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Super Summary Study Guide: Make It Stick
Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III
4.04 AVERAGE
463 reviews for:
Super Summary Study Guide: Make It Stick
Mark A. McDaniel, Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III
4.04 AVERAGE
This could be a decent book in theory, but I have read a lot of material from other books on memory and brain (for example, "Learning how to learn" by Barbara Oakley and "Peak" by Anders Ericsson, "Brain rules" by John Medina.
However, I managed to find a couple of good nuggets of wisdom in this book:
1) More information on the memory palace technique
2) The fact that the more a person 'knows' the more neuron connections it has (aka 'hooks for new information'). So, it is quite literally the more you know, the easier it is to learn new stuff via memory associations.
3) How to shoot an azimuth
How to study anything:
(a) spaced repetition (days-weeks)
(b) mixed practice (no single method drills -- variety is your friend)
(c) quiz quiz quiz
The harder it is to 'learn' something, the better it 'sticks'
However, I managed to find a couple of good nuggets of wisdom in this book:
1) More information on the memory palace technique
2) The fact that the more a person 'knows' the more neuron connections it has (aka 'hooks for new information'). So, it is quite literally the more you know, the easier it is to learn new stuff via memory associations.
3) How to shoot an azimuth
How to study anything:
(a) spaced repetition (days-weeks)
(b) mixed practice (no single method drills -- variety is your friend)
(c) quiz quiz quiz
The harder it is to 'learn' something, the better it 'sticks'
Extremely useful information about learning. I would like to go back in time with this knowledge and forward with it. Excellent use of story to build understanding. Concepts are accessible and relevant to anyone wanting to understand how we learn.
The book practices the methods it describes by interleaving concepts. On the technical side cf. Benedict Carey, but good myth busting, particularly on studying.
Maybe more a 3.5 stars.
This was easy listening about learning studies. Brown compellingly tells of common methods of learning that people use and where we might be fooling ourselves into believing we understand something. He offers some anecdotes of alternative methods we might employ when trying to tackle a new subject to have a deeper and lasting understanding.
He talks a lot about interleaving learning: taking breaks from one aspect to learn another before you've felt like you've gotten a good mastery of it and then returning. He says this feels like you are not getting a good grasp of the material and will feel more frustrating in the process but that coming back to it after trying to learn something else will actually force you to recall in a way that creates a lasting understanding.
This makes sense to me when I think about the knowledge that I've retained and the knowledge that I just crammed repeatedly before a test in school.
A bit pop-sciency but as far as that goes, this is one of the better ones.
This was easy listening about learning studies. Brown compellingly tells of common methods of learning that people use and where we might be fooling ourselves into believing we understand something. He offers some anecdotes of alternative methods we might employ when trying to tackle a new subject to have a deeper and lasting understanding.
He talks a lot about interleaving learning: taking breaks from one aspect to learn another before you've felt like you've gotten a good mastery of it and then returning. He says this feels like you are not getting a good grasp of the material and will feel more frustrating in the process but that coming back to it after trying to learn something else will actually force you to recall in a way that creates a lasting understanding.
This makes sense to me when I think about the knowledge that I've retained and the knowledge that I just crammed repeatedly before a test in school.
A bit pop-sciency but as far as that goes, this is one of the better ones.
There was some really good information in here - the two star rating does not reflect the material in the book or the authors - just my experience with the book. With that though… I would have given it three stars but the amount of examples was insane. I don’t need to read about police officers or astronauts when I am reading a book about successful learning…
This book was not very supportive or beneficial for my job as a kindergarten teacher. If I had read this in high school or as part of my pre-service teaching career, I feel like I would have been able to get more from the book.
Also… If you’re interested in the book from the bio, start with chapter 8 and then see how you like it - everything gets summarized there.
This book was not very supportive or beneficial for my job as a kindergarten teacher. If I had read this in high school or as part of my pre-service teaching career, I feel like I would have been able to get more from the book.
Also… If you’re interested in the book from the bio, start with chapter 8 and then see how you like it - everything gets summarized there.
informative
inspiring
slow-paced
If you want a good overview of strategies to make your learning--of anything at all--more effective, this is the book for you. The strategies outlined here are not groundbreakingly original (if you’re at all familiar with learning studies), but the material is conveyed very effectively, applying the techniques outlined to the book itself to help you actually learn them.
Each chapter focuses on one method of improving learning--critically differentiated from fluency and memorization--while continuously reiterating earlier strategies, all backed with experimental evidence cited from leading researchers in the field. These strategies include: spaced repetition and recall, variable and deliberate practice, elaboration, and interval testing. Perhaps the most important lesson covered is that learning isn’t easy and trying to make it so would be counterproductive. We learn more successfully when we have to put in more effort, so struggling through an attempt to solve a problem before you learn how (generation) is great a way to improve your understanding and retention when the lesson comes. The authors also stress the positive impact of knowing learning is primarily within our control, not reliant on some genetic gift of intelligence, if we’re willing to expend the time and effort in applying these methods.
An inspiring and motivating read!
It's educational and well-written, I just wish they hadn't used so many sports analogies.
There was some good information packed into this book, and some great stories that put things into perspective as a teacher. My one issue was that the chapters seemed to drone on for a bit too long.
