how to learn
Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success (2nd Edition)
This hands-on volume teaches readers how to learn on their own and how to motivate themselves. It features a highly user-friendly style and an open, nontraditional look and approach. A consistent set of psychological principles–embodied in four major strategies and eight substrategies–are used throughout the book as unifying themes in exploring the various keys to achievement. Incorporates self-surveys, quick practices, applications, assignments, self-assessments, and portfolios. Introduction to Individual Learning and Motivation. The Keys to Achievement. Procrastination–The Thief of Time. Believing in Yourself–Self-Confidence. Taking Responsibility–It’s up to You. Active Listening–Learning from Lecture. Active Reading–Learning from Text. Preparing for Exams. Preparing Papers and Speeches. Managing your Life in School. Relationships that Work. Planning for Your Future. For anyone interested in optimizing their study skills and strategies.
Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success (2nd Edition)
Making Learning Whole: How Seven Principles of Teaching Can Transform Education
New in Paperback! Make learning more meaningful by teaching the “whole game”
David Perkins, a noted authority on teaching and learning and co-director of Harvard’s Project Zero, introduces a practical and research-based framework for teaching. He describes how teaching any subject at any level can be made more effective if students are introduced to the “whole game,” rather than isolated pieces of a discipline. Perkins explains how learning academic subjects should be approached like learning baseball or any game, and he demonstrates this with seven principles for making learning whole: from making the game worth playing (emphasizing the importance of motivation to sustained learning), to working on the hard parts (the importance of thoughtful practice), to learning how to learn (developing self-managed learners). Read the rest of this entry »
Natural Literacy: How to Learn What We Yearn to Know
Harold Shapiro, the former president of Princeton, ventured to say that theology had been divorced from the liberal. Professor Doug Dix’s book is about arranging a remarriage. His analysis suggests the divorce goes deeper than Shapiro may have realized. Love has been divorced from learning because money has replaced truth as the object of affection. Now students learn to earn. Natural Literacy strives to motivate students and faculty to instead learn to love.
Natural Literacy: How to Learn What We Yearn to Know