Links tagged with “learning”
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Language Transfer
Free audio courses for several languages. “Memorization is the most inefficient way of remembering.” (via Reddit somewhere)
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The Goldlist Method in a Nutshell by Lýdia Machová (PDF)
For learning foreign language vocabulary. Sounds like magic.
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Mediocratopia: 10
Venkatesh Rao: “Aptitude is the rate at which you level up, by changing the nature of the problem you’re solving (and therefore how you measure ‘improvement’).”
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Compound interest applied to learning
Yes, this makes sense. Plus I often think that people who get, or take, an opportunity early on that gives them time to explore their field end up exponentially further ahead than peers.
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Learnable Programming
Beautifully done and lovely essay on programming languages, programming environments and how programming should be taught. “Typing in the code to draw a static shape is not programming! It’s merely a very cumbersome form of illustration.” (via many tweets)
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Anki - friendly, intelligent flashcards
Free software for learning stuff off flashcards.
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Seth’s Blog: Textbook rant
Why textbooks prescribed for college courses are a bad thing: “They are expensive … They don’t make change … They don’t sell the topic … They are incredibly impractical.” (via Preoccupations)
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The Online Photographer: The Leica as Teacher
I like this idea. Despite the follow-up explaining why only a Leica will do, I’ve just bought a decent second hand 50mm lens for my old Pentax K1000 and may give this a go. (via Infovore)
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Wikibooks
How have I not seen this before? “Wikibooks is a Wikimedia community for creating a free library of educational textbooks that anyone can edit.” Nice.
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Home Page | Flat World Knowledge
Creative Commons licensed textbooks, written by “experts” and peer-reviewed, which are then free to read online (or pay for a printable version). Little available right now, but promising. (via Preoccupations)
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Snarkmarket: A Snarkmarket Book Project: The New Liberal Arts
Writing a book about “the new liberal arts” and asking “what are they?” Also, the most pointless use of video ever. (via Kottke)
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Futurelab - Innovation in education
“Transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice.” Interesting looking place, based in Bristol.
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YouVersion | A Revolutionary Online Bible Reader
All signed-up readers can contribute notes about passages from many different versions of the Bible. Quite complex but usable interface. (via TUAW)
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Amazon.co.uk: An Incomplete Education: 3,684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn’t: Judy Jones, William Wilson: Books
I’m interested in attempts to summarise everything one needs to know and this sounds vaguely promising.
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Cool Tool: Best home chemistry lab book
Sounds like fun! In theory. In reality I never used the chemistry set I had as a kid much, so maybe not.
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David Weiss: Metacognitive Miscalibration
Thinking things are easy when you don’t know enough to tell. “There’s a great difference between 50 years of experience and 1 years worth of experience repeated 50 times.” (via Daring Fireball)
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Kevin Kelly — The Technium — The Forever Book
Not just a library of all essential knowledge about human civilisation, but it would contain instructions for how to recreate a version of itself. From 2006.
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Kevin Kelly — Help Wanted — The world’s best how-to?
“What are the best how-to books, videos, software, websites that you’ve ever seen?” From 2004.
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The Lost Tools of Learning
Dorothy L. Sayers suggested reviving the Trivium — grammar, rhetoric and dialectic — as children’s education. Learning how to learn, rather than learning subjects.
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How to Learn Math and Physics
Recommendations of books to take you through the main topics of physics and maths. Oh for much, much more time.
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How to Read a Book (PDF)
Sounds like good advice. I mostly read for pleasure at the moment, rather than for just learning stuff, but this’ll be handy one day…
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Colleges and Universities - Education and Schools - Engineering - Technology - Science - New York Times
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering sounds different in a good way. “Learning the skill of how to learn is more important than trying to fill every possible cup of knowledge in every possible discipline.” (via Blech)
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School of Everything
Currently a way to list and find teachers of many subjects. More features planned for the future. (via Blackbeltjones on Iain Tait)
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Iain tait | crackunit.com » Blog Archive » Courses I’d Love to Do
What would you like to learn? (via Russell Davies)
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Association for Psychological Science: ‘To be or, or … um … line!’
Actors shouldn’t learn lines by rote, “but feel their character’s intention in reaction to what the other actors do, causing their lines to come spontaneously and naturally”. (via Boing Boing)