Fascinating. Will require a rewiring of old habits to try it out. Easy when you're 71. George
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Gwern Branwen <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/11/opinion/sunday/quality-homework-a-smart-idea.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all > > > Another common misconception about how we learn holds that if information > feels easy to absorb, we’ve learned it well. In fact, the opposite is true. > When we work hard to understand information, we recall it better; the extra > effort signals the brain that this knowledge is worth keeping. This > phenomenon, known as cognitive disfluency, promotes learning so effectively > that psychologists have devised all manner of “desirable difficulties” to > introduce into the learning process: > > >Interleaving produces the same sort of improvement in academic > learning.... > > -- > gwern > http://www.gwern.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en.
