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Connected Teachers' Academy podcast

Connected Teachers' Academy podcast

By: Dr Mark
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This is a Podcast for teachers, educators and anyone interested in learning. See https://connectedteachersacademy.com for more details. Mark is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience with more than 20 years experience in research and teaching and 70+ publications. Mark has studied how we interact with each other, how we learn and how we think. He has studied these questions in average individuals as well as a range of disorders such as autism, prosopagnosia (face blindness), dementia, addiction and eating disorders. His work has been highlighted in the media including The Guardian (UK), New York Times (USA), Economist, New Scientist, Leading Edge, (BBC: UK), Science in Action (BBC; Interntaional). Mark was working as a Research Scientist at MIT in the McGovern Institute for Brain Research (USA) when the first Smartphone was released. He has watched in both fascination and apprehension at the rise of technology in our education systems. Science
Episodes
  • Myths of Education #5: Left Brain vs Right Brain
    Feb 25 2021

    In a follow-up to the last episode and based on several comments I received I thought I would chat about the Left Brain versus Right Brain myth. Well sorry to tell you but it is a myth. It is based on very old research that was just plain wrong. We all use both sides of our brains and there is no evidence that analytical people use their left brain and artistic people use their right brain more.

     

    I also talk about why I think this has fed into ability or IQ testing and why ability is the wrong way to think about intelligence. That we all have the potential to be anything we want to be (within reasonable parameters) and labelling students does everyone a disservice.     

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    8 mins
  • Myths of Education #4: Learning Styles
    Jan 27 2021

    Learning styles continue to be popular in many schools and with many teachers even though research shows that they do not exist. Many researchers have shown that separating students and teaching them according to their learning style does not improve learning outcomes.

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    6 mins
  • Emeritus Professor Jere Confrey on Learning Trajectories
    Oct 20 2020

    I chat with Emeritus Professor Jere Confrey who is an expert in Mathematics Education.

    We discuss a range of topics including:

    • The current situation in schools with COVID
    • Why learning trajectories should be viewed like climbing a wall not a ladder
    • Tracking/streaming in schools versus flexible learning
    • Why students need to believe they can learn
    • We teach maths the wrong way around: division should come before multiplication
    • Different ways of thinking and how that can transfer and generalise
    • The next generation will need to be flexible, confident thinkers

    To view Dr Confrey’s Math Mapper program go to: sudds.co 

    Dr Confrey can be contacted at: jere@themathdoor.com  

     

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    52 mins

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