Harvard University Press
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3 Big Ideas about Learning
Get it out to get it in
It’s retrieval from memory, not review, that deepens learning and makes it stick.
Some difficulties are desirable.
Difficulties that resemble real-world conditions, and require effort to overcome, deepen learning and improve later performance.
A growth mindset motivates.
When learners know that mental effort builds mental abilities, they pick tougher challenges and persist longer to meet them.
Intuition misleads us.
Many strategies that feel productive, like
rereading and massed practice, are labor in vain.
rereading and massed practice, are labor in vain.