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I’m seeing multiple people share this on my timeline, so I want to sound a warning: If you’re interested in learning for your career, these ideas are NOT AS USEFUL AS YOU MIGHT THINK. A thread of why and where to look instead.

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Ethan Mollick

@emollick

Jul 8

If you want to learn how to learn, these two charts are where you should start. They are the result of a large meta-analysis of study techniques. You should skip the highlighting, summarizing, and rereading. Instead, practice, quiz & explain. Open paper: journals.sagepub.com/stoken/rbtfl/Z

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How do we help bridge this gap for our students? We want them to build lifelong learning skills, but really the “school/test” learning tactics aren’t that useful for learning @ work

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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@TaraLifBaum

This is an excellent question but the truth is that I really don’t know :( I’m mostly surfacing these techniques for my own use, in industry. My hope is educators find a way to adapt some of these techniques (but in a way that doesn’t harm test performance).

3:07 AM · Jul 10, 2022Twitter Web App

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In my experience during my Masters my best grades were in oral exams or exams with projects as an exam. Worst were the standard written ones. My belief is that projects allow to dive narrow and deep and learn on your own at your own speed instead of learning everything at one go

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What if we make better tests that actually test if you deeply understand a concept?