1. Floating Topic
2. 1. Deconstruct/ reconstruct
   1. Deconstruct: Examine content to find any relevance and see if it makes sense
      1. Identify any key words by marking
         1. Skim while reading any irrelevant materials
   2. Reconstruct, connect elements of the content
      1. Arrange key concepts and words into a Mind Map
3. 2. Construct meaning & DO
   1. Make judgement how the material resonates with your thinking and experience?
      1. Add comments, thoughts, and reflections to mind map
      2. Construct meaning
         1. Social construction; Share your thinking with others
   2. DO
      1. check that it holds together when you apply it
         1. transfer it from short term memory to something more durable
      2. If it checks out, the learning is genuinely valuable and to remember it
4. 3. Self-forage and rapid prototype
   1. Self Forage: searching through our own and others experiences for conclusions
      1. Ask others direct questions
      2. use the internet for resources
   2. Rapid prototype: try out ideas in the field to see if they really work
      1. Essential for independently minded learners
      2. contradicts any tendency to be a desk only leaner
5. 4. Reflection
   1. Journaling; written or sketch, allows us to reflect on the significance of the un/learning
   2. capacity to reflect makes us human
   3. Noosphere: human generated memes
      1. Stored and ready to download across generations
      2. Clearing psyche is important so we don't maintain outmoded memes
6. 5. Eat your elephant one spponful at a time
   1. Set up good conditions for active un/learning
   2. Easy to get overwhelmed by the abundance of material, creates struggle to keep up
      1. Set up a study and reflection time, little, often and early