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Announcing Panglot World Languages

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Goodbye :)

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156. Entrepreneurial expertise

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155. How experts see

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154. Mindsets everywhere

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153. Comparing learning different dance styles: Argentine Tango vs. Ballroom & Latin (Dancesport)

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152. [VIDEO] Education and generative AI: conference video for STEM MAD Melbourne, October 23

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151. 8 years, 150 episodes

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150. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

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149. How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green

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148. You Know the Fair Rule by Bill Rogers

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147. Large language models (LLMs) - interview with Dr Guy Emerson

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146b. Lessons from EdTech - The 90% Rule

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146a. Lessons from EdTech - the Fundamental Duality of Educational Materials

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145b. How to be a better lecturer (practice) - a message for Guy

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145a. How to be a better lecturer (theory) - a message for Guy

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144. Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom

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143. Talent, revisited

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142. Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is out now! Taster: Music and Learning

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141+. Feedback on constructivism

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141. Behaviourism, Cognitivism, Constructivism - a message for Zoë

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140b. Political economy pt. II: The Invisible Hook

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140a. Political economy pt. I: The Social Order of the Underworld

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139. Reflections after 7 years

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138. The science of self-belief, part II: self-efficacy

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137. The science of self-belief, part I: self-concept

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136+. Interview with Prof. Christian Lebiere on ACT-R and Cognitive Architecture

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136. Cognitive architecture and ACT-R

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135. Professional writing expertise

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134. Philosophy for children

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133. Patterns are fast, rules are slow

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I have a new podcast!

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132b. Direct Instruction: the evidence

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132a. Direct Instruction and Project Follow Through

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131. Mindset: does it replicate?

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130. How children learn that the Earth is not flat

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Support the podcast & join the community forum!

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129. A Transfer of Learning bombshell

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128. Nuance

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127. Necessary Conditions of Learning by Ference Marton

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126. The Master and his Emissary by Iain McGillchrist

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125+. Interview with Rasmus Koss Hartmann

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125. Entrepreneurship education and conspicuous consumption

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124. The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences

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123. How the Brain Learns by David Sousa

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122. Hive Mind by Garrett Jones

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121b. Attachment Theory around the world

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121a. Attachment Theory as cultural ideology

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120. Aztec education

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119. Stages of learning

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118. The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks

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117. Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer

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116h. Summary and conclusion

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116g. Speech, silence, action

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116f. Socratic and Confucian mothers

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116e. Curiosity begets enquiry, heart begets dedication

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116d. Mind-oriented vs. Virtue-oriented learning processes

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116c. East Asians don't respond to intrinsic motivation, and other gems

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116b. Mastering the Universe vs. Transforming the Self

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116a. Cultural Foundations of Learning, East and West by Jin Li

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115. Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

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114. Philosophy of Science - the good bits

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113. The Hidden Half by Michael Blastland

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112. Out of our Minds by Sir Ken Robinson

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111. Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie

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110b. Declarative knowledge is central to transfer

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110a. Transfer of Learning by Robert Haskell

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109. America's Critical Thinking Crisis by Steven Pearlman

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108. Expert Political Judgement by Phillip Tetlock

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107. Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier

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106i. Summary and conclusion

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106h. School

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106g. Adolescence

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106f. The Chore Curriculum

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106e. Play

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106d. How children learn?

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106c. "It takes a village"

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106b. Family and reproduction

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106a. The Anthropology of Childhood by David Lancy

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105. Rote memorisation

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104. Addiction by Design by Natasha Dow Schüll

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103+. James Paul Gee's 36 Learning Principles

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103. What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy by James Paul Gee

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102. Psychology is overrated

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101. Review of episodes 1-99

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100. Reintroducing the podcast after 5 years

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99. China's Examination Hell by Ichisada Miyazaki

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98. Range by David Epstein

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97. The Polymath by Waqas Ahmed

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96. Rest by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

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95. The Reading Mind by Daniel Willingham

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94. The Beautiful Tree by James Tooley

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93. Closing the Vocabulary Gap by Alex Quigley

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92. The Buddha Pill by Dr Miguel Farias and Dr Catherine Wikholm

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91. Vocabulary Development by Steven Stahl

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90. Discovery learning: the idea that won't die

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89. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond

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88. The Failure of Constructivist, Discovery, Problem-based, Experiential, and Inquiry-based Teaching

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87. Experiential Learning by Colin Beard and John Wilson

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86. Learning as information compression