Friday, July 29, 2011

The Evolution of Speed Learning

By Sam Roxas


As someone that has an interest in taking (or already taking) speed learning lessons, do you not think it is simply right that you know its history and evolution?

Speed learning is one of the most useful scientific or psychological discoveries in recent years. And it really has an especially interesting history, not to mention a very long evolution.

Suggestopedia: Early History

When Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov first introduced "Suggestopedia" (Speed Learning ' predecessor) in the latter 1960s, a large amount of the members of the medical and teaching community raised their eyebrows.

It was regarded as a "pseudo- science" because it was first developed as a teaching technique whereby you teach somebody a certain technique by simply suggesting or making them accept that it works.

For instance, you tell a kid that he's really good at maths. You encourage him. You let him know that he just might be a maths whiz. The more the kid hears this, the more that he will believe it. And when he believes it, he becomes it- he becomes a mathematics expert.

Suggestopedia was used to teach a group of youngsters about language. Their experiment proved to achieve success when these scholars started learning 5 times quicker with this new teaching system.

Speed Reading: US History

Now, after ten years when it first originated, it reached US soil and it was changed and it then turned into speed learning or accelerated learning.

Speed learning is actually first and more popularly known as "speed reading" before. And it is exactly what the name implies. Thru this method, a person is able to read and understand a book or document in a noticeably faster rate.

After some time, speed reading branched out and more learning methodologies were discovered and developed.

Brain Exercises: Scientific History

Fresh studies and discoveries too about the human brain and how it operates have helped catapult speed learning into the main line scene.

Science has shown that there are two main parts of the brain.

The left hemisphere is the logical or analytical side of the brain. This part is stimulated when we do mathematical equations, learn science or study anything that's unproven, in nature. This is also where the short term memory is made.

The right brain, on the other hand, is the exact opposite of the left brain. When we imagine, when we visualize pictures, when we feel feelings, we use the right side of the brain.

Speed learning means that we should use both these hemispheres concurrently to boost the processing and recall of info.

Regardless of its dodgy start, speed learning has actually proved to be a big discovery. For years before its conception, psychological therapists and education execs have been conducting many researches on what secrets to use to enhance a person's capability to learn and remember. And well now, speed learning has provided them (and us) an answer.




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