![]() Get the course recommended text, A Mind for Numbers!.Have a happy week in Learning How to Learn !īarb, Terry, and the entire Learning How to Learn team Should you memorize them? Read the article and you’ll find out! Here’s a wonderful, timeless article by Murray Bourne on understanding math formulas. Math Formulas - Should You Memorize Them? How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Mathīarb’s article on rewiring her brain to become successful at math and analytical topics has become one of the most saved, read, shared articles on Pocket. ![]() This insightful television interview with Barb’s colleague, researcher Beth Rogowsky, relates whether reading or listening is better if you want to retain the material. This just proved Touboul’s point that hipsters can look so much alike that even they can’t tell themselves apart. In fact, one hipster accused Brandeis of using a picture of him without his permission to describe the research work. Just ask mathematician Jonathan Touboul, an associate professor at Brandeis University…” We couldn’t help but get a kick out of this article on research results from artificial intelligence, which starts out: “You can spot a nonconformist a mile away. Keep an eye out for details!ĭon’t forget, Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda (who Barb very much admires), and Barb will be having a fireside chat together at ASU-GSV in San Diego from 10:45AM-11:25 AM on April 10th.Ī Cool New Use for Artificial Intelligence-Proving Hipsters are Different in the Same Way She’ll also be keynoting in May at the Queensland Secondary School Principal’s Association Conference in Brisbane, and giving talks at UTS and Macquarie in Sydney, and the University of Western Australia in Perth. Barb will be in New Zealand in latter April, visiting Akaroa, where she and her hero husband Phil were married 35 years ago, when they got off the ice of Antarctica. ![]() Barb will be watching happily from the audience, so if you are at AERA, feel free to attend and sit beside her! ” Ken-Zen will be covering how the Learning How to Learn MOOC was creatively expanded into a new Chinese syncretic MOOC, “The Tao of Learning.” If you’re interested in developing a version of Learning How to Learn (or other courses) in your own native language, this presentation will give you lots of ideas. Ken-Zen Chen will be presenting on his and Barb’s work in “ Redeveloping a MOOC to Be More Culturally Relevant: A Design-Based Approac h. Toronto, April 7 at the American Educational Research Association Conference.Barb will be back in Valencia, Spain speaking for ESIC at the IMAT conference on Monday, April 1st at the extraordinarily beautiful Hotel Balneario Las Arenas in Valencia.)īarb in Valencia Spain, New Zealand, Australia, Toronto, and San Diego (ASU-GSV) (And Anthony’s right in that the “memory palace” for language study was sparked by Anthony’s own work-subscribe to his great memory YouTube channel, here. We agree with Anthony-the book is helpful for anyone, not just youngsters, who wants to learn more efficiently. Here’s a wonderful and insightful video review by memory maven Anthony Metivier of our book Learning How to Learn. This insightful article in The Atlantic goes behind the scenes to give a more general sense of the problems that the disadvantaged experience at these high-brow institutions: “ Elite Colleges Constantly Tell Low-Income Students That They Do Not Belong : Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life-and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.”Ī Great Video Review of Our Book Learning How to Learn You have probably heard of the recent Justice Department charges involving 50 people who used elaborate schemes to purchase spots in some of the country’s top universities. How the Poor Are Left to Struggle at Elite Universities It has become one of our all-time favorite books of science. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a #1 New York Times best-seller, has an amazing near 15,000 5-star reviews on Amazon. The value of a good education-and what happens when such an education is not available, is an underlying theme of Skloot’s magnificent book. ![]() The real story involves Henrietta Lacks herself-how she lived, how she died, and what effect the seemingly immortal life of her cells has had on her family. The cells’ insidious ability to contaminate wreaked havoc on thousands of seemingly impeccable studies, even as they also helped spur fantastic new scientific insights. Those cells lived on, and on, and on, spawning a multi-billion dollar industry. Skloot spent ten years unearthing the story of Henrietta Lacks, a poor-and consequently poorly educated-black woman who had pieces of her cervical cancer tumor taken without her consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, by Rebecca Skloot. Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learn ers! ![]()
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