Active Processing vs Active Learning | What's the difference?

Academic words can often sound the same but have distinct, important meanings. Understanding the difference between active processing and active learning can help you read the studies on learning more effectively

0:00 What does active processing mean?
0:59 What does active learning mean?
2:14 The relationship between active processing and active learning

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On active learning in the classroom, I recommend:

Active processing is a big picture idea that crosses many areas of learning, but here is a general paper discussing the role of active processing in remembering:

[mjr]

Can you review the study system I have come up with and review its effectiveness and efficiency. Please suggest some points for improvement (if any):
1. Make/Find 3 or more concrete (specific) examples to remember the big ideas. Make sure they are not very similar but share the same big idea
2. Elaboration
a. Elaborative interrogation – Ask yourself how and why questions about the idea. Try to answer them yourself. Do this on the main concepts. Ask HOTS questions like how does topic A relate to B and how they together affect the big picture? What would happen if you remove them from the big picture? etc.
b. Self explanation - Talk yourself through the chapter. Connect everything and create a mental model. Constantly check for inconsistencies in your mental model. Explain every idea to yourself.
c. Draw a labeled diagram representing the (big idea but you can incorporate details in the diagram) idea to help with learning
3. Framework for thinking:
a. Grouped – Group ideas together
b. Interconnected – Find connections between ideas that are obvious but also make an effort to find connections that are not obvious
c. Non verbal – Try to find ways to represent the ideas without using words or without using a lot of words if using words is necessary
d. Directional – The ideas must be framed or related in such a way as to understand the flow between them and how they work together and relate together
e. Emphasize – Emphasize the big/main ideas
4. Promote HOTS. Compare ideas with other ideas and:
a. See how they relate
b. See how they fit and work together to from the big picture
c. In which situations one is better and in which one the other is better
d. See how they relate to other ideas and repeat the process

[AdrianLoomis]

now I'm binge watching your contents for studying what is studying

[youssoufchamlal]

You are making a great content, keep up the momentum!

[mageprometheus]

Do you think using AI will enable active learning? For example, study, ask AI some questions, and follow up on what was said to check for "hallucinations".

[venivini]

Could you make a video about cognitive load? Would love to have your take on it and how to handle it. Also any one paragraph advise on it?

[mohmeegaik]

Thanks Benjamin. I just subscribed after watching a few of your videos.

[eliaselotmani]

Thanks for the video ! From what you say at 2min 20s, can we draw the idea that active learning strategies (e.g. active recall) do not really benefit students who already tend to actively process learning material ? And a similar question, is active recall still superior to "re-reading" when controlling for mental effort ? Is there something more to it than just making the learner work harder ?
This question comes mostly from my personal observation of a number of top-grade students, who bearly used active recall nor tests as opposed to just reading the material with very high levels of attention.

When I went through some litterature while trying to address this question I mostly ran into the expertise reversal effect, but the latter is way more about previous subject knowledge than actual general performance in learning new material from scratch...

By the way your channel is great, I hope it grows quickly !

[kouchiseiyaku]

Thank you for making videos. Seldom it is that I leave a comment, but I voraciously watch your videos. I do recall you making videos on motor skills. I have a particular question that I have yet to find in the literature. It seems to be accepted that training one's non dominant hand improves its ability to do a task, but I can't definitively find out whether there's a conclusive study that measures whether said non dominant hand will ever get the same level (or better) of precision as the dominant hand. Have you seen any data on that? Anything particularly noteworthy to consider for left handed individuals?

[artistryeverything]

Wow, what a great way to get me to leave a comment 😂 I'm still in the midst of watching all your videos!

[mjr]

What are some ways to use active processing to improve learning?

[JohnDoe-vuji]

What is active recall then? Is it the same thing as retrieval practice?

[TheLeem]

Hello, do you know if there are any interesting studies on active processing I should read?

[fardeenahmad]

What's a good way to learn in med school where there are so much information to retain...i don't use flashcards and don't have enought time to make them...

[tommygeraghty-slevin]

Admittedly not really related to the video, but what do you think of Justin Sung's "Mindmapping Technique", and/or his content more generally?
Obviously proper encoding practice on its own is useless, but do you think free recall *and* mindmapping has an edge over *just* free recall?
On the one hand Justin does seem very legit, but on the other hand the whole mindmapping shtik just kinda smells like pseudo science to me.

Anyway, I really enjoy your videos, keep it up, it's nice having someone with actual credentials, and still rather entertaining videos, in this whole YouTube study bro scence.

[deborahrose]

Can you do something about how learning is linked to decision making

[tayloroxelgren]

Is it possible you could make a video on cramming? I am aware it is not efficient for learning, but sometimes you just need to do it.

Sometimes you are required to learn things that are just part of a check list for a degree but you see no value in learning it long term and sometimes you have just been lazy but still need to attempt to perform well.

If one has to cram or is in a situation to cram they may as well be as efficient as possible about it.

[doc-aj]

Great video as usual

By commenting and getting a reply (feedback) now it become active learning 🔥🔥

[phanikatam]

sorry to ask, does excessive masterbation or porn useage lead to decrease ability recall or memory loss or uncomfatable to learn i am facing this now ? i here that all phd and toppers are away from this thing or they do very low like 2 times a month is that true ?

thanks in advance

[AbhishekRaj-vfdb]

Great video Benji (😅yeah that’s how I call you)…….I have a question or I need an advice…..recently I’ve been feeling a lot of resistance to revise my exam syllabus ….can you suggest any techniques (other than free recall)

[shimrrashai-rcfq]

How do you thoroughly maximize active learning when your social skill is limited and you don't have "on demand" friends you can talk to all the time about arbitrary topics at random whenever you need to, each day every day?