#024 - Peter C Brown - The Science Of Successful Learning Habits
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How to Make Learning Simple for Students
The science shows that what's far more effective after you've heard a lecture or read a passage is to turn aside and then give yourself a little quiz. The second big idea for me is we try to make learning simple for students, but actually there are some kinds of difficulties that are desirable. Spacing out your practice is better than practicing things in a masked fashion. And the third number three is that our intuition leads us astray. Our intuition says if I reread it many times, I get very fluent in it. I'm on top of it. I can do that and take a test the next morning. It doesn't stick though. What happens if you're tested again a
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