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An amazing book … The authors provide an overview of the neural and cognitive processes that support learning … They make a convincing case that students have an amazing capacity to learn’
Robert A. Bjork, distinguished research professor of psychology, UCLA
As the head of Open Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has a daunting job: to fling open the doors of the MIT experience for the benefit of the wider world. But if you’re going to undertake such an ambitious project, you must first ask: How exactly does learning work? What conditions are most conducive? Are our traditional classroom methods – lecture, homework, test, repeat – actually effective? And if not, which techniques are?
Grasp takes readers from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it explores the future of learning. For instance:
· Forgetting is now seen not as a simple failure of memory but as a critical weapon in our learning arsenal
· It is now possible to identify children who might benefit from specialised dyslexia interventions – before they learn to read
· Many schools have begun converting to flipped classrooms, in which you watch a lesson at home, then do your ‘homework’ in class
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