Ranked #1

Wrestling with Rusting: Rooting Courses in a Compelling Question
Wrestling with Rusting: Rooting Courses in a Compelling Question
Great courses are designed to engage the curiosity of students. In this episode Dr. David Gardenghi explains how he root... Read more
2 Jul 2022
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33mins
Ranked #2

Stories: Compelling and Practical
Stories: Compelling and Practical
Dr. Amy Tuck teaches the functioning of the human immune system through a logically connected narrative. Immunity is due... Read more
18 Jun 2022
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38mins
Ranked #3

Transforming Teachers to Transform Learning
Transforming Teachers to Transform Learning
The Summer Institute in Teaching Science (SITS) is a four summer program of ten weeks per summer. The aim of SITS is to ... Read more
4 Jun 2022
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39mins
Ranked #4

The 7 C's of Cognition: Achieving Coherence
The 7 C's of Cognition: Achieving Coherence
The 7C's of Cognition: Curiosity, Conceptualization, Connectivity, Constrained Capacity, Chunking, Consolidation, and Cr... Read more
30 Apr 2022
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28mins
Ranked #5

Let Me Sleep On It!
Let Me Sleep On It!
Your brain is never off duty. While your body sleeps your brain actively and purposefully retrieves prior knowledge to s... Read more
16 Apr 2022
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23mins
Ranked #6

Constrained by Capacity
Constrained by Capacity
Learning is sabotaged when the cognitive load of the task is too high as well as when it is too low. Learn how to optimi... Read more
2 Apr 2022
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30mins
Ranked #7

Chunks: A Creative Cognitive Strategy
Chunks: A Creative Cognitive Strategy
Chunking removes the obstacle of our extremely limited working memory by leveraging the hard-wired pattern making of the... Read more
19 Mar 2022
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27mins
Ranked #8

Forgetting is Fortunate
Forgetting is Fortunate
The brain ruthlessly discards information, but relentless forgetting allows us to remain flexible as learners.
5 Mar 2022
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34mins
Ranked #9

Patterns of Patterns
Patterns of Patterns
New concepts don’t float around but are logically negotiated into an appropriate place in our mental framework of concep... Read more
19 Feb 2022
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30mins
Ranked #10

Constructing Concepts
Constructing Concepts
The process of concept (idea) formation in the brain is the universal mechanism for learning with understanding.
5 Feb 2022
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35mins