Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

It’s an illuminating read. But the authors don’t simply recite the research; they show readers how it is applied in real-life learning scenarios, with engaging stories of real people in academic, professional, and sports environments… The learning strategies proposed in this book can be implemented immediately, at no cost, and to great effect… Make It Stick will help you become a much more productive learner. (Drake Baer Business Insider 2014-06-18) . Even more, it shows us how more positive attitudes toward our own abilitiesand the willingness to tackle the hard stuffenables us to achieve our goals. Over the course of the book, the authors weave together stories from an array of learnerssurgeons, pilots, gardeners, and school and university studentsto illustrate their arguments abou

Kevin Currie-Knight said There's How You Think You Learn, and There's How You Learn!. Okay, well maybe I am overstating that a little. But the main "thesis" of Peter Brown's book - aside from being a summary of what cognitive science data shows about how we learn - is basically that many of the things we often assume about learning are wrong. Here are some of them: we learn best by reading and rereading a passage until we really understand it. WRONG! We learn best when we isolate a skill and prac. How the Mind Learns - a how to guide, with stories Is there anything new in this book? I believe there is sage advice in it for many of us.That our brains adapt is good but also bad for studying. We become bored.For many of us, we were never taught how our minds work and how we should leverage its natural processes to learn. Sometimes, practice or studying feels painfully slow and we often switch to another method that feels good. Unfortunately, we often fail at. Afraid of hundreds of pages of Fluff? Read the article!!!! Eddard S. So I read about 10-20 reviews of this book because it sounded very interesting.I came to this conclusion. It probably has some good info but it's surrounded by hundreds of pages of fluff. If you read a lot of books about learning new skills or other nonfiction, you know this to be a FAR too common theme among newer books. It's like they can't sell it if it doesn't reach 300 pages. No one will pay for a well writ

Peter C. McDaniel is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) at Washington University in St. Brown is a writer and novelist in St. Louis. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Paul, Minnesota.Henry L. . Louis.Mark A. Roediger III is James S

Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.. To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new ma