{"id":85578,"date":"2023-02-14T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=85578"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:43:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:43:57","slug":"why-studying-is-so-hard-and-what-teachers-can-do-to-help-mckenna-willingham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2023\/02\/14\/why-studying-is-so-hard-and-what-teachers-can-do-to-help-mckenna-willingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Studying Is So Hard, and What Teachers Can Do to Help [McKenna &#038; Willingham]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/why-studying-is-so-hard-and-what-teachers-can-do-to-help\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Why Studying Is So Hard, and What Teachers Can Do to Help<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edutopia.org by\u00a0Laura McKenna<br \/>\n<em>Beginning in the upper elementary grades, research-backed study skills should be woven into the curriculum, argues psychology professor Daniel Willingham in a new book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The additional context for Willingham\u2019s new book is that students often don\u2019t know the best methods to study for tests, master complex texts, or take productive notes, and it\u2019s difficult to explain to them\u00a0why\u00a0they should take a different tack. In the book, Willingham debunks popular myths about the best study strategies, explains why they don\u2019t work, and recommends effective strategies that are based on the latest research in cognitive science.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I recently spoke to him about why listening to lectures isn\u2019t like watching a movie, how our self-monitoring of learning is often flawed and self-serving, and when it\u2019s too late to start teaching students good study skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Studying Is So Hard, and What Teachers Can Do to Help &#8212; from edutopia.org by\u00a0Laura McKenna Beginning in the upper elementary grades, research-backed study skills should be woven into the curriculum, argues psychology professor Daniel Willingham in a new book. Excerpt: The additional context for Willingham\u2019s new book is that students often don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[343,119,46,102,838,223,78,196,101,217,393,66,89,50,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-theories","category-memory","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-psychology","category-research","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85580,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85578\/revisions\/85580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}