Cheery Friday e-mails
Every Friday I send a “Cheery Friday” email chock full of insights about learning and changing to a million registered learners from the massive open online course (“MOOC”) Learning How to Learn. To receive these emails, just register for the course here (it’s free, and registration takes only a few seconds). “See” you on Friday!
Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Sep 2, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Four time US Memory Champion Nelson Dellis has done a fascinating interview with expert language learner Gabriel Wyner. Gabriel is author of the GREAT book Fluent Forever—an invaluable guide to help you learn languages more easily and remember what you’ve learned. If you would like to join Ne …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 26, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Week This week, we’ve been having a blast reading about our body’s other “brain”—which, you might be surprised to learn, is in our gut. Over the years, we ourselves have learned to tune in to our gut when we’re making decisions—if there’s a little bit of an “off” feeling down belo …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 19, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! A Sneak Peek Into Barb’s New Book Barb was recently on Dave Goldberg’s radio show—she let slip some intriguing insights related to her forthcoming book Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, (coming next April from Penguin!). Feel free to pre-order …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 12, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month We’re going to switch things up today and start our email with a fantastic book we’ve just finished: The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance, by Josh Waitzkin. Waitzkin is a world champion chess and martial arts expert–his book provides a fantastic desc …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Aug 5, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Growth Mindset Here’s a wonderful visual that exemplifies how to reframe negative thoughts about learning into more empowering and helpful mindsets. (Hat tip: Fern Kushner.) Shifting your or your child’s thinking can have all sorts of long term positive effects on their brain and their life. …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 29, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! An App to Help with Daily Math Practice Last year, Learning How to Learner Greg Edmunds was struggling to learn Mandarin, even as he was carrying out a 70 hour a week work schedule. This led Greg to our Learning How to Learn course, which ultimately lead him to design and develop a series of …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 22, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Top 50 MOOCs of All Time Looking for a good listing of great MOOCs? Look no further–Class Central has created a spectacular listing of the top 50 MOOCs of all time. (Yes, Learning How to Learn is on the list!) Take a look-through and get some ideas for courses you might like to take. For a B …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 15, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Virtual Reality Barb was fortunate enough to be able to visit the Google Virtual Reality Labs last week. Some of the capabilities of the medium are expensive, but really quite extraordinary—she felt like she was on the holodeck in Star Trek. There is a rumble in the air—educators are beginnin …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 8, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Learn to improve your writing in English Writing coach Daphne Grey-Grant, who did a terrific bonus interview about the writing process for Learning How to Learners, has a great post on a useful app for improving your writing. Check it out! MOOC of the Week As you know, we’re always interested …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Jul 1, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Exercise—Even More Research Reveals Its Power for Learning! Here’s a wonderful article on very recent research revealing that “Exercising After a Task Improves Memory,” The key finding? “The people who exercised hours later had better recall and stronger and more clear activation in the areas …
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