Episodes
In Episode 62, Cindy interviews Dr. Laura Nevins and Dr. Frank Patranella on making professional development workshops effective.
Published 02/10/22
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.
Published 01/20/22
In Episode 60, Cindy interviews Mary Chappell (@LiteracyMary), A Department of Education Special Education Curriculum Specialist.
Published 12/02/21
In Episode 59, Carolina interviews Dr Chiara Horlin (@aussieweegie) who is a Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Glasgow and who co-founded the Neurodiversity Network (@UofGNeurodiv). Chiara provides a definition of neurodiversity and talks about challenges in education and ways to overcome them.
Published 10/14/21
In this bite-size research episode, Megan discusses research on delayed vs. immediate feedback in the classroom.
Published 08/26/21
In Episode 57, Cindy interviews Kathryn Desmarais, a Senior Director of Global Education Solutions at Johnson & Johnson.
Published 07/08/21
In Episode 56, Cindy interviews Andrew Watson (@AndrewWatsonTTB), author of The Goldilocks Map and founder of Translate the Brain.
Published 05/20/21
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.
Published 04/01/21
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.
Published 02/25/21
In Episode 53, Althea interviews applied linguist and author of Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics, Alex Poole.
Published 02/11/21
In Episode 52, Carolina interviews two of her students, Ellie Brownlie and Alicja Turek, about their experiences with online learning.
Published 12/03/20
In Episode 51, Cindy interviews memory expert Boris Konrad (@borisnkonrad).
Published 11/05/20
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.
Published 09/17/20
In today’s episode, Megan and Althea cover a paper that tests learning styles and dual coding theories within one experiment.
Published 07/30/20
In today’s episode, Cindy talks about prevalence-induced concept change and implications for society and the classroom!
Published 06/11/20
In this episode, Megan shares her current thoughts about the pivot to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published 04/23/20
In today’s episode, Cindy interviews Pooja Agarwal (@PoojaAgarwal).
Published 03/05/20
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.
Published 01/16/20
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.
Published 11/14/19
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Published 09/26/19
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).
Published 08/08/19
In this episode, Carolina Keupper-Tetzel interviews Dr. Naomi Winstone (@DocWinstone) an expert in assessment and feedback.
Published 05/23/19
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.
Published 05/02/19
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.
Published 03/21/19
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.
Published 03/08/19