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15 7 How Should I Adjust My Teaching for Different Types of Learners? Styles and Abilities Cognitive Styles Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Abilities and Multiple Intelligences Summary Implications for the Classroom Notes Further Reading Discussion Questions Notes
16 8 How Can I Help Slow Learners? What Makes People Intelligent? How Beliefs About Intelligence Matter Summary Implications for the Classroom Notes Further Reading Discussion Questions Notes
17 9 How Can I Know Whether New Technology Will Improve Student Learning? This Changes Everything, 1.0: Your Brain on Tech This Changes Everything, 2.0: Your Classroom on Tech This Changes More Than I Expected Tech Changes the Ecosystem Why Are They So Frantic About Their Phones? Summary Implications for the Classroom Notes Further Reading Discussion Questions Notes
18 10 What About My Mind? Teaching as a Cognitive Skill The Importance of Deliberate Practice A Method for Getting and Giving Feedback Consciously Trying to Improve: Self-Management Summary Implications Notes Further Reading Discussion Questions Notes
19 Conclusion Note
20 Glossary
21 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 2TABLE 2.1: A demonstration that, when it comes to knowledge, the rich get ric...TABLE 2.2: Quotations from great thinkers denigrating the importance of factu...
2 Chapter 3TABLE 3.1: The odds, out of 10 tosses, of tossing a successively greater numb...TABLE 3.2: Common mnemonic methods.
3 Chapter 7TABLE 7.1: Some of the many distinctions among cognitive styles that have bee...TABLE 7.2: Gardner's eight intelligences.
4 Chapter 8TABLE 8.1: This table shows different sibling relationships and the genetic a...TABLE 8.2: Percentage of 15-year-olds who took the OECD test who showed a gro...
5 ConclusionTABLE C.1: The principles of the mind discussed in this book, along with the ...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1FIGURE 1.1: Kanye West is one the most successful and respected songwriters ...FIGURE 1.2: Hollywood robots (left), like humans, can move in complex enviro...FIGURE 1.3: Your memory system operates so quickly and effortlessly that you...FIGURE 1.4: “Thinking outside the box” for a mundane task like selecting bre...FIGURE 1.5: Why are many people fascinated by problems like the one shown on...FIGURE 1.6: A difficult-to-understand figure that will bore most people unle...FIGURE 1.7: Just about the simplest model of the mind possible.FIGURE 1.8: The figure depicts a playing board with three pegs. There are th...FIGURE 1.9: A depiction of your mind when you're working
