Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Learning Outside Your Comfort Zone

Learning Outside Your Comfort Zone | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

When we learn something outside the comfort zone, we attempt to acquire knowledge or skills in an area where we’re lacking. Part of the discomfort derives from learning something we anticipate will be difficult. We have no idea how to do it, or we think it requires abilities we don’t have or have in meager amounts. Moreover, poor performance or outright failure lurk as likely possibilities. In other words, it’s going to be hard and require concentration, and what we’re struggling to do, others can accomplish beautifully, seemingly without effort. Their skills, and our obvious lack of them, raise questions about our merits as a learner and maybe even our worth as a person.

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Why handwriting helps you learn - Daily Genius

Why handwriting helps you learn - Daily Genius | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Over the past decade or so, there’s been a fair amount of discussion relating to the impact that our omnipresent technology has on handwriting. Cursive handwriting is no longer a mainstay of elementary education as it once was, usurped by typing on laptops and tablets. Teachers with many subjects to teach and time in …

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Metacognitive And Learning

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Metacognitive and learning, they are techniques that help people become more successful learners. Shouldn’t this be a crucial goal of instructional design?
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How to Learn New Things as an Adult

How to Learn New Things as an Adult | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Quick, what’s the capital of Australia? No Googling! (And no points if you’re Australian—that means the information is more meaningful to you, which means you’re more likely to know it). Did you get it? Or are you sure you learned it at some point, but forgot right around the time that you forgot how the Krebs cycle works? In his new book, Learn Better, author and education researcher Ulrich Boser digs into the neuroscience of learning and shows why it’s so hard to remember facts like that one. Boser explains why some of the most common ways we try to memorize information are actually totally ineffective, and he reveals what to do instead.
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The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Big Think

The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! | Big Think | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
A paper published in 
Psychological Science in the Public Interest
 has evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions. 

The report is quite a heavy document so I’ve summarised the techniques below based on the ...
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