Process the Path to Greater Skill and Knowledge
Steve Nash
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Recently I was perusing my daily feed on my Firefox browser when I stumbled across an article written by Barbara Oakley, who is an engineering professor at Oakland University in Michigan. She is the author of a fascinating book called A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra). In her writing Oakley tells the story of how as an adult she became a math and science expert and eventually an engineering professor in a very non-traditional way.
Oakley excelled at foreign language study in high school but avoided math and science because she believed she wasn't good at either of them. She enlisted in the Army after high school and because of her affinity for learning languages she was given language training and became fluent and an expert in Russian. After the Army she furthered her education using funds available to her from the GI Bill. Early in her college years she took a remedial math course and began to realize that deep learning in math and eventually science was very similar to learning a new language. Knowledge and expertise came through assembling gradual building blocks of information and repeated practice. Math and science skill and knowledge came through building blocks of process and repetition practice, just like learning a foreign language.
Today Oakley not only teaches engineering, but has deep knowledge about how we learn. As part of her mission to teach students not only what to learn, but how to learn more effectively she has studied what the field of neuroscience now knows about what happens in our brains as we learn. She has deep insights into how to learn more effectively and develop skills and knowledge that can apply to us in our work lives as well as for students.
I heartily recommend reading her book A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), which I think will prove helpful for anyone wanting to know more about the most effective way to obtain more skills and deeper knowledge.
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