The Neuroscience of Learning--and How It Can Inform Educational Policy

0:00 Overview of the neuroscience of learning
10:02 Working memory and long-term memory
16:17 Working memory capacities of students varies
21:00 Expertise reversal effect
22:37 Explicit instruction versus active learning
27:34 Declarative (hippocampal) and procedural (basal ganglia) learning
34:25 The natural learning talents and gifts that can come with dyslexia or the autistic spectrum
37:55 Teaching and reaching neurally diverse students
41:11 Collaborative and team learning—a benefit, but not a panacea
44:34 A key to effective social-emotional learning—learning to set boundaries
50:38 Educators understand the world through either reason or experience (Dan Willingham)
53:17 The value function of the procedural system and how it creates bias
59:33 Scurvy and Antarctic exploration
1:01:59 Technological advances in one area can cause inadvertent declines in other areas
1:04:01 Educational policy—How technological advances can cause a decline in student learning
1:07:05 The challenge of inflexible geniuses
1:08:15 Knowing how the brain learns can allow us to leap ahead in helping students learn

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[phill]

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[mutyambizis]

Wow. This is highly insightful and so relevant. One size fit all does not work, and the way we grade often favours declarative learners. Transformation and constant improvement are required as we discover new understanding. Thank you very much, Barbara.

[lizhicks-kimmey]

What an important insight about the empathic person and inadvertently leading them to lives of codependency (50:10) This is a very excellent presentation that all people should listen to not just teachers. Thank you Barbara!

[surajsachdeva]

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[colleenkirtland]

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[Popcorn___movies]

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