How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition [Kindle Edition] Author: Committee on Developments in the Science of Learni | Language: English | ISBN:
B002C1YWE0 | Format: PDF, EPUB
How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition
Download for free books How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition from mediafire, rapishare, and mirror link This newly expanded edition shows how the theories and insights from the original book can translate into actions and practice. How People Learn provides answers to many questions -- when learning actually begins, how experts learn, and what teachers and schools can do to help children learn most effectively. Direct download links available for How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School: Expanded Edition [Kindle Edition]
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- Print Length: 384 pages
- Publisher: National Academies Press; 2 edition (August 11, 2000)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002C1YWE0
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"How People Learn" is both a simple summary of some recent research in the cognitive sciences and an argument for how teaching should be done. This is currently a very popular topic in the educational industry, as educators look for justification in the cognitive literature for the rather ad-hoc educational theories of the past 40 or 50 years. Most of this volume is devoted to a fairly low-level- let's say High School level- review of selected literature form the cognitive and neuropsychological literature of the last few decades, and as far as it goes, it's not bad. It's spotty, certainly, and musch of it is very old, but the lay reader will still find much of it interesting and informative.
But the final chapter- Conclusions- is a tremendous disappointment, at least for this reader. Half the conclusions offered are so simple, and so obvious, as to be laughable. The other half are either contradictory or simply unjustified.
Consider this gem: "Transfer and wide application of learning are most likely to occur when learners acheive an organized and coherent understanding of the material; when the situations for transfer share the structure of the original learning; when subject matter has been mastered and practiced; when subject domains overlap and share cognitive elements; when instruction includes specific attention to underlying principles; and when instruction specifically emphasizes transfer."
Translated, that means that people can best use things they learn when they've learned them very well, that practice helps, and that it helps to learn something in a way similar to how you're going to use it.
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