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It's not wrong, it just doesn't cover much breadth of learning nor how humans learn over time. Also it doesn't consider different learning styles. It's seeing l

It's not wrong, it just doesn't cover much breadth of learning nor how humans learn over time. Also it doesn't consider different learning styles. It's seeing learning as just chunks of conceptual information where that is reducing the problem too far. It's not just some simple "move from short term memory -> long term memory" to make more room. If it was, we would all optimize for that outcome. People would have written books about learning that glorified this concept. Teachers would be teaching it in schools to have students score better on tests. Learning is much more a lifelong mindset akin to the famous Socrates quote of "I know that I know nothing". Or even the idea that we change through the books we read / things we learn, but don't remember much of what we did. So I don't agree it is all about remembering because like GI Joe said, knowing is half the battle.

p-christ 4y ago
Learning styles are basically a myth actually. It's been shown we all learn in roughly the same way. Check out some of the research mentioned here https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learning-styles https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learni... > People would have written books about learning that glorified this concept. There are lots of books on it actually. Make It Stick is my favourite book on this, you should try it!
- thenerdhead 4y ago
  > Learning styles are basically a myth actually. You have a preference of how you learn, no? It's not a myth if there's perennial truth to it. > There are lots of books on it actually. Make It Stick is my favourite book on this, you should try it! I've read many titles including this one. Not everything is going to be "learned" with spaced repetition, interweaving, retrieval, and varied practice. These are great modern methods to learn effectively for the short-term, but are not by any means concepts you're going continue practicing past your formal education. (i.e. Anki flashcards for everything you want to learn)
  - p-christ 4y ago
    > You have a preference of how you learn, no? It's not a myth if there's perennial truth to it. I might have an emotional preference but there's no good evidence that different people learn better in very different ways
    - cocacola1 4y ago
      Perhaps, but if you have a preference for one way of learning as opposed to another, you're probably more likely to stick with that preference and learn through keeping up the habit of learning via that preference. If it's a method you don't enjoy, you'll probably just drop that topic and not learn it – not necessarily because the topic itself was the issue, but how you went about learning it.

p-christ 4y ago

Learning styles are basically a myth actually. It's been shown we all learn in roughly the same way. Check out some of the research mentioned here https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learning-styles https://www.techlearning.com/news/busting-the-myth-of-learni... > People would have written books about learning that glorified this concept. There are lots of books on it actually. Make It Stick is my favourite book on this, you should try it!

thenerdhead 4y ago
> Learning styles are basically a myth actually. You have a preference of how you learn, no? It's not a myth if there's perennial truth to it. > There are lots of books on it actually. Make It Stick is my favourite book on this, you should try it! I've read many titles including this one. Not everything is going to be "learned" with spaced repetition, interweaving, retrieval, and varied practice. These are great modern methods to learn effectively for the short-term, but are not by any means concepts you're going continue practicing past your formal education. (i.e. Anki flashcards for everything you want to learn)
- p-christ 4y ago
  > You have a preference of how you learn, no? It's not a myth if there's perennial truth to it. I might have an emotional preference but there's no good evidence that different people learn better in very different ways
  - cocacola1 4y ago
    Perhaps, but if you have a preference for one way of learning as opposed to another, you're probably more likely to stick with that preference and learn through keeping up the habit of learning via that preference. If it's a method you don't enjoy, you'll probably just drop that topic and not learn it – not necessarily because the topic itself was the issue, but how you went about learning it.