The Neuroscience of Learning--and How It Can Inform Educational Policy
Barbara Oakley Barbara Oakley
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 Published On Feb 27, 2022

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

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