The Learning Scientists Podcast
A podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence based practice and learning.
- Update frequency
- every 32 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 91
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 32 - Attention, Learning, and Memory with Althea Kaminske
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 …
Episode 31 - Bite-Size Research on Retrieval Practice and Complex Content
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 …
Episode 30 - Learning and Applying Medical Knowledge with MD PhD student Alexander Chamessian
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 …
Episode 29 - Developments in Brain Imaging to Foster Learning with Julien Mercier
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, Chartered College of Teaching, and listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page.
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Episode 28 - Technology and the Brain with Miriam Reiner
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, Chartered College of Teaching, and listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page.
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Episode 27 - Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and Dyspraxia with Jane Emerson
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, Chartered College of Teaching, and supporters like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page.
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Episode 26 - Classroom Noise and Learning with Jessica Massonnié
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, Chartered College of Teaching, and supporters like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page. In today's epi…
Episode 25 - An Interview with Two Teachers
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, and supporters like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page.
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Episode 24 - The Golden Spiral of Lifelong Learning with Ignatius Gous
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust, and supporters like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast, please see our Patreon page.
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Episode 23 - Executive Function and Computational Thinking with Rina Lai
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, Josh Fisher, and his free mat…
Episode 22 - Attention and the Classroom with Michael Hobbiss
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.
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Episode 21 - Executive Function Development with Emma Blakey
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
This is the first episode in a series recorded in London! In June 2018 we attended the European Association for Research on Learning and Instr…
Episode 20 - Sleep, Learning, and Self Care
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
In this episode, we talk about the importance of sleep for learning. We all know we are supposed to get enough sleep. But why exactly do we ne…
Episode 19 - Bite-Size Research on Benefits of Retrieval with Medical Residents
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan talks research finding…
Episode 17 - For Parents Interested in Student Learning Part 2
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
Today's episode is the second of two episodes that we recorded specifically for parents. Our goal was to take what we know about the science o…
Episode 16 - For Parents Interested in Student Learning Part 1
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
Today's episode is specifically for parents. Our goal was to take what we know about the science of learning and focus on how it can be used b…
Episode 15 - How Students Can Use Interleaving, Elaboration, Dual Coding, and Concrete Examples
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
Today's episode is specifically for students. It is the follow-up to our previous episode (Episode 14) for students. Our goal for this pair of…
Episode 14 - How Students Can Use Spacing and Retrieval Practice
MEGAN SUMERACKI: Welcome to the Learning Scientist Podcast, a podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence-based practice and learning.
YANA WEINSTEIN: The Learning Scientist Podcast is …
Episode 13 - Bite-Size Research on Dual Coding vs Learning Styles
This episode was funded by The Wellcome Trust.
Show Notes:
This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana talks about an experime…