GYC Conference 2024: Wherever He Goes

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Learning How to Learn Faith

Tim B. Kwon

01 The Power of God

02 Science of Learning

03 Laying the Glory in the Dust

04 Hall of Failure

05 What Moses, Elijah, and Paul Had in Common

Gracious Father in heaven, Lord, I just want to thank you for each and every person that is here.

We ask for your Holy Spirit to guide our minds and thoughts.

I know it may be a lot to swallow, a lot to think about, but Lord, we pray that you will give us a clarity of thought.

And at the end of it all, we just don't want to obtain more knowledge for intellect.

We want the message to transform our lives.

For this is our prayer in the name of Jesus Christ.

So we've ended with the quote on desire of ages, page 83.

And it tells us to spend that thoughtful time each day contemplating the life and the death of Christ and letting the imagination grasp each scene.

Now I'm going to shift gears here and you've noticed that the title of my whole seminar is Learning How to Learn Faith and what I'm going to get into now is very different from what we've been looking at, but we're gonna be combining these 2 things as we go forward.

So I get a lot of what I'm going to share from this book and actually many other books.

But this is considered to be 1 of the best books on learning.

So if you're trying to learn, this is not learning about the Bible necessarily, learning period.

So if you're a student, and you feel like you wanna be a better student, this is 1 of the best resources out there.

That's a book called Make It Sticks, The Science of Successful Learning by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger, and Mark McDaniel.

They're considered to be 1 of the best scholars on the science of learning.

And there's very little disagreement on what's being shared in this book.

You know, these are not hotly debated topics.

These are very well-established strategies for learning.

And I want to share with you some of the things that we can better learn and internalize the things that we're learning, not just in this seminar, but throughout GYC and in your devotional practices and when you're listening to sermons and so on and so forth.

So I'm going to list here a few strategies for learning.

So there's rereading, which is reviewing, underlining.

These are, by the way, these are random lists.

These may or may not be good or effective ways of learning.

But let me list them here for you first of all.

So re-reading, underlining, third, blocked practice.

You have to study science, you have to study math, and you have to study English, for example.

Blocked practice is where you're studying math for like 3 hours, you study science for 3 hours, and then you study English for 3 hours.

Mass practice, which comes after that, is basically cramming, cramming for an exam.

I've done that, all of us have done that, mass practice.

So you're just reading, you're not giving much thought to it, but you're just reading.

So I want you to look at that 5 list and categorize them between which are effective ways of learning and ineffective ways of learning.

I want you to categorize into what's an effective way of learning, what's an ineffective way.

Look at that list and categorize in your mind.

Just 2 categories, effective and ineffective.

If you've categorized, turn to the person next to you and share with the person next to you which you thought was actually an effective way of learning.

Which of those 5 were effective ways of learning?

Why do you think those are effective ways of learning?

So by the way, I teach a couple of classes at Andrews and I have this presentation before on the first day of class for each class that I do.

I didn't do it for my classes a couple years back.

It really does help because the effectiveness of the learning in classes has really skyrocketed since I've applied the things that I've learned in these books.

The reason that I've got into the science of learning was I'm doing a PhD at Andrews, and 1 of the things that I have to do for my PhD is there's something called a comprehensive exam.

And what they do is I have to take 5 exams over 5 weeks, and each exam is like 8 hours.

They give me about 80, 90 books that I have to read.

I'm being tested over those 80, 90 books.

I wanted to see what's the most effective way of not only being able to pass the test, but I want to be able to retain the things that I've learned.

So I've been, I've done a lot of research into the effective ways of learning.

I'm not a neuroscientist by any means, so I don't pretend to be so, but I'm trying to apply these to how we can learn about scriptures and grow in Jesus Christ.

So, of these 5, who do you think re-reading is an effective way of learning?

We have 1 brother here who loves cramming.

Passive reading, who thinks passive reading is an effective way of learning?

None of these are effective ways of learning.

This is not just 1 learning psychologist or 1 neuroscientist that's coming up with this.

This has been shown again and again that all of these methods are not necessarily effective ways of learning.

So let's think about rereading for a second.

Why is rereading not necessarily effective?

Let's say this is a textbook, this is a Bible that I'm holding in my hand.

Let's say you're reading a textbook and then you re-read.

What happens when you're re-reading is that your mind sees what is familiar, because you've read it before.

Your mind sees what is familiar and it mistakes thinking that it actually understands it because it actually is familiar with it.

But being familiar and knowing that topic are 2 different things.

And it does help to some degree, but it's not considered to be time efficient in terms of learning.

And I'm not saying that you shouldn't reread the Bible.

We should always read the Bible and reread it.

But in terms of rereading in and of itself will not be an effective way of learning because you'll think that you know it when you actually don't.

And students who do reread, they feel pretty confident in their knowledge.

So when you test a student who rereads, their expectation and their actual, their results, there's quite a gap there.

Underlining is not necessarily effective and so on and so forth.

So what are known to be effective ways of learning.

So if you've taken a picture of these 5, you can scrap that picture.

So let's go to get to things that are actually effective.

And I'm not going to be talking about all 5, But I will be spending quite a lot of time on retrieval practice.

Series

Learning How to Learn Faith

02 Science of Learning

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Attachments

Knees, Keys, and Please!

1. To Know Christ

1h

Laodicea Study

Laodicea Study Recap

30m

Our Desperate Need of the Spirit is Now

04 Praying in the Spirit

53m

GYC 2013 Seminar: Triple A: "Angels, Apologetics, and Adventists"

04-Evolution, Philosophy, and Apologetics: Outreach in The Classroom

1h 10m

Devotions For Decisions

3. I Don’t Get It

59m

GYC 2013 Seminar: Don't Get Schooled, Get Educated

04-Don’t Get Schooled, Get Educated, Part 4

1h 10m

Training Center Churches

5. Discipline

56m

Ron duPreez ~ No Matter What: How morality impacts your mortality

Mind Games of the Great Manipulator

1h

Ed Reid: Faith and Finances in the End Times

Financial Planning for the Cycle of Life

1h

Walking in His Steps: Integrating Faith and Career

02 Faith-Fueled Success: Jumpstarting your Career with Christ at the Center

54m

GYC 2012 Seminar: Revolutionary Apologetics - The Adventist Edge

Genocidal God or Just Judge. New Material on Genocide in the Old Testament

56m

Annie Morgan, Kevin Sears, & Wes Peppers: Unashamed in Your Neighborhood

Panel Discussion: What do YOU Want to Know About Soulwinning?

58m

Sound Doctrine