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! wiggins_kimberly@svvsd.org, 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!
