Intro: Podcasts Light Up Your Brain

In this introductory episode of the Southern Fried Scholar, Dr. Kelly Jones invites listeners to celebrate lifelong learning, creativity, story… and podcasts. Show Notes Freakonomics Radio: This is Your Brain on Podcasts (episode by Stephen J. Dubner - October 12, 2016 ) Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex (study by the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley) Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers (article by Dr. Savo Heleta) What is lifelong learning? This is a great overview from infed.org (the informal education encyclopedia) Learn more about meta-learning from Jay Cross This is a great overview of participatory culture, a theory developed by Henry Jenkins And if you want to geek out on learning theory, read about Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age If you enjoyed this show, please rate and review SFS on iTunes - this is the best way to promote the show. Thanks, y'all! Want to submit a question, send a message, or be a guest on the Southern Fried Scholar podcast? Contact me here.