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| Source: NetGalley.com |
Publisher: Random House
Publication date: September 9, 2014
Category: Parenting & Families, Science
Source: I received this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.
Being in the "learning business," I couldn't pass up a book about how people learn. So, because of the title alone, How We Learn, I requested it. It turned out to be one of those books where you pick through the table of contents to read the portions that are most relevant to you. After reading the first two parts, I realized I was waiting to read the parts that sounded more interesting to me and I skipped to the following sections:
"The Hidden Value of Ignorance," which was about testing.
"The Upside of Distraction," which discusses how ideas and solutions appear when we are not thinking on the exact topic.
"Learning Without Thinking," about learning through associations.
"You Snooze, You Win," discusses the role of sleep in the learning process.
Overall, about half the book was relevant to me as an educator, although I feel it was dense, factual/scientific reading (for me anyway), so I didn't read it straight through. Once I began picking and choosing parts I wanted to read, I liked the book better. People with science/biology interests will like this book.
Have you read any books with topics that would interest a random audience?
I guess not, or not yet, but I since I just finished a two day course about thinking etc I guess it would be interesting to see what this book says about learning and thinking.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an interesting course. If I had a class taught on this book, I'd probably like more of the dense parts.
DeleteThis sounds interesting to me. Thanks for sharing. I think it would be interesting to figure out what kind of learner my kids and I are.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to read about some of the studies done on things we think are obvious, such as quiet places to study.
DeleteI have never come across such topics! But I would love to as I think they are mentally stimulating!
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I'm not a big nonfiction reader in this aspect, so I don't come across them often either.
Deletehahaha check out my "music" label on my blog, definitely plenty of random audience reads for me! I love reading about how we learn, so I'll have to look into this one. Thanks for sharing it!
ReplyDeleteYep! If you do, I hope you like it!
DeleteHave you read any books with topics that would interest a random audience?
ReplyDeleteIf your question was...how about a random audience within an audience, I'd say heck yeah. Every book on writing.
I pick and chose the relevant parts and leave the rest because I'm such a know it all.
Learning is what life is about. Getting it to stick...now that's the hard part.
Oh yes, getting it to stick is indeed the hard part! Story of my life ;)
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