How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey is now available for free ePub download or online reading.<\/p>\n
Intro:<\/strong><\/p>\n In the tradition of The Power of Habit <\/i>and Thinking, Fast and Slow<\/i> comes a practical, playful, and endlessly fascinating guide to what we really know about learning and memory today\u2014and how we can apply it to our own lives.<\/b> \u201cThis book is a revelation. I feel as if I\u2019ve owned a brain for fifty-four years and only now discovered the operating manual.\u201d\u2014Mary Roach, bestselling author of Stiff <\/i>and Gulp User Rating: 3.91 (based on 6658 ratings)<\/p>\n Download EPUB How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens by Benedict Carey<\/strong><\/p>\n \ud83d\udcc1 File details: how-we-learn.epub<\/em><\/p>\n
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From an early age, it is drilled into our heads: Restlessness, distraction, and ignorance are the enemies of success. We\u2019re told that learning is all self-discipline, that we must confine ourselves to designated study areas, turn off the music, and maintain a strict ritual if we want to ace that test, memorize that presentation, or nail that piano recital.
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But what if almost everything we were told about learning is wrong?\u00a0And what if there was a way to achieve more with less effort?
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In How We Learn,<\/i> award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information. What he discovers is that, from the moment we are born, we are all learning quickly, efficiently, and automatically, but in our zeal to systematize the process we have ignored valuable, naturally enjoyable learning tools like forgetting, sleeping, and daydreaming. Is a dedicated desk in a quiet room really the best way to study? Can altering your routine improve your recall? Are there times when distraction is good? Is repetition necessary? Carey\u2019s search for answers to these questions yields a wealth of strategies that make learning more a part of our everyday lives\u2014and less of a chore.
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By road testing many of the counterintuitive techniques described in this book, Carey shows how we can flex the neural muscles that make deep learning possible. Along the way he reveals why teachers should give final exams on the first day of class, why it\u2019s wise to interleave subjects and concepts when learning any new skill, and when it\u2019s smarter to stay up late prepping for that presentation than to rise early for one last cram session. And if this requires some suspension of disbelief, that\u2019s because the research defies what we\u2019ve been told, throughout our lives, about how best to learn.
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The brain is not like a muscle, at least not in any straightforward sense. It is something else altogether, sensitive to mood, to timing, to circadian rhythms, as well as to location and environment. It doesn\u2019t take orders well, to put it mildly. If the brain is a learning machine, then it is an eccentric one. In How We Learn, <\/i>Benedict Carey\u00a0shows us how to exploit its quirks to our advantage.
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Praise for How We Learn<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
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\u201cA welcome rejoinder to the faddish notion that learning is all about the hours put in.\u201d \u2014The New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b>
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\u201cA valuable, entertaining tool for educators, students and parents.\u201d \u2014Shelf Awareness<\/i><\/b>
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\u201cHow We Learn<\/i> is more than a new approach to learning, it is a guide to making the most out of life. Who wouldn\u2019t be interested in that?\u201d \u2014Scientific American<\/i><\/b>
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\u201cI know of no other source that pulls together so much of what we know about the science of memory and couples it with practical, practicable advice.\u201d\u2014Daniel T. Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia<\/b>. First published September 9, 2014. Original format: Hardcover. Pages: 272. #how-we-learn-ebook #how-we-learn-epub #read #download<\/p>\n