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Best podcasts about Barbara Oakley

Latest podcast episodes about Barbara Oakley

Conocimiento Experto
Cuando Ya No Funciona: Qué Hacer Cuando Forzar Ya No Da Resultados - Conocimiento Experto

Conocimiento Experto

Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2025 17:18


¿Qué pasa cuando ya no te funciona lo que antes te daba resultados? ¿Qué haces cuando lo das todo y no fluye? ¿Empujas más… o haces una pausa real? En este episodio te hablo directo, sin adornos, de algo que muchos estamos viviendo: la frustración de estar haciendo “todo bien” pero sin ver resultados. Aquí profundizamos en: El miedo a volverte irrelevante si no produces. Cómo confundimos nuestro valor con nuestros resultados. La trampa de forzar desde una versión vieja de ti mismo. Ley de rendimientos decrecientes: más esfuerzo ≠ más avance. Qué hacer cuando un proyecto se bloquea o ya no conecta. Redefinir el éxito desde la presencia, no desde la urgencia. La diferencia entre ruido mental y verdadera esencia. Incluye fundamentos neurocientíficos (como la Regla del Foco Difuso de Barbara Oakley) y ejercicios prácticos para identificar el ruido, soltar lo que ya no eres y actuar desde claridad. Accede GRATIS a la Guía para Superar tu Bloqueo Energético: https://recursos.conocimientoexperto.com/guiabloqueo SÍGUEME EN MIS PLATAFORMAS: Sitio web: https://conocimientoexperto.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salvadormingo/ Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/65J8RTsruRXBxeQElVmU0b Guías: https://conocimientoexperto.com/accede-a-las-guias LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/salvadormingoce/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@conocimientoexperto Salvador Mingo Creador de Conocimiento Experto Especialista en estrategia, contenido digital y transformación personal #DejarDeForzar #BloqueoMental #SalvadorMingo #SoltarElControl #DesapegoConsciente #PresiónInterna #ClaridadMental #RedefinirÉxito #GuíaBloqueoEnergético #NeurocienciaProductivaConviértete en un seguidor de este podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/conocimiento-experto--2975003/support.

The Practice of the Practice Podcast | Innovative Ideas to Start, Grow, and Scale a Private Practice
Productivity: Learning How to Learn with Dr. Barbara Oakley | POP 1204

The Practice of the Practice Podcast | Innovative Ideas to Start, Grow, and Scale a Private Practice

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 37:43


Meet Joe Sanok Joe Sanok helps counselors to create thriving practices that are the envy of other counselors. He has helped counselors to grow their businesses by 50-500% and is proud of all the private practice owners who are growing their income, influence, and impact on the world. Click here to explore consulting with Joe. […] The post Productivity: Learning How to Learn with Dr. Barbara Oakley | POP 1204 appeared first on How to Start, Grow, and Scale a Private Practice | Practice of the Practice.

GOTO - Today, Tomorrow and the Future
How to Learn: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets • Barbara Oakley & Charles Humble

GOTO - Today, Tomorrow and the Future

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 46:54 Transcription Available


This interview was recorded for GOTO Unscripted.https://gotopia.techRead the full transcription of this interview hereProf. Dr. Barbara Oakley - Professor of Engineering at Oakland University & Author of Numerous BooksCharles Humble - Freelance Techie, Podcaster, Editor, Author & ConsultantRESOURCESBarbarahttps://barbaraoakley.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraoakleyhttps://twitter.com/Barbara97881398Charleshttps://bsky.app/profile/charleshumble.bsky.socialhttps://linkedin.com/in/charleshumblehttps://conissaunce.comDESCRIPTIONBarbara Oakley, renowned author and polymath joins Charles Humble for a deep dive into the brain's modes of operation, exploring the focused and diffuse modes of thinking, which together enhance learning by balancing task-oriented problem-solving with creativity.They emphasize the importance of mental relaxation and the role of exercise, sleep, and a healthy diet in boosting cognitive function. Key concepts such as deliberate practice, retrieval practice, and the value of psychological safety in team dynamics are explored, offering insights into effective learning and collaboration. The relationship between working memory and long-term memory is examined, highlighting how techniques like the Pomodoro Technique and spaced repetition optimize retention. Additionally, the conversation underscores the potential of AI in education, encouraging its integration despite concerns among educators.Lastly, the phenomenon of rustiness in skill retention is explained through the dynamics of neural connections, with a hopeful outlook on the future of neuroscience research in understanding conditions like autism and dyslexia.RECOMMENDED BOOKSBarbara Oakley • A Mind For NumbersPooja K. Agarwal & Patrice M. Bain • Powerful TeachingBarbara Oakley & Olav Schewe • Learn Like a ProBarbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky & Terrence J. Sejnowski • Uncommon Sense TeachingBarbara Oakley & Terrence J. Sejnowski • Learning How to LearnBarbara Oakley • MindshiftHeidi Helfand • Dynamic ReteamingDaniel Kahneman • Thinking, Fast and SlowMatthew Skelton & Manuel Pais • Team TopologiesBlueskyTwitterInstagramLinkedInFacebookCHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUSJoin this channel to get early access to videos & other perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/joinLooking for a unique learning experience?Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket: gotopia.techSUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL - new videos posted daily!

The New Zealand Initiative
Transforming maths education in New Zealand with Professor Barbara Oakley

The New Zealand Initiative

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2025 36:34


In this episode, Michael talks to Professor Barbara Oakley, a McGraw Prize recipient, New York Times bestselling author and creater of the world's largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with over 5 million students. They discuss evidence-based approaches to mathematics education and the problems with constructivist teaching methods, while outlining their mission to support New Zealand's new knowledge-rich curriculum through workshops for teachers across the country.

The RD2BE Podcast
The RD2BE Podcast - Trenton Voss, MS, RDN, LDN - How to Make the Most of Your Dietetics Journey

The RD2BE Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2025 63:56


In this episode, we explore the journey of nontraditional students and the mindset shifts that lead to success. Trenton Voss, MS, RDN, LDN, shares the power of pursuing what you love, and the importance of building a strong support system. We dive into mentorship, radical accountability, and the belief that learning never stops. From documenting both highs and lows to understanding motivation and the impact of the people around you, this conversation is all about growth, resilience, and trusting the process. Tune in to hear how taking the right first steps and making time for meaningful experiences can shape your future.Resources mentioned in the episode: 1. RD Mentorship Resources: https://www.rd2be.com/resources2. "Growth Mindset" by Carol Dweck: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/03454723223. "Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/

The Good Leadership Podcast
The Science of Learning: How to Retain, Recall, and Succeed - Part II with Dr. Barbara Oakley & Charles Good | The Good Leadership Podcast #188

The Good Leadership Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 2, 2025 18:33


Today, we are joined by Dr. Barbara Oakley. Dr. Barbara Oakley is a distinguished professor, engineer, and globally recognized expert in the fields of learning and neuroscience. She is best known for her groundbreaking work on understanding how people learn and for developing practical strategies to improve learning effectiveness. She is also a NYT bestselling author of several books on learning science and learning how to learn. Dr. Oakley's Website: https://barbaraoakley.com/ Dr. Oakley on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn Dr. Oakley's Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Barbara-Oakley-PhD/author/B000AP9ZR4 In this episode, Barbara shares her journey from struggling with math to becoming a distinguished professor of engineering. We also discuss the importance of updating learning strategies, embracing discomfort, and using techniques like active recall and dual-mode thinking (focused and diffuse modes) to enhance learning. Join us for this great discussion about the significance of self-awareness and self-monitoring in personal growth and learning efficiency. - Website and live online programs: http://ims-online.com Blog: https://blog.ims-online.com/ Podcast: https://ims-online.com/podcasts/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesagood/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesgood99 Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (02:00) Barbaras's Journey Overcoming Math Struggles (05:03) Technique: Maintaining Motivation and Focus (07:37) Tool: The Concept of Mind Shift (10:50) Technique: Self-Monitoring and Overcoming Comparisons (14:04) Technique: Focused vs. Diffused Mode of Thinking (21:22) Tools: Understanding Memory and Effective Learning Strategies (27:58) Conclusion

The Good Leadership Podcast
The Science of Learning: How to Retain, Recall, and Succeed - Part I with Dr. Barbara Oakley & Charles Good | The Good Leadership Podcast #187

The Good Leadership Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2024 28:23


Today, we are joined by Dr. Barbara Oakley. Dr. Barbara Oakley is a distinguished professor, engineer, and globally recognized expert in the fields of learning and neuroscience. She is best known for her groundbreaking work on understanding how people learn and for developing practical strategies to improve learning effectiveness. She is also a NYT bestselling author of several books on learning science and learning how to learn. Dr. Oakley's Website: https://barbaraoakley.com/ Dr. Oakley on Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn Dr. Oakley's Books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Barbara-Oakley-PhD/author/B000AP9ZR4 In this episode, Barbara shares her journey from struggling with math to becoming a distinguished professor of engineering. We also discuss the importance of updating learning strategies, embracing discomfort, and using techniques like active recall and dual-mode thinking (focused and diffuse modes) to enhance learning. Join us for this great discussion about the significance of self-awareness and self-monitoring in personal growth and learning efficiency. - Website and live online programs: http://ims-online.com Blog: https://blog.ims-online.com/ Podcast: https://ims-online.com/podcasts/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlesagood/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/charlesgood99 Chapters: (00:00) Introduction (02:00) Barbaras's Journey Overcoming Math Struggles (05:03) Technique: Maintaining Motivation and Focus (07:37) Tool: The Concept of Mind Shift (10:50) Technique: Self-Monitoring and Overcoming Comparisons (14:04) Technique: Focused vs. Diffused Mode of Thinking (21:22) Tools: Understanding Memory and Effective Learning Strategies (27:58) Conclusion

Learnings from Leaders: the P&G Alumni Podcast
2024: This year's Learnings from Leaders

Learnings from Leaders: the P&G Alumni Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 24:38


As 2024 comes to a close, we compiled the many learnings - from leaders - we heard this year. So sit back with your beverage of choice and enjoy! And give us the gift of a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts - https://apple.co/2L85TsT Featuring the voices - and learnings - from John Pepper, Ursula Burns, Isaac Saul, Karen Francis, Katherine Vellinga, Andrew Swinand, Barbara Oakley, Tristan Walker, Gordon Brunner, Stefan Homeister, Bonnie Wan, Bernice Ang, Trevor Lai, Denis Beausejour, Roula Clerc-Nassar, Bernd Pichler, Alex Keith, Dawn Garibaldi, Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Shaun Reinsurance, Mary Carmen Gasco-Buisson, Ravi Chaturvedi, Mark Ciccone, Sam Avivi, Raman Sehgal, Nir Eyal, Jorge Montoya, Jessica Gleeson, Bob McDonald, Rajiv Satyal, Drew Tarvin, and Bob Gilbreath. Thank you for YOUR continued support of our podcast and our amazing guests! Heard something you missed? Be sure to go back and check out each guest's full episode. Got a suggestion for a future episode? Send a note to pgalums@gmail.com — we'd love to hear from you! Thanks for your continued support of our Learnings from Leaders podcast!

The Introverted Entrepreneur
#580: Pathological Altruism and Personal Growth with Dr. Barbara Oakley

The Introverted Entrepreneur

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2024 86:16


In this episode, I talked with Dr. Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering and the creator of one of the world's largest online courses, Learning How to Learn. We discussed pathological altruism, learning how to pivot, understanding the motivation behind our actions, knowing when to stay or quit, and so much more. Get ready for an insightful and reflective conversation. Connect with Dr. Oakley at https://barbaraoakley.com If you liked this podcast, please: -subscribe -share it with others -write a review  **Let's stay connected.** Click ⁠⁠Deniseglee.com⁠⁠ to

Let’s Talk Learning Disabilities
Episode 99 - Dyscalculia, STEM Tutoring, and College Coaching with Cindy Palmer

Let’s Talk Learning Disabilities

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 4, 2024 40:02


In this episode, Abbey and Laurie chat with Cindy Palmer from STEM Tutoring, who specializes in dyscalculia. Cindy shares her background, explaining her career shift from a high school biology teacher to a one-on-one therapist for adolescents. Resources: STEM Tutoring: https://www.tutoringstem.com Book - A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/a-mind-for-numbers/ Let's Talk Learning Disabilities Website: https://ltldpodcast.com Contact info for the podcast: letstalklearningdisabilities@gmail.com E-Diagnostic Learning Website: https://ediagnosticlearning.com Social: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/eDiaglearning/ Twitter: @diaglearning LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/diagnostic-learning-services/ Instagram: @diaglearning

Sigma Nutrition Radio
#530: Evidence-based Strategies for Learning & Skill Acquisition – Scott Young

Sigma Nutrition Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2024 55:00


The concept of “learning how to learn” focuses on meta-learning, which involves improving one's own learning strategies. Instead of just absorbing information, meta-learners refine the skills that make learning itself more effective. Cognitive science supports various learning strategies by exploring how the brain processes information. Techniques such as spaced repetition, active recall, and interleaving can improve long-term retention and understanding. Improving abilities in specialized areas, like reading and interpreting research, involves strategic approaches. Similarly, becoming more knowledgeable about nutrition requires staying updated with the latest research and critically evaluating findings to boost proficiency and confidence in the field. In this podcast episode, Scott Young discusses these themes, offering insights from his work on learning optimization. He shares practical methods for improving learning efficiency, particularly in reading research and expanding knowledge in nutrition. Scott's expertise provides a valuable framework for enhancing cognitive abilities and achieving more effective learning outcomes. Links:  Subscribe to Sigma Nutrition PREMIUM Scott Young's Website  SigmaNutrition.com Receive our free weekly email: the Sigma Synopsis Related Episode: #188: Barbara Oakley, PhD – How to Learn, Study & Get Better With Science Timestamps 02:13 Introduction to Topic 04:41 Conversation with Scott Young Begins 06:56 Insights on Learning and Cognitive Science 12:42 Effective Learning Strategies 20:27 Overcoming Mental Barriers 31:14 Effective Teaching Strategies 35:14 The Importance of Feedback in Learning 38:52 Optimizing Your Learning Environment 44:29 Translating Complex Information for a General Audience 52:32 Key Ideas (Premium-Only) Subscribe to Sigma Nutrition PREMIUM

Edufi
Co-Occurrence #11 – From Neurons to Networks: Understanding the Biology of Learning and Artificial Intelligence Parallels (EP.34)

Edufi

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 29, 2024 52:34


Co-Occurrence #11 - From Neurons to Networks: Understanding the Biology of Learning and Artificial Intelligence Parallels (EP.34) With Barbara Oakley, Ph.D  Our brains are the center of learning acquisition, so understanding the biological neuroscientific processes behind learning is essential to all educators and learners. These processes are mirrored in artificial intelligence models. Understanding the process of both the human mind and the AI mind can help educators craft successful strategies for when and how to leverage emerging educational technologies.  Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University and author Dr. Barbara Oakley joins host Stacy Craft for a compelling exploration on how learning works, the biology behind our learning processes and the ways that AI is mimicking the neuro processes of organic learning. This episode is the eleventh installment of our limited series, "Co-Occurrence," featuring conversations exploring AI and related technologies as well as possible, probably and actual impacts on education. From discussions around what we know, what we hope for, and what is happening concretely today - this limited series will give you some things to ponder and actionable takeaways. Questions? Feedback? Ideas? Contact us at edufi@mayo.edu Special thanks to MaryAnne Nestor Audio Edit Support: Jaquan Leonard Additional Resources: Barbara Oakley Website - https://barbaraoakley.com/ Oakley, B., & Sejnowski, T. J. (2021). Uncommon sense teaching: Practical insights in brain science to help students learn. Penguin. Quartz SR, Sejnowski TJ. Beyond modularity: Neural evidence for constructivist principles in development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1994;17(4):725-726. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00036839 Ullman, M. T., & Lovelett, J. T. (2018). Implications of the declarative/procedural model for improving second language learning: The role of memory enhancement techniques. Second Language Research, 34(1), 39-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658316675195 B. Oakley, "Learning How We Learn: In an unlikely confluence, bioengineers are finding fertile ground in research and teaching about learning," in IEEE Pulse, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 37-41, March-April 2015, doi: 10.1109/MPUL.2014.2386574. keywords: {Learning systems;Biomedical engineering education;Psychology},  

Shimon's Tribe
What geniuses get wrong about being “smart” | Barbara Oakley

Shimon's Tribe

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 6:35


With great genius comes great rigidity. Professor Barabara Oakley on how to stay mentally agile — and get smarter as a result. Join Barbara Oakley as she delves into the concept of "Einstellung," a psychological phenomenon where our brains become stuck in one way of thinking. Oakley explains how this tendency to stick with what we know from an early age narrows our cognitive abilities, as unused brain connections are pruned away, limiting our potential to perceive and embrace new ideas. Using her own personal anecdotes, Oakley illustrates the dangers of these echo chambers and the importance of maintaining open dialogues with differing viewpoints. She warns of the societal risks of polarization and the dismissal of opposing opinions, drawing parallels between historical and contemporary issues with fake news and the importance of critical thinking. Whether you're looking to enhance your problem-solving skills or simply curious about the workings of the human mind, Oakley's insights offer a path towards a more flexible and enriched mental landscape. Join us to discover how to break free from mental ruts and embrace a life filled with learning and growth. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ❍ About The Well ❍ Do we inhabit a multiverse? Do we have free will? What is love? Is evolution directional? There are no simple answers to life's biggest questions, and that's why they're the questions occupying the world's brightest minds. So what do they think? How is the power of science advancing understanding? How are philosophers and theologians tackling these fascinating questions? Let's dive into The Well.

Why Lead?
0070 - Master Any Skill: The Ultimate Guide to Learning How to Learn ft Barbara Oakley

Why Lead?

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 68:00


Dive into a journey of transformation with Barbara Oakley, from struggling with basic math to becoming a renowned engineering professor, and discover the secrets to mastering any skill. This episode isn't just a story; it's a blueprint for turning your biggest challenges into your greatest strengths. Barbara shares groundbreaking insights on the neuroscience of learning, the power of habits, and the crucial role of sleep in mastering new skills. Whether you're looking to overhaul your learning strategy, enhance your leadership skills, or simply find more meaning in your daily tasks, Barbara's insights will guide you to a more enlightened path. Don't miss the chance to unlock the genius within you. Tune in and transform the way you think, learn, and lead.Barbara Oakley's Website: https://barbaraoakley.com/Barbara Oakley's Books: https://shorturl.at/amEUZBarbara's Coursera Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Bookworm
190: Learn Like a Pro by Barbara Oakley & Olav Schewe

Bookworm

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 16, 2024 107:38


Do you have trouble learning new things? Today's authors promise to help us improve our ability to learn based on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Join Mike & new co-host Cory Hixson as they attempt to make the best use of their brains. Mike's Notes from Learn Like a Pro Cory's Designing Your Academic Life workshop […]

Code for Thought
[EN] Learning How to Learn (and Teach) - Barbara Oakley

Code for Thought

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2024 35:34


With her online course 'Learning How to Learn' (and companion book 'A Mind for Numbers'), Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor in engineering, reached many of us who - like myself - wanted to improve the way we learn, adopt new technologies or get into complex subject areas. Many researchers, PhD students, post-docs teach themselves how to program while trying to get their thesis or work done. But how do you go about it. I hope this interview gives some food for thought on how to get better with learning (and teaching).https://barbaraoakley.com Barbara Oakley's homepagehttps://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn The course Learning How to Learn on Courserahttps://blog.innerdrive.co.uk/interleaving-your-teaching Interleavinghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique the Pomodoro TechniqueSupport the Show.Thank you for listening and your ongoing support. It means the world to us! Support the show on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/codeforthought Get in touch: Email mailto:code4thought@proton.me UK RSE Slack (ukrse.slack.com): @code4thought or @piddie US RSE Slack (usrse.slack.com): @Peter Schmidt Mastadon: https://fosstodon.org/@code4thought or @code4thought@fosstodon.org LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pweschmidt/ (personal Profile)LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/codeforthought/ (Code for Thought Profile) This podcast is licensed under the Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Learnings from Leaders: the P&G Alumni Podcast
Dr. Barbara Oakley, Engineer, Professor, Author

Learnings from Leaders: the P&G Alumni Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2024 79:10


“Really great leaders oftentimes will surround themselves with people who have contrary opinions who have differing sorts of thoughts.” Dr. Barbara Oakley is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Barbara was a captain in the U.S. Army, a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers, a radio operator in the South Pole, and the author of 8 books. She is also the creator and instructor of Learning to Learn, the most popular Massive Open Online Course ever with over one million enrolled students. But Barbara is not exactly a P&G Alumni, so what's the deal? Alongside our partners at P&G, we're thrilled to share another episode of P&G's “More Than Soap” podcast - available exclusively each week to P&G Employees at GetMoreThanSoap.com. On “More Than Soap,” P&G shares weekly conversations with Inspiring guests, unique perspectives, and unconventional ideas. “More Than Soap” is P&G's official internal podcast - available to all 100,000 P&G employees worldwide, and hosted by Dorion Positano, P&G's Director of New Business and Content Innovation and AI Integration Strategy. Interested in learning more about P&G's “More Than Soap” podcast, or P&G Studios, can reach out directly to Dorion on LinkedIn. GetMoreThanSoap.com

Relationship Power at work
Barbara Oakley on Critical Thinking and Learning

Relationship Power at work

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 28, 2024 84:52


Barbara Oakley and I converse about Critical Thinking and Learning - recorded for those it might help. Barbara is the creator of Uncommon Sense Teaching, Learn Like a Pro, Learning How to Learn, and many other courses, books, talks, and business presentations. Want to learn more from Barbara? Here's a great start https://coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn https://barbaraoakley.com Books mentioned in this conversation The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-See-Curiosity-Exploration-Discovery/dp/B0BSP29SQ4 The Crux by Richard Rummelt https://www.amazon.com/Crux-How-Leaders-Become-Strategists/dp/B09WRTFWNZ Seek: How Curiosity Can Transform Your Life and Change the World by Scott Shigeoka https://www.amazon.com/Seek-Curiosity-Transform-Change-World/dp/B0C822WG9W Annie Duke's books "The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away" and "Thinking in Bets”? https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-in-Bets-Annie-Duke-audiobook/dp/B078SBSBW3 The Trusted Learning Advisor https://www.amazon.com/Trusted-Advisor-20th-Anniversary/dp/B095PSYBLC The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins https://www.amazon.com/The-Selfish-Gene-Richard-Dawkins-audiobook/dp/B004U8NB2M Everybody lies What the internet tells us about who we really are https://www.amazon.com/Everybody-Lies-audiobook/dp/B077XJ5QBB Play to Win by Roger Martin - What has to be true for this to be an effective strategy? https://www.amazon.com/Playing-to-Win-audiobook/dp/B00GRMUSOS Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers by Robert Jackall https://www.amazon.com/Moral-Mazes-Robert-Jackall-audiobook/dp/B003ATPA1M Between the State and the Schoolhouse: Understanding the Failure of Common Core by Tom Loveless https://www.amazon.com/Between-State-Schoolhouse-Understanding-Educational/dp/1682535908 The article mentioned Curiosity's different stances. https://www.templeton.org/news/curiosity-has-two-faces General interest curiosity, Deprivation curiosity (Barb also said something new to me. predatory curiosity)

The Bigger Picture
Ep. 45 - Barbara Oakley: The Dark Side of Empathy

The Bigger Picture

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2024 71:37


In today's episode, I spoke with Barbara Oakley about her work on pathological altruism and the dark side of empathy. Our discussion began by delving into Barbara's unique background and experiences, gaining valuable insights into her journey. As the conversation unfolded, we addressed society's blindspot for pathological altruism, unraveling the Christian roots at the heart of our assumption that empathy for the weak and victimized is always good. The darker facets of empathy took center stage as we explored its potential for destructiveness in contexts such as codependency and abusive relationships. Our exploration extended to the cultural nuances surrounding altruism, shedding light on how its definition can significantly vary across diverse societies. A focal point of our conversation was the vulnerability of highly agreeable individuals, particularly women, and their susceptibility to the influence of narcissistic personalities. We examined the potential harm in advising highly agreeable individuals to be more empathetic, since such a message can have a reinforcing effect on their self-sacrificing tendencies. Instead, agreeable people should be taught and encouraged to create healthy boundaries between themselves and others - boundaries that allow them to empathize with others without overidentifying and becoming consumed by others' feelings. We explored how Simon Baron Cohen's 'Empathizing - Systemizing' spectrum can be used to understand the characteristics of a hyper-empathizing brain type. Our conversation extended to the influence of universities on ideologies, where we explored the promotion of Marxism, victimhood, and a pressure to conform to a perception of niceness. We also mentioned the overemphasis on teamwork in universities and its potential exploitation to the detriment of individual growth. Lastly, we visited Ayn Rand's important work in warning the world of the dangers of socialism and misplaced altruism. Barbara shared some surprising facts about Ayn Rand's individualistic personality, which no doubt gave her the strength to speak out against the Soviet Union. We explored Ayn Rand's idea of selfishness and how a more expansive definition of the self can be used to integrate her philosophy with values such as relationships, family, and community. I hope you enjoy this episode. Do let me know what you think about the dark side of empathy and agreeableness. Can you relate? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

Future Learning Design Podcast
(Un)common Sense Teaching - A Conversation with Dr. Barbara Oakley

Future Learning Design Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 7, 2024 56:26


Professor Barbara Oakley is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University. Barbara's research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal. She is New York Times best-selling author who has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Her book A Mind for Numbers, on effective learning in STEM disciplines, has sold over a million copies worldwide. Together with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, Barbara co-teaches Coursera's “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world's most popular massive open online courses with some four million registered students, along with a number of other leading MOOCs. Barbara has adventured widely through her lifetime. She rose from the ranks of Private to Captain in the U.S. Army, during which time she was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She also worked as a communications expert at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and has served as a Russian translator on board Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea. Barbara's latest books: Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens You can find others here: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/ Social Links LinkedIn: @barbaraoakley Instagram: @barb_oakley

ehoui!
93. Comment mieux apprendre le français ?

ehoui!

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2024 25:09


Mes meilleurs voeux pour la nouvelle année.Pour ce premier épisode de l'année 2024, je vous partage d'excellents conseils d'un livre que j'ai lu sur la neuropédagogie qui s'appelle "Apprendre vite et bien" de Barbara Oakley.La neuropédagogie a pour but d'améliorer l'apprentisssage en se fondant sur la science et la recherche.Bonne écoute !Cet épisode est disponible avec les sous-titres sur ma chaîne YouTube.------------------------------------------------------------Les 40 erreurs à NE PLUS faire, c'est gratuit et c'est ici.Vous voulez enfin passer à la vitesse supérieure ? Prenez des cours avec moi, c'est ici.

Thư Viện Sách Nói Có Bản Quyền
Tiềm Năng Vô Hạn [Sách Nói]

Thư Viện Sách Nói Có Bản Quyền

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2023 39:44


Nghe trọn sách nói Tiềm Năng Vô Hạn trên ứng dụng Fonos: https://fonos.link/PodcastFonos--Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 13.000 nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, Podcast, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Bạn có thể nghe miễn phí chương 1 của tất cả sách nói trên Fonos. Tải app để trải nghiệm ngay!--Tiềm Năng Vô Hạn là cuốn sách giúp bạn vượt qua mọi định kiến và những ràng buộc hiện tại về tư duy, để tận dụng triệt để những tiềm năng của bản thân và mở ra các cơ hội mới mẻ trên con đường sự nghiệp.Thực chất, bất cứ ai cũng có thể học hỏi và tiến bộ hơn, không quan trọng tuổi tác hay xuất phát điểm của mỗi người. Quá trình mở rộng tâm trí, xoay chuyển khó khăn thành động lực, biến những điều tưởng như là nhược điểm thành ưu điểm để thể hiện năng lực của bản thân trong một bối cảnh khác biệt hoàn toàn, đã được chứng minh là hoàn toàn khả thi, thông qua rất nhiều câu chuyện thực tế trong sách nói này.Những người vốn theo đuổi nghệ thuật và các ngành xã hội cũng có thể trở thành chuyên gia về khoa học tự nhiên, một người chìm trong trầm cảm vẫn có thể lột xác để hòa giải với cuộc đời, những đứa trẻ từng bị chê cười vì thành tích học tập kém cỏi cuối cùng lại khiến tất cả mọi người phải ngạc nhiên khi bứt phá trong chính lĩnh vực giáo dục. Rất nhiều câu chuyện như vậy đã được Barbara Oakley thuật lại trong cuốn sách này.Vừa dựa trên các kiến thức khoa học về tâm lý và não bộ con người, vừa đối chiếu với những câu chuyện thực tế, Tiến sĩ Oakley dẫn dắt người nghe tìm hiểu hành trình thay đổi tư duy, mở rộng các tiềm năng, nắm bắt cơ hội và vươn tới thành công của những người tưởng như rất khó lòng tiến bộ hơn được nữa. Học hỏi là một hành trình bất tận, và mọi kiến thức mà ta thu thập được từ trước đến nay, dẫu tưởng như vô ích, lại có thể trở nên cực kỳ có lợi cho chúng ta trong những hoạt động mới mà ta dũng cảm thử sức. Khi bạn sở hữu tư duy đúng đắn, quyết tâm kiên định, các nền tảng hỗ trợ học tập hiệu quả và sự trợ giúp của những người cố vấn - thì hãy tự tin rằng, không có gì là không thể.--Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

Seeking Voices of Health, Healing & Hope
Learning How to Learn with Dr. Barbara Oakley

Seeking Voices of Health, Healing & Hope

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2023 66:46


Do have challenges learning? Join me as I discuss Learning How to Learn with Dr. Barbara Oakley. We'll cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects. Dr. Oakley's research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal. She is a New York Times best-selling author who has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Her book A Mind for Numbers, on effective learning in STEM disciplines, has sold over a million copies worldwide; Uncommon Sense Teaching is a critically praised guide to teaching based on insights from neuroscience.

Thư Viện Sách Nói Có Bản Quyền
A Mind For Numbers - Cách Chinh Phục Toán Và Khoa Học [Sách Nói]

Thư Viện Sách Nói Có Bản Quyền

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2023 23:43


Bộ não con người có những khả năng tuyệt vời, nhưng nó lại không kèm hướng dẫn sử dụng. Bạn sẽ tìm thấy hướng dẫn sử dụng ấy trong Cách Chinh Phục Toán Và Khoa Học - A Mind For Numbers. Trong suốt quãng thời gian còn đi học, tác giả Barbara Oakley thường xuyên bị điểm kém môn toán và khoa học. Sau khi tốt nghiệp, bà mới nhận thấy mình thực sự cần những kỹ năng từ hai bộ môn ấy để theo đuổi sự nghiệp. Với thời gian dài trên ghế nhà trường, cùng những nghiên cứu về thần kinh học, bà chia sẻ những phương pháp, bí quyết dễ áp dụng giúp người đọc vừa vui học vừa đạt được kết quả tốt trong môn toán và khoa học.            Sách nói này đưa ra các cách thức giúp học sinh – sinh viên đang gặp rắc rối với môn toán và khoa học biết cách khai mở và sử dụng nguồn tài nguyên vô tận trong chính bộ não của mình, qua đó không chỉ chinh phục thành công bộ môn này mà đồng trời trở nên xuất sắc hơn bao giờ hết. Các kỹ thuật tư duy sáng tạo như tư duy tập trung và tư duy phân tán, kỹ thuật lập khối thông tin hay đơn giản chỉ là kỹ thuật Pomodoro,… được tác giả trình bày ngắn gọn và rõ ràng, giúp độc giả dễ dàng áp dụng chúng vào học tập, công việc cũng như đời sống thường ngày.--Về Fonos:Fonos là Ứng dụng âm thanh số - Với hơn 3.000+ nội dung gồm Sách nói có bản quyền, Ebook, Tóm tắt sách, Thiền định, Truyện ngủ, Nhạc chủ đề, Truyện thiếu nhi. Tất cả chương 1 đều miễn phí, tải app ngay: https://fonos.link/PCFonos--Tìm hiểu thêm về Fonos: https://fonos.vn/Theo dõi Facebook Fonos: https://www.facebook.com/fonosvietnam/

Libertópolis - Ideas con valor
Libertópolis negocios, lunes 4 de septiembre del 2023

Libertópolis - Ideas con valor

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 4, 2023 51:07


Goal Smasher by Audrey Lawrence
Cracking the Brain Secrets: 3 Simple Steps to Overcome Compartmentalized Beliefs

Goal Smasher by Audrey Lawrence

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 21, 2023 3:19


Cracking the Brain Secrets: 3 Steps to Unleash Your Full Potential" Welcome to the GoalSmasher Podcast, your three-minute brain hack to propel you forward. In this episode, we dive deep into the hidden world of brain secrets and neuroscience to uncover how you can break free from compartmentalized beliefs and unlock your true potential. Brought to you from the insights of "GoalSmasher" by Audrey Lawrence, I'm your host, Larry Playton. Join us as we unravel the enigmatic power of the brain and how it influences our beliefs and actions. Compartmentalized beliefs, those confining notions that often hold us back, can be unlocked using neuroscience-backed techniques. We'll explore the significance of recognizing these limiting beliefs and understanding that they're more like conditioned responses rather than accurate reflections of our abilities. Our brain, much like a versatile tool, has the capacity for growth and adaptation. Confirmation bias can trap us in a cycle of reinforcing these beliefs. Learn how to challenge this bias and embrace new possibilities by understanding the evidence that shows how students' academic performance improves with deep teaching methods, regardless of the school's environment. Keywords: brain secrets, neuroscience, unlocking potential, growth mindset, compartmentalized beliefs, confirmation bias, deep teaching methods, brain adaptability, rewiring pathways, self-awareness, Barbara Oakley quote, Audrey Lawrence, Ted Talks.

Homeschool Works
HW Skinny: Focused and Diffuse Modes of Thinking

Homeschool Works

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 25, 2023 19:00


In this episode, Kathryn and Debra discuss how students can use their understanding of the mind's two modes for thinking to better apply their attention to their studies.A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley: https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Numbers-Science-Flunked-Algebra/dp/039916524X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1689277055&sr=8-1Learning How to Learn by Barbara Oakley: https://www.amazon.com/Learning-How-Learn-Spending-Studying/dp/0143132547/ref=sr_1_1?crid=150YTL6G6WZOJ&keywords=learning+how+to+learn+barbara+oakley&qid=1689277102&sprefix=Learning+how+to+lear%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-1Pomodoro Hourglass timers: https://www.amazon.com/OrgaNice-Hourglass-Sand-Timer-Productivity/dp/B01KFYMFYE/ref=sr_1_35?crid=3B7WD30HLSX8H&keywords=hourglass+timers&qid=1689277139&sprefix=hourglass+timers%2Caps%2C106&sr=8-35

The Mob Mentality Show
From Illusions to Competence: Insights from Neuroscience on Learning Alone and Together with Barbara Oakley

The Mob Mentality Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 17, 2023 54:25


Welcome to a fascinating episode of Mob Mentality, where we jump into the world of learning, cognition, and neuroscience with the brilliant Barbara Oakley. Join us as we explore the secrets behind learning how to learn, which is essential in product development, tech, agile, engineering, and beyond. In this mind-expanding conversation, Barbara Oakley will share valuable insights from her expertise in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. Discover the science of learning as we unravel the illusions of competence that hinder cognitive growth. Learn how dopamine influences our motivation to learn and the role of retrieval in diagnosing intellectual development. For all the tech enthusiasts out there, we'll explore the significance of code katas, computer programming, and practice enrichment in becoming a master of your craft. Understand the importance of mastering habits, learning facts, and utilizing cognitive psychology to enhance your learning process. But that's not all – we'll delve into the world of group learning and mob skill development, where neuroscience plays a pivotal role in optimizing team performance. Uncover the power of interleaving techniques and how they contribute to accelerated learning. Ever wondered about the impact of brain fatigue on learning and working? We've got you covered. With the lens of neuroscience, discover how efficiency is lost via task switching and learn about the fascinating concept of "supertaskers" in comparison to the rest of us. Join us as we explore various methods of acquiring knowledge, including speaking, hearing, and typing, and uncover the science behind spaced repetition and Pomodoro. Not forgetting the significance of sleep in the consolidation of knowledge and the refactoring of grey matter. We'll also discuss the responsible use of AI tools without negatively affecting human learning and problem-solving abilities. Intrigued by why IQ may decline over time? Tune in to find out the reasons behind this phenomenon and how person formation during memorization and learning plays a significant role. Are you ready to explore the "Map Habit" and its impact on knowledge retention? We'll also touch upon the surprising benefits of action video games on the elderly and their brains. Prepare yourself for a knowledge-packed episode that will transform your understanding of learning, cognition, and the human brain. Join us for an unforgettable discussion with Barbara Oakley on Mob Mentality! Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to support our channel and stay updated on more thought-provoking content. FYI: Video and show notes to be posted here in the next day or so.

LTB Podcast
#401 Dr Barbara Oakley: Upgrade Your Learning. Upgrade Your Career.

LTB Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2023 44:18


We often equate "learning" with our school days. It basically just involved being able to memory a lot of facts. But what if your capacity to learn extends far beyond that, influencing everything from your clients' results to your business's success? And…what if you could...learn to...learn more effectively?    In this episode, Stuart is joined by an expert in this very field. Dr. Barbara Oakley is a distinguished educator, author, and engineering professor. Her work spans a multitude of disciplines, but she is particularly recognised for her research in learning practices.    In this episode, they delve into the heart of effective learning strategies. They discuss the crucial role of 'chunking' information, finding the right balance between focused and diffuse modes of thinking, tackling procrastination head-on, and why experiencing imposter syndrome might not be as negative as it seems...    So, whether you're striving to remember the content of the courses you watch, the books you read, or simply to recall the distal insertion of Semimembranosus (it's the horizontal groove on the posteromedial surface of the medial tibial condyle, if you were wondering), then this episode is a must-listen!    Don't miss this opportunity to learn…about learning… from one of the leading experts in the field.    Timestamps:    1:50- Career Advice: Why imposter syndrome might be helpful. 8:17- What is learning?   12:53- Why is learning important?  14:45- Is it good for people to learn?  18:05- Is learning practical information better for people's mood?  19:36- Learning and problem solving.  24:11- Diffuse and focused mode.  27:02- How long should learning blocks be?  30:35- Reviewing Notes  32:30- What is a chunk?  35:10- What is retrieval practice?  36:53- Why does procrastination occur?  39:36- The Importance of getting started. Find Out More About Barbara https://barbaraoakley.com/   Find Out More About LTB: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liftthebar/  Website: https://liftthebar.com/  Free Trial: https://liftthebar.com/free-trial   

Principal Center Radio Podcast – The Principal Center
Barbara Oakley & Beth Rogowsky—Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn

Principal Center Radio Podcast – The Principal Center

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2023 37:34


Get the book, Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn Visit Barbara's website, www.barbaraoakley.com Visit Beth's website www.bethrogowsky.com About the Author Barbara Oakley, PhD, is the bestselling author of A Mind for Numbers and a professor of engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her research involves bioengineering with an emphasis on neuroscience and cognitive psychology. Dr. Oakley is an internationally recognized expert on learning and on creating high-quality online materials for massive open online courses (MOOCs). With Terrence Sejnowski, she teaches one of the world's most popular MOOCs, called Learning How to Learn.   Beth Rogowsky, Ed.D., is a professor of education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. In addition to completing post-doctoral training in neuroscience, she has fourteen years of experience teaching English language arts to middle-schoolers in rural and urban public schools.

Turing School Podcast
Surprise It's Bailey

Turing School Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2023 32:48


Jeannie & Jesse chat with Bailey Diveley, Senior Engineer at Ibotta and 1808 BE Alum, about her past life in the nonprofit world, her future career pivots, learning, metacognition, and a special surprise for long time listeners at the end. Bailey recommended the book Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley and Maybe you Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. You can connect with Bailey in the #turing-jcs slack channel or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/baileydiveley/.

Suck It And See with Nathy G
Procrastination Evaluation

Suck It And See with Nathy G

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2023 20:45


As a card carrying procrastinator, one of my favourite things to do is to research why I procrastinate, instead of doing all the things I know I should be doing. It has a dual advantage: not only do I get to delay doing the thing that I'm feeling discomfort and apprehension around, I also get to kid myself that I'm actually doing something productive, and therefore am justified in putting off tackling said annoying or uncomfortable task. Don't you love how humans can absolutely kid themselves into believing almost anything?! However, in the case of this episode of the podcast, it seems that I've managed to create something productive (a podcast episode) out of an activity (researching procrastination), that I was doing to avoid doing something uncomfortable that I was putting off (recording a podcast episode). See what I did there? Frikkin genius!!! But all self-congratulation aside, I have been working with a really cool productivity hack - the Pomodoro Technique - that is definitely helping me to tackle tasks. So in today's episode I share how it might work for you. https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/pomodoro-technique I also talk about a topic that is rapidly growing in interest for me - and that is the disregulation of the nervous system. So I also share a snippet of what I'm discovering in that space and how it relates to procrastination. Finally - I mention a brain function called 'Focus and Diffuse' - which relates to how we learn and retain information - really cool stuff. https://barbaraoakley.com/books/learn-like-a-pro/ Dr Barbara Oakley is a guru in this space. Check out her book 'Learn Like a Pro'.

Tactical Living
E596 Here's What To Do When Anticipation Gives You Anxiety

Tactical Living

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2023 10:45


Has there ever been something that you know you had to do but you were either putting it off or you built up anticipatory anxiety before the ‘thing' actually happened?   Think about the last time that you had a job interview, doctor's appointment or maybe when you didn't exactly feel like hitting the gym.   In her book A Mind for Numbers, Barbara Oakley teaches us how to learn.   It's often new/complex material or circumstances that intimidate us but learning something new or embarking on a new journey doesn't have to be as daunting as it might seem.   In fact, there's a process for getting around this altogether.   Tune in as Coach Ashlie Walton and Detective Walton break down how the pain is in the anticipation and not the doing.   ⩥ PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL ⩤ https://bi3xbvVont.ly/   CLICK HERE for our best-selling products: https://amzn.to/3xaG3xw and https://rdbl.co/3DIQVUC   CLICK HERE to join our free Police, Fire, Military and Families Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/38w2e7r   Check out our website and learn more about how you can work with LEO Warriors by going to: https://www.leowarriors.com/   Like what you hear? We are honored. Drop a review and subscribe to our show.    The Tactical Living Podcast is owned by LEO Warriors, LLC. None of the content presented may be copied, repurposed or used without the owner's prior consent.   For PR, speaking requests and other networking opportunities, contact LEO Warriors:   EMAIL: ashliewalton555@gmail.com.   ADDRESS: P.O. Box 400115 Hesperia, Ca. 92340   ASHLIE'S FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/police.fire.lawenforcement   ➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤➤ This episode is NOT sponsored. Some product links are affiliate links which means if you buy something by clicking on one of our links, we'll receive a small commission.

Emotional Balance Sheet with Paul Fenner
Barbara Oakley – Learning How to Learn: Insights for Parents on How to Help Their Kids Learn

Emotional Balance Sheet with Paul Fenner

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2022 55:53


How can parents help their kids make the most of their studying time?  And why is it okay for kids not to like their parents when it comes to studying? Barbara Oakley is a distinguished engineering professor at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.  Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior—a focus that has driven her curiosity about how people, especially kids, learn how to learn. As a parent who struggles with getting their kids to study, Barbara reminds us that it's okay for our kids not to like us when it comes to studying.  “Other kids and teachers will tell your kids what they want to hear rather than what is best.”  Parents know intuitively what is best for their kids in the long run, but in the short term, that can pose challenges. Growing up disliking math and science because she wasn't good at it has helped drive Barbara's career in practical teaching and academic research.  She has found that people can perform a Mindshift, which can help unlock your hidden potential regardless of age or background. A critical key to learning that Barbara points out over and over is that consistent repetition is the strategy that leads to breakthrough learning.  Barbara explains what the most helpful strategy for learning is and why.  A secret, it is related to a tomato. Finally, as many other prominent guests have addressed with kids and adults, Barbara talks about why it is not always a good strategy to follow your passion.  Doing so can limit your options and ability to learn new things that you think are too hard but could help propel your life and career further than ever imagined. Please enjoy my conversation with Barbara Oakley. For show notes and resources discussed in this episode, visit tammacapital.com/92. For more episodes, go to tammacapital.com/podcast. Follow Paul on Facebook and LinkedIn. And feel free to email Paul at pfenner@tammacapital.com with any feedback, questions, or ideas for future guests and topics.

Mission To The Moon Podcast
เรียนรู้อย่างไรให้เข้าใจทุกเรื่อง? กับ Barbara Oakley ต้นแบบของ ทอย DataRockie | MM Remaster EP.101

Mission To The Moon Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2022 26:16


“Barbara Oakley” อดีตนักเรียนธรรมดาที่เกลียดวิชาคณิตศาสตร์เป็นพิเศษ แต่หลังจากศึกษา “วิธีการเรียน” อย่างมีประสิทธิภาพจากคนที่ประสบความสำเร็จมากมาย เธอก็กลับมาเรียนอีกครั้งในวัยยี่สิบกว่า จนคว้าปริญญาเอกด้านวิศวกรระบบได้ในที่สุด และเธอก็ได้นำ “เคล็ดลับ” ความสำเร็จนี้ไปสร้างเป็นคลาสเรียนยอดนิยมใน Coursera และเขียนเป็นหนังสือ เรื่อง “Learning How to Learn” เรียนรู้อย่างไรให้เรียนรู้ทุกเรื่องได้ตลอดชีวิต . วันนี้ อั้ม ศุภกร จะมาพูดคุยกับ “คุณทอย กษิดิศ สตางค์มงคล” เจ้าของเพจและเว็บไซต์ “DataRockie” ในเรื่องบทเรียนที่เขาได้เรียนรู้จาก Barbara Oakley และนำมาปรับใช้จนประสบความสำเร็จ . รับฟังเรื่องราวและบทเรียนจาก The Master พร้อมๆ กันได้ในรายการ MM Remaster EP. นี้

Language Hacking
#117 Dr. Barbara Oakley on Learning How to Learn

Language Hacking

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2022 61:02


Featured ResourcesRebel with a ClausePatreon Extended EpisodeEnjoy the podcast? Subscribe to our Patreon to get access to extended episodes and loads more content. Here's what you'll hear in the long-form episode: Motivation around learning and how to make progress when you feel like you're bad at something Dr. Oakley's 3 language survival tools Advice Dr. Oakley would have given herself when she was starting out with language learning How to get back into a language you stopped learning How Dr. Oakley would start learning a new language today Dr. Oakley asks Benny what to do when a teacher assigns you things that just don't make sense for you personally Learn more and access this bonus content on Patreon.Featured in This Episode Learning How to Learn MOOC A Mind for Numbers Mindshift Benny's Speak from Day 1 Method Mentioned in this Episode Learning How to Learn MOOC A Mind for Numbers Mindshift Dr. Oakley's website Evil Genes Benny's Speak from Day 1 Method Kumon Smartick Episode OverviewSome of the topics brought up during the interview are: How Dr. Oakley got into learning how to learn Joining the military to learn a new language at the Defense Language Institute Using the Speak from Day 1 Approach How Dr. Oakley's philosophies around language learning influenced her learning in other fields Working as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers, teaching in China, being an Army Captain in Germany, working as a radio operator at the South Pole Station and how these things shaped Dr Oakley's perspectives How teaching makes you a better learner through retrieval practice The story behind the MOOC “Learning How to Learn” Tricks for encouraging your kids to love learning Podcast theme: “A New Beginning” by Shannon Kennedy

My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle
MQ4B Booster 22.9 — Embrace Multidimensional Thinking to Develop Your People at Work

My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2022 4:05


Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share with you the keys to The Self Discipline Challenge that Barbara Oakley describes in her book, Learn Like a Pro: Science-based Tools to Become Better at Anything.  Track 2: I want you to offer you the 5 Paperclip Technique for building a stronger environment to support you as you pursue new skills or adapt to new tools. Track 1 Listen to Ep381- Expand your possibiBetter learning is today's competitive advantage with guest expert Barbara Oakley for even more. A good way to become more disciplined is to take measures that reduce the need for self-discipline in the first place. Here are 5 tips to implement this insight for ambitious SME leaders:  Make tough choices easy.  Change your habits.Identify your obstacles in advance.Remember to recharge.Involve others on your team. Track 2 Once set up, the 5 paperclip technique has 3 steps: Start your day with a pile of 5 paper clips easily within reach on your desk.Whenever you notice that you've slipped away from your goal of using a new tool or spending time on a particular task, reach over and move a paperclip from the supply pile to the used pile and get back on track right away. At the end of the day, record how many paperclips you used to get back on track. Any of us could help get us further along on our journey until a new tool, procedure, or habit becomes automatic. I hope that this technique proves useful for you or someone on your team.  Any of us could help get us further along on our journey until a new tool, procedure, or habit becomes automatic. I hope that this technique proves useful for you or someone on your team.  The work you do matters, and people are lucky to have you as a colleague.

Learning Unlocked with Brit Bingold
S5E40: Strategies that Fuel the Brain

Learning Unlocked with Brit Bingold

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2022 67:20


Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist  In this episode, Julia and I chat about the ways the brain learns and how and WHY the 'link-it-learn-it-log-it' strategy for note-taking and the 'blind brain dump' strategy for retrieval practice help ALL students learn.  Want more? julia.salce@gilbertschools.net Uncommon Sense Teaching by Barbara Oakley, Beth Rogowsky, and Terrence J. Sejnowski (the big orange book that Julia LOVES). The 'Link-It-Learn-It-Log-It' Strategy by Julia Salce The 'Blind Brain Dump with Color Coding' Strategy  Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina  Retrieval Practice: Resources and research for every classroom by Kate Jones

Software Engineering Unlocked
Mentoring as an engineering manager

Software Engineering Unlocked

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2022 49:55


Today's episode is sponsored by Mergify, the faster and safer way to merge your code.[00:01 - 06:24] Opening Segment Start saving time by automatizing your pull requests and securing the code merge using Mergify!Sign up for a demo at https://mergify.com/Get to know Jess Roseher reasons for her helping strangers on the Internet[06:25 - 11:59] Bottom-Up Communication Vs. Top-Down ManagementThe challenges of upward communicationHow to balance personal values at workIt's unique for individual circumstanceManaging the conflict of interest as a manager to upper management[21:00 - 33:33] Level Up Your LearningWhy Jess' started an online learning programIn search of the best tool for virtual and distance learningThe impact of tools on the quality of learningMentorship and organizational rankEstablishing healthy boundariesResilience in an educational setting[33:34 - 44:46] Let's Start Speaking The Same LanguageAcing the basics: Why learning the fundamentals is everythingLet's talk about programming languageHow to improve team communication and having a shared language[44:46 - 49:55] Closing SegmentDr. McKayla talks about her book in progress and her advice to those who would like to write a bookFinal wordsTweetable Quotes“Sometimes changing jobs is easier than making peace with uneasy ethical decisions.” - Jess Rose“Nobody tells you, but you're not going to start managing people and get it right right away.” - Jess Rose“We learn better when we're chill.” - Jess Rose“I think it's really valuable to talk about the culture of the language we use around programming and really the culture of the structures we build because it's not transparent to people.” - Jess RoseConnect with Jess Rose on LinkedIn, Twitter, and her website. Go to Github.com/JessicaRose to check out her 1-1s.Resources MentionedMergify - Sign up for a demo now!freeCodeCampClass CentralWeaving the Web by Tim Berners-LeeThe Intuitive Programmer: Learning How to Learn for Programmers (Barbara Oakley & Zach Caceres)Software Engineering Unlocked Episode with Dr. Cat HicksFelienne HermansDan AbramovLet's Connect! You can connect with me, Dr.  McKayla on Instagram, Twitter and Youtube to look into engineering software, and learn from experienced developers and thought leaders from around the world about how they develop software!LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to know more about the engineering software world. Your ratings and reviews help get the podcast in front of new listeners. _______Transcription[00:00:00] Dr. McKayla Hello, and welcome to the Software Engineering Unlocked podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Mckayla and today I have the pleasure to talk to Jess Rose. Jess is a technology professional and keynote speaker specializing in community building outreach and developing better processes for talented technology. She is passionate about fostering more equal access to technical education, and digital spaces.  But before I start, let me tell you about an amazing startup that is sponsoring today's episode Mergify. You know, I'm all about code reviews and pull requests. Having your teammates review your code can be super beneficial, but it also can create a bottleneck and slow down your software development. With Mergify, your team can be way more productive with GitHub. Mergify automates all about merging pull requests, you can specify the merge conditions, and Mergify will take care of the rest. Do you want a specific order for merging the pull requests? Should one PR be prioritized? Or do you need a copy of the PR and another branch for bug fixing? No problem. Mergify can take care of all those situations. By saving time, you and your team can focus on projects that matter. Mergify integrates completely with GitHub and your CI pipeline. They have a startup program that could give your company a 12-month credit up to $21,000 of value. Start saving time, visit Mergify.com to sign up for a demo and get started or just click the link in the show notes.  I'm super, super thrilled to have Jess here with me. Jess, welcome to the show.[00:01:38]  Jess Rose Oh, gosh. And I'm absolutely delighted to be here when you said hey, do you want to come and talk about teaching and learning? Oh, I'm just going to be insufferable. Thank you so much. [00:01:48]  Dr. McKayla I'm really excited because I'm following you on Twitter. And I see that you're creating spaces for people to learn to get better to grow. Right. So there are a couple of things that I want to touch base on today with you. One is the 1-1s that you're offering. So maybe, maybe let's get started with that. Because I see you from time to time you say, you know, I have some time available, why not hop over on a call, and I can help you with some career advice? How's it going? What do you do with people? What kind of people are picking up on that?[00:02:27]  Jess Rose So I've been doing this for about, I looked the other day because I do, I do keep records and privacy-preserving records just like,  oh, what kinds of things am I talking to people about? And I've been doing this for about eight years now. So just broke 1700 folks I've talked to over the years.[00:02:40] Dr. McKayla Wow. [00:02:40]  Jess Rose And you would think oh, it's going to be mostly juniors or mostly people trying to break into tech. But just the absolute vastness of experience is so dazzling and exciting and strange to me. I don't see myself as especially well suited to give great advice. But on these calls, people are almost never asking for actual advice. So a lot, most of it's just, I'd like to be heard and I'd like someone to confirm that my experience is unusual or isn't unusual. Or getting sort of a level check for a different area saying, Hey, I'm based in this region, and I'm looking for work in your region. What's that like? What's the experience like? What's the process like? I actually documented the whole process out because I want, I definitely want other people to be doing this if you feel like it. No pressure. And it's on my GitHub. So GitHub.com/JessicaRose. And it should be right on there as  1-1s.[00:03:37] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, I saw that. I saw that on your Twitter feed. So it tells us how to do those 1-1s and how to, what questions to ask, and so on?[00:03:46] Jess Rose  Yeah. And mostly just about the tooling. So how to get it scheduled,  how to get that sorted? And then because I'm a weirdo, how to get the records of who chatted to you deleted if you want to, like, yeah, I wouldn't keep notes on somebody who doesn't want me to keep notes.  [00:04:00] Dr. McKayla  Yeah. And I think it's good for privacy as well, right?. If people I don't know which topics, they are coming to you, but I mean, some of them might be private, and you know, especially if you're having maybe, like, I think if you need advice, you're very often not such a good place, right? Probably more than being in a great place where you think, well, everything figured out, you know, things are going smooth than you're seldomly reaching out to other people. It would be like I'm bragging now to you. You're more probably reaching out if you have some problems with your team maybe or getting a job or something like this. Is that what people talk to you about in the sessions?[00:04:41] Jess Rose  So anything from, Hey, am I getting paid right? To, Oh, I'm getting screamed at a lot at work. Is this normal? So a lot of them are sort of, oh, gosh, but a lot of times folks just want to explore what's going on next. I've managed people a lot in my career. And one of the things that I always, I always have a difficult time with, and I hope other managers do, too, is how do you deal with the conflict? And there's always going to be conflict between what's best to the individual person you're managing, and what's best for the company because those are those, And one of the big things I push when I do manage people is, hey, do you have someone external to the company to give you good advice when I can't? Or I shouldn't give you the advice that's best for you?[00:05:31] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, yeah, it's a conflict, right? Because obviously, you don't want to lose that person. But you see that they're outgrowing, you know, maybe the position?[00:05:42] Jess Rose  Oh, I really just want to chase this up a minute. I'm always like, you don't want to lose somebody, like, you don't want somebody to move on for your team because they were unhappy or mistreated. This is definitely from me being a teacher for too long. I'm always pretty excited when somebody graduates up out of a team I run. Like, of course, you want to make sure that people have space to grow, of course, you want to be actively making sure there's career progression and more things to learn. But and especially in a job market, like right now, sometimes people like oh, cool, I could make a bigger salary jump bracket, they could make your title jump by leaving. And I'm always pretty chill with that.[00:06:24] Dr. McKayla Yeah, yeah. Me too. And my husband is also managing a bunch of people. And but I see tension there, right? So I think he's always really behind the people. But then upper management would be, yeah, but you know.[00:06:38] Jess Rose The business case for retention.[00:06:40] Dr. McKayla  Exactly. Right. And the same for, for example, giving your raise, right. And I think, especially maybe the managers, you know, that are really like first line, they are more for the people because they have like some personal relationship, and then one level up, it's already like, yeah, but you know, we don't have the budget or we don't want or we believe we can still keep that person, you know, for this for this cheaper?[00:06:38] Jess Rose  Oh, well, you know, let's give it another quarter or two and wait and see.[00:07:08] Dr. McKayla Yeah, exactly, right?[00:07:10] Jess Rose Baffling.[00:07:11] Dr. McKayla how do you do that as a manager? How do you speak up for your, for your people, or for your team? And h ow do you deal with that conflict as well?[00:07:22] Jess Rose  So I think that's a really challenging one because I think that the conflict there is still the same. What do you do as an individual manager when the y eah, when your contractual, your fiduciary duties to your company, run counter to your individual ethical responsibilities to the people you manage? And or what happens when there's a conflict between the needs of an individual and the needs of a team? And it's not a good answer. And it's not a reassuring answer. But it depends. If somebody is facing treatment that feels unfair, or targeted, or they're in a position that I, generally, if somebody is in a position, I'm not okay, with being much more lovingly strident around, hey, this is a topic I would really bring to your external mentor A well, and then setting really clear limits internally about what, even as a manager, you are and aren't willing to do. So somebody saying, Oh, you get the idea that, Oh, maybe we want to manage so and so out, go ahead and write them up for stuff that the rest of the team routinely does. You still have consent as a manager. So you could say, like, yeah, no, I won't work in a space that involves maybe this kind of behavior.[00:08:45] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, yeah, I think this is really important that we are standing up for our own ethics and for our own beliefs and value and, you know, also behind our, you know, our people that we, you know, I think we have a responsibility as well for and yeah, so I yeah, I can totally see that. [00:09:05] Jess Rose It's easy to say in this kind of job market in the West as well. I think, a re you based perhaps in Europe as well? [00:09:12] Dr. McKaylaYes. Yeah. [00:09:13] Jess Rose Because, like, these days for many European job markets in tech, finding a new job feels to many people who are established for juniors or people getting your first job,  It is hard. But for folks who've been in for a little while, and folks in different in high demand areas, getting a new job as a junior as a middleweight, or a senior, is not as difficult as it could be these days. Whereas if you're having to engage in management behavior that you're just not comfortable with, yeah, sometimes changing jobs is easier than making peace with uneasy ethical decisions. Yeah, sometimes that's not true for everybody. And it's a very, very privileged take for those of us who have a little bit of wiggle room.[00:09:58] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, I think so. And it really depends on where are you located? And what is your personal situation, right? Do you have dependents? Do you have like family or people that you have to take care of? And so on, which I think makes it much harder to say, you know, I'm going to not do that. But I think there, you know, there are boundaries, it's, it's one thing is playing along, and just, you know, or letting the other person also, you know, know, in the space that you have, right? You're also like, as a manager, you also, you can't just go and, you know, give advice directly conflicting with the interests of your upper management because that, you know, is a problem, but you can, you know, talk a little bit about, as you said, maybe asking you an external person, or also I think very well, you can say I'm disagreeing with this decision, right? And I advocated for you, unfortunately, you know, these were my boundaries here, for example, and let them know, I think that's, that's perfectly fine. Yeah. And I think that the problem is that if more of those things come together, people start thinking about leaving, right?[00:11:06] Jess Rose And that's not always a bad thing. As a manager, if you're not able to offer someone, a place that is safe, and productive, and non-traumatic to work, yeah, it's okay, that your people move on, and actually kind of preferable?[00:11:22] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, yeah, I think so, too. So another topic that I wanted to talk with you about, and it's a little bit related to management, but it's more related to teaching. So I don't think you have to be a manager to teach, right? You can be, you can be, you know, Junior Dev, Mid Dev, senior Dev, right, so we can all learn from each other. But I really see you as a teaching, you know, expert here. Yeah. Because you're, you're bringing topics around programming, but also, you know, advice for hiring or you know, how to get hired. And to so many people, right, you're, you're also making these really mass, mass online learning events, right, occur online boot camps. So how is that going? Why did you start that and is that only for really junior people?[00:12:12] Jess Rose So the first thing I want to do is like, I would absolutely love if there was an excuse for me, Oh, yes, I'll just take all the credit. But the free online boot camps that I've started are absolutely not just me. So they started as 12-week boot camps, and they've been collapsed into a reasonably intense but still part-time, six-week boot camp. And this is built off of the freeCodeCamp curriculum. So they're a registered nonprofit. They're amazing. We could not do this without them and without their permission. But also the good people, I'm pointing behind me like they're back there. The good people Class Central built a whole platform that lets us teach on so like, just really, and Ramon is my, my co-teacher. And he's he's just, it's almost disgusting how lovely he is. Like, the learners love him and deservedly so.[00:13:03] Dr. McKayla  Cool. Yeah. So what do you teach there? Is it like really the 101 of programming? Or is it more advanced concepts? Who is your target audience here?[00:13:14] Jess Rose  So this last cohort, which just ended about two weeks ago, I should get back to work on those. We had 15,000 unique learners across two tracks learning either web development, which is HTML, CSS, accessibility, really, really intro level of like first steps of programming, or across JavaScript. And again, that sort of first steps with JavaScript, getting started. So really sort of introductory level. But we added some additional forums for peer support. We've got a very noisy Discord. And then some live stream lessons and question-answer to get people unstuck. We've had such a, so I would have expected oh, these will be beginners. We have back-end devs who wanted to try out web development. We've got folks who don't want to go into tech, but they do want to build a website for their business. And the thing I was, I used to be a teacher and I used to be a linguist. And very selfishly, the thing I was, one of the things I was most excited about was the absolute range of the learners. We've got folks across every regularly inhabited continent. And folks joining us in this massive exciting range of first languages. I was just so, so people who are learning from their phones, people who are learning from the library computers, and I just really really loved this loud, chaotic, and so lovely and so supportive group of learners all helping each other out.[00:14:49] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, that's, that's really exciting. So I actually was thinking a little bit about learning on devices that are not high-end, right. And when I, when I started university, I couldn't afford a really high-end computer not even a normal computer, right? So I was on this, I got, I got one of those really cheap computers from somebody that you know, gave it to me for free. And it was a nightmare. It was a nightmare to work on that. And nowadays, it's obviously not the case anymore. And I'm really happy about that. But I was wondering what about, you know, people that don't want to work on the phone or work to, you know, on a tablet, and I'm pregnant right now. [00:15:32] Jess Rose Oh, congratulations. How exciting, how scary. [00:15:36] Dr. McKayla Yeah. But it's also a really cool experience because I'm thinking, like, this is my third child. So I know a little bit.[00:15:45] Jess Rose  Oh, you're just fine. You're like, duh, this happens.[00:15:46] Dr. McKayla I know what's going to happen, that I can sit here and you know, work on my comfortable devices. And so I tried a little bit to work on my phone and work on the tablet and so on, I still think it's really difficult. What tools do your learners have?[00:16:03] Jess Rose  Did somebody, somebody did one of my friends talk to you about this? I'm deeply suspicious. So I'm going to try really carefully not to say too much. I'm working on a little side project around this problem. Because this is a problem I've been thinking about a lot. So right now, and if our dear listeners aren't your viewers are, oh, gosh, what's the noun? Our beloved audience, your beloved audience has a tool or has something in the space that I haven't seen yet, please come and yell at me. But right now, I'm not seeing really good tooling. I'm not seeing a good way to write to the web from mobile devices. [00:16:46] Dr. McKayla Yeah, it's not there. [00:16:47] Jess Rose And this is an ethical problem for me. Because right now we hear people talking about the next billion users, I love this. But in a lot of cases, we're seeing people who are accessing the web for the first time, and I love it, and I live for it. But they're accessing the web on a lot of constraints. So they're usually on phones, they're usually mobile-only is what we'll call those kinds of learners. They may be accessing it in their third or fourth language, because you're going to see global web primarily in English and French and Spanish. And they're often constrained to really, really challenging limits on their, like their actual access to broadband or to mobile signal. And that's something I've been thinking about a lot on the device level for this problem. If I went, I'm going to date myself terribly. But I got access to the internet, when I was maybe 13, or 14. And the device I use to access the web to read the web, I could also write to the web. And we're effectively giving people this right only access to the web through smartphones. And that just, that doesn't seem like enough to me. So there's nothing great yet. And I don't think I've necessarily cracked it myself. But in the next couple of months, I would like to, I've got a little thing I'd like to launch to see whether or not that might be a good tool.[00:18:10] Dr. McKayla Yeah. Cool. I would be super interested in that. And I also think like, nowadays, I'm actually, I should actually be the whole day on bed rest. But two weeks ago…[00:18:20] Jess Rose What are you doing? You should be doing this lounging.[00:18:23] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, I should. Right, yeah. But so now I'm allowed to be up a couple of hours per day, which is, which is great, but because I'm on this bed rest, right, and I only can lie down, I'm not allowed to sit actually, I experienced all these accessibility problems that, you know, couple of, you know, disabled folks also are experiencing and I'm like, right now, I really understand how difficult it is if you can't, you know, type, write, if you have like these mobile devices. And I think there is really there isn't a lot of you know, there's so much space in there. And we should really be much more welcoming to people that can't, you know, sit on this nice computer have their three monitors, right, the keyboard and the mouse. And it's really I mean, it's really frustrating for me to write a blog post to make an update on Git, right, to make a PR.[00:19:12] Jess RoseI'm not ignoring you. I'm just grabbing a book to see, so rude, isn't it? Turning away? Oh, heck, I must have hidden it somewhere. But there's a really fantastic book from the late 90s that Tim Berners Lee wrote about the process of inventing the web. But I've got sort of a tab in the book because he said, Oh, okay, we had to sit down we had to define the bare minimum. What is the minimum viable setup you need to access the web? He said, Oh, you need to, you need some kind of CPU, we need some kind of monitor some kind of display. And one of the things that they specified as necessary for the web was, you're going to need a keyboard. I think that's the point that sticks me again and again, where I think, but we've gotten past the need for keyboard in so many other spaces. Yeah, it seems a bit lazy to have not gotten past it in sort of the ability to do simple web development.[00:20:12] Dr. McKayla Yeah, yeah, it would be so great. Like, I would benefit so much from it. [00:20:17] Jess Rose  Oh, just the guilt I've got right now. I'm just like, yes, yes, I'll get back to work. But we do currently have learned,  well, in the last cohort, we had a number of learners who were accessing the course, all via smartphones. So they would post and we'd love to see them post, screenshots of their code to see, hey, where's this gone wrong, but it's going to be folks screenshotting their phone screen, and just the implication of how challenging it would be to write, I've tried it to write a bunch of CSS on your phone, oh, the absolute, like the strength these people have in their hearts not to throw it across the room.[00:21:01] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So another question that came to my mind is now you have this experience of, you know, teaching really beginners, and also in a different space, it's a space of you are, you know, like this, this teacher now, and they're doing an online course. But I'm also very interested in how can we actually bring back or coming back to the managing position, right, how can we teach and mentor within a team, right? How can we do that for juniors? How can we do that for mid engineers? Who mentors and teachers, senior engineers? How is that all, you know, the dynamic in a team? And I was wondering if you have like some experience around that and some thoughts around that topic as well.[00:21:47] Jess Rose   So I was really lucky. I was on a team several years ago now out at FutureLearn. With oh, gosh, Nikki, What's your surname? I'm so sorry. I swear I know it. I've just forgotten it, because I'm a bad person. And Belinda Sockington, who are both unreasonably brilliant and fantastic managers. And a lot of that work on that team was around, because I have FutureLearn was that it was a MOOC platform. How do we, how do we encourage learning? How do we incentivize it? How do we balance it? And really, what kind of landed for me is it's an ongoing conversation between the folks running these teams, the individual people, I think it may be one of those issues where there's just no one size fits all. It's a combination of saying, Hey, we have these options. Here are some off-the-shelf learning experiences, with starting a conversation and keeping up a conversation of what do you want to learn, what works for you? What's best for you? One thing that I've encountered a couple of times in my career, which I've had a really, really hard time with and my opinion on it has really radically changed, is every now and again, I'd meet somebody who's sort of mid-level or senior, so they've they've gotten themselves into a secure role. They're feeling okay with it. And they wouldn't be that excited about learning where they said, Yeah, I just want to do my job. But I want to go home. And I think the first couple of times, because nobody tells you, but you're not going to start managing people and get it right right away. I'm going to stay awake late tonight absolutely obsessing over the ways I'm still not doing it right. But back then I was thinking, Oh, how can I, how can I make this person care about their learning? And these days, I think with the, with the world having gotten much more stressful, and me having enough experience to see that I think now that I was wrong. These days, when I meet somebody who's like, well, I'd like to do my job. I'd like to do a good job at my job. And I'd like to go home, I don't really need to move up. I don't really want to stretch and learn more. I've gotten, yeah, like, that seems increasingly chill. I think it might be cultural as well, I think. I'm from the States originally. And I think there's quite a bit more fear around employment in the States. Almost everybody can be fired at any time and that makes everything very exciting. And generally your health care is associated with your employment. So I think I see when I was younger and based in the States, there was a lot more. Of course, you have to keep learning, of course, you have to keep running, you have to progress. Otherwise, something bad could happen. And yeah, I think I've just gotten increasingly excited to see people set boundaries around where they put their learning and where they put their interests. Yeah. Yeah, that's a very strange take for a teacher.[00:24:47] Dr. McKayla  Yeah. So actually, I was talking to Cat Hicks, just a couple of weeks ago. Yeah. And so we were talking about learning debt. And this whole topic brought us to something where I think, you know, learning is often something very externalized, right, where you say, Oh, I'm learning, let's say I'm learning React, or now I'm learning Remix, right? So maybe the newest framework or, you know, a new a new approach for DevOps or whatnot, right? So it's something that's out of what you're doing right now. And it's a new technology, very technology-oriented as well, whereby I think at the company, there are so many, a little bit more how to call it but informal, or, you know, a little bit more tactic, learning experience that you actually have every day, right, which is, how do I communicate with this new person on the team, right? How do I, how do I understand parts of this codebase? Can we change the architecture for that without breaking something? And all of these are also learning experiences, which we are often not declaring as that right, so we are not saying, oh, you know, McKayla, today learned about new ways to do this architecture for us or to refactor that code, or, you know, she did, she learned about how this API works over there that she hasn't worked about, right? This is very often not, I don't think it's so visible in the learning experience than if I would say, Oh, me, hey, let's sit down and learned React. Yeah, you know.[00:26:25] Jess Rose And I think that's really valuable. Because even when you say something, somebody say, I think, oh, you know, I'm just going to chill and do a good job. And it's so easy to generalize about brains and learning to, say, Oh, we know what we know about learning. In so much as we've learned anything about learning like self-assessment's messy, the study of, I'm not nearly clever enough to have a good handle on neuroscience and learning. But there's actually a fantastic researcher and author, Dr. Barbara Oakley, who does a lot of work on learning how to learn. And she's been doing some work with Zack Caceres who's a programmer, and I'm not going to tell, talk out of turn. But I believe they may be launching a project around how we learn programming skills relatively soon.[00:27:11] Dr. McKaylaYeah, nice. Yeah. [00:27:11]Jess Rose But we're primates in changing environments. Even if we don't think about it as learning, we are getting new situations and new stimuli, just like you said, I've got a new teammate, I'm going to learn to work with them. Oh, I've got this API. Oh, I finally understood what's going on under the hood. Regardless of whether or not we've set ourselves a mountain path to hike a declared learning journey, there's still learning happening. Yeah.[00:27:37]  Dr. McKayla  Yeah. And I think that those chill folks, how you call them, right? Maybe they have also more capacity to actually see things that are, you know, people that are very on their journey of, oh, I want to learn React and the latest, you know, whatever, technology comes out right now, maybe don't have the capacity to see, for example, oh, you know, now that the market changed a little bit, budget shifted, we have to work a little bit different with this team, or, you know, how can we make sure that our deadlines are, you know, approachable, and so on? So, yeah, I think learning really happens in so many forms. And, yeah.[00:28:14]  Jess Rose And I, yeah, I've always been really excited about that as well. I think resilience is undervalued in teams often. Sorry, this isn't very confident or it is not very definitive, but I'm going to waffle about my biases as part of this. I really like thinking about resilience in individuals and in teams as a resource available. And I like thinking of people as resources, but like, someone being rested, somebody having the capacity, somebody being ready for a little tiny crisis, or a little weird thing. That feels like a resource right there. But I think often we really lean on productivity so hard. How can we get. what kind of developer experience tooling can we use to get 20% more? How can we make sure people are focused? How can we cycle our meeting? And we're so focused on developer productivity and the productivity of technologists, I think we often sacrifice that flexibility and that resilience of having somebody who's not under these productivity pressures to such a high degree. Like, we learn better when we're chill.[00:29:25] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, yeah. And I think it brings us back also to, there was this blue code, right? People that are taking on responsibilities, right, blue work, sorry, blue work, that was what it was called, right? But people that are taking on some invisible work that are, you know, good for the team. And, and so yeah, I think this also for teaching, mentoring, learning, I think this can be one thing, and obviously, we shouldn't get outdated too much. And, but I also think that it's not changing every minute, you know, like, sometimes we believe, or we were made to believe, or this story lines around time, Oh, my God, you know, if you're not doing every day something and..[00:30:11] Jess Rose What do you mean you're not using blank? I'm like, look, I'm very old, and I'm very tired. Like, I'm good.[00:30:18] Dr. McKaylaI think it's totally fine, right. And there are a lot of technologies, that I mean, if you're working on PHP, you know, a lot of the web runs on PHP, and it's still, you know, a good technology, and it's okay. [00:30:33] Jess Rose  Like, if you want to stretch a little bit, getting into some Laravel is really, really exciting. But if you write PHP, you can hang out and get better at the core stuff of what you do. And do a good job. Like, you don't have to run as hard as you can, as fast as you can forever.[00:30:51] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, I think they're, they're, you know, good choices to make. And I'm definitely for growth and for learning. But sometimes people are just burning, you know, mental calories. I learned so much. I mean, I'm actually a learner, right? I love to learn. But most of the stuff that I learn, I never used. It's not very productive, right? [00:31:16] Jess Rose  Yeah, but not sorry, you've invited me on here. And I'm just up here ready to blow you. But yeah, this sort of cult of productivity, not that you're espousing it makes me very, very, and when I talk to new learners, and they say, oh, okay, I need to learn this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this. And I've heard these words, and I need to learn this. I'm like, Babe, you can, you can show we can all chill. Like, we don't have to learn any frameworks yet. We don't have to learn any ops yet, we can just chill and learn the core stuff. And as these are like, one thing I really like to encourage, especially with new learners, or learners new to a specific space, is to go ahead and get some kind of digital or some kind of physical space where you can dump stuff. Some people like Notion, I hate Notion a lot. I quite like Obsidian. I don't care what you use, as long as you're happy about it. As you're seeing all these terms, just chuck them in a big doc. Okay, well,  I keep seeing Angular, I know Angular is a thing, should I learn it? Don't worry about whether or not you have to learn it next, just go ahead. And when you see an article about it, throw it in the slush pile. I call it my link dump for early learning. And that means once you've got through the foundational stuff, you say, Okay, I've learned enough JavaScript where I can write. And I like setting these little tiny interim goals to say, Well, I've learned enough JavaScript where I'm able to make simple bug fixes in this open source project I was interested in. I've learned enough. And one thing I'm excited about is the The Art of Learning code, or the art of reading code, which is something Felienne... is an academic who's done a lot of work in the space.[00:32:59] Dr. McKayla She's from Leiden University.[00:33:01] Jess Rose  Yes. You've talked to her already. I bet.[00:33:02] Dr. McKayla  I did my PhD with her in the same room. Roommates. Yeah.[00:33:06] Jess Rose  Did you? Did you?[00:33:06] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, we were roommates. Yeah.[00:33:07] Jess Rose  Oh, is she just as delightful to study with?[00:33:10] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, she is wonderful. [00:33:13] Jess Rose  But yeah, so really getting through the basics of well, I set out to do X, I'm doing X. Now it's time for me to go look through my link dump file, and see, wow, it looks like I've got like 40 different articles about Angular. Maybe that was important that that's enough for what I want to learn next. Yeah.[00:33:34] Dr. McKayla Maybe something else that comes to my mind here is also that I think fundamentals are really important, right? So I like for example, the approach of Dan Abramoff, right? He has like this course of chess JavaScript, which it means that you're not starting with React, right? You're starting with JavaScript and with the fundamentals around it, and I wouldn't say it's really a course for really real beginners. But it's like if you got a little bit of your hands dirty around JavaScript, it's really nice to go in and then check. Did I actually really understand what's you know, what's happening here? And then if you have these fundamentals, I think it's so much easier to build upon that dump. And dive into React or whatnot, right? Whatever technology you want to add here.[00:34:21] Jess Rose  I think this comes back to something I've been thinking about a lot in how we learn and teach. But like, where we abstract things out. Soin the boot camp, we're using Free Code Camp to teach, which is a, it's an in-browser sandbox, you don't have, and they've just come out with a new beta curriculum for web development I'm in love with. And it previews that these are files and that you have to link to these files. It is very, very good. But it's still a sandbox, it's still an abstraction. And the places we tend to send learners next are things like, Okay, we're going to head over to CodeSandbox, we're going to head over to Glitch which are still abstracting away a lot of really, and then even when you look in to professional tooling and frameworks, they say, Okay, let's get into React. A lot of the power behind these frameworks are that they abstract away or that they compress, or they obscure or or smooth over some of the fundamentals of how we work with the core technology, maybe JavaScript or the way, Tailwind is a weird abstraction of the things you'd like to do with CSS. And I don't have a problem with, I think it's a teacher, I'd have a hard time having a problem with abstraction. But I think that thinking really carefully about how we do this, when we abstract things , and how we signpost what's been taking, or what's been added gets to be really valuable.[00:34:47] Dr. McKayla Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. When I was starting to learn programming, I struggled a lot with abstractions because I just wanted to know, or not only with abstractions, but also like, there wasn't a lot of abstractions. It was actually very, very raw, right? It was like, Oh, you have an Eclipse IDE open and you're writing Java code. Bbut then you have like, oh, let's say, you know, public wide string, main, whatever, right? And it's just like, you just do it, right. And I'm like, why? What does it mean, don't worry about it. [00:36:22] Jess Rose And then we'll cover this later. And so by the time, we will have covered it, yeah… Having been a linguist, I fear that I mentally map language learning to programming language learning, even when it might not be entirely suitable. But I see this happening in human language education as well, where we say, okay, cool. Here's how, we keep we start people in the present perfect tens for a lot of languages, I see the cat, I drink the water, I walked to the store. And we don't send them into a present perfect world. And I think that's true with programming as well to say, Okay, well, we're going to give you this sandbox, or we're going to give you this framework, which abstracts away a lot of the complexities of the grammar or the the nuance of, and I think it's really valuable to talk about the culture of the language we use around programming and really the culture of, of the structures we build, because it's not transparent to people. I met with a learner in person, what a delight, in person last week. And without thinking about it, I said, yada yada yada bikeshedding. And thank goodness, this learner was confident enough to be like, cool, what the heck are you talking about? I was like, oh, gosh, that's just something we say. We say it as though everyone's going to understand it. And it means to get sidelined to get distracted with little unnecessary details. Just like okay, cool. You should just say that, it's less complicated. [00:37:55] Dr. McKayla  Yeah. I think it's not always that easy to be always aware of how you do it. But I recall the time that I started at Microsoft, and, you know, when you start there, it's full of acronyms. And they mean, they mean something completely else inside Microsoft and what it would mean outside, and it really takes quite some time. And then a lot of people get very blind to it, and you know, just start using it as well. And you know, you start talking this gibberish. Nobody else can understand. Yeah.[00:38:32] Jess Rose  But like, from a linguistic perspective, that's because that's identifies you as a member of the in-group, doesn't it? How fascinating. Yeah, incredibly interesting. Oh, no, no, I absolutely refuse to spend the next three days hyperfocused learning about weird Microsoft acronyms. It's so tempting.[00:38:49] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, there are a lot. But I think it's the same with code reviews, right? And with sometimes how people say, oh, you know, we have this style of giving feedback to each other. And in my code review workshops, I always talk You know, I always try to have people come to an agreement that we need to use language and also, you know, phrase that in a respectful way, that's not only for the internal, you know, internal team to understand. Because there are newcomers, you know, in the team, maybe somebody will look at that, what you wrote two years from now, right, and still should be able to understand it. And so I think it's really good if we be clear about those bridges that we built that, you know, are this internal behavior and language that we are using that it's only, you know, it's an insider joke, and so on.[00:39:47] Jess Rose Yeah. Yeah. And I think we're often really chill about that in tech. Yeah, oh, here's a glossary of technical terms you need to know to do the thing. We're, we're cool about that. There seems to be a bit more resistance around when shared language or shared norms, or shared language structures around things like code reviews are proposed because we don't need that we know how to talk to each other. I hope I'm not putting you on the spot. Are you one of those lucky people who speak like nine languages?[00:40:15] Dr. McKayla No, not nine.[00:40:15] Jess Rose Oh, only five?[00:40:17] Dr. McKayla Maybe, yeah. German is my mother tongue, right? English, Dutch, Italian, and a little bit of Spanish.[00:40:28] Jess Rose  A little bit of Spanish. Look at that. The fantastic thing about chatting to many folks from Europe is, is y'all always have this very, very beautiful, very casual, like humble brag at the end, you like, you know, just a little tiny bit of Croatian. I'm terribly jealous. Yeah, like recognizing that folks aren't going to be coming to, coming to these code reviews. And I really liked that you highlight that they're going to be coming to the uncoupled in time. I love this idea that when you leave a code review, when you leave feedback, when you leave a pull request, when you leave code, you're leaving a little artifact of understanding behind. So to say, Cool, we've standardized how we talk about these, we've created a shared language for them. Because when we go into the far scary future, we want these to still make sense.[00:41:23] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, I think this is really important.[00:41:26] Jess Rose  But also making them like giving a shared language around, hey, maybe English, or if we're doing the, if we're doing the code review, in Dutch, I'm in a bit of trouble. But maybe the language this code review is in is your second or third or fifth? Let's go ahead and have some shared language have some shared structures around feedback to lower the cognitive load? Yeah, well, can we talk about cognitive load? I imagine you've done it tons of times on the podcast. I imagine many programmers are familiar with it.[00:42:00] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, we also have to be a little bit careful of the time now. But maybe the last thing that I want to add here is I'm writing a book on code reviews, right? [00:42:10] Jess Rose Are you?[00:42:10] Dr. McKayla Yeah, I'm right now in the middle of the feedback section, right? So how to give feedback, how to give respectful feedback, and how to communicate with each other and also cultural right? So how do we deal with, it gets really hairy there, right? So yeah, what are different cultures are expecting, what's respectful there, you know, how much you know, how harsh should a feedback be? Or can it be or, you know, what is seen as polite and so on? And this is not only, it's not only, it's not one standard thing, right? It depends on who's on the team, what's the background? What's the culture? But I think the expectation, setting the right expectations, and, you know, explicitly stating that, and talking about that, reflecting on that, and, you know, learning how others see those things and learning how, you know, like, if I would talk to you I'm originally from Austria lived in a couple of countries, right? You're from the States you're, you're in the UK now, right?[00:43:12] Jess Rose I am, yeah, everything's just fine here. Very chill. Not weird.[00:43:10] Dr. McKayla Yeah. And then maybe we have another person from Croatia and then somebody from India, right. And so I think it would be really important for us to talk about how we understand different terminologies, how we understand different you know, expressions in my career workshops, sometimes I have discussions about looks good to me. And I love those discussions because, you know, it's just a simple term looks good to me. Most of the time, people just, you know, have the acronym for it, right?[00:43:47] Jess Rose  Like it's the thumbs up emoji in my head.[00:43:50] Dr. McKayla  Exactly or you know, LGTM, right? And then some people are like, oh, yeah, this means you know, that I looked through it and you did a good job. And then the other person has no, you know, looks good to me means that you haven't looked at my code.[00:44:07] Jess Rose You just glanced at it. [00:44:07] Dr. McKayla Yeah, you just want it out of your way. Yeah. And the other person says, Oh, this means, I don't care. [00:44:07] Jess Rose Sometimes, sometimes.[00:44:16] Dr. McKayla And having those discussions in the team, you know, and understanding where everybody is coming from, and that they actually use, you know, one simple terminology. And everybody on the same team understood something else about it, I think it's so valuable, right? And only by these discussions, you know, we can really understand what's behind those terms and the way that we are communicating. But I'm also getting a little bit carried away.[00:44:45] Jess Rose  No, no. So I'm going to ask you about your book. And yeah, I've just had a friend tell me that there are some questions you're not supposed to ask about someone's book. So I won't ask any of those. Instead, I've been told you're supposed to say, I hope it's going well. I'd like and I think it might be useful for hopefully some of the audience as well. I had an idea for a book that sounded really fun in my head. And I've sort of broken it down into chapters into essays and trying to write a couple of chapters. And my goal in writing a couple of essays is I'm trying to talk myself out of writing a book. [00:45:22] Dr. McKayla Yeah, I've heard that. Yeah. [00:45:23] Jess Rose Do you have any advice for not, like, it's the worst. It's the worst idea ever. No one wants to write a book like, please, please, please. [00:45:32] Dr. McKayla No, I don't have.[00:45:32] Jess Rose No, I want to know what you're doing.[00:45:34] Dr. McKayla  But I saw on Twitter that you said that and I thought, like, yeah, you won't be able to not write a book with this approach, right?[00:45:42] Jess Rose I love that it sounds like a th reat, where you're like, you're going to write that book.[00:45:45] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, it looks like. I think if you're breaking it up in essays, that become more manageable. I think you will write this book. Yeah.[00:45:55] Jess Rose But for our beloved audience, for your beloved audience, they shouldn't write a book, they should, they should definitely do things that are not writing a book. Like, it's a terrible idea, isn't it?[00:46:04] Dr. McKayla  I can't, I can't say it's a terrible idea. [00:46:06] Jess Rose Are you enjoying it?[00:46:08] Dr. McKayla I don't think it's a good idea. But I think a lot of people would like to write a book and I would be the last person that would discourage them. Because I was always discouraged to write a book, right? But I think I know what mess I got myself into. [00:46:25]  Jess Rose That's what I'm looking for, there we go.[00:46:26] Dr. McKayla I would just tell the people that you're getting yourself into a big mess. But it's okay. You know, it's okay. I think people can write books, and people should write books.[00:46:36]  Jess Rose The world is messy. It'll be fun. Oh, no, this is the opposite of what I was looking for. But it's so delightful.[00:46:42] Dr. McKayla  Yeah, well, Jess actually, this brings us to the end of our show, I really enjoyed talking with you about all of that. And I think we should talk about cognition and cognitive load, and you know, all of that. So maybe I will invite you again, to another session[00:46:58] Jess Rose  I'd love to come back any time. But I'll also pass you some contacts for folks who are much better at this than I am, I would just go back and be like, so books. And really, your audience deserves better.[00:47:13] Dr. McKayla Okay. And we will both all the things that we talked about down there also, maybe the Twitter handle or LinkedIn profile or whatnot, from the person that you mentioned in the middle, where you forgot the last name, I put it there. So she will be there as well. And then, yeah, so is there something that you want to wrap this episode up? Or?[00:47:36] Jess Rose  Oh, gosh, can I bully your audience? Is that doable? Is it permitted? I've been doing advice calls all this week. And the big thing that I keep coming back to when I chat to people, I do do them just to be mean to people who are smarter than me is right now everything, everything is just so big and so loud and so stressful. One thing I've really enjoyed exploring with people is looking at ways that what they have to do, what they think they have to do can be smaller and softer and quieter. And I think that yeah, I'd love to gently bully folks to consider how what they need to do could be a little less. Maybe you don't have to write that book. It can just be an essay.[00:48:24] Dr. McKayla  Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I actually did that this week with myself and just gave myself permission to let go of a couple of balls that I was juggling. And I think it's delightful. We should really do that. And I think it's it's the time that we are many people needed. Not everybody, right. I think a lot of people needed.[00:48:41] Jess Rose There's going to be one person out there who's having a real good week. I just haven't met him.[00:48:46] Dr. McKayla  Or yeah, or that cat very nicely distracted by all of the work and don't have to think about the stuff that's going on. Yeah. Okay, so Jess, thank you so much. Thank you. It was really a pleasure talking to you.[00:49:01] Jess Rose Thanks so much. I'll let you go and thank you again. I won't get into a thank you loop with you.[00:49:06] Dr. McKayla  Okay, bye-bye. [00:49:06] Dr. McKayla This was another episode of the Software Engineering Unlocked podcast. If you enjoyed the episode, please help me spread the word about the podcast, send episode to a friend via email, Twitter, LinkedIn. Well, whatever messaging system you use, or give it a positive review on your favorite podcasting platforms such as Spotify or iTunes. This would mean really a lot to me. So thank you for listening. Don't forget to subscribe and I will talk to you in two weeks. Bye

Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Industry Podcast

Academic and testing success depends not just on much you learn but also how quickly. Amy and Mike invited professor and author Barbara Oakley to provide guidance on teaching fast and slow learners.  What are five things you will learn in this episode? What is a slow learner? How does consistency in building good habits help learning? What is the link between working memory and learning speed? How do students fool themselves into thinking they are learning? Why is rote learning being seen in a more favorable light these days? MEET OUR GUEST Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., PE is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan; Michigan's Distinguished Professor of the Year; and Coursera's inaugural “Innovation Instructor.” Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Barb's research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal.  Barb is a New York Times best-selling author who has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Her book A Mind for Numbers, on effective learning in STEM disciplines, has sold over a million copies worldwide. Dr. Oakley has won numerous teaching awards, including the American Society of Engineering Education's Chester F. Carlson Award for technical innovation in engineering education and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education. Together with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, she co-teaches Coursera's “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world's most popular massive open online courses with over three million registered students, along with a number of other leading MOOCs. Barb has adventured widely through her lifetime. She rose from the ranks of Private to Captain in the U.S. Army, during which time she was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She also worked as a communications expert at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and has served as a Russian translator on board Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea. Dr. Oakley is an elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. Find Barbara at https://barbaraoakley.com. LINKS Uncommon Sense Teaching (MOOC 1 & MOOC 2)  The Importance of Working Memory Capacity Faster versus slower thinking and intellectual humility RELATED EPISODES THE SCIENCE OF MEMORY WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A BAD TEST TAKER? ARE IQ TESTS VALID ABOUT THIS PODCAST Tests and the Rest is THE college admissions industry podcast. Explore all of our episodes on the show page. ABOUT YOUR HOSTS Mike Bergin is the president of Chariot Learning and founder of TestBright. Amy Seeley is the president of Seeley Test Pros. If you're interested in working with Mike and/or Amy for test preparation, training, or consulting, feel free to get in touch through our contact page.

Focus on This
#148: Rethink Your Evening Ritual to Power Your Days

Focus on This

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2022 20:18 Very Popular


After a busy and fulfilling day of productivity, it can be really hard to turn off the mind (and the screens!) and start your evening ritual. This is true for a lot of people - in fact, the evening ritual might be the hardest one to consistently complete. It makes a lot of sense that people would struggle with it: not only are you tired, but it's the only part of the day where there isn't a meeting coming up in 30 minutes or an errand to run in an hour.Today, Courtney and Verbs talk about the most overlooked ritual - the evening ritual. They will also highlight why it's so important that you end your days on the right foot and provide some ideas on how to stay consistent with your "night night" routine.In this episode, you will learn:What is absolutely essential in an evening ritualWhat are some examples of an ideal evening ritualWhy it's important to know your chronotypeWhy an evening ritual reinforces our natural circadian rhythmsResources:The Full Focus Planner Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ffpthinktankLearning How to Learn by Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, and Alistair McConville: https://barbaraoakley.com/books/learning-how-to-learn/The Power of When by Dr. Michael Breus: https://thepowerofwhen.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Bring It In
#81: Barbara Oakley — Author of “Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn,” Engineer, Professor at Oakland University, and Fmr. Army Captain

Bring It In

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 28:11


Hundreds of institutions, both online and offline, claim to offer quality educational experiences and expose you to the best learning techniques available. According to Barbara Oakley, most of these groups are nothing more than scams. For the past 30 years Barbara has focused all of her research on the relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Published in outlets such as the National Academy of Sciences, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times, where her work has been called “revolutionary.” Barbara has had a varied career, starting in the U.S. Army and eventually serving as a Captain stationed in Europe. She then received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, while serving as a translator for ships in the Bering Sea. She then spent a season as the radio operator for South Pole Station Antarctica (where she met her husband), and then “settled down” near Seattle as a control engineer in a laser research and development firm. After a final run at Ford Motors, Barbara began consulting and teaching at Oakland University. Needless to say, Barbara knows how to master skills quickly and effectively. Her decades of hands-on application and in depth research has been compiled into a number of her books, most recently “Learning How to Learn,” “Learn Like a Pro,” and “Uncommon Sense Teaching.” We sat down with Barbara to delve deeper into her strategies and research, and what the future of learning could achieve with a new hybrid standard. So with that…let's bring it in!

Elevate with Tyler Chesser
E254 Barbara Oakley - Understanding Neuroscience and Cognitive Psychology to Maximize Your Investment Portfolio

Elevate with Tyler Chesser

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2022 68:45


Barbara Oakley, PhD is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. She created and teaches Coursera – UC San Diego's “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world's most popular massive open online course with over three million registered students, along with other popular “Top MOOCs of All Time.”  Barb is also a New York Times best-selling author. Tyler and Barb's discussion centered around investing in yourself through learning, why it's important for real estate investors to know more about neuroscience and cognitive psychology and more. Highlights include: The great potential of online learning Why you should rely on several sources for information  The importance of seeking out contrary opinions  Advantages and disadvantages of being on the autistic spectrum  Understanding working memory versus long-term memory Tips for developing your intuition from a learning perspective  The importance of preparing for black swan events as a real estate investor Cultivating a mindset of being comfortable being uncomfortable The importance of being conscious of how you define yourself   Connect with Barbara: Website: http://barbaraoakley.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbaraoakley The following books and resources were mentioned in the show: Principles by Ray Dalio I Do Recall App Listen to Barbara's first episode on Elevate: E159 Barbara Oakley - Learning How to Learn Effectively Are you a real estate investor looking to elevate your income, freedom & lifestyle? If so, optimize your daily performance by downloading our free guide, Raising the Bar - 5 Steps to Elevate Your Habits, at elevatepod.com. In this guide, created by your host Tyler Chesser, you'll learn why you do what you do, how to easily institute cues in your environment to trigger desired behavior, directly applicable steps to create a fulfilling future and much more. Get your free copy at elevatepod.com and kick-start your new habits today. Your future self will thank you! This episode of Elevate is brought to you by CF Capital, a national real estate investment firm. CF Capital's mission is to provide property investment and asset management solutions to help investors like you maximize their returns by investing in high-value multifamily communities. If you are looking for risk-adjusted alternative investments in quality apartment communities, and are seeking tax optimized cash flow with appreciation upside without all the hassle of management, you might benefit from learning more about investing alongside our team. You're invited to reach out and learn how you can invest with us by visiting cfcapllc.com. We're also currently offering a free ebook called The Bottom Line - 10 Ways to Increase Cash Flow in an Apartment Complex. Whether you're a new or an experienced investor, we're confident you'll find massive value in this resource. Get your free copy today at cfcapllc.com.

EdSurge On Air
Students Have Different Thinking Speeds and Styles. Inclusive Teaching Means Realizing That

EdSurge On Air

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 5, 2022 38:23


Many classroom environments favor a certain kind of thinker, usually the students who are quick to recall a fact when the instructor asks a question. But that's not the only type of mind, and it's not even always the best kind of mind for learning, says Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University who works at translating the latest brain research into practical advice for teachers and learners.

Roll With The Punches
Learning How To Learn | Barbara Oakley, PhD - 314

Roll With The Punches

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2022 65:47


With so many things to learn in life, it's kind of interesting to me to realise that learning HOW to actually LEARN is also a thing. It's a thing that Barbara Oakley has devoted much of her learning to and so I burrow into her brilliant mind in this episode to pull out some knowledge and science for myself (and you). There's so much more I want to learn and I'm excited at the prospect of better understanding the process, which in itself fascinates me. I fire some questions at Barbara such as 'why did I sign up to your course two weeks ago and not finish it?' (like many others I have). How do we better focus our ADHD tendencies? Can we focus if we are not innately interested in the content? She is a mind weapon!  Enjoy :) EPISODE SPONSOR | MICHAEL BENJAMIN AND ASSOCIATES Website: www.mblaw.com.au  BARBARA OAKLEY Website: www.barbaraoakley.com  TIFFANEE COOK Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/rollwiththepunches/ Website: www.rollwiththepunches.com.au LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/tiffaneecook/ Facebook:  www.facebook.com/rollwiththepunchespodcast/ Instagram:  www.instagram.com/rollwiththepunches_podcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiffaneeandco See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Learning Unlocked with Brit Bingold
S4E35: Painless Pivots for 4th Quarter

Learning Unlocked with Brit Bingold

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 62:01


Guests: Julia Salce and Wendy Peterson In this episode, we face “the beginning of the end” of this school year by unlocking three ways to painlessly pivot in order to wrap up this quarter in a positive and productive way. Want to learn more? "This Year, Take "Self-Care" Off Your "To-Do" List" by Michelle Trujillo Uncommon Sense Teaching by Barbara Oakley, PhD, Beth Rogowsky, EdD, and Terrence J. Sejnowski  "Sifting Through The Year": Pivoting from Packing to Placing Template by PGD staff Unofficial sponsor of this episode: @rise.up.bakery | Rise Up Bakery

Mirari UNMUTED
Mirari UNMUTED: Ep. 26 - Good Habits

Mirari UNMUTED

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2022 28:42


Tune in with Steph, Sarah, and Matt as they chat about the cultivation and development of good habits both within and outside the practice room and concert hall. Books Mentioned: -"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey -"The Power of Habit" by Charles Duhigg -"Mindset: The New Psychology of Success" by Carol Dweck -"A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)" by Barbara Oakley

My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle
Better learning is today's competitive advantage with guest expert Barbara Oakley.

My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2021 30:46


Barbara Oakley, author of A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)  Bill Ringle and Barbara Oakley discuss the advantages that improved learning abilities gives you and your people to add capacity to your business. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today's top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle's mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations. #pp-podcast-4879 a, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 a, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 a, #pp-podcast-4879 .ppjs__more { color: #0033CC; } #pp-podcast-4879:not(.modern) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button *, #pp-podcast-4879:not(.modern) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:hover *, #pp-podcast-4879:not(.modern) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:focus *, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button *, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:hover *, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:focus *, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 .pod-entry__play *, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 .pod-entry__play:hover * { color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879.postview .episode-list__load-more, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 .episode-list__load-more, #pp-podcast-4879:not(.modern) .ppjs__time-handle-content, .modal-4879 .ppjs__time-handle-content { border-color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879:not(.modern) .ppjs__audio-time-rail, #pp-podcast-4879.lv3 .pod-entry__play, #pp-podcast-4879.lv4 .pod-entry__play, #pp-podcast-4879.gv2 .pod-entry__play, #pp-podcast-4879.modern.wide-player .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button, #pp-podcast-4879.modern.wide-player .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:hover, #pp-podcast-4879.modern.wide-player .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:focus, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 button.episode-list__load-more, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 .ppjs__audio-time-rail, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 button.pp-modal-close { background-color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879 .hasCover .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button { background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5) !important; } .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 button.episode-list__load-more:hover, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 button.episode-list__load-more:focus, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 button.episode-list__load-more:hover, .pp-modal-window .aux-modal-4879 button.episode-list__load-more:focus { background-color: rgba( 0,51,204, 0.7 ) !important; } #pp-podcast-4879 .ppjs__button.toggled-on, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879 .ppjs__button.toggled-on, #pp-podcast-4879.playerview .pod-entry.activeEpisode, .pp-modal-window .modal-4879.playerview .pod-entry.activeEpisode { background-color: rgba( 0,51,204, 0.1 ); } #pp-podcast-4879.postview .episode-list__load-more { background-color: transparent !important; } #pp-podcast-4879.modern:not(.wide-player) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button *, #pp-podcast-4879.modern:not(.wide-player) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:hover *, #pp-podcast-4879.modern:not(.wide-player) .ppjs__audio .ppjs__button.ppjs__playpause-button button:focus * { color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879.modern:not(.wide-player) .ppjs__time-handle-content { border-color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879.modern:not(.wide-player) .ppjs__audio-time-rail { background-color: #0033CC !important; } #pp-podcast-4879 .ppjs__share-button, .modal-4879 .

Audrey Lawrence | The Self Disruption Show
Audrey Lawrence chats with world-renowned thought leader Dr. Barbara Oakley from Mindshift

Audrey Lawrence | The Self Disruption Show

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2021 29:07


Audrey Lawrence is honored to speak with one of the most prolific professors of our time, Dr. Barbara Oakley. "The New York Times called her work revolutionary, I call her my hero!" Learn what technique Dr. Oakley uses to help her with her own success and beat procrastination, and how to manage hurdles to learning, to help you hit your goals, from the hugely popular class and books Mindshift and Learning How To Learn.

Libros para Emprendedores
Cómo Solucionar Problemas Complejos - Pasa a la Acción 009

Libros para Emprendedores

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2021 8:53


Descubre lecciones rápidas y de fácil aplicación para saber cómo solucionar problemas complejos y sobre tus 2 modelos de pensamiento, extraídas del libro "Abre Tu Mente a los Números", de Barbara Oakley.Recuerda que sólo con escucharlo no es suficiente. Aplícalo y obtendrás resultados, sí o sí. ¡¡Pasa a la Acción!! En esta página encuentras las notas del episodio y todos los enlaces mencionados:https://librosparaemprendedores.net/214 ¿Quieres saber cómo aumentar tu velocidad de lectura? Mírate este vídeo y quizás hasta la dupliques en sólo 20 minutos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0VqCZlLuEc¿Cómo conseguir levantarse temprano? 10 consejos... también apps útiles, para conseguirlo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJPmqy6Qi1c En Youtube y en Instagram estamos publicando también contenido exclusivo. Suscríbete ahora:Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/c/LibrosparaemprendedoresNetInstagram: https://instagram.com/librosparaemprendedores Esta es nuestra página oficial de Facebook: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/facebook Además, recuerda que puedes suscribirte al podcast en:- Nuestra página: http://librosparaemprendedores.net/feed/podcast- iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/mx/podcast/libros-para-emprendedores/id1076142249?l=es- Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0qXuVDCYF8HvkEynJwHULb- iVoox: http://www.ivoox.com/ajx-suscribirse_jh_266011_1.html- Spreaker: http://www.spreaker.com/user/8567017/episodes/feed- Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=81214 y seguirnos en Twitter ( https://twitter.com/EmprendeLibros ) y en Facebook ( https://www.facebook.com/EmprendeLibros/ ). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.