During high school in China, if you follow good teacher without hesitation, you’ll find it easy to do knowledge management. As for me, I was a guy who sometimes wanted to play trick and cut corners. However, most of the time, I’d like to listen to teachers’ words and I benefited a lot. In our high school, nearly everybody cared about mistakes and had several notebooks to collect mistakes to avoid them. At the very start, we wrote down mistakes from exams, exercises and right solution approach. Later on exams and exercises happened extremely frequently. It would waste plenty of time if we insisted writing all mistakes down. We began to cut the mistake parts from papers or books and paste them into our notebook. It was still a huge project, but worked. Now I guess, high school’s education focus on ability to solve problems, so we have exams and exercise books as vast as the open sea.
I’m a junior student at present with a year and a half left. High school education and college education are totally different. College education seems to concentrate on understanding of basic concepts and making connections between different concepts or subjects. In my eyes, it’s not worth that writing so many things due to courses in quantity and not wise to write everything in notebook like a carrier of textbook. There must be some more efficient ways to do knowledge management. For quite a long time, I enjoy writing few notes and doing more summaries. But, I seldom care about how to use my knowledge, namely output. With times go by, many useful things are buried and forgotten in my own notebook. In order to fix this up, I create this blog to share my understanding. I’m thinking over the best media to share. Words, mind maps, audio texts, videos. Words may be boring for readers sometimes. Mind maps are very intuitive and make collections between concepts clear. Audio texts, how to say, I haven’t tried yet, but I heard that one person made audio collections of his notes. Videos are quite good for learning new things or brushing up. There are plenty of tutorial videos in programming area, like HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Android, ios……few in natural science, such as chemistry, physics, biology. Perhaps it’s more difficult to describe natural science in videos, owing to some experiments you have to do in labs, not like coding in computers. Of course, there are many online education organizations including Cousera, edX, and other open courses which are pretty good in some degree.
Why not making my own video? I’m considering this. As a fan of dota, I usually watch wusheng2009’s video on Youku. Many retired professional dota player make comments on game with video. With more and more people interested in their video, they start to open clothes shop, snacks shop and the shop selling mouse, keyboard. Then, they put ads of their own shop into the video, and make a living by these. For me, I’m not going to make a living by these. I plan to output what I learn through video..maybe. Then I can get some comments from visitors.They point out my mistakes and I correct them, namely feedback. They point again and I correct again until everything is fine. Check and balance, check and balance again….like Gao Xiaosong said in Morning Talk II a talkshow on Youku.
Learning is a social and active process, even in the “hard” sciences!Learning is a social and active process, even in the “hard” sciences! Last updated: 2014.01.25