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 Wednesday greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 6, 2016
Cheery Wednesday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! We’re a little earlier than our usual cheery Friday greetings this week because Barb’s speaking this Friday (April 8th) to help launch the On Course Conference in Anaheim, California. Come join us if you’re in the area! (And meanwhile, happy Wednesday!) Gaining a competitive advantage We’d …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 1, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Help our friend Nelson Dellis Kickstart his “Art of Memory” project Many of you have seen our previous videos from Nelson Dellis, the four time US Memory Champion. (Nelson is also a champion for research into Alzheimer’s, which led to the death of his grandmother and Barb’s father.) Nelson is …
More >▼ Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Mar 25, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Communities of Learners Jules Rowley has an excellent post titled “Communities of Learners” in the Learning How to Learn alumni forum. Take a look! Class Central on taking MOOCs for College Credit Class Central has just published an important article, “MOOCs for Credit.” It describes differen …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Mar 18, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Leadership conference with a difference – 25 May 2016 (Barb’s thrilled to be back in England!) There’s a wonderful upcoming leadership conference “Liberating Leaders,” on May 25, 2016 at Bedales School in the UK. The conference is for school leaders, aspiring leaders and sixth form pupils. It …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Mar 11, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Why don’t we ride zebras like horses? Chris Higgins in Mental Floss points us towards one of the most informative, funniest little videos we’ve seen in a long time: Why Don’t We Ride Zebras Like Horses? This video grows from one of our favorite books, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Huma …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Mar 4, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Time to Go Surfing—or to Ride a Unicycle In the MOOC, we use the example of a surfing zombie to represent process versus product. That is, the idea of getting into the flow of your work. It turns out that the surfing zombie is a good metaphor for something else—the value of learning a new spo …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 26, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Interleaving One of our learners, Quin Benson, has used the discussion forum to mention an excellent article: “The Interleaving Effect: Mixing It Up Boosts Learning.” We’ve often found that learners in math, science, and engineering benefit greatly from tricks like placing problems on flashca …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 19, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! MOOCs for Teacher Development If you are an elementary or secondary school teacher anywhere in the world, we would really appreciate it if you might take the following very brief survey about MOOCs. This will be very useful for a panel being hosted at SXSWEdu called ‘MOOCs & Teacher PD: M …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 12, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! London Taxi Drivers and Learning Barb’s recent trip to London for the Learning Technologies Conference was terrific! (Here’s an intriguing Google Hangout discussion about little known, but vital aspects of learning with Barb and educational psychologist Tesia Marshik, hosted Sukhvinder Pabial …
More >Cheery Friday Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Feb 5, 2016
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Are You a Medical School or Pre-Medical School Student—or Just Interested in Learning Hard Stuff? Check out this excellent article “How We Studied for the Boards,” by Farokh Jamalyaria, MD. Farokh discusses a medicine-specific strategy that many of his physician colleagues and he have used ov …
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