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"Research-backed" and not a single citation... EDIT: Redacted, but kept up to link to the version WITH citations - https://stories.sagefy.org/eight-big-ideas-of-learning-c17a1...
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I don't really know how intrinsic motivation could be controlled in the same fashion. A motivated and euphoric teacher maybe can achieve the same in the other direction, but I guess there will always be a certain kind of predisposition and "talent" to be motivated for a specific field. Would love to know how I can design those predispositions to change my own behavior. I guess behavioral therapy could work, but that'…
‘thinking fast and slow ‘ talks about this
It's a bummer, but I still believe in many of the listed cognitive biases.
[1]: https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
From my personal experience, the #1 factor for better learning is to learn with an objective. Learning is hard and can be demotivating by itself but when I have an objective that requires learning it becomes the driving force/motivation behind it and improves my focus and concentration by a large margins. It also allows me to connect the dots and provides me context.
This! I learned more trigonometry in 2 weeks when I was tasked with a digital signal processing project than I did in years and years of (objective-less) schooling. An important addendum to this is that the objective has to be closely tied to the work — the feedback loop for learning and then seeing some results from that learning has to be tight. I think this may be why in school grades were not a good objective, fo…
Sort of like a Civilization tech tree, but for applications of mathematics. "If you want to do 3D graphics, learn this but also this which leads to this which leads to this."
That way students can say "I'm hating Taylor series but if I learn that I can use it in X" or "This is hard but if I get through it I can learn quaternions and do Y" or whatever.
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20+ years of research from USA ED.gov has proved beyond doubt how adult involvement and Family & community Engagement impacts student achievement and makes schools perform better. We have baked finding of these research di
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I realize you're joking, but from what I understand is that you would be motivated to avoid waterboarding, not to learn math, and your retention and knowledge would suffer (beyond doing exactly what is necessary to avoid punishment). When people abuse kids [EDIT: as punishment/motivation], what they learn is how to avoid the abuse, by hook or crook.
I don't really know how intrinsic motivation could be controlled in the same fashion. A motivated and euphoric teacher maybe can achieve the same in the other direction, but I guess there will always be a certain kind of predisposition and "talent" to be motivated for a specific field. Would love to know how I can design those predispositions to change my own behavior. I guess behavioral therapy could work, but that'…
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Tanking in consideration how much information your brain can hold in given moment, what is the maximum amount of study hours you should have per day?
Research shows that the best way to learn is to challenge oneself. Self-testing, in particular, is a highly effective way of avoiding the illusion of fluency (Long-term Learning != Current Performance) and creating durable memories.
Further reading:
1. Make it Stick
2. "Making Things Hard on Yourself, But in a Good Way: Creating Desirable Difficulties to Enhance Learning" by Bjork & Bjork [https://teaching.yale-nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/sites/25...]
3. For a survey of student misconceptions about learning: "Instructor and student knowledge of study strategies" by Morehead et al.