You can learn WAY more from Youtube videos

You watch a lot of youtube videos. But how much do you learn from them?

A simple change in how you approach educational youtube videos can make a big difference in your long-term learning.

00:00 Introduction
1:00 Step 1 - prepare
2:07 Step 2 - watch
2:15 Step 3 - recall or practice
3:06 Description of free recall
3:40 Do I have to write things down?
4:08 Why does this work?
6:07 What about more than five minutes?
6:15 What else can I do?

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The animated excerpts were from Extra Credits (the episodes on Sun Yet-Sun).
The splat sound comes from Soundbible (Squish 1, by Mike Koenig), used under an Attribution 3.0 license.

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