In Episode 61, Althea interviews Amber Birsen,. Amber recently made a contribution to a report by Oxford University Press called, ‘Addressing the Deepening Digital Divide’. Much of what she discusses she learned and has taken from the report as well as her experiences as a teacher over the last two years.
Jan 20, 2022•23 min
In Episode 60, Cindy interviews Mary Chappell (@LiteracyMary), A Department of Education Special Education Curriculum Specialist.
Dec 02, 2021•32 min•Ep. 60
Oct 14, 2021•25 min•Ep. 59
In this bite-size research episode, Megan discusses research on delayed vs. immediate feedback in the classroom.
Aug 26, 2021•12 min•Ep. 58
In Episode 57, Cindy interviews Kathryn Desmarais, a Senior Director of Global Education Solutions at Johnson & Johnson.
Jul 08, 2021•17 min•Ep. 57
In Episode 56, Cindy interviews Andrew Watson (@AndrewWatsonTTB), author of The Goldilocks Map and founder of Translate the Brain.
May 20, 2021•25 min•Ep. 56
In episode 55, Carolina interviews two students who have been heavily involved in inclusivity in education, Ally Lloyd and Anna Gallagher. Together, they co-lead The Luna Project. Their goal is to increase awareness and support of young people with chronic illnesses disabilities and long-term health conditions.
Apr 01, 2021•23 min•Ep. 55
In Episode 54, Megan interviews Josh Ling and Jesse Mao, the co-founders of Podsie. Podsie is a nonprofit organization, and its mission is to empower teachers and improve student learning by providing free access to evidence-based learning techniques.
Feb 25, 2021•28 min•Ep. 54
In Episode 53, Althea interviews applied linguist and author of Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics, Alex Poole.
Feb 11, 2021•30 min•Ep. 53
In Episode 52, Carolina interviews two of her students, Ellie Brownlie and Alicja Turek, about their experiences with online learning.
Dec 03, 2020•30 min•Ep. 52
In Episode 51, Cindy interviews memory expert Boris Konrad (@borisnkonrad).
Nov 05, 2020•18 min•Ep. 51
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.
Sep 17, 2020•22 min•Ep. 50
In today’s episode, Megan and Althea cover a paper that tests learning styles and dual coding theories within one experiment.
Jul 30, 2020•20 min•Ep. 49
In today’s episode, Cindy talks about prevalence-induced concept change and implications for society and the classroom!
Jun 11, 2020•21 min•Ep. 48
In this episode, Megan shares her current thoughts about the pivot to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 23, 2020•31 min•Ep. 47
In today’s episode, Cindy interviews Pooja Agarwal (@PoojaAgarwal).
Mar 05, 2020•32 min•Ep. 46
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.
Jan 16, 2020•14 min•Ep. 45
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.
Nov 14, 2019•22 min•Ep. 44
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.
Sep 26, 2019•29 min•Ep. 43
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).
Aug 08, 2019•14 min•Ep. 42
In this episode, Carolina Keupper-Tetzel interviews Dr. Naomi Winstone (@DocWinstone) an expert in assessment and feedback.
May 23, 2019•16 min•Ep. 41
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.
May 02, 2019•27 min•Ep. 40
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.
Mar 21, 2019•11 min•Ep. 39
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.
Mar 08, 2019•28 min•Ep. 38
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.
Feb 20, 2019•9 min•Ep. 37
In this episode, Megan and Carolina chat about Carolina's CPD research, her Service Learning projects, and the TILE network.
Feb 06, 2019•16 min•Ep. 36
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Jan 30, 2019
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.
Jan 16, 2019•10 min•Ep. 34
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.
Dec 19, 2018•9 min•Ep. 33
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.
Dec 05, 2018•33 min•Ep. 32