Tag: habits
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Trying to read a paper a day
I’m trying to re-commit to the practice of reading original research papers, instead of relying solely on summaries and overviews. I’ve reconfigured my daily schedule to build a daily reading habit that will enable me to engage with difficult ideas more deeply.
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Academic productivity courses on sale
The Head space online courses will be on sale until the 31st of January. Sign up before then to get 25% off, and start 2024 with the gift of calm academic productivity. There are courses on: Each course explores the common challenges in these core areas of academic productivity, and describes the most effective strategies…
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Physiopedia courses on developing skills to support learning
During 2023 I prepared a series of courses for Physiopedia Plus, aimed at helping students develop skills to support their learning. These courses are an extension of the Learning to Learn In Beta project I started a few years ago. Here are the courses on Physiopedia Plus, which are are accredited in Australia, South Africa,…
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For students: The Learning to Learn project
Earlier this year I launched a small project in my department, called Learning to Learn. The aim of the project is to share and discuss with students a range of evidence-based techniques that improve their ability to learn. I realised that, for many of my students, learning was something that they were simply expected to…
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Seven principles of learning
This is a short summary of a post by Scott Young that itself summarises the learning principles presented in Why don’t students like school, by Daniel Willingham. I’ve added the book to my reading list based on Scott’s recommendation. Here are the principles from Scott’s post (with some of my own comments in italics): Factual…