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!
Greetings from Learning How to Learn! Apr 29, 2015
CHEERY GREETINGS! We wanted to give you a little update on Learning How to Learn. It turns out that our course is Coursera’s most popular On Demand MOOC—we’re nearing million total students signed up from over 200 countries around the world! So where ever you are at in the course, we’re hoping you’re enjoying the materials! • NEW BONUS INTERVIEWS Y …
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Cheery Almost Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Greetings from India! If you happen to be in New Delhi, Barb has a meetup tonight (November 3rd) from 6:00 to 7:00 pm in the lobby of The Westin Gurgaon, New Delhi. Her deep dive webinar into retrieval practice for Indian learners on November 5th is here. Altered Traits: Science Revea …
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Blueprint
Cheery Friday Greetings to our Learning How to Learners! Book of the Month Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, by Robert Plomin. With the rapid advancements in genomic sequencing and the ever-expanding field of behavioral genetics, we feel the age-old question of “nature vs. nurture” is one of the hottest debates around. After all, scientists …
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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’ …
More >Our Little Course, One Big Deal
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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