Education Bookcast
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Education Bookcast
Education Bookcast is a podcast principally for teachers and parents who would like to know more about education. We cover one education-related book or article each episode, going over the key points, placing it in context, and making connections with other ideas, topics, and authors. Topics in...
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Goodbye :)
Hello everyone,
I have not been recording podcast episodes for over a year. This is because I started a company this year, Panglot Labs Ltd, and...
156. Entrepreneurial expertise
In order to understand learning, we need to understand the result of learning - expertise. This is much easier to approach in so-called "kind" domains...
155. How experts see
There has been a ton of research on how experts see things differently than novices. (Like, with their eyes.) Everything from where they look, how lon...
154. Mindsets everywhere
Mindset was the first thing I spoke about on this podcast. I even did a separate episode going into the controversies surrounding replication of Carol...
153. Comparing learning different dance styles: Argentine Tango vs. Ballroom & Latin (Dancesport)
I haven't spoken on the podcast yet about my personal experience learning dancing. At university, I took part in dancesport, which is competitive ball...
152. [VIDEO] Education and generative AI: conference video for STEM MAD Melbourne, October 23
This is my first ever attempt at a VIDEO podcast. If you just listen to the audio, you should be fine.
This was a video produced for the STEM MA...
151. 8 years, 150 episodes
This is a quick review of where I am now after 150 episodes and just short of 8 years of Education Bookcast.
Thanks for all of your support! Fee...
150. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
Since I've now reached episode 150, I've decided to do something I've never done before - discuss a fiction book. (This episode contains spoilers.)
149. How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green
A lot of the classic expertise research, especially the research about deliberate practice and the "10,000 hour rule", is inspired by K. Anders Ericcs...
148. You Know the Fair Rule by Bill Rogers
Any teacher in a Western cultural context knows that classroom behaviour is the most challenging part of the job. A lot of the time, it seems like cro...
147. Large language models (LLMs) - interview with Dr Guy Emerson
Dr Guy Emerson (a.k.a Guy Karavengleman) is a computational linguist working at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. In this episode, we disc...
146b. Lessons from EdTech - The 90% Rule
In the second part of this two-part episode about lessons learned from my time working in the education technology sector, I wanted to share a very si...
146a. Lessons from EdTech - the Fundamental Duality of Educational Materials
I've now been working as a data scientist in educational technology for over four years. In that time I've thought a lot about various educational con...
145a. How to be a better lecturer (theory) - a message for Guy
Another in the series of "really long voice notes from Staś". My friend Guy is a lecturer in natural language processing. He asked me if I could give...
145b. How to be a better lecturer (practice) - a message for Guy
This is the second part of the message for my friend Guy about becoming a better lecturer. In this part, I go over 27 practical techniques and tips fo...
144. Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom is best known for Bloom's Taxonomy, a scheme for categorising ways of thinking about or interacting with learning content on a scale fr...
143. Talent, revisited
Cover image: horse and rider by Nadia, age 5.
The nature of talent is something that I dealt with near the beginning of the existence of Educati...
142. Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is out now! Taster: Music and Learning
Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is here!
The Pedagogue-Cast is a separate podcast project I share with Justin Matthys, founder of Maths Pathway....
141+. Feedback on constructivism
After my last episode on behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism ("A Message for Zoë"), I heard back from Zoë herself, and also heard from Malin...
141. Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism - a message for Zoë
My friend Zoë (hi Zoë!) is taking a course on learning design. In it, she heard about Behaviourism, Cognitivism, and Constructivism, and while she sai...
140b. Political economy pt. II: The Invisible Hook
In the previous recording, I was speaking about political economy using the example of prison gangs, taken from David Skarbek's book Social Order of t...
140a. Political economy pt. I: The Social Order of the Underworld
Please be advised that this episode contains mentions of violence and may be unsuitable for some listeners.
I'd like to flesh out what I've been...
139. Reflections after 7 years
Education Bookcast released its first episode on the 1st of January 2016. I'd like to take this opportunity to talk about some of the big things that...
138. The science of self-belief, part II: self-efficacy
This is the second episode concerning self-related beliefs taken from chapters of The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning. Here I talk about...
137. The science of self-belief, part I: self-concept
Among the huge academic tomes that I've been ploughing through recently is The Cambridge Handbook of Motivation and Learning. I've long felt that my u...
136+. Interview with Prof. Christian Lebiere on ACT-R and Cognitive Architecture
In this interview, I have the honour to speak with Professor Christian Lebiere, researcher in cognitive architecture, co-author of The Atomic Componen...
136. Cognitive architecture and ACT-R
I have recently discovered the field of cognitive architecture. I have been reading around the area for the last couple of months, and I would like to...
135. Professional writing expertise
One of the patrons of the podcast wrote to me on the forum that while I have covered the research on learning to read in a fair amount of detail, I'm...
134. Philosophy for children
In this episode, I have Judith Millecker on as a guest. Judith is the author of the Philosocats series of books, which aims to help children ages 4-10...
133. Patterns are fast, rules are slow
I was reading the Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance edited by K. Anders Ericsson yesterday, and after going through a chapter on...
I have a new podcast!
I now have a new podcast, the Pedagogue-Cast!
Together with Justin Matthys, co-founder of Australian education technology company Maths Pathway,...
132b. Direct Instruction: the evidence
In this part of the episode, I will discuss the evidence for the effectiveness of Direct Instruction, drawing from Project Follow Through, but also fr...
132a. Direct Instruction and Project Follow Through
I've spent a lot of time on the podcast so far discussing discovery learning, but not had any episodes explicitly dedicated to what might be considere...
131. Mindset: does it replicate?
[By the way, the cover image is of the proportion of children in different countries who have a growth mindset (darker red is more). The data was take...
130. How children learn that the Earth is not flat
I stumbled across a fascinating paper looking into how children conceptualise the world around them. Mental Models of the Earth: A Study of Conceptual...
Support the podcast & join the community forum!
You can now support Education Bookcast and join the community forum, where we discuss all things education. Visit https://www.buymeacoffee.com/edubook...
129. A Transfer of Learning bombshell
This episode has such huge implications that I didn't know what to call it. Efficiency and Innovation in Transfer, the actual name of the book chapter...
128. Nuance
I wanted to talk a bit about some areas in which my thinking about education has improved with the addition of nuance, and about the ways in which thi...
127. Necessary Conditions of Learning by Ference Marton
A listener of the podcast by the name of Malin Tväråna (senior lecturer at Uppsala University's Department of Education) requested in a review of the...
126. The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGillchrist
"Are you left-brained or right-brained?" Brain lateralisation has been known about in neuroscience since the early days, but it has been a taboo over...