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My Action Plan/Steps for Learning

Keeping with the main topics of this blog:
- protecting caribou;
- preserving history:
- training youth in traditional trades:
- and building circular economies;
I've created a really long list for myself, of subjects that I want to learn about and cover.

In terms of learning how to learn, there are also certain strategies and methods that I want to try. I may add more as I continue learning and I'll make sure that I label the new additions accordingly.

Certainly the first thing I want to learn is to effectively take notes. I've never been good at it, and even now as a university student, I still don't actually know how to do it properly to be truly effective. So taking notes will be the first thing I learn.

So, #1 Effective notetaking

I want to also explore more auditory methods. At the beginning of the year, I purchased a year of Speechify. Is Speechify perfect? Heck no. Does it seem to work better than other similar apps I've tried? Yes. So I will try combining notetaking with certain tools that Speechify has to offer. Being able to charge the speed of the audio is also a really nice feature. Generally speaking, an ADHD brain runs at a naturally faster speed than the rest of the population, so ''x1'' speed is a no-go, x1.2 MINiMUM is required.

2 Integrate Speechify or Other Auditory Sources

Some of the other features include their AI making quizzes, podcast style summaries and ''discussions'', AI summaries and small recaps. I've tried the quizzes and the summaries before and I found them to be quite good. The quizzes are customizable to a certain extent, and each new quiz is made up of new, or at least similar, questions.

3 Using the Various Tools that Speechify Offers

I've also come across certain studies that analysed if reading silently, listening to material, or reading out-loud have better results. From what I have understood so far, using the combination of senses (speech, sound, sight) yields much better results. I know I also have a tendency to read rather slowly, so I think that including this method with using audio could work on multiple fronts. Information integration and working my brain to read and process the words faster as I real aloud along with the reading voice.

3 Reading Out Loud

Hailing from the mostly francophone area of North America, the province of Québec: 1) having a rich québécois history on my mother's side of the family; 2) spending so much of my childhood with my anglophone paternal grand-parents; 3) doing daycare (pre-kindergarden) through elementary in English immersion and then to secondary 5 in English entirely. I can definitely say that I am fully bilingual EN/FR, although my brain functions in English and does an impressive amount of real-time translating. Even though the government would try to have me believe otherwise with their language laws (but that's an entirely other can of worms I WILL NOT be addressing any further). That said, the next strategy I'll be using to make sure things get into my head better is that I'm going to write everything in French as well. Maybe not the Learning How to Learn sections, but definitely the material I want to cover.

4 Write Bilingually