Early experiences with quality children's literature help to build oral vocabulary, an important piece of learning how to read.
Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young man and all her savings gone, so the consenting subject of a piece of nonfiction learns — when the article or book appears — his hard lesson.
Spaced repetition knows when you're likely to forget a piece of recently learned information because it tracks your performance and usage history.
When learning a piece of music, musicians learn and store in their memory a series of movements, and these are bound to their aural memory.
Over the next six weeks, three writers will each try to learn a language using a piece of language-learning technology.
I find that if I see a video, it helps me enormously, whether it's putting together a piece of furniture or learning how to use Instagram.
After the failure of her first book submission, about a piece of dust, she learned to test the stories on her own children first.
"Like the credulous widow who wakes up one day to find the charming young man and all her savings gone," she continues, "so the consenting subject of a piece of non-fiction learns – when the article or book appears – his hard lesson".
Essentially these are packaged up pieces of learning that last a few weeks, are often put together by a top professor at a top university, and are available to anyone with a computer.
Some people see the removal of all those bitesize bits and pieces of learning that characterised the modular system as an opportunity to engage in some deeper teaching and learning of the syllabus.
