The first and most important lesson I learned in this course is to be an active reader and not only a recipient of information. Where I learned that I should always read critically to get the most out of any piece of information I read. That is because Effective learning is not reading articles and memorizing them, but reacting to them. For example, we can write the questions that crossed our mind while we were reading, add our opinions and thoughts of the writer’s ideas, and understand the content better.