like it is running an interesting race, you might be learning actively. If you don’t feel like you are studying but know you are learning, that’s active learning!
Announote
Daydreaming, not paying attention, and allowing yourself distractions do not prepare you for active learning.
The benefits are:
- learn new things by using things you already know;
- easily understand new information by thinking, talking, and writing;
- have more energy to learn, remember things better, and understand faster;
- know immediately where you misunderstand things instead of waiting for tests.
Examples of Active Learning
- asking yourself questions about the material, writing them down, and answering them later
- writing reflections on the material
- integrating the material in daily life
- actively seeking more information due to interest and curiosity
- teaching what you learned to someone else
- using Bloom’s Taxonomy, especially the higher-order thinking skills (HOTS)
Passive Learning
This is the opposite of active learning, and most schools use it. This way only asks an individual to listen, memorize, and produce the expected answers, but it doesn’t teach how to do more. This way is used for helping students pass tests at schools. If you feel bored and sleepy, you might be learning passively.
Examples of Passive Learning
- reading a textbook, highlighting things, taking notes
- watching a video
- listening to speakers
After doing a lot of work, you may feel demotivated, forget what you learned, and feel like you didn’t learn at all.