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This is a narration of the blog post entitled What is deep learning? We discuss working definitions of learning, deep learning, and shallow learning. We explore the idea that deep learning involves two separate tasks: understanding and remembering. We also explore 5 useful strategies for improving your ability to remember ideas as you learn deeply. We also present 4 less-than-optimal strategies that lead to diminished capacity to recall ideas and result in shallower learning. We end this post with some challenges to our Learning Code community to build your own knowledge from this discussion. Remember: you can learn anything. When you work hard using effective learning strategies, when you have the courage to make mistakes, reflect on your errors, and make corrections, your brain grows and you build new skills. Si se puede (Yes you can!).   

https://thelearningcode.school.blog/2021/02/07/when-theres-no-line-at-the-library-📚/

Teaching and Learning is Soul & Culture work as much as it is understanding the science behind learning & how to be productive. 

While Emdin is speaking to professional educators, every student I know is a professional educator, because subjects cannot be 'taught', they can only be learned. 

Sometimes, the first educator you need in your life is yourself. 

You are the most important educator in your life, bar none. 

We're all learners, there are no hierarchies to genuine learning - we all have something to offer. 

I believe in you, We believe in you: https://thelearningcode.school.blog/2020/09/17/we-believe-in-you/

Youtube Video Posted by Carney Sandoe of this Virtual Keynote: https://youtu.be/tV77gvscDYc

Themes of the talk: Cultivate Curiosity - Gift of Learning - Strategic Mastery - Bigger Rigor - Quality Reps. - not all exp. is good exp. - Sit in Discomfort - Habits = Hustle 

*add 7 minutes to the time stamps below to match the recording time* started local (this file) 7 minutes after live recording began. These time stamps were made while rewatching live recording 

00:00 Co-generate Lesson Plan

06:58 Intro to Andrew and a Focus on Learning

09:52 Andrew's drive in Music production

14:20 Project based learning / Collaboration / Strategic Curiosity to find Productive Struggle Zone by Jeff Anderson after 10k hours studying how learning works and 10^10k hours working w students https://tinyurl.com/ProductiveStruggleZonebyJeff

17:14 Cultivate Curiosity / expert blindspot - which is why anything a professor can do a student can do better

22:45 'imagine a world where more people knew science and were willing to teach it'

25:14 Students become content creators to document their learning and content creation

27:30 Art of empowering transformative collaboration

33:55 'they find it difficult bending to the rudimentary rules and regulations' Emdin /

36:11 a case for lecture but... a students learning portfolio might resonate more

39:27 When Where How does Rigor matter? how much is learning sticky

42:38 Find avenues to love what you learn

46:16 how many students are we keeping out / TLC mission code

49:45 do school without learning / habits

53:17 trailer: reimagining learning to live more fully

54:41 to learn to gift other people access to valuable information

56:20 when it's not just about the information... leadership is available to many

1:00:15 trailer "I have unique ways to look at the world to foster my passion"

1:01:20 ex. transformative tutoring / to see the beauty requires igniting your intuition / how many boxes do people check off from from their grad plan that leave others out?

1:06:10 teaching 10 things when you only have the time to teach 3 / self-regulated learning / instincts efficacy agency

1:09:26 habits vs survive / when habits are not taught / navigate or innovate : system A or B - Daetz

1:12:54 when you set a foundation and give students momentum by teaching the skills and habits necessary / teaching for mastery rather than grades

1:14:29 trailer: flipping the classroom to empower more students to be able to have mastery / chegg coursehero shortcuts lead to knockoffs

1:17:17 imposter syndrome is omnipresent - work on revising your beliefs & attitudes weekly to combat this

1:20:21 growth towards mastery

1:25:24 Practice - not all experience is good experience - good reps

1:27:40

1:31:20 "all my ideas are worth something" *belief* Daetz : students are content creators by definition of studying for classes & grades...

1:33:12 "everything is worth something" - Andrew shares his music album: Heartache, What Else? song: Daffodil https://open.spotify.com/artist/0yGitJ9K4Sl2xs53W0O5LG?si=w1Q73H35TU65f2-IGRrwNg

1:36:27 it takes a long ass time to get - anything - to click, especially in school

1:38:30 sitting in discomfort before seeing the learning

1:40:50 document your learning - create a learning portfolio!

YouTube vid of this talk: https://youtu.be/liIqe0cjXXU

Themes revealed w Don Robert: Seek Projects to Fuel your Learning (each class meeting is a project) - How to Ask Questions - True Value of Networking 

00:00 Helping seeking Practice: ability to take useful notes & offering to take notes for your friend

02:14 Don's Journey / Mech Eng. Major but no background / 'anybody can do it - didn't even know what CAD was' / project based learning / leverage

07:45 Networking for Success

09:00 How to Ask Questions / Prepare to Ask beautiful questions /

14:15 License & Certifications & Curriculum research building mental models that help you ignite then sustain motivation in your ed journey

19:00 Engineering Projects

22:45 Don transitions from Mech E to CS invested time to looking at curriculum, read syllabuses

25:43 Hackerrank self regulated learning

28:00 Time management from Positioning yourself to Take Ownership "idea of ownership" Position yourself to take ownership of a project, then take action, put yourself in that environment to apply that knowledge

34:25 Find out how your assignment fits into the bigger picture of what you're trying to achieve - 'see the universe of your field' connect the dots between diff concepts

42:00 definition of learning - reflection of your character who you want to be, how badly you wanna be the person you wanna be

43:37 Assumptions and what they can do: falsely accused of academic integrity / deficiencies of grading

49:00 Learning Keys from Jeff's open access notes of Limitless Mind by Jo Boaler

54:00 Imposter Syndrome / Belief / Mentality / Assert Ourselves or Get Crushed 'find opportunities to assert yourself and defend your ideas, believe in yourself as open ended ideas'

58:28 Productive Struggle Zone / Keeping up w /

1:00:00 Building mental model building a network ask for help, just do it.

1:03:30 Ask yourself 'what am I trying to learn and what do I want to learn in this class'?

1:05:30 Understanding concepts requires building your second brain and generating concept images 'immerse yourself in your field' / find motivation that fuels your learning

1:08:43 Learn from people who make you stretch and learn from people who are your

hear what Jeff has to say about collaboration https://youtu.be/S8R8RabqDnc

A msg Don wrote me an hour after our talk: 

I was already well prepared for those semesters when I had school, work, and club projects simultaneously. I already had many of the dots connected, and I could relatively easily pinpoint the holes in my knowledge and how to fill them.   This helped estimate how long it would take to learn each individual lesson or do some task or homework. Also, my knowledge from Formula SAE already covered a lot of the content both in classes and in my job.   A bunch of my time ended up being just busywork of going through the motions to reinforce things I already knew, and only a smaller and more manageable amount of my time involved learning new things. The same goes for that day when you saw me taking notes quickly and only half paying attention while writing down a lot of information. I already understood most of the concepts covered in that talk, and I would only tune in 100% when I heard something that I wasn't really familiar with.   I already had a mental model ready to go and all my relevant life experiences up until that point had prepared me to go in ready to just learn a little bit more, rather than needing to learn from square 1 every little detail. If there's anything that you could highlight in post editing or in the comments or video/audio descriptions, I'd say its the amount of work that I put in beforehand on my own time that made the actual class, project, or job significantly easier.

Our Talk on YouTube https://youtu.be/E47fcdzdDb8

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I wrote a more comprehensive/contemplative version of this podcast here:

https://thelearningcode.school.blog/2021/01/08/human-capital/

Please leave a comment at the bottom of the blog piece to help me empower you... 

Excerpt: So it’s quite natural to work at one of these large companies. But when human capital goes there, what products are they working on? It’s like unfettered free agents. Imagine you had a pro sports league with no salary cap. What would you do? You would go and hire and sign every single ‘great’ player and stick them on the bench (lol). You’d be guaranteed to win a championship, you’d be a monopolistic championship winner year in year out.

00:00 introductions 02:30 context for this conversation 

04:00 adv. honors humanities sequence   

05:40 barriers to engage in discussion in STEM  

06:03 introduction of Cynthia's definition to learning: something that happens to people / choices about what we learn, or through context and experience. becoming aware attentively acknowledging, how we operate how we negotiate moving from life   

08:00 example of getting on a bus as experiential learning   

09:10 learning to take in everything that is in front and ahead of us  

10:20 preparing for learning / presence vs. learning / give attention to something  

11:50 Cynthia's definition of learning  

15:10 Steve's definition of learning   

16:20 Definition of learning Katherine: Learning happens across: multiple layers & contexts & time  

19:00 proof that students are studying less and less  

21:10 What happens when we study & read less and less?  25:30 example with nature not only do we read to see how things come together, realizing here are layers of what we're being presented discovery process   34:00 How previewing for lecture positions you to actively learn   

37:00 how to build up narrative and context in   

41:00 Steve pointing out an advantage of using questions  

42:00 When Fear Rations our Learning  

43:50 evaluation and intimidation  

48:00 When discussion is an underrated underutilized for engagement and relevancy 

49:00interdisciplinary narratives matter in restoring humanity in education  

53:40 trailer  

57:00 When raw-sustainable ignition occurs in elementary school  

63:00 When you are more heroic than you know - dont undermine your inner dragon  

1:12:00When learning requires more time than a term  

1:17:00 What do you think it'll take for humanity to thrive   

1:19:00 When you 'cannot help but' be learning in a collaboration where you rely on each other to lead together 

1:28:00 When intellectual curiosity meets humility real change happens

1:29:00 When individual supremacy falls short of collaborative remedy and legacy 

1:45:00 Cynthia's learning outcomes for Hum 177A/B 

1:49:00 Why Read 

1:56:00 When education is not bounded by grades or degrees   

Playlist Humanize STEM & Learning. : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjjbrDmdaNZyoe_VcDaBd06BcfW1-NSO 

Sweet(er) Fudge: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PuZtSnu6S5NKHeS1kTPG5?si=lETA91z7TlOTOIrEeZiiDQ

YTube Highlight Reel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjjbrDmdaNb5Fn0BHcQBdJbfhlijIYCz

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Sweet(er) Fudge: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2PuZtSnu6S5NKHeS1kTPG5?si=lETA91z7TlOTOIrEeZiiDQ

YTube Highlight Reel: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZjjbrDmdaNb5Fn0BHcQBdJbfhlijIYCz

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At 14 years old, Hamilton became a clerk at the import-export firm where he charted routes for ships, and tracked goods - some of those ships included slaves - his abolitionist leanings later in life were influenced by what he experienced. What have you seen and how do you plan on truncating bigotry, prejudice, or partisanship

https://youtu.be/cuyMAneJqms

"Alexander Hamilton" from the musical HAMILTON 

Performed by Alex Lacamoire, Anthony Ramos, Christopher Jackson, Daveed Diggs, Leslie Odom Jr., Lin-Manuel Miranda, Okieriete Onaodowan, Original Broadway Cast of Hamilton, Phillipa Soo 

Written by Lin-Manuel Miranda www.HamiltonMusical.com  

[AARON BURR] How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore and a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten Spot in the Caribbean by providence, impoverished, in squalor Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?  [JOHN LAURENS] The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father Got a lot farther by working a lot harder By being a lot smarter By being a self-starter By fourteen, they placed him in charge of a trading charter  [THOMAS JEFFERSON] And every day while slaves were being slaughtered and carted Away across the waves, he struggled and kept his guard up Inside, he was longing for something to be a part of The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow, or barter  [JAMES MADISON] Then a hurricane came, and devastation reigned Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain Put a pencil to his temple, connected it to his brain And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain  [BURR] Well, the word got around, they said, “This kid is insane, man” Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland “Get your education, don’t forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name. What’s your name, man?”  [ALEXANDER HAMILTON] Alexander Hamilton My name is Alexander Hamilton And there's a million things I haven't done But just you wait, just you wait...  [ELIZA HAMILTON] When he was ten his father split, full of it, debt-ridden Two years later, see Alex and his mother bed-ridden Half-dead sittin' in their own sick, the scent thick... 

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