Key insights

• ⚙️ Visible process mapping is a technique to assess learning flow and performance metrics
• 🧠 Understanding and addressing learning baggage is crucial for improving academic trajectory
• 🚫 Invisible cognitive habits can hinder learning trajectory
• 🔍 Use visible process mapping to make learning habits visible
• 📝 Documenting the process and techniques during the main learning event is important
• 🔎 Reflecting on how we interact with information helps identify learning baggage and habits
• 🎯 Identifying and overcoming learning baggage can lead to improved results and confidence
• ⚠️ Awareness and understanding of harmful learning habits are crucial for improvement

Q&A

• Why is it important to overcome learning baggage?

  Identifying and overcoming learning baggage is crucial as it can lead to improved results and confidence. It helps optimize learning techniques, overcome uncertainty in learning methods, and improve learning certainty, which leads to better results and confidence.

• How can reflecting on information interaction help in identifying learning baggage?

  Reflecting on how one interacts with information over time can help in identifying learning baggage, habits, and beliefs that may not be serving well. The exercise aims to make invisible learning patterns visible and includes reflection questions for deeper self-analysis.

• Why is the main learning event crucial in the learning flow?

  The main learning event is important as it is the initial exposure to a topic. It involves documenting the process, rationale, and certainty of the learning techniques used. Additionally, pre-study and post-learning review are important steps in the learning flow.

• What are the steps involved in visible process mapping?

  Before learning techniques, it is important to make learning habits visible through visible process mapping. This involves assessing learning flow and performance metrics, taking a free quiz to assess major learning habits, and recording the entire learning flow using a provided table to calibrate and improve learning habits.

• How can learning baggage be harmful?

  Learning habits can become harmful if they turn into habits that are detrimental to performance and memory. These habits may be invisible, making it challenging to identify and change them. Awareness and understanding of these harmful habits are crucial to improve learning trajectory.

• What is learning baggage?

  Learning baggage refers to invisible cognitive habits that work against academic success. These habits may hinder learning trajectory and become harmful if they turn into detrimental habits. Understanding and addressing learning baggage is crucial for improving academic trajectory.

• What is visible process mapping?

  Visible process mapping is a technique to achieve academic success by assessing learning flow and performance metrics, making learning habits visible, and calibrating and improving learning habits. It involves using a provided table to record the entire learning flow and baseline performance metrics to improve learning habits.

• 00:00 Learn about visible process mapping, a technique to overcome learning baggage and achieve academic success. Learning baggage refers to invisible cognitive habits that can sabotage academic performance. Understanding and addressing learning baggage is crucial for improving academic trajectory.
• 02:41 Learning habits can become harmful if they turn into habits that are detrimental to our performance and memory. These habits may be invisible to us, making it challenging to identify and change them. Awareness and understanding of these harmful habits are crucial to improve our learning trajectory.
• 05:19 Before learning any technique, make your learning habits visible; use visible process mapping to assess learning flow and performance metrics. Take a free quiz to assess major learning habits. The visible process map is a record of your entire learning flow using a provided table. Baseline performance metrics help calibrate and improve learning habits.
• 07:29 The main learning event is crucial for the initial exposure to a topic, and it's important to document the process, rationale, and certainty of the learning techniques used. Pre-study and post-learning review are also important steps in the learning flow.
• 09:29 Reflecting on how we interact with information is a useful activity to identify learning baggage, habits, and beliefs that may not be serving us well. The exercise helps make invisible learning patterns visible and includes reflection questions for deeper self-analysis.
• 11:27 Students often use Band-Aid techniques in learning, but identifying and overcoming learning baggage can lead to improved results and confidence.