Comments on: Learning by doing something else http://foolswisdom.com/learning-by-doing-something-else/ A fool and his blog are soon parted. Sun, 18 Dec 2011 21:05:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Melissa Schilling http://foolswisdom.com/learning-by-doing-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-212787 Melissa Schilling Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:33:53 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1644#comment-212787 You might find this article interesting -- it finds empirical evidence for learning by doing something else, and provides some theoretical rationale: http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mschilli/learning%20mgmt%20sci.pdf -Melissa You might find this article interesting — it finds empirical evidence for learning by doing something else, and provides some theoretical rationale:

http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~mschilli/learning%20mgmt%20sci.pdf

-Melissa

]]> By: Paul Left http://foolswisdom.com/learning-by-doing-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-212314 Paul Left Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:35:58 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1644#comment-212314 Interesting idea - also, another great way of learning something is by doing something very different: sleeping. There's a fascinating article on this in relation to birds: http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1507 As the article points out, there is evidence to suggest this is very important to human learning as well. Paul Interesting idea – also, another great way of learning something is by doing something very different: sleeping. There’s a fascinating article on this in relation to birds:

http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1507

As the article points out, there is evidence to suggest this is very important to human learning as well.

Paul

]]> By: Ryan http://foolswisdom.com/learning-by-doing-something-else/comment-page-1/#comment-212169 Ryan Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:44:17 +0000 http://foolswisdom.com/?p=1644#comment-212169 I was just thinking about this yesterday. Sometimes, the best way to learn the ins and outs of a subject is to get a fresh perspective by applying an apparently unrelated subject to it. You get to learn the new subject and rediscover the old in a new light. So I'm trying to relate wine to new areas of study for me like the Free Culture Movement, Remodernist Film, Punk Music, and more. And I'm taking requests (so far people have asked for French Military Defeats and the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde :D). I was just thinking about this yesterday. Sometimes, the best way to learn the ins and outs of a subject is to get a fresh perspective by applying an apparently unrelated subject to it. You get to learn the new subject and rediscover the old in a new light.

So I’m trying to relate wine to new areas of study for me like the Free Culture Movement, Remodernist Film, Punk Music, and more. And I’m taking requests (so far people have asked for French Military Defeats and the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde :D ).

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