Grasp - Lifelong Learning from the Inside Out

As Dean of Digital Learning at MIT, Sanjay Sarma has been tasked with spearheading an initiative to help educate the world. A lofty aim, but one which has never been more achievable, thanks to the current convergence of technology, neuroscience and experimentation which has fundamentally transformed the act of learning from a craft, to a science and, ultimately, to something that we engineer into ever greater outcomes for ourselves, our children, our students, our colleagues and humanity at large. In The Learning Revolution , Sarma argues that emphasising 'learning' over ineffectually just 'educating' is essential to our future. In a networked and digitised world, our ability to learn over the course of a lifetime has never been greater. But as a result, the demands for a dynamic, adaptive and enduring approach to knowledge acquisition and application have increased - we can't just 'do our learning in school' and then settle in for the long haul of a narrowly defined, static work life. Through vivid storytelling and cutting-edge science, Sarma shows why the pace of learning is far more important than the kind of learning; why cramming is a really poor way to actually retain information; how we can prime curiosity to maximize information absorption and storage; and how our knowledge develops through stages of recognition, fluency and creative application.

Product details

• Authors: Sanjay Sarma, Sarma Sanjay, Luke Yoquinto
• Assisted by: Andrew McAleer (Editor)
• Publisher: Robinson Publishing
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 4 to 90
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781472139115
• ISBN: 978-1-4721-3911-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 232 mm x 30 mm
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