Posted on 09/15/2010 10:44:57 PM PDT by neverdem
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies).
And check out the classroom. Does Junior’s learning style match the new teacher’s approach? Or the school’s philosophy? Maybe the child isn’t “a good fit” for the school.
Such theories have developed in part because of sketchy education research that doesn’t offer clear guidance. Student traits and teaching styles surely interact; so do personalities and at-home rules. The trouble is, no one can predict how.
Yet there are effective approaches to learning, at least for those who are motivated. In recent years, cognitive scientists have shown that a few simple techniques can reliably improve what matters most: how much a student learns from studying.
The findings can help...
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“We have known these principles for some time, and it’s intriguing that schools don’t pick them up, or that people don’t learn them by trial and error,” said Robert A. Bjork, a psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Instead, we walk around with all sorts of unexamined beliefs about what works that are mistaken.”
Take the notion that children have specific learning styles, that some are “visual learners” and others are auditory; some are “left-brain” students, others “right-brain.” In a recent review of the relevant research, published in the journal Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a team of psychologists found almost zero support for such ideas. “The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing,” the researchers concluded...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
bfl
“Application of pre-modernistic structured frameworks within rigorous individualistic disciplinary learning transfer modalities: sequential process instantiation”.
Dang, you are good!
You should!.
Our meathod was a bit more primitive
* Because I said so
*No tv until it's done
* I had to, so do you
I am generally regarded as an intelligent, well-read man. No boast; just the facts as compared to others around me and what I’ve been told over the years.
95% of what I know that has REAL VALUE, I have learned outside of a classroom.
School as we know it today is a farce designed to build worker bees and government subjects.
Love your kids? Take them OUT of “school”!
Liberals will hand you grant money based on the above - and conservatives ( if they controlled grant money ) would give you cash for your comments below:
* Sit your butt down in a quiet place
* Open the book
* Read
* Do the exercises you have been assigned
* Repeat for all homework
I would have a hard time giving creedance to any org that has the phrase “Science in the Public Interest” in their name.
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Nice to know I have my bases covered :)
Very good....:o)
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