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Prepare material as if you have to teach it
Prepare material as if you had to teach it to someone, and learn more than by simply reading it through.
- Time
- ⏱ 20 min
- Difficulty
- ◆ medium
What you need
- Notes
- Whiteboard or a person to listen
How to do it
- Choose one section.
- Imagine explaining it to a classmate.
- Talk it through without slides or text.
- Look up any gaps and rebuild your explanation.
Why it works
Learning to teach someone else makes you work harder, reason better and understand more in the end.
Variations
- With a real person
- Recorded as a video
Sources
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- engineering.vanderbilt.edu (opens in a new tab)
students will work harder, reason better and ultimately understand more by learning to teach someone else
