Here are some of the resources which inform our approach to education.
Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
by Peter Brown, Henry Roediger and Mark McDaniel
This book uses stories of successful learning to illustrate the principles of how our brains actually develop the capacity to learn and remember, using techniques like forced retrieval, spacing, interleaving, priming, etc.
To read more about these principles, check out an article on how these principles can be allied to online learning.
Thinking Fast & Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
This is a book that explains how the two systems of the brain work – and how it applies to our decision making process.
Here’s a video book review and explanation of the many of the concepts in the book.
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