Author: Peter C. Brown File Type: pdf To most of us, learning something the hard way implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered and drawing inferences from facts already known. New insights into how memory is encoded, consolidated, and later retrieved have led to a better understanding of how we learn. Grappling with the impediments that make learning challenging leads both to more complex mastery and better retention of what was learned.Many common study habits and practice routines turn out to be counterproductive. Underlining and highlighting, rereading, cramming, and single-minded repetition of new skills create the illusion of mastery, but gains fade quickly. More complex and durable learning come from self-testing, introducing certain difficulties in practice, waiting to re-study new material until a little forgetting has set in, and interleaving the practice of one skill or topic with another. Speaking most urgently to students, teachers, trainers, and athletes, Make It Stick will appeal to all those interested in the challenge of lifelong learning and self-improvement.**ReviewIf you want to read a lively and engaging book on the science of learning, this is a must Make It Stick benefits greatly from its use of stories about people who have achieved mastery of complex knowledge and skills. Over the course of the book, the authors weave together stories from an array of learnerssurgeons, pilots, gardeners, and school and university studentsto illustrate their arguments about how successful learning takes place This is a rich and resonant book and a pleasurable read that will leave you pondering the processes through which you, and your students, acquire new knowledge and skills. (Hazel Christie Times Higher Education 2014-04-03) Many educators are interested in making use of recent findings about the human brain and how we learn Make It Stick [is] the single best work I have encountered on the subject. Anyone with an interest in teaching or learning will benefit from reading this book, which not only presents thoroughly grounded research but does so in an eminently readable way that is accessible even to students. (James M. Lang Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-04-23) Aimed primarily at students, parents, and teachers, Make It Stick also offers practical advice for learners of all ages, at all stages of life With its credible challenge to conventional wisdom, Make It Stick does point the way forward, with a very real prospect of tangible and enduring benefits. (Glenn C. Altschuler Psychology Today 2014-04-10) Presents a compelling case for why we are attracted to the wrong strategies for learning and teachingand what we can do to remedy our approaches In clear language, Make It Stick explains the science underlying how people learn. But the authors dont simply recite the research they show readers how it is applied in real-life learning scenarios, with engaging stories of real people in academic, professional, and sports environments The learning strategies proposed in this book can be implemented immediately, at no cost, and to great effect Make It Stick will help you become a much more productive learner. (Stephanie Castellano TD Magazine 2014-11-08) If I could, I would assign all professors charged with teaching undergraduates one book Make It Stick The Science of Successful Learning It lays out what we know about the science of learning in clear, accessible prose. Every educatorand parent, and student, and professionalought to have it on their own personal syllabus. (Annie Murphy Paul The Brilliant blog 2014-02-07) This is a quite remarkable book. It describes important research findings with startling implications for how we can improve our own learning, teaching, and coaching. Even more, it shows us how more positive attitudes toward our own abilitiesand the willingness to tackle the hard stuffenables us to achieve our goals. The compelling stories bring the ideas out of the lab and into the real world. (Robert Bjork, University of California, Los Angeles) Learning is essential and life-long. Yet as these authors argue convincingly, people often use exactly the wrong strategies and dont appreciate the ones that work. Weve learned a lot in the last decade about applying cognitive science to real-world learning, and this book combines everyday examples with clear explanations of the research. Its easy to readand should be easy to learn from, too! (Daniel L. Schacter, author of The Seven Sins of Memory) For a deeper dig into the science of learning, make sure to pick up Make It Stick. Its an illuminating read. (Drake Baer Business Insider 2014-06-18) About the AuthorPeter C. Brown is a writer and novelist in St. Paul, Minnesota. Henry L. Roediger III is James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Psychology at Washington University in St. Louis. Mark A. McDaniel is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education (CIRCLE) at Washington University in St. Louis.

Author: Slavoj Žižek File Type: mobi A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the worlds most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain Inversions of Apocalypse shows how each faith understands humanity and divinityand how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem. Chapters include (by Zizek) (1) Christianity Against Sacred, (2) Glance into the Archives of Islam, (3) Only Suffering God Can Save Us, (4) Animal Gaze, (5) For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical, (by Gunjevic) (1) Mistagogy of Revolution, (2) Virtues of Empire, (3) Every Book Is Like Fortress, (4) Radical Orthodoxy, (5) Prayer and Wake.**