Tag Archives: learning to learn

Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential

Posted on August 31, 2017 by Giorgio Bertini

Mindshift reveals how we can overcome stereotypes and preconceived ideas about what is possible for us to learn and become. At a time when we are constantly being asked to retrain and reinvent ourselves to adapt to new technologies and … Continue reading →

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Learning to Learn: towards a Relational and Transformational Model of Learning

Posted on May 13, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Health and social care systems are implementing fundamental changes to organizational structures and work practices in an effort to achieve integrated care. While some integration initiatives have produced positive outcomes, many have not. We reframe the concept of integration as … Continue reading →

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To become a Learning Machine

Posted on May 10, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

I smile whenever I look at my university diploma hanging on the wall, because everything I learned then is no longer relevant now. Does it means that we should stop wasting all this energy, time and money on university? Not … Continue reading →

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In Order to Learn

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

In Order to Learn shows how order effects are crucial in human learning, instructional design, machine learning, and both symbolic and connectionist cognitive models. Each chapter explains a different aspect of how the order in which material is presented can … Continue reading →

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How to Learn on Your Own

Posted on March 29, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

We all have cases where we want to learn something outside the school context. Maybe you need to pick up some skills for your job or hobby. Maybe you read something surprising in the newspaper and want to know the … Continue reading →

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Learned helplessness

Posted on January 25, 2016 by Giorgio Bertini

Learned helplessness is behavior typical of an organism (human or animal) that has endured repeated painful or otherwise aversive stimuli which it was unable to escape or avoid. After such experience, the organism often fails to learn escape or avoidance … Continue reading →

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Learning to Learn

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Giorgio Bertini

Many students would likely cite a desire to learn as the primary reason for committing four years to a college education. But what do we really mean when we use the word “learn”? It is something we all do from … Continue reading →