Reimagining Education In Obsidian: Reignite Childhood Curiosity and Joy For Learning
Our goal is to break students out of the cookie-cutter mindset, the mindset that school is simply a matter of copying what the Professor says verbatim and gaming the system.
School should be a time to effectively explore curiosities and have fun.
We want to help students' reignite their childhood curiosity and joy for learning.
So we are embarking on a quest to create an Obsidian vault with a potential tag-along video course targeted towards beginner and intermediate Obsidian users who use Obsidian for school.
This course would be for students who:
1. Don't currently find enjoyment in school learning and studying
2. Lacking a systemized process and structure for studying and notetaking
3. Want to learn best practices, mindsets, and tools (Obsidian) to optimize their learning
4. Want access to a community of fellow passionate students
Students of The Course Will Learn Things Like:
- Breaking out of the cookie-cutter student mindset
- Mastering Obsidian for school by learning its core features
- Enhancing Obsidian using community plugins like Templater, Dataview, and Spaced Repetition Plugin
- Organize course content using a student dashboard
- Effectively remember and review information using flashcards and retrospective revision timetables
- Learn optimal studying concepts like Spaced Repetition, Retrieval Practice, Mind Mapping, The Testing Effect, Deep Processing, Blooms Taxonomy, and Mind Mapping
- Take lifelong and reusable notes with conceptual note-making (inspired by the Zettelkasten method)
- Scale knowledge across semesters using maps of content and home notes
- And more secret bonus material (hint hint: Obsidian Canvas and Nick Milo) ;)
If that sounds interesting to you, we would appreciate it greatly if you answered some questions regarding the course material and your struggles as a student to help refine the course.
But before that, meet your course creators!
With over 1.5 years of experience using Obsidian,
John Mavrick has helped thousands of people use the app to its full potential.
In his first semester at university, he used the mindset, methods, and tools inside the course to work smarter not harder, getting a 4.07 GPA exploring different topics like education, cognitive science, math, and computer science while studying less than his peers.
Aidan Helfant is a
YouTuber,
blogger, and
podcaster who makes content on Personal Knowledge Management, gamification, and book summaries.
In high school, he didn't enjoy learning and was addicted to video games. Now he's using the mindset, methods, and tools talked about in this course to reignite his childhood curiosity and love for learning at Cornell University. He's exploring the topics of Social Psychology, Statistics, Behavioral Psychology, and Cognitive Psychology while studying less than his peers.
How important or useful do you think each one of the things mentioned above would be to you?
Breaking out of the Cookie Cutter Student Mindset
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Learning the basics of Obsidian
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Installing Core Plug-Ins: Templater, Dataview, and Spaced Repetition
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Core Studying Techniques: Spaced Repetition, Retrieval Practice, Mind Mapping, The Testing Effect, Deep Processing, Blooms Taxonomy, and Mind Mapping
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Learning to take lecture notes with Conceptual Notemaking inspired by the Zettelkasten notetaking method
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Studying in Obsidian using active recall and spaced repetition through toggle headers, flashcards, and a retrospective revision timetable
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Creating Maps of Content and a Home Note to scale your knowledge across semesters
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Using Obsidian Canvas to visualize and organize your knowledge
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And now for a few questions to understand YOU, so we can take over the education system together as a massive army!
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Do you want to join us on our epic quest to eradicate the cookie-cutter student mindset? If so, would you be interested in hearing more as we make progress on the course?
Or if you're REALLY excited, would you be interested in joining the journey and becoming a beta tester?! Keep in mind we have limited seats, so we want people who are passionate about reigniting their childhood curiosity and love for learning.
As a beta tester, you get:
- FREE access to the course during development (estimated value at $30-60)
- Regular updates on the course in a community discord
- To meet like-minded students using Obsidian for the same reasons
- A chance to share feedback to improve the course material
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