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Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning Is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy by Daniel T. Willingham Gallery Books, 2023, $28.99; 336 pages. As reviewed by Stephen M. Kosslyn In Outsmart Your Brain, Daniel Willingham has written three useful books in one, seamlessly integrated and mutually reinforcing. The book in the foreground offers a series of tips and advice to help students learn effectively and, more generally, navigate the school experience.
Dual enrollment pathways provided unique opportunities to extend high-quality learning access to underserved student populations. And despite these classes being remote throughout the pandemic, they’ve opened education and career pathways that were otherwise closed.
Why Active Learning Works
Experiential learning takes many forms, but one form in particular has proven particularly potent: Active learning — where learners engage in debate, problem-solving, role-playing, product creation and so on — is much more effective than presenting and explaining content. It requires learners to use information in the service of achieving a learning outcome. Exercises and activities are designed with a point in mind: to lead learners to master particular knowledge and skills.
Will higher ed's digital transformation save it? |
Six challenges colleges and universities face in preparing for the fall (Photo by Chris Montgomery on Unsplash) John Katzman (left) founded and runs Noodle Partners. Stephen M. Kosslyn founded and runs Foundry College, an online institution based in California. Colleges and universities have scrambled to complete the academic year, shifting their programs online with little time to plan or prepare.
We should not equate online learning with asynchronous learning
U.S. News & World Report recently reviewed online post-secondary educational offerings, noting that as of fall 2017, more than 3 million students had been enrolled exclusively online. They comment: “One of the main reasons online learning has grown in the past decade is the flexibility it provides for students to complete their coursework on their own schedules…. The online format often makes sense for individuals that need flexibility to complete coursework around their schedules.
Górny mózg, dolny mózg. Sprawdź, w jaki sposób myślisz i naucz się robić to lepiej
Jaki jest twój sposób myślenia? Co nasze mózgi mówią o nas samych? Jak wykorzystać potencjał własnego mózgu i efektywnie pracować z innymi? Sposoby wykorzystania przez ludzi górnej i dolnej części mózgu określają cztery podstawowe tryby poznawcze, czyli ogólne sposoby myślenia leżące u podstaw naszego stosunku do świata i interakcji z innymi ludźmi. To tryby: działania, obserwatora, stymulacji i adaptacji.
Are You Developing Skills That Won’t Be Automated?
The future of work looks grim for many people. A recent study from Forrester estimated that 10% of U.S. jobs would be automated this year, and another from McKinsey estimates that close to half of all U.S. jobs may be automated in the next decade. The jobs that are likely to be automated are repetitive and routine. They range from reading X-rays (human radiologists may soon have much more limited roles), to truck driving, to stocking a warehouse.
Integrating the Science of How We Learn into Education Technology
Phil Ashley/Getty Images For well over 100 years, researchers have labored tirelessly to understand how humans learn and remember. The resulting scientific literature is impressive, both in its scope and its depth. In fact, so much is now known that I doubt that any human could read and absorb all that has been written on the subject. The sad irony, though, is that it’s often not obvious how to use the findings of all of this research in educational settings.
Minding Education
After two remarkable careers, one in cognitive science, overlapping the next in academic leadership, APS Fellow Stephen M. Kosslyn has embarked on a third, designing new institutions of higher learning based on the best evidence from the cognitive sciences. His pathbreaking work on imagery led him from elegant experiments to AI to showing that creating images, indeed, thinking, could be seen in the brain in real time.
Does a presentation’s medium affect its message? PowerPoint, Prezi, and oral presentations
Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Samuel T. Moulton , Selen Türkay, Stephen M. Kosslyn Samuel T. Moulton, Selen Türkay, Stephen M. Kosslyn Published: July 5, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0178774 Correction 12 Oct 2017: The PLOS ONE Staff (2017) Correction: Does a presentation's medium affect its message? PowerPoint, Prezi, and oral presentations. PLOS ONE 12(10): e0186673.
Minerva and the Future of Higher Education
Higher education is in crisis. It is too expensive, ineffective, and impractical for many of the world’s students. But how would you reinvent it for the twenty-first century—how would you build it from the ground up? Many have speculated about changing higher education, but Minerva has actually created a new kind of university program.
Are You Most Comfortable Operating in Mover Mode?
According to the Theory of Cognitive Modes, people vary in the degree to which they tend to rely on the top-brain and bottom-brain systems in their thinking and behavior. We all use both brain systems, but depending on how deeply one does or doesn’t utilize each system, different cognitive modes result.
Harnessing the Power of the Four Cognitive Modes: Stephen Kosslyn, G. Wayne Miller: 9781451645118: Amazon.com: Books
Bet you didn't know that your cerebral cortex has two parts. Well sort of. A kind of upper, frontish part and lower rearward part. Well, not exactly. I mean, some parts that you'd think were part of the upper part are really in the lower part, and like it's not always clear what's part of what, but the point is, they're different. They do different things, or differentish anyway; it's all a bit hazy- you know how the brain is.
Kosslyn and Miller: There Is No Left-Brain/Right-Brain Divide
You are hardly alone if you believe that humanity is divided into two great camps: the left-brain and the right-brain thinkers — those who are logical and analytical vs. those who are intuitive and creative. For years, an industry of books, tests and videos has flourished on this concept. It seems to be natural law. Except it isn’t. Scientists have long known that the popular left brain/right brain story doesn’t hold water. Here’s why.
How the Brain Creates Personality: A New Theory
Are you a mover, a perceiver, a stimulator, or an adapter? Modes of thinking can be understood in terms of how the top and bottom—rather than right and left—parts of the brain interact. By Stephen M. Kosslyn and G. Wayne Miller It is possible to examine any object—including a brain—at different levels. Take the example of a building.
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