The Learning Scientists Podcast
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Episode 51 - An Interview with Memory Expert Boris Konrad
5 november 2020 · 18 min
In Episode 51, Cindy interviews memory expert Boris Konrad (@borisnkonrad).
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Episode 50 - Metacognitive Monitoring of Adolescents and Young Adults
17 september 2020 · 22 min
In today’s episode, Althea covers a paper about metacognitive monitoring and differences between adolescents (ages 11-12) and traditional university-aged adults (ages 18-25) when using different learning strategies.
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Episode 49 - Learning Styles and Dual Coding
30 juli 2020 · 20 min
In today’s episode, Megan and Althea cover a paper that tests learning styles and dual coding theories within one experiment.
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Episode 48 - Prevalence-Induced Concept Change
11 juni 2020 · 21 min
In today’s episode, Cindy talks about prevalence-induced concept change and implications for society and the classroom!
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Episode 47 - Emergency Distance Learning
23 april 2020 · 31 min
In this episode, Megan shares her current thoughts about the pivot to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Episode 46 - The Application of Research with Pooja Agarwal
5 maart 2020 · 32 min
In today’s episode, Cindy interviews Pooja Agarwal (@PoojaAgarwal).
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Episode 45 - Bite-Size Research on Seductive Details
16 januari 2020 · 14 min
In this bite-size research episode, Carolina discusses research on seductive details—the details we include in our teaching that are not necessarily relevant for understanding the topic but make the lesson more interesting.
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Episode 44 - Literacy and Making Mistakes with Kristen McQuillan
14 november 2019 · 22 min
In this episode, Cindy Nebel interviews Kristen McQuillan, her student in the Vanderbilt EdD program in Leadership and Learning in Organization. Kristen is a director at TNTP, a non-profit organization that helps schools reach goals for students. Cindy and Kristen talk about learning mistakes in literacy. Lees meer
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Episode 43 - Evidence-based Strategies and the Whole Learning Process
26 september 2019 · 29 min
In this episode, Megan and Althea discuss a listener question about the focus on evidence-based strategies and other important aspects of the whole learning process.
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Episode 42 - Bite-Size Research on Attention and Retrieval Practice
8 augustus 2019 · 14 min
In this bite-size research episode, Althea describes a study about how attention affects learning with retrieval practice when students are studying on their own by Neil Mulligan and Milton Picklesimer (2016).
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Episode 41 - Feedback with Dr. Naomi Winstone
23 mei 2019 · 16 min
In this episode, Carolina Keupper-Tetzel interviews Dr. Naomi Winstone (@DocWinstone) an expert in assessment and feedback.
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Episode 40 - Memorizing Facts vs Using Information with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath
2 mei 2019 · 27 min
In this episode, Cindy Nebel interviews Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath (@JCHorvath), neuroscientist and educator affiliated with University of Melbourne and author of Stop Talking Start Influencing: 12 Insights From Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. During the interview, they discuss how we take information in, and how do we use it, or transfer it to new situations. Lees meer
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Episode 39 - Bite-Size Research on Awareness of Evidence-Based Practice
21 maart 2019 · 11 min
In this Bite-Size Research Episode, Megan describes a paper by Kayla Morehead and colleagues (2016) about student and instructor knowledge about evidence-based study strategies.
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Episode 38 - A (pseudo) Randomized Control Experiment about Teaching Effective Learning Strategies
8 maart 2019 · 28 min
In this episode, Megan and Cindy talk about their massive research project at Washburn University investigating the effectiveness of an intervention to teach first-year college students effective study strategies.
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Episode 37 - Bite-Size Research on Learning to Learn Effectively
20 februari 2019 · 9 min
In this episode, Megan describes a paper by Dr. Jennifer McCabe investigating whether students understand what learning strategies are most effective, and whether we can teach this to students.
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Episode 36 - Carolina's Research on CPD and Service Learning
6 februari 2019 · 16 min
In this episode, Megan and Carolina chat about Carolina's CPD research, her Service Learning projects, and the TILE network.
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Episode 35 - Implementing Effective Strategies
30 januari 2019
Episode 35 - Implementing Effective Strategies Lees meer
Learning Scientists
This episode was funded by the Chartered College of Teaching, and listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.
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Show Notes:
In this episode, Megan and Althea discuss things to keep in mind when trying to implement evidence-based learning strategies into your classroom.
We start out with a brief description of the six strategies for effective learning. If you haven’t listened to previous episodes yet, we recommend going back to the first set of episodes, 1 through 13, to hear more about each strategy in depth. The purpose of the review is to provide a bit of spaced practice!
Some tips to keep in mind:
Don’t try to implement all of the strategies all at once or all of the time.
Don’t try to overhaul your entire course! Start with small changes and see how it goes. You can keep making little changes with each iteration of the course.
Remember, each strategy works because it encourages processing that promotes learning. So, implementing these strategies are all about encouraging useful processing. When looking from the outside, two groups of students can look like they’re doing the exact same thing, but in reality one group may be doing something useful and the other not. Using the strategies in the classroom also won’t always look the same.
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Episode 34 - An Introduction to our Team in 2019!
16 januari 2019 · 10 min
Listen as Megan, Cindy, Althea, and Carolina discuss our workshops during our England 2019 tour, and the excitement around talking with teachers about the science of learning.
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Episode 33 - Bite-Size Research on Using Laptops to Take Notes
19 december 2018 · 9 min
In this bite-size research episode, Megan covers a research article that finds taking notes by hand to lead to more learning than taking notes on laptops.
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Episode 32 - Attention, Learning, and Memory with Althea Kaminske
5 december 2018 · 33 min
In this episode, Megan interviews Dr. Althea Kaminske, the newest member of the Learning Scientists and Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University in New York.
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Episode 31 - Bite-Size Research on Retrieval Practice and Complex Content
21 november 2018 · 10 min
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana talks research findings about the benefits of retrieval practice when learning complex materials.
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Episode 30 - Learning and Applying Medical Knowledge with MD PhD student Alexander Chamessian
7 november 2018 · 36 min
In this episode, Yana interviews Alexander Chamessian, an MD PhD student who has been consistently utilizing evidence-based learning strategies.
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Episode 29 - Developments in Brain Imaging to Foster Learning with Julien Mercier
17 oktober 2018 · 9 min
In this episode, we interview Julien Mercier at the EARLI conference in London about his work with brain imaging and Education.
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Episode 28 - Technology and the Brain with Miriam Reiner
3 oktober 2018 · 25 min
In this episode, we interview Miriam Reiner at the EARLI conference in London about her work with technology and the brain. Miriam is the head of the Virtual-Reality & NeuroCognition at the Israel institute of Technology.
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Episode 27 - Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dyspraxia with Jane Emerson
19 september 2018 · 29 min
In this episode, we interview Jane Emerson at the EARLI conference in London about her work with those who suffer from dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia. Jane is the founder of Emerson House, a teaching center helping children who need extra help with literacy and numbers. Lees meer
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Episode 26 - Classroom Noise and Learning with Jessica Massonnié
6 september 2018 · 27 min
In this episode, we interview Jessica Massonnié at the EARLI conference in London about her research on noise in the classroom, and how noise affects student learning and creativity.
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Episode 25 - An Interview with Two Teachers
16 augustus 2018 · 28 min
In this episode, we interview two teachers at the EARLI conference in London about their teacher learning and student learning communities.
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Episode 24 - The Golden Spiral of Lifelong Learning with Ignatius Gous
2 augustus 2018 · 29 min
In this episode, we interview Ignatius Gous at the EARLI conference in London about his framework to assist in lifelong learning.
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Episode 23 - Executive Function and Computational Thinking with Rina Lai
18 juli 2018 · 22 min
In this episode we interview Rina Lai in London!
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Episode 22 - Attention and the Classroom with Michael Hobbiss
4 juli 2018
Episode 22 - Attention and the Classroom with Michael Hobbiss Lees meer
Learning Scientists
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, and supporters like you. For more details, please see our Patreon page. In today's episode, we feature one of our patrons, Bob Reuter.
Listening on the web? You can subscribe to our podcast to get new episodes each month! Go to our show on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Show Notes:
This is the second episode in a series recorded in London! In June 2018 we attended the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction conference (or, more simply, EARLI) for the special interest group on Neuroscience and Education (@EarliSIG22). While there, we recorded live interviews with teachers and researchers. This episode features Michael Hobbiss. (Check out Episode 21 for our first interview with Dr. Emma Blakey!)
Please excuse any issues with sound quality. We were quite literally recording on the fly!
Michael Hobbiss started his career as a teacher for 8 years, teaching psychology and biology in the UK and abroad. He is now back in the UK, pursuing his PhD with Dr. Nilli Lavie at University College London. His focus is on attention, distraction, and cognitive control in adolescents. Mike tweets at @mikehobbiss and blogs at The Hobbolog.
In the beginning of the episode, Mike describes the two main ways attention is captured:
Bottom-up: the object or stimulus itself
Top-down: your prior knowledge, interest, motivationBoth of these processes are prone to distraction. But surprisingly, Mike says, we don't know all that much about how students get distracted during learning. We do know that attention is related to important educational outcomes: for example, teacher ratings of children's attention at age 5 correlate with the children's later academic success (although, teacher ratings are not always reliable and tend to vary between cu…
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Episode 21 - Executive Function Development with Emma Blakey
20 juni 2018 · 23 min
In this episode, we interview Emma Blakey at the EARLI conference in London about executive function development in young children.
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Episode 20 - Sleep, Learning, and Self Care
6 juni 2018 · 21 min
In this Episode, we discuss the importance of sleep for learning and self care, and talk about tips for bed time.
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Episode 19 - Bite-Size Research on Benefits of Retrieval with Medical Residents
16 mei 2018 · 5 min
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan talks research findings showing that medical residents benefit from retrieval practice after didactic conferences.
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Episode 18 - Effective Studying in Medical School with Alyssa Smith
2 mei 2018 · 20 min
Alyssa Smith, a 3rd year medical student at Chicago Medical School, talks about using evidence-based learning strategies.
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Episode 17 - For Parents Interested in Student Learning Part 2
18 april 2018 · 15 min
In this episode for parents, we first briefly review spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice. We then talk about elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. We talk about what parents might see their children doing if their teachers or schools are encouraging these effective learning strategies. We also talk about ways parents can help their kids use these effective learning strategies. Lees meer
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Episode 16 - For Parents Interested in Student Learning Part 1
4 april 2018 · 21 min
In this episode for parents, we cover spaced practice, a little bit about interleaving, and retrieval practice. We talk about what parents might see their children doing if their teachers or schools are encouraging these effective learning strategies. We also talk about ways parents can help their kids use these effective learning strategies. Lees meer
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Episode 15 - How Students Can Use Interleaving, Elaboration, Dual Coding, and Concrete Examples
21 maart 2018 · 21 min
In this episode for students, we briefly recap how students can use spacing and retrieval practice. Then, we shift into explaining how students might use other effective study strategies, interleaving, elaboration, dual coding, and concrete examples, to make study sessions more effective and efficient. Lees meer
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Episode 14 - How Students Can Use Spacing and Retrieval Practice
7 maart 2018 · 17 min
MEGAN SUMERACKI: Welcome to the Learning Scientist Podcast, a podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence-based practice and learning. Lees meer
YANA WEINSTEIN: The Learning Scientist Podcast is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
MEGAN SUMERACKI: Hi. I'm Dr. Megan Sumeracki, a professor at Rhode Island College.
YANA WEINSTEIN: And I'm Dr. Yana Weinstein, a professor at UMass Lowell.
MEGAN SUMERACKI: And together, we co-founded the Learning Scientists. We apply cognitive psychology to education for teachers, students, and parents but today's episode is specifically for students. We're going to be talking about how we can take the research on learning and memory and apply it to student studying to try to improve how much you're learning and how well you're performing on tests and exams, as well as other types of assessments.
YANA WEINSTEIN: So, we're assuming that students at different stages in their education might be listening to this. You might be still in high school, you might be at the beginning of your college career or maybe towards the end. Or maybe you're in a different stage of your life, but still learning something. We hope that this episode will be applicable regardless of what age you are or what you're studying. We're going to be talking about a few different strategies that are based in research from cognitive psychology that has been conducted over the past few decades. So, the strategies we'll be talking about are ones that have been repeatedly demonstrated as effective. First of all, we'd like to talk to you about two very important strategies. They're called spaced practice and retrieval practice. Don't worry about that specific terminology. We'll define it and repeat the definitions as we go through the podcast episode.
MEGAN SUMERACKI: And so there are six and you can use them all together. But if you were only going to start with two and probably you want to start with just a couple. It's going to be difficult for you to listen to one p…
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Episode 13 - Bite-Size Research on Dual Coding vs Learning Styles
21 februari 2018 · 12 min
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana Weinstein talks about dual coding vs. learning styles. You don't have to be a "visual learner" to benefit from the combination of visuals and words! (In fact, there's no such thing as a "visual learner".) Lees meer
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Episode 12 - Dual Coding
7 februari 2018 · 17 min
In this episode, we talk about the last strategy, dual coding. We talk about ways teachers and students can utilize dual coding, and distinguish this from learning styles.
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Episode 11 - Bite-Size Research on Providing Multiple Concrete Examples
17 januari 2018 · 9 min
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan Sumeracki talks about the need for providing multiple concrete examples to facilitate students' ability to transfer the underlying idea to new problems. Lees meer
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Episode 10 - Concrete Examples
3 januari 2018 · 22 min
In this episode, we introduce Concrete Examples. Most teachers probably use concrete examples, but in this episode we talk about why it is important to use more than one!
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Episode 9 - Bite-Size Research on Interleaving Categories
20 december 2017 · 8 min
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana Weinstein talks about interleaving while trying to learn to categorize, such as paintings by different painters or chemical categories such as alcohol. Lees meer
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Episode 8 - Interleaving
6 december 2017 · 27 min
In this episode, we introduce the concept of interleaving. We explain when it works, why it works, and open questions.
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Episode 7 - Bite-Size Research on Elaborative Interrogation
15 november 2017 · 7 min
In this bite-size research episode, Megan Sumeracki talks about a research study where 6th and 7th grade students used elaborative interrogation independently and with a partner. Elaborative interrogation improved learning compared to reading and students picking their own learning strategy. The effects were durable, and students who used elaborative interrogation still knew more than other groups 60 days later. Lees meer
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Episode 6 - Elaborative Interrogation
1 november 2017 · 14 min
In this podcast, we discuss elaboration, specifically elaborative interrogation. We also talk about how teachers might implement elaborative interrogation in the classroom, and some things to watch out for when students are using this strategy.
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Episode 5 - Bite-Size Research on Spaced Retrieval
18 oktober 2017 · 11 min
In this bite-size research episode, Yana Weinstein talks about the learning benefits of combining spaced practice and retrieval practice. Assessment of both fact learning and application of knowledge is discussed.
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Episode 4 - Spaced Practice
4 oktober 2017 · 15 min
In this podcast, we discuss what spaced practice is and how to utilize it to promote learning. We share some ways teachers can help students use spaced practice on their own, and ways for teachers to integrate spacing into their own teaching. Finally, we share some personal stories about spacing out learning or cramming before important events. Lees meer
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Episode 3 - Bite-Size Research on Retrieval Practice Formats
20 september 2017 · 10 min
In this bite-size research episode, Megan Sumeracki discusses research comparing short-answer, multiple-choice, and hybrid quiz formats. She addresses the question, do some formats produce more learning than others?
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Episode 2 - Retrieval Practice
6 september 2017 · 21 min
In this podcast, we discuss what retrieval practice is and how it benefits learning. We also talk about ways to implement retrieval-based learning activities in the classroom and for independent studying.