Scott H Young
Person on 4 sites
Writer on learning and author of Ultralearning and Get Better at Anything; known for the MIT Challenge and the Year Without English.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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32 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The best way to take notes is any way in which you are fully attending to the meaning of what is said (opens korrents.com)
“The best way to take notes is any way in which you're fully attending to the meaning of what is said.”
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Taking notes in a lecture greatly outperforms not taking notes, including taking photos of the slides (opens korrents.com)
“Taking notes at all greatly outperforms not taking notes. This includes some popular alternatives like taking photos of the slides.”
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Retrieval practice is robustly useful and powerful for learning, and its benefit does not come from the mind map it is sometimes combined with. (opens korrents.com)
“the active ingredient driving the efficacy is retrieval-not the mind map.”
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The best way to take notes is any way in which you are fully attending to the meaning of what is said (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Why Knowledge Matters (opens rcmnd.app)
“In this 2016 book, Hirsch presents a sweeping curriculum change in French schools as evidence that misguided educational theories are undermining our children's learning.”
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Psych (opens rcmnd.app)
“Despite having read a few bookshelves worth of academic psychology texts, I enjoyed Yale professor Paul Bloom's survey of the field. Because understanding psychology cannot be divorced from understanding its history, I…”
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How We Reason (opens rcmnd.app)
“I had read Johnson-Laird's original work, Mental Models, last year. It was nice to see an in-depth follow-up on how the theory has developed in the subsequent two decades.”
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Why Knowledge Matters (opens rcmnd.app)