T is for Training 225 : Me and You and a Dog Named Boo

It was just Maurice Coleman and Jill Hurst-Wahl, and early on it became a love-fest about the VISTA Collaboratory,which is in the Carlson Library at the University of Rochester (NY). (Photos are below.) We also talked about what’s going on at Maurice’s workplace and had an extended conversation about Google Expeditions Kits.  Along the way, Jill told the story about how she and Maurice met, which she also told on this week’s Library Pros Podcast.  This was definitely a technology-focused conversation.  Listen to the episode on TalkShoe.

T is for Training 224 : Cut Away all the Crap

On the call were Diane Huckabay, Maurice Coleman, Andrea Snyder and Paul Signorelli.  Their conversation used Deborah Farmer Kris’s KQED Mind/Shift article “5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students” as a jumping off point for a conversation about “Using Our Brains to Help Our Students.”  Resources from the call are in a separate blog post.

Demystifying the Learning Process for Struggling Students (T is for Training #224)

Here are resources mentioned during the discussion of the KQED Mind/Shift article “5 Strategies to Demystify the Learning Process for Struggling Students,” by Deborah Farmer Kris (@dfkris) on Episode #224 of T is for Training:

Peter Brown, Henry Roediger III, and Mark McDaniel: Make It Stick: The Science of Scucessful Learning

Benedict Cary: How We Learn: The Surprising Truth About When, Where, and Why It Happens

Chip and Dan Heath: Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

Stephen Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde: Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions

John Medina: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School

James Zull: The Art of Changing the Brain: Enriching the Practice of Teaching by Exploring the Biology of Learning