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Episode 024: Dr. Megan Sumeracki & Dr. Yana Weinstein - The Learning Scientists

The Learning Scientists are cognitive psychologists who spend their time sharing research-backed study methods via their podcast, their blog, and their new book, Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide. Today, they talk to us about their research and how it translates into the classroom. Enjoy!

Connect with The Learning Scientists

Website: www.learningscientists.org/
Twitter: Dr. Weinstein: @doctorwhy; Dr. Sumeracki: @DrSumeracki; Learning Scientists: @AceThatTest

Connect with Vrain Waves

Twitter: @VrainWaves | Becky Twitter: @BeckyEPeters | Ben Twitter: @mrkalb

Links & Show Notes

  • IES Report: Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning, 2007 (05:06)
  • Learning Scientists (LS) 6 strategies:
  • Spaced Practice, Retrieval Practice, Elaboration, Interleaving, Concrete Examples, Dual Coding
  • Retrieval Practice (07:48)
  • The Testing Effect
  • Concept maps from memory
  • Blog post
  • Podcast episode on retrieval
  • Cognition and Learning Lab at Purdue (12:47)
  • Deconstruct concepts into pieces for retrieval (15:15)
  • Retrieval practice helps with flexible application of learned facts / concepts in new situations (17:08)
  • Cognitive Processes & Creativity (18:26)
  • Learning Scientists’ Weekly Digests - subscribe today!
  • Recent digest on creativity
  • Spacing (19:11)
  • Podcast episode on Spaced Practice
  • Blog post about spacing
  • Inefficiency of cramming for long-term benefit (21:08) (Blog post)
  • Weekly Digest: Teachers’ Implementation of Spaced Practice
  • Interleaving (25:08)
  • Weekly Digest on Interleaving
  • Podcast episode on Interleaving
  • Blog posts on Interleaving
  • Studies on interleaving - performance starts worse but is better in long term; “The Effects of Interleaved Practice” - Taylor & Rohrer, 2010 (30:47)
  • Felicia Smith (story)
  • Learning styles (36:04)
  • Weekly Digest on learning styles
  • Sharing the strategies with students (43:04)
  • Strategies Posters on the learning scientists website
  • Out of our heads & into the classroom (46:37)
  • Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  • Time logs (47:43)
  • @AWellington83
  • Find Becky’s sketchnotes from previous episodes at vrainwaves.com
  • Learningscientists.org
  • The Effortful Educator
  • RetrievalPractice.org / Make it Stick
  • “Every time a memory is brought to mind, it is reconstructed and reinforced. When students take a quiz, they’re not just checking their memory, they’re enhancing it.”
  • ATTN ST VRAIN TEACHERS: Please feel free to reach out to Kim Wiggins, one of the SVVSD Assessment Coordinators, who has more resources and a huge passion for these topics! [email protected], or find her on twitter @KWigginsSVVSD.

    • Episode 024: Dr. Megan Sumeracki & Dr. Yana Weinstein - The Learning Scientists

    The Learning Scientists are cognitive psychologists who spend their time sharing research-backed study methods via their podcast, their blog, and their new book, Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide. Today, they talk to us about their research and how it translates into the classroom. Enjoy!

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