Comments on: Monday Master Class: The Story Telling Method

By: Shockwave

Shockwave — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:17:06 +0000

I’ve been doing this since the beginning of this school year but just for vocab quizzes in my English class. I typically just write them down incorporating the words though, so it’s not exactly this. But I’ve consistently got either a perfect score or only missed a word or two. So much more efficient than flashcards or something. I didn’t even think of trying this for other subjects, I’m gonna have to test this out now.

By: The NYT on learning: studying notes can be deceiving « Quantum Progress

The NYT on learning: studying notes can be deceiving « Quantum Progress — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 06:09:15 +0000

[...] So is Question-Evidence-Conclusion Cluster note taking, which I learned from Cal Newport, who hit upon the advice of telling a story after you read or go to a class to enhance your learning …, which sounds a lot like the findings in the [...]

By: Cherrichew

Cherrichew — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:46:00 +0000

Your friends might call you crazy for talking to yourself

By: Dr. Delaney Kirk

Dr. Delaney Kirk — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:47:41 +0000

I use stories in class to help my students remember theories and the people behind them. The jelly bean story about Herzberg or the story behind motion studies and their 12 kids about the Gilbreths. It seems to help.

By: Mike Wagner

Mike Wagner — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:51:24 +0000

What a wonderful post!

This recommendation,”Treat it like you’re a literary agent or movie producer pitching the lecture at an important meeting,” reminds me some of what Luther said about learning.

In order to learn something find 25 people to teach it to.

Keep creating,
Mike

By: Shawn Callahan

Shawn Callahan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:29:16 +0000

Telling stories to ourselves or others is how we make sense of what’s happening around us. For example, my father and I were driving together in his beat up old Datsun ute when we said to me, “I just got a bad batch of petrol. I think I got it from the Vincentia gas station. Yep, and you know what there was a tanker there filling up the station. I bet it was churning up the tank I git some gunk in my fuel as a result.” This was the first time my dad had retold this incident and even though it was minor, he was making sense of what happened in the structure of a story.

By: possibility… » The "storytelling method" of learning new material

possibility… » The "storytelling method" of learning new material — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:14:53 +0000

[...] He also has a fascinating blog called Study Hacks: Demystifying College Success which offers some interesting techniques for all of us who have to incorporate new information in our daily work or study. I was particularly intrigued by this one: “The Story Telling Method.” [...]

By: Study Hacks

Study Hacks — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:20:23 +0000

This is also a great way to remember important conversations or meetings.

Definitely…

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:18:50 +0000

This is also a great way to remember important conversations or meetings. Or just being able to shoot back at a client or co-worker what was just talked about. I bet they’d really get a kick out of it too!

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:52:51 +0000

I’m going to try this. I do something similar and journal it. Normally I only have to go back and read some minor detail but the rest is re enforced in my thinking. Sometimes I visualize reading the journal itself.