Welcome back to Memory and Metacognition Updates
Jonathan Firth's Memory & Metacognition Updates #85
How was your break? I hope you had a restful and enjoyable time, and managed to do all that you had hoped and planned. The time always seems to go by so quickly!😅
In case you missed it, I recently shared news of my new book, Metacognition and Study Skills: A Guide for Teachers. It follows the co-authored What Teachers Need to Know About Memory from 2023. Here are links to more info on both books:
I hope you enjoy reading them, and if so, please do consider leaving a review!
Looking ahead
Looking ahead, I will be sharing several posts about some key fundamentals of applying cognitive science to learning in the coming weeks. I’m going to kick off with a post about how learning is fundamentally not intuitive.
Some other things that I’ll be sharing with you in over the coming weeks include:
The difference between learning and memory
Myths about creativity
How remembering can (sometimes) cause forgetting
What research on chess players tells us about working memory
By the way, if you have a question or a topic you’d particularly like me to discuss, or indeed something from a previous update that you’d like me to return to, please do let me know!
Finally, a recent commentary piece of mine that appeared in The Conversation this week:
Licking an ice lolly at school might make a good memory – but this isn’t the secret to learning science (free to access)
All the best for now, and if you are just starting out a new term/semester, good luck!
Jonathan
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