Passive Learning and the Illusion of Familiarity

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Schools have taught us that the only way to learn is to sit down and listen, sit down and read, sit down and watch a video. And if we don't remember what has been input into our brains, then that means we just need to listen harder and read more.
This activity will give you a first-hand experience of how ineffective passive intake of information really is. What feels like learning might ...

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Eva Podbrdská

QA Engineer

I work as a tester on the backend team of Showmax - a VoD platform operating in sub-saharan Africa. I switched my career into IT in 2019 after my parental leave and it was the best decision in my life so far. I enjoy figuring out how things work, I enjoy playing with APIs, microservices and databases and most of all I enjoy asking questions. I love dogs and sometimes torture my violin. I am autistic (and probably also ADHD)

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