Deep and Durable Learning
Most learning is superficial and fades quickly. This podcast will equip you to move to learning that is durable because it is deep. Deep learning lasts because it respects the way the brain works. Inquiring minds want to know "how" and "why"—not just what!
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 73
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Ideals Collide With Identity
Ideals are commendable but how we implement ideals can corrupt our true identity. Susanna Hindman shares her story of life in a disadvantaged community in West Baltimore, Maryland.
Healthcare Is Its Own Worst Enemy
Healthcare is better at treating disease than at creating and maintaining health. Dr. Daniel Hindman of the Johns Hopkins hospital system argues that medical professionals fail to grapp…
Growing Through Infertility and Loss
Dr. Valerie Coffman shares her personal struggles with infertility and loss and reflects on the opportunities for growth through profound disppointment.
Learning by Heart is Not Mere Memorization
Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Nathan Smith, as a college sophomore experienced the liberation that comes with transformational learning. In this podcast he explains how a focus on underst…
Essentials of Learning
Pediatrician & internal medicine practioner, teacher of medical residents, and homeschool mom, Dr. Joy Smith reflects on an early experience of transformative learning and distills from…
Lifelong Learner Goes Deeper
Lifelong learning is not necessarily deep. Here we chronicle such a learner as she allows herself to be challenged to go deeper personally and eventually in her pedagogy with senior hig…
Getting Down to Business
Success in business comes through embracing "a way of thinking" that seeks to answer compelling questions using a complex interdisciplinary set of concepts. Students can be taught this …
Poverty and a PhD
Sam Saldivar grew up in a migrant farm worker's large family but went on an educational journey leading to a PhD in Old Testament. Now an professor, his Bible classes aim for deep and d…
Your Freedom Ends Where Your Neighbor's Nose Begins
Harmonizing personal freedom and the biblical law of love through the discipline of public health.
Transforming Your Health and Extending Your Life
Public health has extended life spans in the U.S. by 30 years over the past 125 years through things like clean water and childhood vaccines. We'll explore the transformative effects of…
Thinking Like a Historian and Loving It
History is misunderstood and often maligned by outsiders as trivia collection. Learn what motivates historians and how the questions they seek to answer lead to cause-effect explanation…
Don't Know Much About History
History seems to be something you either love or hate with almost no middle ground. Names, dates, events—trivial pursuit. Is that your view of history? What if history is really the as…
Transformed by the Third Rail
Pedagogy is often viewed as a personal choice and untouchable—a kind of third rail. The SITS model aims to transform faculty into clear incisive thinkers who embrace transformed pedagog…
Content Delivery or Personal Transformation?
The 3-legged stool is the compact embodiment of a comprehensive model of teaching and learning. In this episode we explore the development of clear thinking teachers through an intervie…
Three Legs Morph Into Three Tracks
The 3-legged stool view of teaching and learning has become three intensive summers of faculty development in the Summer Institute in Teaching Science (SITS) at Bob Jones University.
3 Musketeers Synthesize 3-legged Stool
Three university faculty began a quest to reform teaching and learning at their institution. The result was a three-legged stool which has proven to be a powerful tool in faculty and c…
Questioning Our Conclusions
Answering a question isn’t complete until there is a thorough questioning of the near-term implications and the long-term consequences. Deep understanding requires cognitive harmony bet…
Answering Questions by Asking Questions
The most powerful strategy for answering questions is asking questions. This query approach especially probes assumptions, ideas, and the relevant fact base. It sharpens thinking consid…
Formulating Compelling Questions in the Core
Nothing is more fundamental to deep and durable learning than compelling questions. In this episode I’ll show you how to use point of view and a recognition of your motive—what you are …
Why Do You Ask?
Questions are the engines that drive thinking. The better the question the deeper the resultant learning because you really care about unearthing the answer. Exploration through questi…