Taking notes during class? Topic-focused study? A consistent learning environment? All are exactly opposite the best strategies for learning. Really, I recently had the good fortune to interview Robert Bjork, director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab, distinguished professor of psychology, and massively renowned expert on packing things in your brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out.
We develop new technologies that, in the spirit
of the blocks and fingerpaint of kindergarten,
expand the range of what people can design,
create, and learn.