Concise Learning: Learn More & Score Higher in Less Time with Less Effort (How to Study with Mind Maps)
What got you to college won't get you through college. Learn the skills that you'll need to succeed by reading Concise Learning.-MARSHALL GOLDSMITH, million selling author of best-selling What Got You Here Won't Get You ThereThis is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.-DOMINIC O BRIEN, eight-time world memory champion and author of How to Develop a Brilliant Memory Week by WeekWhat a compendium of enormously helpful information on how to learn more successfully!-DEE DICKINSON, coauthor of Teaching and Learning Through Multiple Intelligences[Toni] shows you in a step-by-step manner how to become a more engaged, efficient, and effective learner. As you take command of your ability to learn you'll discover that the principles and practices of Concise Learning are more than just the keys to academic achievement this approach offers a guide to living a successful life.-MICHEL J. GELB, author of How to Think Like Leonardo Da VinciConcise Learning helps students become more analytical and critical thinkers, enabling them to learn independently and meaningfully.-BENA KALLICK, coauthor of Learning and Leading with Habits of MindEducation in schools has changed through the years, but the importance of making information personally meaningful still remains the core essence of learning. Concise Learning method does just that it teaches the students to transform information into meaningful knowledge.-JEROME BRUNER, author of The Culture of EducationStudents need to take responsibility for their own learning to be successful. Concise Learning method will enable you to break free from depending on others to becoming a competent and independent learner.-DOUGLAS FISHER, author of Better Learning Through Structured TeachingThis book should be no more than an arm s length away from the desk of every student starting college. It sets out a systematic five-phase study process, built on the principle that visualizing information makes learning concrete and generates interest. It describes how to organize the material being learned visually. It gives a method for critical thinking, shows how to spot gaps in understanding and fill them, and it does this in a highly motivating and visual style.-ROY GRUBB, principal editor of WikIT, the mind mapping wikiConcise Learning is a wonderful tool for teachers and students. The brain remembers visuals and turning short-term memories into long-term memories is what learning is about. Previewing, participating, and processing information engages learners and offers them the information they need to rehearse memories and to retrieve them. [Toni] has done a great job in organizing this book to help us organize our brains for success!- MARILEE SPRENGER, author of How To Teach So Students RememberFromForeWordReviews:The message is front and center in this book -- Krasnic wants his students to be successful. Krasnic promotes a study strategy that efficiently organizes and connects information. His method is supported by research in psychology. Krasnic instructs students to make use of visual maps, thereby actively engaging with subject material. This learning technique is complemented, in the second half of this manual, by thirteen skills that Krasnic associates with success in school and college. It's a quick read with some valuable takeaways. Concise Learning is bound for many bookshelves. --ForeWord Review, July 2010