Prompt #8 : Practicing your knowledge.

Chen Dai

Once we learn a knowledge, we need improve it for better using. There are two way to improve the knowledge that we already learn. The first is practicing with our hands. Another is remember it with our writing or speaking, since the way of writing and speaking is almost same we can conclude it to one thing.

First practicing with our hands.
The key point of improve our knowledge by this way is practicing, different to write the knowledge over and over again we use practicing to improve the knowledge. Just like the way we learn math. We all have the experience of taking math exam. It may be bad for some people or not, but it is not the point. The way we study for math exam is not writing those equation that we learn on the math course. We choice to solve question. As the question that we solved out we know the equation better.

Same as artifact like painting and craving. Once those student learn how to build better or how to catch other people's eye, they are not keep writing the sentences that teacher or professor talked on the class, and what they do is use those knowledge that they learn and practices then with their hands.

Second remember with writing or speaking.
As a student, we all have the experience of help ourselves to remember thing. Except using practicing we use writing and speaking, which means repeat it over and over again. On the biology lecture we learn the function of cell wall. But we can not just go to lab and check it every time. So we write the definition, add memo or speak it over and over again to make sure we will not forget it while we doing the exam. By this way, which is repeating, we improve our knowledge.

Different to the practice, we only need to repeat those knowledge that we learn then we can remember those knowledge stably.


Once we want to improve our knowledge we need to use practicing with our hands or repeat it over and over again by writing and speaking, or both. So it is better to fit with both ways.




Cite:
1. http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/08/working-hands-happiness-burkeman
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise_(mathematics)
3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/happiness-in-world/200911/eight-ways-remember-anything
4. http://www.wikihow.com/Remember-Anything