But he says, ‘no, I have the right techniques.’ As a hook for students, that’s a great story.Įvery year, I tell my class about how Josh Foer then trains for the memory championships, and wins the card placements category. When he interviews the winner, he asks: ‘When did you realize you had this great memory?’ And the winner is like, ‘I don’t.’ Well, he just won the championship. LB: The book opens with Josh Foer covering the USA Memory Championships as a journalist. We interviewed Joshua Foer on the best books about memory around the time this book came out he said that “although the idea of a disciplined, trained memory feels novel to us today, it was commonplace in ancient history.” Why do you recommend it? Let’s start with a discussion of Moonwalking with Einstein. Well, I love the list of psychology books for teenagers you’ve compiled. We try to mix up the activities: some of them are PowerPoints, some of them are writing prompts, some of them are interactive activities. “Teaching is an art and part of that art is storytelling”Īnd for teachers, we hope that our write-ups about these books give them those stories, and our activities give them something to do with their students to actually make it applicable. We’re hoping it’s useful for that human interest. And students love stories! If they can get hooked on psychology because of the stories, I think we’re willing to take that. I think we all share this idea that teaching is an art and part of that art is storytelling. LB: A lot of students express an interest in reading something outside of class that is not their textbook, and this gives us a great resource so we can say: ‘here’s something I think you’ll really enjoy,’ and hopefully that starts a love of books, a love of reading, a love of psychology. Why do you think it’s useful for students and teachers to be reading psychology books like these-by which I mean, general nonfiction books aimed at the layperson-as opposed to, say, scientific journals? ![]() We don’t get anything from doing that the blog, except for sort of the satisfaction that maybe it’s helping some students and it’s helping some teachers. Laura Brandt: We run this blog as a labor of love. We are working on creating a subsection of the blog aimed directly at students. Students interested in psychology can use the blog to find books related to their specific interests. The Books for Psychology Class blog is designed for teachers, whether they be teachers of high school-level psychology, IB psychology, AP psychology, or university professors of psychology. The activities we have created vary greatly and include projects and demonstrations for teachers to use in the classroom based on ideas and concepts from the book. We also create an original activity that can be used in class. ![]()
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