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[RUSTFEST] Learning How To Learn

Vaidehi Joshi
May 25, 2018
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[RUSTFEST] Learning How To Learn

A good education can take many different shapes, sizes, forms. Oftentimes, the most profound educations don’t even happen in a classroom. And yet, they all seem to have one thing in common: they teach you how to learn. Being able to learn new things is an empowering skill, especially for those of us working in the ever-changing, fast-paced tech industry. But how can we teach ourselves this skill? Together, we’ll explore one of the world’s most well-known and deeply-loved techniques, which we can use to learn many new things, tech-related and not!

Vaidehi Joshi

May 25, 2018
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    Learning How To Learn
    Vaidehi Joshi

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    one computer science topic
    every week
    for one year
    (it was a long year )

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    sometimes, it was really fun

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    but a lot of the time,
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    learning new things is hard
    extremely
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    how do people learn new things?

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    artist
    author
    bongo player
    lock picker
    philosopher

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    learn and understand things

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    The Great Explainer

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    “the best teacher I never had”

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    how did he teach himself?

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    NOTEBOOK OF THINGS
    I DON’T KNOW ABOUT

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    “He tried to find the
    essential kernels of
    each subject.”

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    we can learn how to learn

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    Feynman Technique

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    four steps

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    identify the subject
    $

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    write down everything we know

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    explain it someone
    %who’d know nothing
    about the topic &

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    plain, simple terms

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    “when we speak without jargon,
    it frees us from hiding behind
    knowledge we don’t have.”

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    brevity

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    identify any gaps
    '
    where the actual
    learning happens!

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    organize & simplify
    into a narrative
    (

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    simple sentences for storytelling

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    “all things are made from atoms—little
    particles that move around in perpetual
    motion, attracting each other when they
    are a little distance apart, but repelling
    upon being squeezed into one another.”

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    analogies to make the
    abstract more concrete

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    “glorified, high-class, very fast
    but stupid filing system.”

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    tests our understanding,
    challenges our assumptions

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    you don’t know what you don’t
    know

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    “I’m smart enough to know that
    I’m dumb.”

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    reinforcing what we do know

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    better explainers

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    making knowledge accessible
    opens doors for others

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    tech needs more great explainers

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    making knowledge accessible
    makes our industry more diverse

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    making knowledge accessible
    makes our industry more inclusive

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    learning new things is empowering

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    how can we be great explainers?

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    what if everyone was a
    great explainer?

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    we’ll leave the industry better
    than when we found it

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    thank you! ✨

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