Sam

Science of learning TL;DR ➡️ Remembering stuff is good. ➡️ To think, you need stuff to think with. ➡️ If you have stuff in your long-term memory you can think about stuff much more deeply. ➡️ Retrieving stuff from your long-term memory helps it stay there. ➡️ Retrieval doesn’t just reveal memory; it reshapes it. ➡️ Spacing out retrieval helps you remember it even better. ➡️ Most skills are probably domain specific and don’t transfer. ➡️ Learning to read is much harder than learning to talk. ➡️ Working memory is the arena where thinking occurs but you can only hold 3-5 items of new stuff at once. ➡️ You can get around the previous point by having stuff in your long-term memory. ➡️ Just because you’re engaged, doesn’t mean you’re learning anything. ➡️ Learning stuff can feel like you’re not learning anything at all and vice versa. ➡️ Accomplishing stuff often leads to motivation not the other way round. ➡️ Discovery learning is not a good way to discover stuff. ➡️ Plan teaching to help kids remember things so they can understand more, make more connections and think deeply about stuff later on. …