Learning is the master skill, the ability that allows us to realize our ambitions: succeeding in school, getting ahead at work, playing a sport or a musical instrument, speaking a second language. Yet until recently, even the experts didn’t understand how learning works. Now research in cognitive science, psychology and neuroscience is revealing the simple and surprising techniques that can help us learn to be smarter.
Annie Murphy Paul is a book author, magazine journalist, consultant and speaker who helps people understand how we learn and how we can do it better. Her latest book, How to Be Brilliant, is forthcoming from Crown.
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Learning Columnist at Time.com • CNN.com • Forbes.com • MindShift.com • PsychologyToday.com • HuffingtonPost.com
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I continue to be astonished and gratified at the reaction to my article on how multitasking affects learning (read it here). I’ve been especially pleased to hear from the population that was the subject of the article: plugged-in teenagers. Here, a few of my favorite responses: Abby: I was horrified to realized that I was among the people who fall
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I’ve been very gratified by the reaction to my article (published in Slate, MindShift, and the Hechinger Report, as well as on my own blog) about how media multitasking affects learning. I’ve heard from hundreds of readers—including entire high school classes!—about what they think about this phenomenon and how it plays out in their own lives. I thought I would
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As a journalist, sometimes you work on a story that feels really important, one that makes you want to say: Hey, everybody, pay attention to this! I have a story like that out today. It arose out of a collaboration among Slate, MindShift, and the nonprofit Hechinger Institute, and it’s about how media multitasking while doing academic work—which is very,
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