Deep Processing
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- Aim Aim is the list of questions a topic must answer, written before the material is opened: why each concept matters, and how the concepts relate. The questions
- Bear Hunter System The default encoding workflow: questions before the material, answers into a map, the map rebuilt until it can be redrawn from memory, the structure built
- Best-attempt Encoding Best-attempt encoding is the choice a learner makes when first organizing a topic: encode each item narrowly, or encode it more widely. Narrow encoding holds
- Deep Processing for Research Deep processing for research is one habit applied while reading: each source is placed in a picture of the field at the time it is read, and not later at
- Deep Processing Tanking Deep processing tanking is one failure mode of Deep Processing. It is the stretch of years in which a learner evaluates importance, compares, analogizes, and
- Higher-Order Learning The taxonomy printed on classroom posters puts remembering and understanding at the base and analysing, evaluating and creating above them, and treats that
- Importance-Based Chunking Importance-based chunking is grouping the pieces of a topic by why each one matters: the role it plays, and what it changes about the rest. The order the
- Inquiry-Based Learning Incoming material is kept when a written question is already waiting for it. The question is written before the source is opened. Purpose decides what is kept,
- Interleaving for Complex Problem Solving Controlled reconstruction of a complex problem from new angles, aimed at the approach layer rather than at shuffling practice types.
- Knowledge Mastery - From Recognition to Usable Knowledge Knowledge mastery is a diagnostic. It names the level a subject sits at, so the next study method can match that level instead of treating every gap the same
- Layers of Learning Layers of Learning is a build order for learning a topic. Layers of Learning sits inside the Deep Processing dimension. The order runs from the inside out:
- Mindmaps A working drawing of a topic in which the deciding is the encoding: copied headings are notes in a new shape.
- Order Control The next piece of a topic is chosen by what already-held knowledge it can attach to, not by the order a book or lecture prints.
- Prestudy A lecture's detail has somewhere to land when a rough map of the whole topic's relationships is already in hand. The map is built from headings, diagrams, and
- Problem-First Learning Problem-first learning is a way to study a formula-heavy subject. The learner first works out which problem the topic exists to solve, and every way that
- ReCOVer System The ReCOVer System is a plan for a timed essay, built in four steps before any sentence is written. The four verbs are retrieve, cut, order, then write. The
- Schema A schema is a network of concepts and routes: each piece connects to others and can be reached from more than one entry. Facts sitting outside that network
- Shoot Shoot is reading the material to answer questions written before it was opened, with every answer going onto a map of your own that is allowed to keep
- Skin Skin is the third move of the Bear Hunter System loop. Aim wrote the questions. Shoot drew the rough map. Skin reworks that rough map, with every source
- Thinking on Paper - Mindmaps and Other Techniques The page as extra working memory, a workbench for relations, not a record of what was read.