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!
Exciting news—impending launch of the Mindshift book & MOOC!
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month We have VERY exciting news for you this week! Barb’s next book is at a major milestone—one month from publication! The buzz is already building! Barb’s book is Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential, from Penguin-Random House—it’ …
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Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! And I’m a little early with this week’s Cheery Friday–flights will be catching me with dicey internet connections, so better to send early! Our Little Course, One Big Deal Who would’ve guessed? That quirky little course Learning How to Learn—the one you’re in right now—has just been named one of the top t …
More >Questions, questions, questions
Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! Roger Partridge on the roots of education decline Roger Partridge, chair and co-founder of The New Zealand Initiative, has written one of the clearest, most unsparing accounts yet of how modern school systems lost their way. Drawing on New Zealand’s experience — but relevant far beyond it — he shows how a s …
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Reforming Lessons
Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! Book of the Year: Reforming Lessons If you want a powerful, uplifting read about how to turn a struggling education system around — despite the drag of “well-meaning” but harmful inertia — pick up Nick Gibb and Robert Peal’s Reforming Lessons: Why English Schools Have Improved Since 2010 and How This Was A …
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Running the Room
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Greetings from Dublin, Ireland! Book of the Month Running the Room: The Teacher’s Guide to Behaviour, by Tom Bennett. This book is a masterpiece of specific advice about how to handle a classroom, written by a former nightclub manager turned teacher who has become one of the world’s leading …
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Ryan Holiday’s books
Cheery Friday greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Week Lately, we’ve found ourselves caught up in Ryan Holiday’s thought-provoking books. We found a lot to like in his The Ego Is the Enemy, (Audible version here) which provides a refreshing break from today’s relentless onslaught of books about successful egotists. Ryan’s refle …
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Super Gut
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Books of the Month Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight, by William Davis, MD. It is shocking how many syndromes are being connected to the gut biome—including not only autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis but even heart disease …
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The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia
Cheery Friday Greetings from Barb Oakley! Book Pick: The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia by Hagai Bergman. If you’ve ever wondered about the backstage crew running the show of your everyday thoughts and actions, The Hidden Life of the Basal Ganglia is a fascinating peek behind the curtain. Hagai Bergman takes readers deep into this underappreciat …
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The Scout Mindset
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Year! The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t, by Julia Galef. Critical thinking has stood for decades near the top of the World Economic Forum’s “10 skills needed to thrive in the fourth industrial revolution.” A real standout for us amongst the hun …
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The Story of Spanish
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month The Story of Spanish, by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow. This fascinating volume gives a comprehensive overview of the Spanish speaking world and its history by using the unique lens of language. Beginning with how Spanish evolved from the remnants of Vulgar Latin in t …
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