The Learning Scientists Podcast

Apr 10 2025 89 ep. 23 mins 2.5k
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A podcast for teachers, students, and parents about evidence based practice and learning.

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Episode 89: Who Should Create Study plans?

Apr 10 2025 8 mins  
For some of our podcast episodes, we are going to read blog posts, audiobook style. This allows listeners to access the written material from the blog in audio form, which we imagine may help some who don’t have much time for reading (but DO have time to listen in the car). It also allows us to bring some of our most interesting, important, and/or popular posts back into the spot

Episode 88: Quick Podcast Updates and a Discussion About Multitasking

Feb 27 2025 22 mins  
In Episode 88, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea talk about the new direction of the Learning Scientists Podcast, and about multitasking!

Episode 87: Executive Functioning Skills with Mitch Weathers

Jan 16 2025 37 mins  
In Episode 87, Cindy chats with Mitch Weathers, a veteran teacher and Founder and CEO of Organized Binder. Mitch discusses what exactly is meant by executive functioning, his own learning struggles as a student, and his many projects aimed at improving students’ executive functioning skills including his recently released book, Executive Functions for Every Classroom: Creating Sa

Episode 86: EdTech and AI with Jared Cooney Horvath (Recorded Live from ResearchED)

Nov 07 2024 42 mins  
In episode 86, Cindy talks with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, neuroscientist, educator, and author of Stop Talking, Start Influencing: 12 Insights from Brain Science to Make Your Message Stick. In this episode, Jared reviews some of the history of technological advancements, how technology has impacted learning, and shares some of his ideas for how artificial intelligence may impact bo

Episode 85: Digital Literacy with Natalia Kucirkova

Sep 12 2024 28 mins  
In Episode 85, Megan talks with Natalia Kucirkova, PhD, a Professor of Early Childhood and Development at the University of Stavanger in Norway and Professor of Reading and Children’s Development at The Open University, UK. Natalia leads a network of learning scientists, WiKIT, who support diverse EdTech organizations to be more evidence-based and aligned with the science of lear

Episode 84: An Evidence - Based Approach to Teaching Reading and Writing – An Interview with Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking

Aug 01 2024 50 mins  
In Episode 84, Carolina talks to Dominic Wyse and Charlotte Hacking; the authors of the brand-new book “The Balancing Act: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Phonics, Reading and Writing”. Together they explore the chapters of the book that takes a research-informed approach to teaching pupils how to read and write.

Episode 83: An Interview with We Do It For the Culture founder Jamila Sams

Jun 20 2024 21 mins  
In Episode 83, Althea interviews Jamila Sams, CEO and founder of We Do It For the Culture (TM), a culturally responsive social emotional learning curriculum rooted in Hip-Hop culture for middle and high school students. Jamila discusses the five components of social-emotional learning, hip-hop, and shares examples of how the curriculum has connected with students.

Episode 82: An Interview with Robert Malkin on Academic Research for High School Students

May 09 2024 18 mins  
In Episode 82, Cindy interviews Robert Malkin about academic research for high school students.

Episode 81: STP Talk -- Science Communication about Retrieval Practice

Mar 28 2024 21 mins  
In Episode 81, Megan, Cindy, Carolina, and Althea walk through their Society for the Teaching of Psychology (STP) Annual Conference on Teaching (ACT) talk! The episode was recorded in October 2023 when all four Learning Scientists were together in Portland, Oregon for the conference. After they gave their formal talk, they recorded their talk in one of their hotel rooms to reach mo

Episode 80: An Interview with Kareem Farah from The Modern Classrooms Project

Feb 15 2024 23 mins  
In Episode 80, Cindy interviews Kareem Farah, CEO and co-founder of the Modern Classrooms Project.