
11. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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Cognitive Bias in Education
People learn more easily from the particular to the general. People are much better at learning when you give them lots of individual cases and then they construct a rule out of the individual cases. You need to break through students cognitive biases to get them to learn something in particular Cognitive biases like confirmation bias that's a terrible one but unfortunately you have to get through people already have their beliefsYou're always in danger of just having an ideology and then sticking to it this is the nature and the danger of ideology basically so I implore you to be vigilant and to be accepting of new data new ideas new thoughts new theories don't stick to one idea Be ready to change your mind be aware of things like
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