S5E15: Barbara Oakley on constructivism vs. learning science
from Progressively Incorrect Hosted by Zach Groshell
In this episode, I sit down with Barbara Oakley—engineer, bestselling author, and one of the most influential voices in the science of learning—to talk about why so much instruction still misses the mark, what “good teaching” looks like when you take cognition seriously, and what’s at stake if we keep defaulting to methods that feel…
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