Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
By: Barbara Oakley
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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1. Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
By: Daniel T. Willingham
4.04
Format: 180 pages, Hardcover
Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. W… read more
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2. Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
By: Peter C. Brown , Henry L. Roediger III , Mark A. McDaniel
4.30
Format: None pages, Hardcover
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we … read more
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3. Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign Language
By: Richard M. Roberts , None
2.00
Format: 161 pages, Hardcover
Adults who want to learn a foreign language are often discouraged because they believe they cannot … read more
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4. Writing to Learn: How to Write--And Think--Clearly about Any Subject at All
By: William Zinsser
3.78
Format: 438 pages, Paperback
This is an essential book for everyone who wants to write clearly about any subject and use writing… read more
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5. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
By: Josh Waitzkin
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Josh Waitzkin knows what it means to be at the top of his game. A public figure since winning his f… read more
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6. Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning
By: James M. Lang
4.24
Format: 128 pages, ebook
Employ cognitive theory in the classroom every day Research into how we learn has opened the door f… read more
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7. When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic shifts in school behaviour
By: Paul Dix
4.31
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
You can buy in the best behaviour tracking software, introduce 24/7 detentions or scream 'NO EXCUSE… read more
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8. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
By: Charan Ranganath
3.95
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more
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9. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
By: Cal Newport
3.73
Format: 244 pages, Hardcover
Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more
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"What are we really doing here?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
10. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
By: Salman Khan
3.74
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more
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11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI
By: Ethan Mollick
4.13
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more
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12. Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn
By: Barbara Oakley
4.20
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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13. Running the Room: The Teacher's Guide to Behaviour
By: Tom Bennett
4.27
Format: 445 pages, Kindle Edition
Good behaviour is the beginning of great learning. All children deserve classrooms that are calm, s… read more
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14. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
15. Building Thinking Classrooms in Mathematics, Grades K-12: 14 Teaching Practices for Enhancing Learning (Corwin Mathematics Series)
By: Peter Liljedahl
4.57
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Sparked by observing teachers struggle to implement rich mathematics tasks to engage students in de… read more
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16. The Writing Revolution: A Guide to Advancing Thinking Through Writing in All Subjects and Grades
By: Judith C. Hochman
4.39
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Why you need a writing revolution in your classroom and how to lead it The Writing Revolution (TWR… read more
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17. Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
By: Pooja K. Agarwal
4.28
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Unleash powerful teaching and the science of learning in your classroom Powerful Unleash the Scien… read more
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"When we think about learning, we typically focus on getting information into students’ heads. What if, instead, we focus on getting information out of students’ heads?"-Pooja K. Agarwal, Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning
18. Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy
By: Daniel T. Willingham
3.99
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this revolutionary, comprehensive, and accessible guide on how the brain learns, discover how to… read more
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19. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
By: Ray Kurzweil
3.93
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more
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20. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction
By: Gholdy Muhammad
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more
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21. Visuaalne lihtsustamine
By: Kati Orav
4.53
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
See raamat on sündinud unistusest. Unistusest sellest, et kõik inimesed maailmas oskavad ja julgeva… read more
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