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Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by indescions_2018 »

atticusberg wrote: post #2

Any suggestions for further reading? In particular a book geared towards people who aren’t domain experts would be great

The "Learning How To Learn" course is also one of the most popular MOOCs

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Learning at scale via MOOCs seems to be enormously effective. EdX alone issued 250K certificates for 2.5M registered users. Mostly in CS.

I'd be interested to see YC Startup Schools own results as well. Do at least 10% of Startup School 2017 grads go on to full time work on their companies?

Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by Asdfbla »

I never got Zines. Beyond their cutesy art style, they generally don't seem particularly effective at conveying information in a somewhat concise manner. And if you don't want to be concise, why use such a very visual medium then and not just write an article?

Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by jiojfekjl »

Asdfbla wrote: post #12

I never got Zines. Beyond their cutesy art style, they generally don't seem particularly effective at conveying information in a somewhat concise manner. And if you don't want to be concise, why use such a very visual medium then and not just write an article?

There's nothing to get. A zine is just a self published magazine. Not all of them are hand drawn.

Essentially, zines were blogs before the web.

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Post by closed »

atticusberg wrote: post #2

Any suggestions for further reading? In particular a book geared towards people who aren’t domain experts would be great

I've been reading the book Becoming Fluent, and it seems like a great introduction to the field. It's about how cognitive psychology can help adults learn a new language.

However, from another angle, it's basically about using the idea of language learning to teach basic cognitive psychology.

(My phd was in human memory, and I can't stop thinking about ways this book could be used as part of a cool learning course).

Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by udia »

et15 wrote: post #8

I took a Coursera course titled Learning How to Learn[0] and found it really helpful as an intro class to this "field". It was also very practical. [0] https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Giving you a vote for this. This Coursera course helped me reframe my study habits after graduating university and has proven to be invaluable for my self directed learning.

Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by bitwize »

Asdfbla wrote: post #12

I never got Zines. Beyond their cutesy art style, they generally don't seem particularly effective at conveying information in a somewhat concise manner. And if you don't want to be concise, why use such a very visual medium then and not just write an article?

It's because forty-something programmers wish they were 90s scene kids. And/or _why the lucky stiff.

Re: How Do We Learn?

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Post by GolDDranks »

closed wrote: post #16
atticusberg wrote: post #2

Any suggestions for further reading? In particular a book geared towards people who aren’t domain experts would be great

I've been reading the book Becoming Fluent, and it seems like a great introduction to the field. It's about how cognitive psychology can help adults learn a new language. However, from another angle, it's basically about using the idea of language learning to teach basic cognitive psychology. (My phd was in human memory, and I can't stop thinking about ways this book could be used as part of a cool learning course).

It should be noted, however, that learning a language is very different from many other kinds of learning (understanding complex systems, learning history, etc.) in that it engages very different patterns in declarative and procedural memory and possibly involves some specialised networks. I know some very frustrated scholars of second language acquisition that lament the over-applying of the general science of human learning to specifics. (Just making a general point here; the book you are reading sounds like it's specifically about language indeed.)
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