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When study groups mistake busyness for learning

My study group thinks we're being productive by meeting constantly but we're all too mentally scattered to actually retain information and no one wants to admit that maybe we need to study alone more and together less.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A learning group has confused collaborative activity with effective knowledge acquisition and cannot distinguish between social comfort and educational progress.

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