Lit Learning 🦄¶

Le students 🐣
- “help idk how to study for ___ finals…. its tmr and i just started.. am i cooked or nah pls im just going through the presentation slides…”
- “this mod got too much content, gg”
- “I couldn’t study cause I was too hungry and now I ate too much so I feel sleepy. Send help 😭😭😭”
- “why i feel like no matter how hard i study, i still dk anything”
- “me before exam: confidently cooking. me after exam: more cooked than Design Orchard Christmas Tree “.
Le teacher 🦕
- Here’s a detailed training programme for you
- You wanna follow or not, up to you.
- Everyone has their own priorities in life, it’s ok to:
  - Focus on family, forging friendships, loved ones
  - Prioritize self-care, mental wellness, physical fitness
  - Prioritize other aspects of your personal glow up plans
  - Find meaning in volunteering, spend your life in the service of others
  - Already have a job, leaving little time for studying
Tax payers fund students up to $35k/year (75%) of the total tuition fees 💸 Source: SMU Tuition Fees

Big Brain Training 🧋¶

A training programme grounded on learning strategies from cognitive science, that are evidence-based and backed by scientific research.
This training programme feels more difficult than common ways of studying (like re-reading content, highlighting, creating notes, etc). But science has proven that it is more:
- efficient (study more in less time)
- effective (memorize more, understand better, remember longer)
Desirable difficulties: help to make learning stronger and deeper.
- If learning feels easy, it is likely superficial, and quickly forgotten.
- If learning feels effortful, it challenges and changes the brain, increasing intellectual ability.
- Better learning takes place when we struggle with solving problems, before being shown the solution.
- Mastery requires us to struggle to surpass our current level of ability. Struggles may lead to failures and setbacks, which feel unpleasant, but are necessary for learning.
Features:
- Spacing. Distributes the learning load over time. Cramming for exams helps one pass, but is terrible for mental wellness, and content is quickly forgotten after the exam.
- Recall. Focuses more on pulling out knowledge, less on pushing in knowledge.
- Timeboxing. Helps with mental wellness. 40 h work week ÷ 4 mods = 10 h / mod / week. If you can’t spare 10 h, just work with whatever time you have.
- Sleep. Learning takes place while sleeping. Lack of sleep results in poor learning outcomes. 🛌

3-day split, **Week T**¶
Day	Activity	Time (h)
Mon	Lesson: Week T content	2
Wed	Revise: Week T-1 content Revise: Week T-2 content	2 1
Fri	Do project Learn: Week T+1 content	2 3
	Total	10

Symbols
- 📕 Closed book: do the activity without referring to any materials, unless you really need to
- 📖 Open book: refer to any materials if you wanna
Lesson: Week T content
- Focus on the lesson, put away your phones, close all other tabs and apps #JustDeluluTeacherFantasies
- 📖 Do the Practice codelab(s) from Week T.
Revise: Week T-1 content
- 📖 Do the Project codelab(s) from Week T-1. Compare the solution code (if any) with your code, improve your code.
Revise: Week T-2 content
- 📕 Individual work: do the Week T-2 Quizzies, place your responses in your Personal RefleXions doc.
- 📖 Team work: share answers, discuss the differences, produce one set of responses as a team, put them in the Team RefleXions document.
Learn: Week T+1 content
- 📖 Read the Week T+1 content, do the codelabs. Skip the parts marked Practice or Project, these will be done later.
- Need help? Teacher is here for you 🦕 ask on Tele 🌟
Project
- Work on the project.