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Pragmatism & Practice with Donald Clark

Great Minds on Learning

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Learning and Learning - I'm Not Going to Use, Use a Very Phony Link Here to the Borks H.

Psychologists robert a bork and elizabeth l bork er, both professors of psychology at the university of california. They thought that learning should not be made too easy. This is the big finding over the last ten, fiftyen, 20 years ind cono psychology. The idea that we should make it fun and easy is a big mistake. Making learning too easy actually leads to easier forgetting. So desirable difficulty means you have to work that bit harder to learn.

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