Study Skills - Podcast

Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #27

Hello everyone!

Often these updates function like blog posts, summarising issues around memory and metacognition. However, they also help me to share resources with you, and today I want to share a recently-released podcast episode.

It was recorded by West OS, part of the West Partnership (which, for those outside of Scotland, is an education collaboration across multiple local authorities).

You can find the episode below:

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West Partnership podcast (click on episode 3).

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Synopsis

On the episode, I talk about some of the desirable difficulties that form the core of effective, evidence-based study habits, as well as about learners’ beliefs and misconceptions.

There is quite a bit of discussion of metacognition, and hopefully I make it clear and accessible.

Here is a short extract:

We tend to believe that we know how  to study and we tend to be led by our own preferences. And I would just say to students to be very wary of that. You might feel like you are a particular kind of learner or this is what works best for you; actually, we don’t really have all the information.

It’s very easy to be biased and to believe things, and we pick up things off the internet, or maybe a teacher told us once ‘if I write this in purple pen it will stick in my brain’. There’s a lot of bad advice out there, and it sticks, it stays with us and we have this almost superstitious way of approaching learning rather than an evidence-based approach…

A lot of that is just distracting, so I would encourage them to focus on the core things that are really strongly evidenced.

I really hope you find the episode useful, and enjoy listening! A big thank you to West OS for inviting me on.

And if you’d like to explore study skills with me a bit further, don’t forget that I have a short after-school professional learning session on Zoom coming up. You can find more about it here.

Next week I’ll be focusing in on the memory and metacognition involved in creativity. Thanks for reading – and listening! 😎

Jonathan

Last time: Setting Targets

Website: www.jonathanfirth.co.uk

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