Thorndike has an reductionist approach to education, people learn by their own through repetitetive task. And to this day the system is still in use."Learning itself was losing its totemic significance at school in favor of another function: sorting worthy students from unworthy"And argued that, "Those who have the most to begin with gain the most".

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In The Learning Revolution Sanjay Sarma argues that the emerging focus on actual 'learning' over ineffectually just 'educating' is timely and essential to our future. In a networked and digitised world, our ability to learn over the course of a lifetime has never been greater. But as a result, the demands for a dynamic, adaptive, and enduring approach to knowledge acquisition and application have increased - we can't just 'do our learning in school' and then settle in for the long haul of a narrowly defined, static work life.In this book, readers will travel to the forefront of the current revolution in our understanding of learning, as the convergence of technology, neuroscience, and experimentation fundamentally transforms the act of learning from a craft, to a science, and, ultimately, to something that we engineer - to ever greater outcomes for ourselves, our children, our students, our colleagues, and humanity at large.The Learning Revolution shows why the pace of learning is far more important than the kind of learning; why cramming is a really poor way to actually learn information; how we can prime curiosity to maximize information absorption and storage; and how our knowledge develops through stages of recognition, fluency and creative application.

In The Learning Revolution Sanjay Sarma argues that the emerging focus on actual 'learning' over ineffectually just 'educating' is timely and essential to our future. In a networked and digitised world, our ability to learn over the course of a lifetime has never been greater. But as a result, the demands for a dynamic, adaptive, and enduring approach to knowledge acquisition and application have increased - we can't just 'do our learning in school' and then settle in for the long haul of a narrowly defined, static work life.In this book, readers will travel to the forefront of the current revolution in our understanding of learning, as the convergence of technology, neuroscience, and experimentation fundamentally transforms the act of learning from a craft, to a science, and, ultimately, to something that we engineer - to ever greater outcomes for ourselves, our children, our students, our colleagues, and humanity at large.The Learning Revolution shows why the pace of learning is far more important than the kind of learning; why cramming is a really poor way to actually learn information; how we can prime curiosity to maximize information absorption and storage; and how our knowledge develops through stages of recognition, fluency and creative application.

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"In the spirit of Thinking, Fast and Slow, a groundbreaking look at the science of how we learn--and how we can use it to discover our true potential, as individuals and across society As the vice president for Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job description: to educate the world. But if you're going to undertake such an ambitious project, it behooves you first to ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods--lecture, homework, test, repeat--actually effective? And if not, what techniques are? Grasp takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state that brain researchers call "readiness to learn" (and its dark twin, "unreadiness to learn"). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice: at MIT (both on campus and online); at bold new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus; and at a law school that began teaching innovative study techniques and saw its bar-passage rate rocket to the top of its state. Along the way, Sarma debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of "learning styles," while equipping readers with a set of practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning. He presents a vision for learning that's more inclusive and democratic--revealing a world bursting with powerful learners, just waiting for the chance they deserve. Drawing from the author's experience as an educator and the work of researchers and educational innovators at MIT and beyond, Grasp offers scientific and practical insight, promising not just to inform and entertain readers, but to open their minds"--

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In The Learning Revolution Sanjay Sarma argues that the emerging focus on actual 'learning' over ineffectually just 'educating' is timely and essential to our future. In a networked and digitised world, our ability to learn over the course of a lifetime has never been greater. But as a result, the demands for a dynamic, adaptive, and enduring approach to knowledge acquisition and application have increased - we can't just 'do our learning in school' and then settle in for the long haul of a narrowly defined, static work life.In this book, readers will travel to the forefront of the current revolution in our understanding of learning, as the convergence of technology, neuroscience, and experimentation fundamentally transforms the act of learning from a craft, to a science, and, ultimately, to something that we engineer - to ever greater outcomes for ourselves, our children, our students, our colleagues, and humanity at large.The Learning Revolution shows why the pace of learning is far more important than the kind of learning; why cramming is a really poor way to actually learn information; how we can prime curiosity to maximize information absorption and storage; and how our knowledge develops through stages of recognition, fluency and creative application.

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