How Learning Works

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1. sagefySep 2018
   Hattie's effect size list is a good place to start if you're interested in what teaching practices leads to better learning results: https://visible-learning.org/hattie-ranking-influences-effec...

   I few others I'd recommend:

   - How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles by Ambrose, Bridges, DiPietro, Lovett, & Norman

   - How People Learn by Bransford, Brown, Cocking, & Pellegrino

   - Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley

   - Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Ericsson and Pool

   Discloser: I wrote https://sgef.cc/tldrideas and am building Sagefy, a learning platform

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2. itamarstJun 2018
   How Learning Works: https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri...

   I also enjoyed https://www.amazon.com/Start-Story-Teaching-Journals-Collect...

   (Caveat: not a professor, but that's the target audience for both books.)

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3. pjmorrisJun 2018
   I once attended a CS education seminar. Part of the required reading was 'How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching', Ambrose, et al. Out of the flood of materials acbart refers to, I'd suggest it as a starting point and a useful addition to the toolkit.
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4. itamarstApr 2018
   Learning is a skill you can get better at, so it's just a dependency. Learning is not an unchangeable talent. Some books that will help you learn better:

   * Power of Intuition, about naturalistic decision making - https://www.amazon.com/Power-Intuition-Feelings-Better-Decis...

   * How Learning Works - https://www.amazon.com/How-Learning-Works-Research-Based-Pri... (my review: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/19/how-learning-works/)

   No doubt others can recommend more books.

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5. itamarstApr 2017
   I'd suggest learning more about how to learn better, so that you can learn more on the job. Then you can spend your weekend doing something other than coding. Some useful books:

   "How Learning Works" (I review it here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/19/how-learning-works/)

   "Peak" https://www.amazon.com/Peak-Secrets-New-Science-Expertise/dp...

   Gar Klein's books, in particular "The Power of Intuition" https://www.amazon.com/Power-Intuition-Feelings-Better-Decis...

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6. itamarstDec 2016
   The interesting thing about this model is that it maps pretty directly to current research on learning.

   In this context, experiential understanding (when you're an expert) is the point where you start suffering from Expert Blind Spot.

   And there's a bunch of research that suggests the best teachers (by default) are the people at middle point, intellectual understanding, precisely because the understanding is less automatic and integrated.

   The book "How Learning Works" (which I review at https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/03/19/how-learning-works/) talks about this at length.

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