Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects
This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. You’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. You’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.
Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
This book explains: Why sometimes letting your mind wander is an important part of the learning process; How to avoid “rut think” in order to think outside the box; Why having a poor memory can be a good thing; The value of metaphors in developing understanding, and; Why procrastination is the enemy of problem-solving
Learning How To Learn for Youth
Based on one of the most popular open online courses in the world, this course gives you easy access to the learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. No matter what your current skill level, using these approaches can help you master new topics, change your thinking and improve your life.
Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything
Building on insights from neuroscience and cognitive psychology, Oakley and Schewe give you a crash course to improve your ability to learn, no matter what the subject is. Through their decades of writing, teaching, and research on learning, the authors have developed deep connections with experts from a vast array of disciplines.
iProcrastinate Podcast
A podcast database about procrastination, run by the Procrastination Research Group (PRG). Their focus: “researching the breakdown in volitional action we commonly call procrastination. They seek to understand why we become our own worst enemy at times with needless, voluntary delay”. The research and site originates at Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada), but represents contributions and research about procrastination from all over the world.