# Daniel Willingham

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Why Students Don't Like School | A Conversation with Daniel Willingham

Why do students find learning so difficult? According to cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham, it's because the human mind isn't designed for thinking. Instead, our brains are designed to avoid thinking whenever possible by relying on memory, routines, and past experience. And yet, true learnin…

S5E3: Outsmart Your Brain - Expert Tips for Learning with Dr. Daniel Willingham

Kate Winn is joined by cognitive psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Daniel Willingham to discuss Outsmart Your Brain and the science of learning. From reading comprehension and background knowledge to note-taking, studying, procrastination, sleep, test anxiety, and focus, this episode is packe…

How can you help your child develop a love of reading?

Daniel Willingham, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia and author of Raising Kids Who Read.

Episode 129: Is This Really the End of Reading?

Are we reading less—or is the way we read changing? Inspired by a provocative recent article in The Atlantic, Stacy, Donell, and Lindsay take on some big questions about reading, attention, and what it means to be a reader today. Their conversation explores what may be changing, what may be at stak…

You 2.0: Remember More, Forget Less

It happens to the best of us — we blank on someone's name, or forget an important meeting, or bomb a test we thought we'd ace. In this week's installment of our You 2.0 series, we talk to cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham about the mysteries of memory: how it works, why it fails us, and how to …

Remember More, Forget Less

It happens to the best of us — we blank on someone's name, or forget an important meeting, or bomb a test we thought we'd ace.   Today on the show, we talk to cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham about the mysteries of memory: How it works, why it fails us, and how to build memories that stick. It…

Rediscovering Knowledge as the Key to Reading with Daniel Willingham: The Why

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The HOW: Building Knowledge That Makes Readers Stronger | Daniel Willingham

Ep.174 The How: Building Knowledge That Makes Readers Stronger (with Daniel Willingham) Hey, no BS besties. Decoding gets kids in the door, but it doesn't carry them through a text. Comprehension depends on what readers already know about the world, and that knowledge doesn't build itself. In this …

Helping Students Manage the Incentives that Undermine Responsible AI Use

What happens when AI makes it easier to get the right answer, but easier to skip the learning? Experts in education and cognitive psychology explore a challenge deeper than AI itself: the incentives that shape how students use it. When schools reward grades, polished outputs, and task completion ov…

685: David Epstein - The Freedom Trap, Narrative Values, General Magic, The Nobel Prize Winner Who Simplified Everything, Wearing the Same T

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