study habits

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Wikipedia’s Second Life as Study Infrastructure

Wikipedia went from unreliable to indispensable in academic work. What changed, and how students should actually use it to learn rather than…

• 6 min read
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What Working Memory Research Actually Predicts for Students

The Baddeley model, the failure of brain-training transfer, and what working memory research really implies for how a student should arrange their…

• 6 min read
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Prompting Patterns That Help Students Learn vs. Ones That Substitute

Socratic chains, explain-first-ask-second, worked-example critique: prompt patterns that force retrieval instead of outsourcing a student's thinking.

• 5 min read
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Judgments of Learning: Why You Are a Poor Judge of What You Know

Rereading feels like mastery because fluency fools the brain, and students who trust that feeling consistently underestimate what they have not learned

• 5 min read