Worth Repeating: Learning Something New When You’re Older

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 1/4/13:

“You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” the saying goes. It’s long been thought that the best time to learn something new is when you’re very young. But we now know that, while younger learners have advantages, older learners can achieve far more than researchers expected. How? “By breaking up a difficult job into small, bite-size pieces.” Click here to read more.

 

 

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