Learning how to learn

From The lesson you never got taught in school: How to learn! by Neurobonkers

Quite interesting and useful. I have commented elsewhere that for all the talk about critical thinking, our schools don't seem to focus much on fostering that capability.

This research seems to indicate that our teachers likewise don't pay much attention to which modes of learning are most effective. The researchers identify ten modes of learning 1) Elaborative Interrogation, 2)Self-Explanation, 3) Summarization, 4) Highlighting, 5) The Keyword Mnemonic, 6) Imagery Use for Text Learning, 7) Rereading, 8) Practice Testing, 9) Distributed Practice, and 10) Interleaved Practice. Here is the relative assessed effectiveness of each technique.



Which methods were you taught to use, and which are being used in your children's schools today? And what on earth do they teach to education majors if they don't teach useful knowledge like this?