How To Learn -- From Robert Bjork, Director Of UCLA Learning And Forgetting Lab

Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 11:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, distinguished professor of psychology, and massively renowned expert on packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out. And it turns out that everything I thought I knew about learning is wrong.Here's what he said. read more

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