What is learning?
Some immutable aspects of learning that we can probably all agree on:
"1) learning requires memory, so what we've learned is still there later when we need; 2) we need to keep learning and remembering all our lives 3) learning is an acquired skill, and the most effective strategies are often counterintuitive (vt Make it Stick, p. 3)"
What is guarantee for new learning?
"All new learning requires a foundation of prior knowledge. To learn trigonometry, you need to remember your algebra and geometry. (vt Make it Stick, p. 5)"
When the learning is deeper and more durable?
"When it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow (vt Make it Stick, p. 3)"
What is learning?
Acquiring knowledge and skills and having them readily available from memory so you can make sense of future problems and opportunities (vt Make it Stick, p. 2)
What is education?
Education is essentially something that happens when an existing generation gets involved with the new generation, by welcoming and introducing them to the world they commonly inhabit.
Name some least productive learning strategies.
Rereading text and massed practice of a skill or new knowledge are by far the preferred study strategies of learners of all stripes, but they're also among the least productive. (vt Make it Stick, p. 3)
What is a more effective learning strategy than review by rereading?
Retrieval practice— recalling facts or concepts or events from memory. (vt Make it Stick, p. 3)
Which defines students and teachers?
The dimension which defines them as students and teachers is the thing they study, i.e. a particular aspect of the world, a subject matter. Education always takes place in relation to a concrete thing.
What is the fundamental task of the teacher?
The fundamental task of the teacher is to show that the thing of study actually 'matters'.
What is the most important task of education?
The most important task of education consists of protecting the world from the child (Arendt 1968, p. 192).
