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CM 233: Daniel Willingham on Smarter Ways to Learn

Curious Minds at Work

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Organizing Information and Making Memories

People sometimes feel like they should learn how to speed read and speed reading is touted as this incredible time saving device. It's sadly, you're limited by eye movements in part, but then you're also limited by attention and other processes. A few years ago, there was a little bit of excitement because someone came up with this technique that would get around eye movement. But it turned out you can do that in short bursts for, you know, a few sentences or a paragraph, but then the wheels come off pretty quickly.

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