❓ Ask Why and How
To make explanations, ask yourself the "why" and "how" questions about the new concepts to merge the material with the existing knowledge and experiences.
🔗 Create Analogies
Use analogies and metaphors to connect the unfamiliar concepts to the familiar ones thus bridging new information with that which you already understand well.
🗣️ Self-Explain Concepts
Without looking at notes, explain new material in your own words, building associations and reference points that will create new neural pathways.
🎨 Use Visual Organizers
Visually create concept maps and graphic organizers to represent the connections between the new information and the broader contexts of the existing knowledge structures.
👤 Personalize Learning
Make information more meaningful, memorable, and retrievable by relating new concepts to personal experiences, memories, and daily life situations.
⚖️ Compare and Contrast
By processing the distinctive features and integrating information into organized, coherent mental schemas, identify the similarities and differences between the related concepts.
👥 Teach Others
Explaining the learned concepts to classmates or friends is a good idea since it enhances elaboration by forcing deeper processing and organization of technical information.