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Eight Tips To Understand and Remember What You Read — Especially As You Read Nonfiction

January 16, 2018 by Dr. Bill Klemm

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Despite Insta­gram, YouTube, Face­book, Twit­ter, and tele­vi­sion, (or per­haps pre­cise­ly because of all of them) tra­di­tion­al read­ing is still an impor­tant skill. Whether it is mag­a­zines, pro­fes­sion­al man­u­als or fas­ci­nat­ing books, peo­ple still need to read, now and in years ahead. And much of it is non­fic­tion mate­r­i­al, where it’s impor­tant to real­ly under­stand and then remem­ber what you are reading.

An unfor­tu­nate rea­son why many peo­ple don’t read much these days is that they don’t read well. Read­ing, for them, is slow, hard work and they don’t remem­ber as much as they should. They often have to read some­thing sev­er­al times before they under­stand and remem­ber what they read.

Why? You would think that every­one learns how to read well at school. Schools do try, but I work with mid­dle-school teach­ers and they tell me that many stu­dents are 2–3 years behind grade lev­el in read­ing pro­fi­cien­cy. Some of the blame can be placed on fads for teach­ing read­ing, such as phon­ics and “whole lan­guage,” which some­times are pro­mot­ed in shal­low ways that don’t respect the need for both approach­es. And much of the blame can be laid at the feet of par­ents who set poor exam­ples and, of course, on the young­sters who are too dis­tract­ed by social media and tele­vi­sion to learn how to read well.

Now the good news. For any­one who missed out on good read­ing skills, it is not too late to improve now. I sum­ma­rize below what I think it takes to read with good speed and com­pre­hen­sion. [Read more…] about Eight Tips To Under­stand and Remem­ber What You Read — Espe­cial­ly As You Read Nonfiction

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: attention-span, Bill-Klemm, brain-tips, comprehension, consolidation, distractions, Internet, knowledge, learn, long-term-memory, memorization, multi-tasking, neuroscience, phonics, reading, reading-proficiency, rehearse, remember, schools, self-quiz, skim, teach, television, think, tips, Twitter, whole-language, Working-memory

Brain teaser to test your multi-tasking skills and improve concentration

January 29, 2016 by Dr. Pascale Michelon


How often do you review and com­ment on a doc­u­ment while talk­ing on the phone with a col­league about an unre­lat­ed mat­ter? Or think about your prob­lems at work while help­ing your child with his home­work? [Read more…] about Brain teas­er to test your mul­ti-task­ing skills and improve concentration

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Brain teaser to test your attentional focus and multi-tasking abilities

September 19, 2014 by Dr. Pascale Michelon


How often do you review and com­ment on a doc­u­ment while talk­ing on the phone with a col­league about an unre­lat­ed mat­ter? Or think about your prob­lems at work while help­ing your child with his home­work? [Read more…] about Brain teas­er to test your atten­tion­al focus and mul­ti-task­ing abilities

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How to improve memory skills and remember what you read: Beyond phonics and “whole language”

July 17, 2014 by Dr. Bill Klemm

Horizontal Stacked BooksDespite the increas­ing visu­al media we are increas­ing­ly exposed to, read­ing is still an impor­tant skill. Whether it is school text­books, online news­pa­pers or reg­u­lar books, peo­ple still read, though not as much as they used to. One rea­son that many peo­ple don’t read much is that they don’t read well. For them, [Read more…] about How to improve mem­o­ry skills and remem­ber what you read: Beyond phon­ics and “whole language”

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Filed Under: Education & Lifelong Learning Tagged With: comprehension, consolidation, improve memory skills, improve-memory, Internet, long-term-memory, memorization, multi-tasking, phonics, reading, reading-proficiency, remember, television, Twitter, whole-language, Working-memory

Brain Teasers and Games, for Kids and Adults

January 16, 2012 by SharpBrains

In case you missed them, here you have a few recent brain teasers and games. t is always good to stim­u­late our minds and to learn a bit about how our brains work.

  • Novem­ber 2011: Math Brain Teas­er: Unfin­ished Thesis
  • Octo­ber 2011: Archimedes Grave
  • Octo­ber 2011: Opti­cal Illu­sions @ Nation­al Geographic
  • Sep­tem­ber 2011: A Brain Teas­er for each Cog­ni­tive Ability
  • August 2011: Test your atten­tional focus: is mul­ti-task­ing good

You can find many more brain teasers and games, for kids and adults, by vis­it­ing the Top 50 Brain Teasers and Games that our read­ers have enjoyed the most. Enjoy!

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Did You See the Gorilla? An Interview with Psychologist Daniel Simons

November 24, 2010 by David DiSalvo

If you’ve spent any time on YouTube over the last few years (and you know you have), you’ve like­ly seen the video of the invis­i­ble goril­la exper­i­ment (if you’ve some­how missed it, catch your­self up here). The researchers who con­duct­ed that study, Dan Simons and Chris Chabris, didn’t real­ize that they were about to cre­ate an instant classic—a psy­chol­o­gy study men­tioned along­side the greats, and known well out­side the slim con­fines of psych wonks. Mil­gram taught us about our sheep­ish obe­di­ence to author­i­ty; Mis­chel used marsh­mal­lows to teach us about delayed grat­i­fi­ca­tion; and Simons and Chabris used a faux goril­la to teach us that we are not the mas­ters of atten­tion we think we are.

The duo’s new book [Read more…] about Did You See the Goril­la? An Inter­view with Psy­chol­o­gist Daniel Simons

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