Learning How to Learn

De: Tesia Marshik, The Great Courses

Narrado por: Tesia Marshik

Education can be enriching and transformative. It can also be downright excruciating—even demoralizing. When it comes to learning, why are some of us lovers and some of us haters?

Welcome to the world of educational psychology, which uses science to explore what causes people to engage and learn, and what we can do to make learning opportunities more enjoyable and impactful. Spoiler alert: Teachers can only do so much. Students, too, must take control of their learning. Unfortunately, many of us never, ahem, learned the skills to do just that.

Enter Tesia Marshik, a specialist in educational and developmental psychology. Her eye-opening Audible Original, Learning How to Learn, teaches you how to apply research-based tactics to improve your learning in any context, whether you’re in a typical classroom setting, pursuing a professional development opportunity, or working your way toward accomplishing almost any personal goal imaginable. By challenging basic assumptions about learning, you’ll develop effective strategies for studying smarter, staying focused, taking notes, learning online, and dodging the common pitfalls that keep so many of us from growing into our full potential.

Think you’re not a math person, or no good at photography, or too old to learn a new language, or that you simply can’t bake to save your life? Think again.

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This truly helps!

I have read and listened to many supposedly learn how to learn programs. I've never gotten anything out of them, only a big waste of time. She gives you many different strategies, and the reasons why these work. and how to go about it step by step is just what I needed. All I can say is wow, and thank you! I look forward to taking courses and actually learning these courses for my own personal knowledge.

An excellent and quick learning resource

Even though this audible book is short, it is packed with valuable information to facilitate the learning process! I found it to be well, written with clear points and goals, which can quickly be incorporated into real world courses.

Repetitive

Some of her strategies and defined key terms get brought up over and over again, which wouldn’t be an issue if she didn’t need to re explain the term or strategy in basically the same words. The only change I would ask for is either skipping the repeat definition or describing it in new ways to better drive the point. Other than that it was very well read, easy to listen to, and a great learning experience.

Solid Advice on Studying

This book provides basic, solid advice on studying. The advice is probably most useful to high school and college students, who tend to reread the book and their notes and cram for the exam the night before. A good technique is to self-test frequently even before you start reading (guess what the material will be about). This is how you know for sure if you know or don't know the material.

Very useful

I am excited to continue my education. The next leg of my journey will look much different now that I have better tools for learning and studying. Professor Marshik is an expert in the science behind learning and can explain the science in an easy to understand style that is enjoyable to listen to. Her analogies are fantastic! - I recommend the book to all learners.