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Edited by Richard Walker, Sunday, 26 Jul 2015, 15:46

How we learn - and how educators (such as me) think we learn - has always fascinated me.

In the last 25 years or so medicine has embraced evidence-based practice but we in education have been slower in following evidence.

So I liked an article I just read.

I have tried to summarize its message in the graphic above.

The article is here

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/education-why-cramming-gets-a-c/

[If you get a pop-up about Pi, I'm do apologize and think Sci Am should know better.

How I wish I could evaluate Pi. Sorrow fills the heart.]


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