The Learning Scientists Podcast

In this episode, we interview Jane Emerson at the EARLI conference in London about her work with those who suffer from dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dyspraxia. Jane is the founder of Emerson House, a teaching center helping children who need extra help with literacy and numbers.

In this episode, we interview Jessica Massonnié at the EARLI conference in London about her research on noise in the classroom, and how noise affects student learning and creativity.

In this episode, we interview two teachers at the EARLI conference in London about their teacher learning and student learning communities.

In this episode, we interview Ignatius Gous at the EARLI conference in London about his framework to assist in lifelong learning.

In this episode we interview Rina Lai in London!

Episode 22 - Attention and the Classroom with Michael Hobbiss

In this episode, we interview Emma Blakey at the EARLI conference in London about executive function development in young children.

In this Episode, we discuss the importance of sleep for learning and self care, and talk about tips for bed time.

This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Megan talks research findings showing that medical residents benefit from retrieval practice after didactic conferences.

Alyssa Smith, a 3rd year medical student at Chicago Medical School, talks about using evidence-based learning strategies.

In this episode for parents, we first briefly review spaced practice, interleaving, and retrieval practice. We then talk about elaboration, concrete examples, and dual coding. We talk about what parents might see their children doing if their teachers or schools are encouraging these effective learning strategies. We also talk about ways parents can help their kids use these effective learning strategies.

In this episode for parents, we cover spaced practice, a little bit about interleaving, and retrieval practice. We talk about what parents might see their children doing if their teachers or schools are encouraging these effective learning strategies. We also talk about ways parents can help their kids use these effective learning strategies.

In this episode for students, we briefly recap how students can use spacing and retrieval practice. Then, we shift into explaining how students might use other effective study strategies, interleaving, elaboration, dual coding, and concrete examples, to make study sessions more effective and efficient.

In this episode for students, we explain how to use spacing and retrieval practice to make study sessions more effective and efficient.

This is a bite-size research episode, where we briefly describe research findings on a specific topic. This week, Yana Weinstein talks about dual coding vs. learning styles. You don't have to be a "visual learner" to benefit from the combination of visuals and words! (In fact, there's no such thing as a "visual learner".)