The (Sudden) Step One Page:

The idea here is to get your head ready to receive the information you are going to look up. 

The process is simple enough: You freewrite about the skill you have chosen.

What do you already know about the skill?

If you know very little or nothing, let the freewriting take you where it wants to go: make guesses, list rumours, what kinds of crazy things (or not so crazy) does the skill make you think about? 

Note: This step can help you learn lots of things. Before you study a topic, note down, or at least think about, what you already know.

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This may feel strange.

If you knew enough to freewrite about it, why would you need to learn it!???  

Some professional educators call this "discovering your schema"which is an educator's way to name this kind of writing.  

In this context "schema" means what you already know.   

There is more about schema and how it applies to this learning tool in the Ideas Page, click here: 

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Use any paper or work processor that's handy to do this freewrite, but you may also use the handy, universal worksheet attached here.                                                                                           

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