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Deep and Durable Learning episodes
- Developing Learner's Mind: Embracing "Puzzler's Mind"
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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.
23 min - Developing Learner's Mind: Focused Exploration
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Focused exploration is the third disposition of Learner's Mind. Exploration need not be time inefficient. We explore the story of Watson and Crick in their pursuit of the structure of DNA. This is an example of the power of exploration to quickly solve a problem that appeared insoluble.26 min - Developing Learner's Mind: Purposeful Persistent Perception
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Developing Learner's Mind requires an openness to and a curiosity about the world around you. Curiosity is manifested by a willingness to pay attention to what exploration uncovers followed by the cultivation of perception through which you really start to listen.24 min - Developing Learner's Mind: Cultivating Attention
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Learner's mind begins with curiosity and curiosity begins with paying attention to the world around you. Paying attention broadens options and leads to better conclusions. Learn how to cultivate attention.19 min - Caring is Crucial to Deep Learning
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Caring about students means prioritizing their needs as learners. This includes centering courses on a manageable number of core concepts as well as considering prior knowledge and what role the course will play in their future learning. Students need to participate actively without fear that their contributions will cause them to be judged.39 min - Wrestling with Rusting: Rooting Courses in a Compelling Question
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Great courses are designed to engage the curiosity of students. In this episode Dr. David Gardenghi explains how he roots his chemistry for engineers course in the central engineering problem of corrosion.34 min - Stories: Compelling and Practical
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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 assure our survival in a hostile world. Listen as Dr. Tuck shares her strategy for creating deep and durable learning that answers real life application questions.
39 min - Transforming Teachers to Transform Learning
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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 teachers who are able to take their knowledge apart to create an optimal path for learning. In this episode recent SITS graduate, Dr. David McKinney, reflects on his personal transformation through SITS.
40 min - The 7 C's of Cognition: Achieving Coherence
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The 7C's of Cognition: Curiosity, Conceptualization, Connectivity, Constrained Capacity, Chunking, Consolidation, and Creativity. Creating Coherence.
29 min - Let Me Sleep On It!
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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 of consolidation.
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About Deep and Durable Learning
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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!