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85. Why Don't Students Like School? by Daniel Willingham

Education Bookcast

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Cognitive Science and the Chimp Paradox

Cognitive scientists simplify things by not thinking about emotions. But if you don't think about emotion, you can still understand a lot of things in terms of long-term memory and cognitive overload or underload. Next question is why is it so hard for students to understand abstract ideas? So we understand newThings in terms of what we already know. And most of that is concrete. That's really central to this idea.

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