"There has been a large body of work in neuroscience, psychology, and related fields offering more and more insight into how we learn.
Below are five of the top tips from Barbara Oakley, Professor of Engineering at Oakland University, who has faced her own learning challenges (failing middle and high school math and science classes), and has made a study of the latest research on learning. She is also offering a free online course, Learning How to Learn, which starts August 1 on the Coursera platform with co-instructor, Prof. Terrence Sejnowski, a computational neuroscientist at UC San Diego and the Salk Institute."
Via Beth Dichter
Are you interested in learning how to learn? This post provides 5 tips that may help you.
1. Get enough sleep to de-toxify your brain
2. Outwit procrastination with the Pomodoro technique
3. Use spaced repetition to remember key facts
4. Use recall rather than re-reading to see whether you’ve learned the content
5. Vary learning/studying environment
Each of these is explained in more detail in the post.
As teachers we are also learners, and it is never too late to become better at learning. Sharing these five tips with our students may help them become better learners. And if this is a topic of interest to you, consider checking out the Coursera course Learning How to Learn that will begin on August 1st.
Five practical and sometimes infrequently used ideas to enhance learning.