eNquire—review your learning effectiveness
The last step of the Memletic Process is eNquire. Enquire involves
reviewing the effectiveness of your learning efforts.
Your first activity is to create your review log, or logs. I suggest you
have two. I call these the detailed review log and the summary review log.
In the detailed review log, you record the details of each lesson, session,
presentation, game or other activity. In the summary review log, you collect
key learning points, action points and assertions from your detailed
reviews.
There are also four main types of review:
- Immediate review. Receive immediate feedback and correction
while learning (but not too much).
- Lesson review. Review the effectiveness of the previous steps
when learning new material.
- Formal review. Use tests or examinations to measure your recall
of information.
- System review. Review your overall use of Memletics.
The enquire step of the Memletics Process helps you improve your training
and learning. It’s not just a record of what you did wrong. Making mistakes
helps you learn, so don’t be afraid to make them (see the Challenges section
for more thoughts on mistakes). Do be diligent in recognizing them and
correcting them though. Using reviews is a key part of this diligence, and
this in turn accelerates your overall learning.
The Memletics Accelerated Learning Manual describes:
Create your review log
- How to create a review log, comments on what format to use, and when
to use them.
- Whether to use positive or negative phrasing in your reviews
- Using assertions in your reviews, and creating a training assertions
list. How to make your assertions list even more powerful by memorizing it
(and tips on how)
Get immediate feedback – but not too much
- The advantages and disadvantages of feedback during training.
- Sources of augmented feedback, including instructors and devices such
as compasses, depth sounders, GPS and others.
- How continual “augmented feedback” can be dangerous, and how to
overcome this danger
Do lesson reviews
- How to formalize your reviews by writing down notes after each lesson.
- Using others (such as instructors, coaches, teachers or colleagues) to
gain more feedback
- When to write your review, what to include (such as objectives and
outcomes), and how to keep track of review points during lessons.
- How to use a symbol to mark items you want to review later. These may
be on meeting notes, flight plans, score sheets, plans etc.
- How to analyze issues, including marking them according to their
severity, and using the “five whys” technique to understand underlying or
“root causes”
- How to turn issues into action points, including using the “five
actions” approach.
Do formal reviews to confirm your understanding
- How to use tests, examinations, orals and other methods to test your
knowledge.
- Comments on how to view them positively, and what to do when your
results don’t seem to match your expectations.
- Use of reviews after exams.
Use system reviews to improve your use of Memletics
- How to review your use of Memletics to ensure you get the most from
it.
- Examples of what to review from each of the parts.
- How to get more information
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