Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
Language: English
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2021
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- Title
- Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn
- Author
- Sarma, Sanjay
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 110197415X
- ISBN 13
- 9781101974155
In this groundbreaking look at the science of learning, Sanjay Sarma, head of Open Learning at MIT, shows how we can harness this knowledge to discover our true potential. Drawing from his own experience as an educator as well as the work of researchers and innovators at MIT and beyond, in Grasp, Sarma explores the history of modern education, tracing the way in which traditional classroom methods--lecture, homework, test, repeat--became the norm and showing why things needs to change.
The book takes readers across multiple frontiers, from fundamental neuroscience to cognitive psychology and beyond, as it considers the future of learning. It introduces scientists who study forgetting, exposing it not as a simple failure of memory but as a critical weapon in our learning arsenal. It examines the role curiosity plays in promoting a state of "readiness to learn" in the brain (and its troublesome twin, "unreadiness to learn"). And it reveals how such ideas are being put into practice in the real world, such as at unorthodox new programs like Ad Astra, located on the SpaceX campus.
Along the way, Grasp debunks long-held views such as the noxious idea of "learning styles," equipping readers with practical tools for absorbing and retaining information across a lifetime of learning.
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About the Author
Luke Yoquinto is a science writer who covers learning and education, as well as aging and demographic change, in his role as a researcher at the MIT AgeLab. His work can be found in publications such as The Washington Post, Slate, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. He is a graduate of Boston University's science journalism program.
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