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
A Way of Thinking: Answers and Actions
Real thinking involves chewing on a compelling question. Powerful answers invoke cause and effect. Those answers have immediate implications as well as long-term consequences and both o…
A Way of Thinking: Chewing on Questions
Thinking is driven by questions. Questions are answered through the interaction of necessary assumptions, a fact base to which thinking is accountable, and—most of all—a conceptual fram…
A Way of Thinking: Perspective Produces Questions
Every area of human endeavor is an outworking of a way of thinking. We all default to a particular way of thinking, usually without recognizing it. This episode is designed to help you …
Generous Enlightening Conversations
Great conversations are driven by empathetic listening that
results in good questions. Good questions encourage the other person to open up and share. Good questions give the questioner …
It’s the Principle of the Thing
Learner's Mind: The Whole Enchilada
Creativity Through Connectivity
Insight Through Induction
Introduction to Induction
Childhood Amnesia Points the Way to Durable Learning
Developing Learner's Mind: Embracing "Puzzler's Mind"
The purpose of exploration is to shake things up—to encounter new ideas which may initially be puzzling but which may hold the key to answering the compelling questions you care about.
Developing Learner's Mind: Focused Exploration
Developing Learner's Mind: Purposeful Persistent Perception
Developing Learner's Mind: Cultivating Attention
Caring is Crucial to Deep Learning
Wrestling with Rusting: Rooting Courses in a Compelling Question
Stories: Compelling and Practical
Dr. Amy Tuck teaches the functioning of the human immune system through a logically connected narrative. Immunity is due to an intricately interconnected multilevel system designed to a…
Transforming Teachers to Transform Learning
The Summer Institute in Teaching Science (SITS) is a four summer program of ten weeks per summer. The aim of SITS is to transform discipline-specific knowledge experts into effective te…
The 7 C's of Cognition: Achieving Coherence
The 7C's of Cognition: Curiosity, Conceptualization, Connectivity, Constrained Capacity, Chunking, Consolidation, and Creativity. Creating Coherence.
Let Me Sleep On It!
Your brain is never off duty. While your body sleeps your brain actively and purposefully retrieves prior knowledge to sharpen it and harmonize it with new learning through the process …