Podcasts about lemov

Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of “The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-persuasion,” talks about the origins of brainwashing. The term ‘brainwashing,’ was first used to describe what happeded to American POW's during the Cold War in Korea. After enduring terrible conditions and indoctrination by their Chinese captors, 21 American prisoners of war refused to return home, believing that life in China and under communism would be better. Lemov explains that our psyches can be manipulated and it is that the same malleability of the mind which helps us to grow and evolve also makes us extremely vulnerable to coercisve persuasion. Lemov also reflects on some of the more subtle 'soft brainwashing' techniques that we’re exposed to today, techniques that are primarily fed to us through our screens.  Guest: Rebecca Lemov  Professor of the history of science at Harvard University and author of  “The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-persuasion.” 

Rebecca Lemov (The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion) is a historian of science, author, and professor at Harvard. Rebecca joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the meet cute with her husband at the cafe where she was struggling to write her dissertation, how she fell under a romantic spell with anthropology as well as opioids, and the relationship between addiction and brainwashing. Rebecca and Dax talk about how Patty Hearst used brainwashing as a defense for her actions, why it's such an effective mind control tactic to strip someone of their name, and how Korean War soldiers' health and wellness bounce back after trauma hid evidence of their suffering. Rebecca explains the normalization of brutal torture training of troops, that cult leaders intuitively act out a guidebook of hierarchical dynamics of desire and power, and Facebook's experiment on emotional contagion as an example of soft brainwashing.Follow Armchair Expert on the Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. Watch new content on YouTube or listen to Armchair Expert early and ad-free by joining Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify. Start your free trial by visiting wondery.com/links/armchair-expert-with-dax-shepard/ now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Welcome to Crawlspace. In this new episode, Tim Pilleri & Lance Reenstierna are joined by new friend of the show, Prof. Rebecca Lemov to discuss the reality of brain-washing and mind control from a historical perspective up to modern times. Rebecca's book, The Instability of Truth is available here: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-instability-of-truth-brainwashing-mind-control-and-hyper-persuasion-rebecca-lemov/21479404?ean=9781324075264&next=t https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/782347/the-instability-of-truth-by-rebecca-lemov/ Follow Rebecca: https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/rebecca-lemov https://twitter.com/rlemov?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor https://www.instagram.com/rebeccalemov/?hl=en Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm. IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM. FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM. Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod . Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast . Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast. TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast. Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if brainwashing isn't just a Cold War relic, but something we're all quietly experiencing every day? In this episode, Harvard professor and author Rebecca Lemov joins us to unpack the hidden mechanics of mind control—from historical POW camps to the subtle pull of your social media feed. We talk about the concept of “ungrounding,” how it sets the stage for behavior change, and why no one is immune—not even you. Rebecca also shares a deeply personal story that reshaped her understanding of influence, control, and identity. This isn't fearmongering—it's a powerful invitation to look more closely at how your reality is shaped. Eye-opening, timely, and surprisingly relatable. Tune in—you'll walk away questioning more than you expected. Rebecca's book, The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion, is available now! Find out more about Rebecca at histsci.fas.harvard.edu/people/rebecca-lemov. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stand Up is a daily podcast that I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 700 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous souls Check out StandUpwithPete.com to learn more GET TICKETS TO PODJAM II In Vegas March 27-30 Confirmed Guests! Professor Eric Segall, Dr Aaron Carroll, Tim Wise, JL Cauvin, Ophira Eisenberg, Christian Finnegan and The Ladies of The Hue will all join us! Today I have a great first time guest who is a Professor of the History of science and author of several books including her just released "The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyper-Persuasion" Dr Rebecca Lemov Areas of Research: Science & Technology Studies, Technology & Society, Media Studies, Human Sciences Rebecca Lemov's research focuses on key episodes and experiments in the history of the human and behavioral sciences. Her forthcoming book, The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyperpersuasion uncovers the history of brainwashing—and its troubling implications for today. Because brainwashing affects both the world and our observation of the world, we often cannot recognize it while it is happening—unless we know where to look. In The Instability of Truth, Lemov exposes the myriad ways our minds can be controlled against our will, exploring the history of brainwashing techniques from those employed against North Korean POWs, to unwanted brain implants at a U.S. military hospital, to the “soft” brainwashing of social media doomscrolling and behavior-shaping. The new work reveals that anyone can fall under the spell of mind control, especially in our increasingly data-driven world. Identifying invasive forms of emotional engineering that exploit trauma and addiction, creating coercion and persuasion in everyday life, Lemov offers lessons learned from past mind-control episodes to equip us for the increasing challenges we face from social media, AI, and an unprecedented, global form of surveillance capitalism. Her other books include Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (how scientists between 1942 and 1963 attempted to map the elusive and subjective parts of the human psyche via once-futuristic data-storage techniques), and World As Laboratory: Experiments with Mice, Mazes, and Men (about the scientific dream of behavioral engineering). She is a co-author of How Reason Almost Lost its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality. Rebecca teaches courses on the history and future of big data; animal studies; human experiments; and technologies of mind control, as well as the history of the social and human sciences more broadly. A Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin in 2010-11, and again in 2013-14, she took part in two working groups there, on the Sciences of the Archive and Historicizing Big Data. Her doctoral work was at U.C. Berkeley in Anthropology and she graduated from Yale University where she studied English literature. Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on YouTube  Pete on Twitter Pete On Instagram Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page All things Jon Carroll  Follow and Support Pete Coe Buy Ava's Art  Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift

In her new book, “The Instability of Truth: Brainwashing, Mind Control, and Hyperpersuasion,” Harvard historian of science Rebecca Lemov examines the many ways our minds can be controlled against our wills. Lemov chronicles the use of brainwashing techniques on a range of people from U.S. soldiers who were imprisoned in Korea in the 1950s – some of whom refused to come home after the conflict ended – to members of back-to-land cults that proliferated in the Bay Area in the 1960s. She joins us to talk about how brainwashing is used, the troubling implications, and how anyone can fall victim to mind control, even you. Guests: Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, Harvard University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by Harvard University Professor of the History of Science and author, Rebecca Lemov. They discuss her newest book, “THE INSTABILITY OF TRUTH: Brainwashing, Mind Control and Hyper-Persuasian.” Follow Rebecca: @rebeccalemov

Rebecca Lemov discusses with Ivan six things which should be better known. Rebecca Lemov is a historian of science at Harvard University and has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute. Her research explores data, technology, and the history of human and behavioural sciences. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her family. Her new book is The Instability of Truth, which is available at https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324075264. Brainwashing is not about other people https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/freedom-of-mind/202412/so-youve-been-brainwashed-without-realizing-it-what-now The rise and fall and rise of Barbara Pym https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/06/06/when-barbara-pym-couldnt-get-published Kate Smith https://musicologynow.org/kate-smith-and-our-minstrel-past/ Nashville film https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jun/25/nashville-review-robert-altman The story of the three frogs by Czeslaw Milosz https://bookhaven.stanford.edu/2016/06/happy-birthday-czeslaw-milosz-he-was-no-hero-and-he-knew-it/ Brainwashing and trauma are connected, but that was never, or rarely ever, recognized by the experts. https://www.randifine.com/post/brainwashing-the-cunning-psychological-tactic-used-in-narcissistic-abuse-domestic-violence-and-cults This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Doug Lemov, the author of the international bestseller Teach Like a Champion, joins Paul E. Peterson to discuss how grade inflation is impacting student achievement. "Your Neighborhood School Is a National Security Risk," by Lemov, is available now. https://www.educationnext.org/your-neighborhood-school-national-security-risk-student-achievement-merit-losing-prospects-era-everybody-wins/

The ECNL Podcast features Doug Lemov, the ECNL's Coaching Methodology Advisor and New York Times Best-Selling author, and Memo Sifuentes, the Austin FC U12 Academy Coach. President and CEO of the ECNL, Christian Lavers, talks with Lemov and Sifuentes about gameday coaching, halftime talks, how to help regulate players' emotion and attention while they play, and more.

I över fyrtio år samlade forskare in drömmar från jordens alla hörn. Men både metoderna och förvaringstekniken föråldrades. I dag bokförs våra inre liv på ett annat sätt, säger Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Essän sändes första gången i juni 2018.Mellan åren 1920 och 1963 samlade mer än sextio hårt arbetande amerikanska antropologer och psykologer in enorma mängder drömmar, livsberättelser och resultat från projektiva tester, såsom Rorschach-testet. Forskarna sökte inte i första hand upp de vanliga informanterna storstadsbor ur den bildade medelklassen utan ursprungsfolk och olika minoriteter och målet var ett slags arkiv över hela mänsklighetens inre liv. I en synnerligen välskriven studie, "Database of Dreams, the Lost Quest to Catalogue Humanity", berättar vetenskapshistorikern Rebecca Lemov om detta modernitetsprojekt med det knastertorra namnet Microcard Publications of Primary Records in Culture and Personality. Forskarna ställde sig frågor som: Har olika folkgrupper liknande nattliga drömmar? Drömmer vi olika över tid? Förändrades det nattliga drömmandet globalt mellan åren 1925 och 1955? Vad tyckte olika folkgrupper att Rorschach-testets tio tavlor med bläckplumpar visade? Vad om något är mänsklighetens minsta själsliga gemensamma nämnare? Ingen blygsam forskningsansats kan tyckas! Påtaglig var den höga tilltron till drömberättelser och projektiva test. Rebecca Lemov skriver i ett kapitel Rorschach-testets historia där vi också kan läsa om hur 26 nazi-förbrytare testades under Nürnbergrättegångarna, Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, bland andra. Deras svar på Rorschach-testets ständigt första fråga: Vad skulle det här kunna föreställa? sågs som vägen in i deras patologiska, eller kanske helt enkelt onda, inre. Idag hade man förmodligen scannat hjärnor och undersökt genuppsättningar. Men forskarna ville framför allt samla in material från icke-europeer och begav sig till avlägsna platser för att tala med urbefolkningar. De åkte till Stilla havs-öarna, Australien och Afrika; de bad inuit-barn om teckningar. De talade med cheyenne, hopi och zuni-stammarna. Lemov skriver: Som ett slags inverterat mjölkbud gick en antropolog stationerad i Tanzania omkring i byn varje morgon innan frukost för att samla ihop byinvånarnas drömmar innan de glömt dem. Nästan aldrig uppstod det någon ideal och kontrollerad test-situation utan de fick improvisera och ofta betala för tjänsterna. Komplicerade band mellan forskare och test-personer uppstod där vissa kunde försörja sig på att berätta om sina nattliga drömmar och ibland blev de utfrusna av de egna för att avslöja gruppens hemligheter. Detta föranledde den flitigaste av drömsamlarna, Dorothy Eggan, att försäkra hopi-stammen hon arbetade med i två decennier: Jag vill inte ha hemligheter, jag vill bara ha era drömmar. Ändå kritiserades projektet för att informanterna ibland tycks ha lämnat ut mer än de önskade.Drömmarna betraktades som hårddata, där själva kvantiteten och ytskiktet var viktigast. Vad, rent konkret, drömde de intervjuade om? Hur levde de, vad mindes de av sin uppväxt, vad tänkte de på och fantiserade om? Ja, man ville veta ALLT och Lemov sätter ett träffande namn på forskarambitionen: The Fantasy of Total Information. Om svaren på forskarens frågor inte infunnit sig beror det enligt denna forskarfantasi inte på felaktigt ställda frågor utan att det helt enkelt behövs mer data. Men hur skulle denna suggestiva, potentiellt poetiska och svåröverskådliga hårddata kategoriseras och arkiveras?Till ordningsman för insamlingsprojektet utsågs en pragmatisk och byråkratisk psykolog vid Harvard, Bert Kaplan. Med tanke på datans omfång bestämdes att dåtidens allra modernaste sorteringsteknik skulle tas i anspråk, det så kallade mikro-kortet. En analog teknik som med dagens mått knappast kan anses märkvärdig men då sannerligen var det: en vanlig A4-sida kunde krympas till storleken av en tumnagel och rapporterna och testresultaten, som sammanlagt kom att omfatta drygt 20 000 sidor, bevarades i kartonger. För att läsa krävdes en speciell förstoringsapparat, en så kallad Readex-maskin. Kvantiteten innebar också att ordentliga regler för datakatalogisering var nödvändiga. Till sist enades forskarna om 553 huvudkategorier med mängder av underavdelningar. I själva verket blev detta ett slags föregångare visserligen en havererad sådan till dagens Big Data, alltså de stora nätföretagens, Google, Facebook, Youtube, osv, hantering av enorma mängder data: allt vi köper, tweetar, klickar och tittar på, ja just det allt! Här återfinner vi den totalitära fantasin i uppdaterad tappning. Till drömmarnas databas kan vi nu också kan lägga till de nya sömnapparna, där vår djup- och REM-sömn registreras, via andningen. Men också drömappen Shadow, som vill att vi ska registrera våra drömmar för att hjälpa oss att komma ihåg dem, samtidigt som appen naturligtvis också stjäl dem. Så är det: vi buggas numera frivilligt i kuddarna.Men på 1960-talet visade det sig att både datainsamlingsprojektets socialantropologiska perspektiv och dess lagringsteknik, mikro-kortet, snart blev omoderna. De ambitiösa frågeställningarna fick aldrig några svar. Delvis kanske det berodde på att projektet aldrig slutfördes, men framför allt, tror jag, på att liknande spörsmål helt enkelt inte låter sig besvaras. Snarare löstes frågorna upp i myriader av berättelser. Vissa av intervjuerna kom dock att missbrukas, framför allt ledde en grovt spekulativ och nedsättande artikel i Newsweek om Navajo-folket kallad The Sick People, till att samarbetet med stammen fick avbrytas.Den digra samlingen av miniatyr-sidor med tillhörande förstoringsapparat hade dock redan köpts in av hundratals bibliotek. Men observera, bara hundratals och inte de flera tusental som hade varit rimligt med tanke på de väldiga summor som investerats i projektet av exempelvis National Institute of Health. När Rebecca Lemov 2007 började uppsöka de bibliotek exempelvis The Library of Congress där exemplar skulle finnas visade de sig vara synnerligen svåra att finna. Ofta fick hon svaret att arkivet var extremt sparsamt efterfrågat, om någonsin överhuvudtaget. Andra gånger var lådorna försvunna eller ofullständiga och Readexförstoringsmaskinen kaputt. Tänk er dessa lager av drömmar och livsberättelser som ingen någonsin läst, längs ned i bibliotekens dammiga källare, som en slumrande jätte, inte död, men inte levande heller. Det påminner onekligen, som Lemov inte undgår att påtala, om José Luis Borges-novellen om den upphittade encyklopedin över det fiktiva landet Tlön: Nu höll jag i mina händer ett omfattande systematiskt fragment av en okänd planets hela historia, [] med dess mytologiska fruktan och språkens sorl, med kejsare och hav, med mineraler och fåglar och fiskar, med algebra och eld, med dess teologiska och metafysiska diskussion.Det kommer såklart att bli vanligare: överblivna bilder, berättelser, chattdialoger och mem som flyter omkring i limbo när nyss så ny teknik blivit gammal. Vad gömmer sig i molnet och atom-skrotet och alla döda satelliter? Betänk de centiljarder fotografier som vilar i pajade datorer, vindsförråd med floppy discs, vhs-band och nedlagda bloggar. I tömda communitys, Lunarstorm, Skunk, Napster, My Space. Och om några år i den monumentala Facebook-kyrkogården när användarna har dött eftersom ungdomen alltid kommer att vilja ha sina egna nätverk.Men dessa spår är det ändå inte vår bästa chans till evigt liv? Det är den slumrande datans löfte: att vi ska få leva en gång till, när någon finner våra efterlämnade emojier och tar dem på det allvar de förtjänar.Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, författare och psykoanalytiker

The ECNL Podcast features Doug Lemov, the ECNL's Coaching Methodology Advisor and New York Times Best-Selling author. His published works include Teach Like a Champion and The Coach's Guide to Teaching. ECNL Podcast host Dean Linke and ECNL President Christian Lavers chat with Lemov about following the science in education, the importance of background knowledge in teaching players, the power of forgetting and more.

Doug Lemov, author of 'Teach Like a Champion' and 'The Coach's Guide to Teaching', talks about effective coaching. Lemov shares his expertise with UK Coaching Coach Programme and Pathway Manager Tom Hartley on practice design for learning, effective feedback, observation and a wide range of other topics relating to coaching practice. When listening to this podcast, consider what this would mean for your practice as a coach, and someone who creates learning environments for other coaches? Whatever your role, if you're helping people to be active and improve, we're here for you. Visit UKCoaching.org to grow your coaching skills and be part of the community.

Doug Lemov is the founder of Uncommon Schools. Rare are the elementary schools that use their own teaching methodology based on values such as respect, hard work and kindness so that students love school from the beginning. He is also the author of Teach Like a Champion, an acclaimed work about teachers working in North America´s urban areas who have obtained outstanding results. By analyzing their teaching methods, he has compiled a collection of helpful techniques obtained throughout years of observing some of the best teachers in the highest performing urban classrooms in the country.

Croeso i bennod arall o Dameidiau o Ymchwil TAR, yn dod â’r ymchwil gorau gan athrawon dan hyfforddiant o Bartneriaeth Caerdydd ar gyfer Addysg Gychwynnol i Athrawon. Yr wythnos hon rydym ni’n lledaenu’n Gymraeg, ac yn croesawu Beca Harries o’r cwrs TAR Uwchradd Ieithoedd Tramor Modern a fydd yn sgwrsio gyda Dr Gina Morgan. Mae Beca wedi bod yn ymchwilio strategaethau i annog cyfranogaeth ar lafar mewn gwersi ieithoedd tramor modern. Bydd Beca yn cyflwyno chwe phapur allweddol ac yn rhannu ei chasgliadau. Mae Beca eisoes wedi cyflwyno’r ymchwil yma i’w phrif ysgol partneriaeth ar ffurf crynodeb weledol, ac wedi rhoi caniatâd i ni rannu ei ffeithlun, y gallwch chi ei weld drwy glicio yma. Os hoffech chi ddarllen mwy, mae cyfeirnodau ar gyfer y chwe phapur allweddol i’w weld isod. Diolch yn fawr i Beca am rannu ei ymchwil, ac i Gina am gyflwyno! Christie, C., 2013. Speaking spontaneously in the modern foreign languages classroom: Tools for supporting successful target language conversation. The Language Learning Journal, 44(1), tud.74-89. Sherrington, T (2019) Rosenshine’s Principles In Action. John Catt Educational Ltd., tud.27-34. Namaziandost, E., Homayouni, M. and Rahmani, P., 2020. The impact of cooperative learning approach on the development of EFL learners’ speaking fluency. Cogent Arts & Humanities, 7(1), p.1780811. Bunaya, Mulya & Basikin, Basikin. (2019). Improving Speaking Confidence by Using Think Pair Share (TPS) Teaching Strategy to High School Students. 10.2991/iccie-18.2019.59. Lemov, D. 2015. Teach Like A Champion 2.0 : 62 Techniques That Put Students On The Path To College. Jossey-Bass. San Francisco, USA Dallimore, E., Hertenstein, J. and Platt, M., 2012. Impact of Cold- Calling on Student Voluntary Participation. Journal of Management Education, 37(3), pp.305-341

SiriusXM FC host Glenn Crooks talks author Doug Lemov in Part 2 of their conversation about the importance of teaching techniques from Lemov's new book, "A Coach's Guide to Teaching."

SiriusXM FC host Glenn Crooks welcomes author Doug Lemov who has written a new book, "A Coach's Guide to Teaching." In this episode, a focus on building team culture after Lemov's conversations with RB Salzburg coach, Jesse Marsch.

Dan Cottrell invites Dave Sharkey, Ged Hall and Edd Conway to say how they would use Doug Lemov's latest book, The Coach's Guide to Teaching in their own environments.Bestselling author and teaching guru Doug has drawn on his vast practical classroom experience to see he can help coaches produce better players. The panel discusses their main takeaways from the book in the context of their own coaching.The main areas covered are:Decision makingPractice designFeedbackThe book is enormously rich in stories, practical examples, sourced from people like Wayne Smith, Nick Winkleman, Dave Hadfield, Johan Cruyff, Steve Kerr and Pete Carroll.Click here to buy a copy of the book.Here's the book blurb.The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow. A hunger to use whatever can make them better. The best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to create championship caliber coaches on the court and field. What great classroom teachers do is relevant to coaches in profound ways. After all, coaches are at their core teachers. Lemov knows that coaches face many of the same challenges found in the classroom, so the science of learning applies equally to them. Unfortunately, coaches and organizations have a mixed level of understanding of the research and study of the science of learning. Sometimes coaches and organizations build their teaching on myths and platitudes more than science. Sometimes there isn't any science applied at all. While there are thousands of books and websites a coach can consult to better understand technical and tactical aspects of the game, there is nothing for a coach to consult that explicitly examines the teaching problems on the field, the court, the rink, and the diamond. Until now. Intended to offer lessons and guidance that are applicable to coaches of any sporting endeavor including everyone from parent volunteers to professional coaches and private trainers, Lemov brings the powerful science of learning to the arena of sports coaching to create the next generation of championship caliber coaches.

On this week’s podcast, Mike Petrilli and David Griffith are joined by Doug Lemov and Erica Woolway, co-managing director and chief academic officer, respectively, of the Teach Like a Champion team at Uncommon Schools. They talk about their timely new book, "Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal." On the Research Minute, Amber Northern examines a new RAND survey of teachers about social and emotional learning.

Teach Like a Champion, the best-selling guide to effective teaching by Doug Lemov, has sold millions of copies. But is it racist? Have You Heard hears from teachers and researchers who argue that Lemov’s approach embodies “carceral” pedagogy. And because we have a thing about education history, we trace the concept all the way back to 1895. Special guests: Ilana Horn, Joe Truss and Layla Treuhaft-Ali. The financial support of listeners like you keeps this podcast going. Subscribe on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HaveYouHeardPodcast Recommended reading: “Teach Like it’s 1895,” by Layla Treuhaft-Ali: https://haveyouheardblog.com/teach-like-its-1895/

When it comes down to it, coaching really is just teaching in a different setting. Educational consultant Doug Lemov has helped the teaching profession rethink how it can best educate students. Now he is turning his attention to coaches to see how coaches can improve their teaching abilities. He joins this week's GAINcast to discuss key principles of good teaching that can help us improve our effectiveness as coaches. For more information on this topic, read the complete show notes at: http://www.hmmrmedia.com/2020/06/gaincast-episode-191-teaching-better-with-doug-lemov/ The following links were referenced in the podcast or provide some additional reading material on the topic: GAIN 2020 has shifted online, with a monthly interactive master class series. Learn more and sign up now. GAIN Alumni can also get access to all events by renewing their membership. The GAINcast is also sponsored by HMMR Media. Join HMMR Media to get access to a vast library of online training resources, video, articles, podcasts, and more. You can learn more from Lemov in his books Teach Like a Champion and Practice Perfect. You can also follow him on Twitter (@Doug_Lemov). Lemov also has additional resources and a blog on his website teachlikeachampion.com.

Stephen Taylor is the founder and owner of StephensDrumShed.com as well as the creator of the Drum Better Daily system. The website is membership based and offers a way to learn the drums online in an organized and goal oriented fashion. Since 2011 he has had thousands of drummers go through his online programs, books, and courses. In 2017 Stephen launched a drum lesson on demand TV channel with Comcast cable. He has a passionate focus to bring online drum education to drummers around the world. Stephen has written three drum method books and also offers downloadable video drum lesson packs and individual lessons on his site.Stephen began playing professionally at the age of 16. During his formative years, he studied under drumming phenom Henrique De Almeida (CurrentAssociate Professor of Percussion at Berklee College of Music). In his late teens and early twenties, he cut his teeth playing nightly in clubs on Bourbon Street, in New Orleans, LA. After three years of gigging up to ten hour days, he relocated to pursue his education. While obtaining his degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Southern Mississippi, he studied underDr. John Wooton (Author of “The Drummers Rudimental Reference Book”and“Dr. Throwdown’s Rudimental Remedies”, and head of percussion at The University of Southern Mississippi) and Harrell Bosarge, a former percussion instructor at the University of North Texaswho has played with artists such asVince Gill, Delbert McClinton, Freddy Hubbard, and theWoody Herman Big Band.He has played and toured with independent and major label artists including Danielle Peck(Big Machine Records),Jason Jones(Warner Music),Meshach Jackson, and many others. In late 2008, Stephen began playing with an original project, Lovers and Liars. They signed withUniversal Republic Recordsbetween 2010 and 2011, had several songs featured on MTV, and has had the opportunity to share the stage with many great artists and bands. Stephen's current and past students having achieved or been featured onMTV, NBC, The Grammies, VH1, The Real World, the Dove Awards, and various college scholarships. In 2013 Stephen was part of a feature article in the October 2013 issue ofDRUM! Magazineentitled "The Drum Stars of You Tube".He currently lives outside of Nashville, TN with his wife, two sons, and daughter.Stephen proudly endorses: ZIldjian cymbals, Vic Firth drum sticks, Tama drums, Aquarian drumheads, Earthworks microphones, and Alclair In Ears.You can find him at https://www.stephensdrumshed.com/In this episode:Learn about how Stephen became a drum teacher.Why he developed his course, The Art of Practice, for drummers and musicians.To help his students learn how to practice effectively to get results.To learn how to focus.To learn what to work on in practice.When to move on to the next lesson.Why social media contributes to distraction and less ability to focus.How he manages his engagement with social media to spend real time on work and leisure.Defines deliberate practice - it is purposeful and systematic.The essential components of deliberate practiceMotivationEffortProperly designed exercises which are also brief - at your levelFeedback loops (positive/reinforcing and negative/balancing/goal-seeking)Repetition"Practice killers" which prevent deliberate practice.Distractions such as interruptions by family, social media, and other.How engaging in deliberate and focused practice has improved other aspects of his lifePractical Tips:Pick something you want to get better at doing.Establish a ritual to encourage it - Pick a trigger (a routine - a sequence of events that remain the same every time, a song like Stephen, or get comfortable in a particular space), breath work, and visualization (picture yourself accomplishing your goal successfully).Stick to your ritual for the next month and take notes. How often do you practice your goal. Put it a calendar and make notes about what works and what doesn’t.Resources:BooksDeep Work by Cal NewportEffortless Mastery by Kenny WernerPractice Perfect by Lemov, Woolway, & YezziThe one thing by Jay PapasanThe distracted mind by Gazzaley and RosenThe talent code by Daniel CoyleThe 80/20 principle by Richard KochDaily rituals by Mason CurreyGood to great by Jim CollinsThe art of learning by Josh WaitzkinOutliers by Malcolm GladwellZen and the art of motorcycle maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig*Article"The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance" (professional paper) by Ericsson, Krampe, & Tesch-RomerLinksHow to Configure Your iPhone to Work for You and Not Against You by Coach TonyZig Ziglar See You at the Top TalkRoy Baumeister Study of the Chocolate and Radish Experiment and WillpowerHow Meditation Benefits CEOsThe Health Benefits of Urban Nature: How Much Do We Need?Physical Activity Improves Cognitive Function

In this podcast Tom and I discuss Barak Rosenshine's Principles of instruction and his new book: Rosenshine's principles in action https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rosenshines-Principles-Action-Tom-Sherrington/dp/1912906201/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2N3XDPVU0G9RL&keywords=tom+sherrington&qid=1558382763&s=gateway&sprefix=tom+sherring%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-1 In this book and podcast Tom amplifies and augments the principles and further demonstrates how they can be put into practice in everyday classrooms.The second half of the book contains Rosenshine's original paper 'Principles of instruction' as published in 2010 by the IAE. We discuss: 1) So why are Barak Rosenshine’s ‘principles of instruction’ so good? 2) The reason I started this podcast is to make research accessible for teachers through sharing the experiences of teachers engagement. To what extent does Rosenshine bridge the research-practice divide? Taking the ideas of the page and into action 3) How well do you feel that principles of instruction are supported by the learning models from cognitive science? 4) What role does a knowledge rich curriculum play in the implementation of Rosenshine’s principles? 5) Strand 1 looks at sequencing concepts and modelling. What relevant instructional procedures could teachers use here? 6) What repertoire of questioning strategies have you found useful for teachers? (Maybe some discussion of link to TLAC and Lemov) 7) How can teachers go about making daily, weekly and monthly review part of an effective and sustainable routine? 8) In conclusion, I know of many schools that have bought the book for all staff , how can schools use your book to support the process of professional development? Coming soon-Tom Curriculum thinking-Three masterclasses with John Tomsett and Mary Myatt https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curriculum-thinking-three-masterclasses-manchester-tickets-58434928444?aff=ebdssbdestsearch Coming soon: Phil EEF behaviour guidance report in Lancashire https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/improving-behaviour-in-schools-east-lancashire-teaching-school-alliance-tickets-61793630412?aff=ebdssbdestsearch rED Rugby- Escaping the Hamster Wheel- using research and CPD to change culture in schools https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/researched-rugby-2019-tickets-58503529632 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/naylorsnatter/message

The rise of digital media has made it harder than ever to engage in deep, contemplative reading. As Maryanne Wolf writes in her new book, Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World, skimming is the new normal. In this episode, Marty West speaks with Doug Lemov, who reviewed Wolf’s book for Education Next. (The review is available at https://www.educationnext.org/forgetting-how-to-read-review-reader-come-home-maryanne-wolf/) Lemov is managing director of Uncommon Schools and author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered.

I över fyrtio år samlade forskare in drömmar från jordens alla hörn. Men både metoderna och förvaringstekniken föråldrades. I dag bokförs våra inre liv på ett annat sätt, säger Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Essän sändes första gången i juni 2018. Mellan åren 1920 och 1963 samlade mer än sextio hårt arbetande amerikanska antropologer och psykologer in enorma mängder drömmar, livsberättelser och resultat från projektiva tester, såsom Rorschach-testet. Forskarna sökte inte i första hand upp de vanliga informanterna storstadsbor ur den bildade medelklassen utan ursprungsfolk och olika minoriteter och målet var ett slags arkiv över hela mänsklighetens inre liv.  I en synnerligen välskriven studie, "Database of Dreams, the Lost Quest to Catalogue Humanity", berättar vetenskapshistorikern Rebecca Lemov om detta modernitetsprojekt med det knastertorra namnet Microcard Publications of Primary Records in Culture and Personality. Forskarna ställde sig frågor som: Har olika folkgrupper liknande nattliga drömmar? Drömmer vi olika över tid? Förändrades det nattliga drömmandet globalt mellan åren 1925 och 1955? Vad tyckte olika folkgrupper att Rorschach-testets tio tavlor med bläckplumpar visade? Vad om något är mänsklighetens minsta själsliga gemensamma nämnare? Ingen blygsam forskningsansats kan tyckas!  Påtaglig var den höga tilltron till drömberättelser och projektiva test. Rebecca Lemov skriver i ett kapitel Rorschach-testets historia där vi också kan läsa om hur 26 nazi-förbrytare testades under Nürnbergrättegångarna, Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, bland andra. Deras svar på Rorschach-testets ständigt första fråga: Vad skulle det här kunna föreställa? sågs som vägen in i deras patologiska, eller kanske helt enkelt onda, inre. Idag hade man förmodligen scannat hjärnor och undersökt genuppsättningar.  Men forskarna ville framför allt samla in material från icke-europeer och begav sig till avlägsna platser för att tala med urbefolkningar. De åkte till Stilla havs-öarna, Australien och Afrika; de bad inuit-barn om teckningar. De talade med cheyenne, hopi och zuni-stammarna. Lemov skriver: Som ett slags inverterat mjölkbud gick en antropolog stationerad i Tanzania omkring i byn varje morgon innan frukost för att samla ihop byinvånarnas drömmar innan de glömt dem. Nästan aldrig uppstod det någon ideal och kontrollerad test-situation utan de fick improvisera och ofta betala för tjänsterna. Komplicerade band mellan forskare och test-personer uppstod där vissa kunde försörja sig på att berätta om sina nattliga drömmar och ibland blev de utfrusna av de egna för att avslöja gruppens hemligheter. Detta föranledde den flitigaste av drömsamlarna, Dorothy Eggan, att försäkra hopi-stammen hon arbetade med i två decennier: Jag vill inte ha hemligheter, jag vill bara ha era drömmar. Ändå kritiserades projektet för att informanterna ibland tycks ha lämnat ut mer än de önskade. Drömmarna betraktades som hårddata, där själva kvantiteten och ytskiktet var viktigast. Vad, rent konkret, drömde de intervjuade om? Hur levde de, vad mindes de av sin uppväxt, vad tänkte de på och fantiserade om? Ja, man ville veta ALLT och Lemov sätter ett träffande namn på forskarambitionen: The Fantasy of Total Information. Om svaren på forskarens frågor inte infunnit sig beror det enligt denna forskarfantasi inte på felaktigt ställda frågor utan att det helt enkelt behövs mer data. Men hur skulle denna suggestiva, potentiellt poetiska och svåröverskådliga hårddata kategoriseras och arkiveras? vi buggas numera frivilligt i kuddarna. Till ordningsman för insamlingsprojektet utsågs en pragmatisk och byråkratisk psykolog vid Harvard, Bert Kaplan. Med tanke på datans omfång bestämdes att dåtidens allra modernaste sorteringsteknik skulle tas i anspråk, det så kallade mikro-kortet. En analog teknik som med dagens mått knappast kan anses märkvärdig men då sannerligen var det: en vanlig A4-sida kunde krympas till storleken av en tumnagel och rapporterna och testresultaten, som sammanlagt kom att omfatta drygt 20 000 sidor, bevarades i kartonger. För att läsa krävdes en speciell förstoringsapparat, en så kallad Readex-maskin.  Kvantiteten innebar också att ordentliga regler för datakatalogisering var nödvändiga. Till sist enades forskarna om 553 huvudkategorier med mängder av underavdelningar. I själva verket blev detta ett slags föregångare visserligen en havererad sådan till dagens Big Data, alltså de stora nätföretagens, Google, Facebook, Youtube, osv, hantering av enorma mängder data: allt vi köper, tweetar, klickar och tittar på, ja just det allt!  Här återfinner vi den totalitära fantasin i uppdaterad tappning. Till drömmarnas databas kan vi nu också kan lägga till de nya sömnapparna, där vår djup- och REM-sömn registreras, via andningen. Men också drömappen Shadow, som vill att vi ska registrera våra drömmar för att hjälpa oss att komma ihåg dem, samtidigt som appen naturligtvis också stjäl dem. Så är det: vi buggas numera frivilligt i kuddarna. Men på 1960-talet visade det sig att både datainsamlingsprojektets socialantropologiska perspektiv och dess lagringsteknik, mikro-kortet, snart blev omoderna. De ambitiösa frågeställningarna fick aldrig några svar. Delvis kanske det berodde på att projektet aldrig slutfördes, men framför allt, tror jag, på att liknande spörsmål helt enkelt inte låter sig besvaras. Snarare löstes frågorna upp i myriader av berättelser. Vissa av intervjuerna kom dock att missbrukas, framför allt ledde en grovt spekulativ och nedsättande artikel i Newsweek om Navajo-folket kallad The Sick People, till att samarbetet med stammen fick avbrytas. Den digra samlingen av miniatyr-sidor med tillhörande förstoringsapparat hade dock redan köpts in av hundratals bibliotek. Men observera, bara hundratals och inte de flera tusental som hade varit rimligt med tanke på de väldiga summor som investerats i projektet av exempelvis National Institute of Health. När Rebecca Lemov 2007 började uppsöka de bibliotek exempelvis The Library of Congress där exemplar skulle finnas visade de sig vara synnerligen svåra att finna. Ofta fick hon svaret att arkivet var extremt sparsamt efterfrågat, om någonsin överhuvudtaget. Andra gånger var lådorna försvunna eller ofullständiga och Readexförstoringsmaskinen kaputt.  Men dessa spår är det ändå inte vår bästa chans till evigt liv?  Tänk er dessa lager av drömmar och livsberättelser som ingen någonsin läst, längs ned i bibliotekens dammiga källare, som en slumrande jätte, inte död, men inte levande heller. Det påminner onekligen, som Lemov inte undgår att påtala, om José Luis Borges-novellen om den upphittade encyklopedin över det fiktiva landet Tlön: Nu höll jag i mina händer ett omfattande systematiskt fragment av en okänd planets hela historia, [] med dess mytologiska fruktan och språkens sorl, med kejsare och hav, med mineraler och fåglar och fiskar, med algebra och eld, med dess teologiska och metafysiska diskussion. Det kommer såklart att bli vanligare: överblivna bilder, berättelser, chattdialoger och mem som flyter omkring i limbo när nyss så ny teknik blivit gammal. Vad gömmer sig i molnet och atom-skrotet och alla döda satelliter? Betänk de centiljarder fotografier som vilar i pajade datorer, vindsförråd med floppy discs, vhs-band och nedlagda bloggar. I tömda communitys, Lunarstorm, Skunk, Napster, My Space. Och om några år i den monumentala Facebook-kyrkogården när användarna har dött eftersom ungdomen alltid kommer att vilja ha sina egna nätverk. Men dessa spår är det ändå inte vår bästa chans till evigt liv? Det är den slumrande datans löfte: att vi ska få leva en gång till, när någon finner våra efterlämnade emojier och tar dem på det allvar de förtjänar. Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, författare och psykoanalytiker

Get 40 Brain Breaks for free at bit.ly/40brainbreaks.

I över fyrtio år samlade forskare in drömmar från jordens alla hörn. Men både metoderna och förvaringstekniken föråldrades. I dag bokförs våra inre liv på ett annat sätt, säger Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Mellan åren 1920 och 1963 samlade mer än sextio hårt arbetande amerikanska antropologer och psykologer in enorma mängder drömmar, livsberättelser och resultat från projektiva tester, såsom Rorschach-testet. Forskarna sökte inte i första hand upp de vanliga informanterna storstadsbor ur den bildade medelklassen utan ursprungsfolk och olika minoriteter och målet var ett slags arkiv över hela mänsklighetens inre liv.  I en synnerligen välskriven studie, "Database of Dreams, the Lost Quest to Catalogue Humanity", berättar vetenskapshistorikern Rebecca Lemov om detta modernitetsprojekt med det knastertorra namnet Microcard Publications of Primary Records in Culture and Personality. Forskarna ställde sig frågor som: Har olika folkgrupper liknande nattliga drömmar? Drömmer vi olika över tid? Förändrades det nattliga drömmandet globalt mellan åren 1925 och 1955? Vad tyckte olika folkgrupper att Rorschach-testets tio tavlor med bläckplumpar visade? Vad om något är mänsklighetens minsta själsliga gemensamma nämnare? Ingen blygsam forskningsansats kan tyckas!  Påtaglig var den höga tilltron till drömberättelser och projektiva test. Rebecca Lemov skriver i ett kapitel Rorschach-testets historia där vi också kan läsa om hur 26 nazi-förbrytare testades under Nürnbergrättegångarna, Göring, Hess, von Ribbentrop, bland andra. Deras svar på Rorschach-testets ständigt första fråga: Vad skulle det här kunna föreställa? sågs som vägen in i deras patologiska, eller kanske helt enkelt onda, inre. Idag hade man förmodligen scannat hjärnor och undersökt genuppsättningar.  Men forskarna ville framför allt samla in material från icke-europeer och begav sig till avlägsna platser för att tala med urbefolkningar. De åkte till Stilla havs-öarna, Australien och Afrika; de bad inuit-barn om teckningar. De talade med cheyenne, hopi och zuni-stammarna. Lemov skriver: Som ett slags inverterat mjölkbud gick en antropolog stationerad i Tanzania omkring i byn varje morgon innan frukost för att samla ihop byinvånarnas drömmar innan de glömt dem. Nästan aldrig uppstod det någon ideal och kontrollerad test-situation utan de fick improvisera och ofta betala för tjänsterna. Komplicerade band mellan forskare och test-personer uppstod där vissa kunde försörja sig på att berätta om sina nattliga drömmar och ibland blev de utfrusna av de egna för att avslöja gruppens hemligheter. Detta föranledde den flitigaste av drömsamlarna, Dorothy Eggan, att försäkra hopi-stammen hon arbetade med i två decennier: Jag vill inte ha hemligheter, jag vill bara ha era drömmar. Ändå kritiserades projektet för att informanterna ibland tycks ha lämnat ut mer än de önskade. Drömmarna betraktades som hårddata, där själva kvantiteten och ytskiktet var viktigast. Vad, rent konkret, drömde de intervjuade om? Hur levde de, vad mindes de av sin uppväxt, vad tänkte de på och fantiserade om? Ja, man ville veta ALLT och Lemov sätter ett träffande namn på forskarambitionen: The Fantasy of Total Information. Om svaren på forskarens frågor inte infunnit sig beror det enligt denna forskarfantasi inte på felaktigt ställda frågor utan att det helt enkelt behövs mer data. Men hur skulle denna suggestiva, potentiellt poetiska och svåröverskådliga hårddata kategoriseras och arkiveras? vi buggas numera frivilligt i kuddarna. Till ordningsman för insamlingsprojektet utsågs en pragmatisk och byråkratisk psykolog vid Harvard, Bert Kaplan. Med tanke på datans omfång bestämdes att dåtidens allra modernaste sorteringsteknik skulle tas i anspråk, det så kallade mikro-kortet. En analog teknik som med dagens mått knappast kan anses märkvärdig men då sannerligen var det: en vanlig A4-sida kunde krympas till storleken av en tumnagel och rapporterna och testresultaten, som sammanlagt kom att omfatta drygt 20 000 sidor, bevarades i kartonger. För att läsa krävdes en speciell förstoringsapparat, en så kallad Readex-maskin.  Kvantiteten innebar också att ordentliga regler för datakatalogisering var nödvändiga. Till sist enades forskarna om 553 huvudkategorier med mängder av underavdelningar. I själva verket blev detta ett slags föregångare visserligen en havererad sådan till dagens Big Data, alltså de stora nätföretagens, Google, Facebook, Youtube, osv, hantering av enorma mängder data: allt vi köper, tweetar, klickar och tittar på, ja just det allt!  Här återfinner vi den totalitära fantasin i uppdaterad tappning. Till drömmarnas databas kan vi nu också kan lägga till de nya sömnapparna, där vår djup- och REM-sömn registreras, via andningen. Men också drömappen Shadow, som vill att vi ska registrera våra drömmar för att hjälpa oss att komma ihåg dem, samtidigt som appen naturligtvis också stjäl dem. Så är det: vi buggas numera frivilligt i kuddarna. Men på 1960-talet visade det sig att både datainsamlingsprojektets socialantropologiska perspektiv och dess lagringsteknik, mikro-kortet, snart blev omoderna. De ambitiösa frågeställningarna fick aldrig några svar. Delvis kanske det berodde på att projektet aldrig slutfördes, men framför allt, tror jag, på att liknande spörsmål helt enkelt inte låter sig besvaras. Snarare löstes frågorna upp i myriader av berättelser. Vissa av intervjuerna kom dock att missbrukas, framför allt ledde en grovt spekulativ och nedsättande artikel i Newsweek om Navajo-folket kallad The Sick People, till att samarbetet med stammen fick avbrytas. Den digra samlingen av miniatyr-sidor med tillhörande förstoringsapparat hade dock redan köpts in av hundratals bibliotek. Men observera, bara hundratals och inte de flera tusental som hade varit rimligt med tanke på de väldiga summor som investerats i projektet av exempelvis National Institute of Health. När Rebecca Lemov 2007 började uppsöka de bibliotek exempelvis The Library of Congress där exemplar skulle finnas visade de sig vara synnerligen svåra att finna. Ofta fick hon svaret att arkivet var extremt sparsamt efterfrågat, om någonsin överhuvudtaget. Andra gånger var lådorna försvunna eller ofullständiga och Readexförstoringsmaskinen kaputt.  Men dessa spår är det ändå inte vår bästa chans till evigt liv?  Tänk er dessa lager av drömmar och livsberättelser som ingen någonsin läst, längs ned i bibliotekens dammiga källare, som en slumrande jätte, inte död, men inte levande heller. Det påminner onekligen, som Lemov inte undgår att påtala, om José Luis Borges-novellen om den upphittade encyklopedin över det fiktiva landet Tlön: Nu höll jag i mina händer ett omfattande systematiskt fragment av en okänd planets hela historia, [] med dess mytologiska fruktan och språkens sorl, med kejsare och hav, med mineraler och fåglar och fiskar, med algebra och eld, med dess teologiska och metafysiska diskussion. Det kommer såklart att bli vanligare: överblivna bilder, berättelser, chattdialoger och mem som flyter omkring i limbo när nyss så ny teknik blivit gammal. Vad gömmer sig i molnet och atom-skrotet och alla döda satelliter? Betänk de centiljarder fotografier som vilar i pajade datorer, vindsförråd med floppy discs, vhs-band och nedlagda bloggar. I tömda communitys, Lunarstorm, Skunk, Napster, My Space. Och om några år i den monumentala Facebook-kyrkogården när användarna har dött eftersom ungdomen alltid kommer att vilja ha sina egna nätverk. Men dessa spår är det ändå inte vår bästa chans till evigt liv? Det är den slumrande datans löfte: att vi ska få leva en gång till, när någon finner våra efterlämnade emojier och tar dem på det allvar de förtjänar. Ulf Karl Olov Nilsson, författare och psykoanalytiker

Doug Lemov of Uncommon School and co-author of Reading Reconsidered talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about reading. Lemov makes the case for the educational importance of critical reading of challenging books and texts. Along the way, he gives listeners some ideas of how to read themselves and gives parents some ideas for how to educate their children.

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan's project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan's Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan's database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/systems-and-cybernetics

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan's project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan's Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan's database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/psychology

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan's project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan's Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan's database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan’s project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan’s Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan’s database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan’s project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan’s Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan’s database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rebecca Lemov‘s beautifully written Database of Dreams: The Lost Quest to Catalog Humanity (Yale University Press, 2015) is at once an exploration of mid-century social science through paths less traveled and the tale of a forgotten future. The book is anchored around the story of Harvard-trained social scientist Bert Kaplan, who embarked on, in her words, a dizzyingly ambitious 1950s-era project to capture peoples dreams in large amounts and store them in an experimental data bank. While unique in scope, Kaplan’s project can be characterized as the culmination of efforts to apply techniques of personality capture–projective testing, dream analysis, and life history–in cross-cultural research on indigenous peoples, an effort to account for the full spectrum of human life amidst the encroachment of modernity upon cultures based, for example, in oral traditions. Richly documenting the entanglements of Kaplan and others in their attempts to render subjects as data, Lemov throws the transactional nature of anthropology into relief. A data point for an ethnographer can be many things for a research subject: cash for buying American niceties, a beer, a dream lost in the act of recounting, even a permanent mark of distrust. The book is also a history of a technology which never came to fruition: the futuristic reader for Kaplan’s Microcards was never realized, and the boxes of cards became dispersed and lost their value as a total archive of human personality. Lemov argues that we would do well to regard the fate of Kaplan’s database as a parable for our age by calling attention to the information loss upon which the technologies of documentation that saturate our present rely. What, then, will become of our compressed audio files, forgotten social media accounts, and backup hard drives stashed in the back corners of drawers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug Lemov of Uncommon Schools and author of Teach Like a Champion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about teaching and education. Drawing on his experience working in charter schools with children in poverty, Lemov discusses what makes a great teacher and a great school. Lemov argues that practice and technique can transform teaching and education. The conversation concludes with a discussion of how EconTalk might be made more valuable to its listeners.

Doug Lemov of Uncommon Schools and author of Teach Like a Champion talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about teaching and education. Drawing on his experience working in charter schools with children in poverty, Lemov discusses what makes a great teacher and a great school. Lemov argues that practice and technique can transform teaching and education. The conversation concludes with a discussion of how EconTalk might be made more valuable to its listeners.