The Learning Scientists Podcast

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 61, Althea interviews Amber Birsen, @memorablemaths. Amber Birsen lives and works in England in the UK. She has been a qualified teacher now for around 7 years. She is currently a Year 2 class teacher and the subject lead for mathematics at St Michael's CofE Primary School in Bournemouth, Dorset. 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.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes:In Episode 60, Cindy interviews Mary Chappell (@LiteracyMary), a Department of Education Special Education Curriculum Specialist. With 25 years of education experience teaching elementary and special education, she is now supporting special education teachers, especially related to literacy. She found herself needing to motivate teachers to utilize a mandated program, and wanting to support them in doing so. Therefore, she turned to the literature.Mary gave a presentation that provides an overview of her findings, recurring themes, key takeaways, actionable steps, and her references. You can view the slides here.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In this bite-size research episode, Megan discusses research on delayed vs. immediate feedback in the classroom. Like with many effective learning strategies, what students think is helping them learn is not what actually helps them learn. In two experiments presented by Mullet and colleagues (2014), University engineering students received relatively immediate feedback or delayed feedback on homework assignments. Students reported that they liked immediate feedback better and that it helped them learn more. In reality, the delayed feedback led to better performance on their course exams.References: Mullet, H. G., Butler, A. C., Verdin, B., von Borries, R., & Marsh, E. J. (2014). Delaying feedback promotes transfer of knowledge despite student preferences to receive feedback immediately. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 3, 222-229. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2014.05.001

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 57, Cindy interviews Kathryn Desmarais, a Senior Director of Global Education Solutions at Johnson & Johnson. (You can check out her LinkedIn profile here.) In Kathryn’s line of work, she is less concerned with what an individual can look up or figure out. Her reps need to be confident and know a great deal on the spot in high-pressure situations. So, she has been implementing strategies from the science of learning into her training!

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 56, Cindy interviews Andrew Watson (@AndrewWatsonTTB), author of The Goldilocks Map and founder of Translate the Brain. If you are interested in ordering a copy of The Goldilocks Map, you can enter code SCIENTISTS25 here to receive 25% off your order.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page.Show Notes: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.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. In today's episode, we feature one of our patrons, Bob Reuter.Show Notes: 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. Check out podsie.org for access to their free platform for teachers to use with their students all based on the science of learning. If you’re interested in getting involved with Podsie Beta, you can sign up at podsie.org using the form at the bottom of the website.

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes: In Episode 53, Althea interviews applied linguist and author of Learning a Foreign Language: Understanding the Fundamentals of Linguistics, Alex Poole. You can pick up a copy of his book on Amazon, through the publisher, or wherever you buy your books! ReferencesKrashen, S. (2000). What does it take to acquire language? ESL Magazine, 3(3), 22–23. Retrieved from http://www.sdkrashen.com/content/articles/what_does_it_take.pdf Oxford, R. (2016). Teaching and researching language learning strategies: Self-regulation in context. New York: Oxford University Press. 

This episode was funded by listeners like you. For more details on how to help support our podcast and gain access to exclusive content, please see our Patreon page. Show Notes:In Episode 52, Carolina interviews two of her students, Ellie Brownlie and Alicja Turek, about their experiences with online learning since the global COVID-19 pandemic changed our way of teaching. The students share some positive outcomes and some things they wish were done differently or happened more.