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Conditions and Techniques for Effective Learning
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Excerpt from: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning, Brown, Roediger, and McDaniel, Chapter 8, 2014
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Benedict Carey, "Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits," New York Times, 9/7/2010
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Oliver Sacks. "This Year, Change Your Mind," New York Times, 12/31/2010
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Gretchen Reynolds. "Phys-Ed: Brains and Brawn", New York Times, January 19, 2011
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"Can You Build a Better Brain?" Newsweek, January 2011
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Paul Tough. "What if the Secret to Success is Failure?" New York Times, 09/18/2011
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Roni Caryn Rabin. "Video Games and the Depressed Teenager." New York Times, 01/18/2011
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"Playing sounds to the sleeping aids memory," New York Times, 11/24/2009
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Four Student's Misconceptions About Learning
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"How Test Makes Us Smarter," H. Roediger III, New York Times, 11/24/2009
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Counterintuitive Findings on What Improves Long-Term Learning
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"Want to Ace that Test? Get the Right Kind of Sleep" Benedict Carey, New York Times, 10/16/2014 (Re: recent research indicating that sleep is a different type of learning.)
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"The Role of Parents and Teachers in the Development of Gender-Related Math Attitudes," Gunderson and Levine, 2012. This article co-authored by a Lab parent is a must read; the implications, re: adult involvement in children's learning, may be relevant for a wide variety of academic subjects and educational situations.
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Rob Lazebnik, "The Adults we Failed to Raise: How to teach new grads the skills you kept from them," Wall Street Journal, 7/25/2015 |
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David Brooks, Building Attention Span, New York Times, 7/10/2015
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Jane E. Brody, "Screens separate the obsessed from life: as children plug in, it is up to parents not to tune out a potential problem," New York Times, 7/7/2015
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Christine Porath, No Time to be Nice: we’re rude at work, and it’s hurting profits, health, and happiness, New York Times, 6/21/2015
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Richard Asa, "Embracing Limbo/Recovering from setbacks: after a setback, spending time in the neutral zone can offer insight on past, perspective on future," Roanoke Times, 7/30/2015
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"How Exercise May Help the Memory Grow Stronger," New York Times, 02/21/2018
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"Cellphones in Classrooms Contribute to Failing Grades: Study," Medscape, 07/27/2018
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"Smartphones Hijack Cognitive Capacity," Medscape, 07/14/2017
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Managing and Avoiding Stress
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Following are links to articles that summarize recent research on neurology, and particularly the impact of stress (worry, anxiety, over-scheduling, lack of sleep) on the brain. Note especially the summaries of recent research by U-Chicago professor Sian Beilock on "choking." Her book, Choke, explains the neuroscience of choking, as experienced by musicians, athletes, students, etc., and presents some proven remedies for those who suffer from this phenomenon. Some of the research for her book was done at U-High.
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Carlin Flora. "Science Reveals How Not to Choke Under Pressure." Discovery Magazine (the Brain Issue), 12/06/2010
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Williams Harms. "Psychologist Shows Why We "Choke" Under Pressure -- and How to Avoid It." UChicago News, 09/21/2010
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Natalie Angier. "Brain is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop," New York Times, 08/18/2009
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Gabrielle Glaser, "Illuminating Suicide's Shadows," New York Times, 08/21/2016
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Richard A. Friedman, "The Big Myth About Teenage Anxiety," New York Times, 09/07/2018
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"Worried About Risky Teenage Behavior? Make School Tougher," New York Times, 04/30/2018
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"Stop Checking Email So Often," New York Times, 01/09/2015
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Just for Fun:
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Jeff Ruby, "The Lab Mystique." Chicago Magazine, November, 2009
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The Social and Emotional Health of Adolescents:
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The chapters below are from the book Being Adolescent, by well-known researcher and former U-Chicago colleague Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who also pioneered the study of "Flow."
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Ch. 10, "Coping with Classes"
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Ch. 11, "Conflict and Chaos in Daily Life"
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Ch. 12, "Converting Challenges to Enjoyment: The Flow Experience"
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Ch. 13, "The Growth of Complexity: Shaping Meaningful Lives"
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Clifford Levy. "My Family's Experiment in Extreme Schooling." New York Times, 09/18/2011
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KJ Della'Antonia, "The Right Way to Bribe Kids to Read," New York Times, 07/24/2016
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"Why Fathers Really Matter," New York Times, 09/09/2012
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"Why Facebook is After Your Kids," New York Times, 10/16/2011
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"The Purpose-Driven Life of the Subconscious Brain," New York Times, 08/01/2007
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"The Myth About Boys," Time, 07/26/2007
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"Saving the World in Study Hall," New York Times, 05/11/2008
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"Raising Successful Children," New York Times, 08/04/2012
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"Parents Set the Tone," Chicago Tribune, 11/21/2009
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"Notes from a Dragon Mom," New York Times, 10/15/2011
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"Spot on the Popularity Scale Speaks to the Future -- the Middle has its Rewards," New York Times, 09/02/2008
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"How Children Succeed," New York Times, 08/26/2012
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"It's Good to be the Top Banana," WSJ, 06/08/2012
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"Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?" New York Times, 04/14/2011
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"How Spoiled are our Children?" New York Times, 08/13/2012
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"Google Course Asks Employees to Take a Deep Breath," New York Times, 04/29/2012
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"Good Teen Pals = Good Politics," Chicago Tribune, 01/02/2011
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"What Science Says About Marijuana." (Part of a 6-part series in the New York Times, 07/30/2014)
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"Dealing with Digital Cruelty." S. Rosenbloom, New York Times, 08/24/2014
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"Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation." J.M. Twenge, The Atlantic, September, 2017
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"The Role of Parents and Teachers in the Development of Gender-Related Math Attitudes," Gunderson and Levine, 2012. This article co-authored by a Lab parent is a must read; the implications, re: adult involvement in children's learning, may be relevant for a wide variety of academic subjects and educational situations.
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Rob Lazebnik, "The Adults we Failed to Raise: How to teach new grads the skills you kept from them," Wall Street Journal, 7/25/2015
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"How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood: Today's "snowplow parents" keep their children's futures obstacle-free, even when it means crossing ethical and legal boundaries," New York Times, 3/16/2019
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