Learning

Questions

1. When do you think we first start learning?
2. What is the best learning experience you’ve had?
3. What kinds or methods of learning do you like best?
4. When you learn new things, is there always a steep learning curve?
5. What tips on learning would you give to other people?
6. What good and bad experiences have you had learning English?
7. ‘Thought without learning is perilous.’ Do you agree?
8. Do you think we ever stop learning? Are we ever too old to start learning something new?

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Vocabulary

3 things I learned while my plane crashed

TED | Ric Elias

Ric Elias had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. What went through his mind as the doomed plane went down? At TED, he tells his story publicly for

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the first time.

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Category: Psychology

Keywords: Accidents | Learning | Life | Planes

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4 reasons to learn a new language

TED | John McWhorter

English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four

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alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue.

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Category: Education & Language

Keywords: English learning | Language | Learning

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Can Old Dogs Learn New Tricks?

SciShow

They say that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks — but that saying might not be as trustworthy as you’d think.
Hosted by: Olivia Gordon

Category: Nature & Environment

Keywords: Age | Dogs | Learning | Tricks

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How Machines Learn

CGP Grey

How do all the algorithms around us learn to do their jobs?

Category: Technology

Keywords: Learning | Machine learning

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The Backwards Brain Bicycle

Smarter Every Day

How long did it take you to learn how to ride a bicycle? How long do you think it would take you to un-learn how to ride a bicycle? Is it true that you can never forget how to ride a bicycle? How do these biases in your brain

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actually work? With the help of a group of welders, engineer Destin Sandlin created an experiment using a “backwards” bicycle to explore these very questions.

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Category: Psychology | Science

Keywords: Bicycles | Brain | Learning

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What adults can learn from kids

TED | Adora Svitak

Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs “childish” thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids’ big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups’ willingness to

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learn from children as much as to teach.

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Category: Education & Language

Keywords: Children | Generation gap | Learning | Parenting

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What fear can teach us

TED | Karen Thompson Walker

Imagine you’re a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates — but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose?

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In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

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Category: Psychology

Keywords: Fear | Imagination | Learning