About this podcast
Most learning is superficial and fades quickly. This podcast will equip you to move to learning that is durable because it is deep. Deep learning lasts because it respects the way the brain works. Inquiring minds want to know "how" and "why"—not just what!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 73 episodes
- It All Adds Up · 30 min · Season 10 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail I summarize my 10 principles of learning. These principles respect the way God designed the brain to learn. That framework moves from questions that pique our…
- Not My Style · 18 min · Season 10 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail The myth of learning styles is a hindrance to deep and durable learning. It plays right into the myth of learning as mere retrieval. While we have individual…
- I Can Figure It Out! · 21 min · Season 10 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail The cognitive power tools of the well-taught beginner create increasingly useful knowledge as the learner's skill level increases through practice that…
- Mind-full Repetition · 23 min · Season 10 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail "Drill and kill," the mindless and seemingly endless repetition of facts, kills motivation to learn. "Repetition aids learning" is only true with carefully…
- Constructing Ideas or Collecting Information? · 24 min · Season 10 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail How can you help your child move from being absorbed with taking in information in the classroom to a fixation on understanding ideas? This is key to durable…
- I Can't Remember · 22 min · Season 10 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Many parents and children view their inability to memorize as their greatest educational weakness. Learning is more than remembering, but it is not less. Today's…
- Is That a Fact? · 22 min · Season 10 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Most schools design curriculum around a fact forward approach. Facts are always in the foreground while ideas lurk in the background and generally make only…
- Learning Despite Schooling · 18 min · Season 10 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Children are all born learners—at least until they go to school. Many children and their parents are frustrated and mystified by the setbacks that are…
- Wise Worldview Formation · 27 min · Season 9 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Worldview is the key grid through which we filter and formulate ideas, yet it is not systematically developed in most educational programs. This is particularly…
- Preschool Pedagogy is Primary · 31 min · Season 9 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail No one wants to kill the joy of learning in a young child, but that's likely with the majority of preschool and elementary pedagogies. This podcast helps you…
- Read the Whole Bible Every Year? · 24 min · Season 9 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Attempting to read the Bible through each year is a source of frustration and guilt to many as they repeatedly fall behind their reading schedule. Is this yearly…
- Poles Apart in the Church? · 22 min · Season 9 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail The church is not immune to polarity that all too often leads to contention and division—the opposite of biblical unity. This study in Ephesians aims to…
- Discipleship Targets Polarization · 27 min · Season 9 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail Transformational discipleship is redundant. Discipleship is intrinsically transformation into increasing Christlikeness. This is a case study of Ephesians that…
- Failure to Launch: Discipleship Endangered · 27 min · Season 9 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Discipleship is more than a targeted learning process, but it is not less. Deep and durable learning of scripture results in personal transformation, but most…
- Drinking: What Are You Thinking? · 23 min · Season 9 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail What does wisdom say about beverage alcohol consumption? I cut through the cultural cachet of alcohol and look objectively at its documented effects on the human…
- Science Sleuth or Cynic? · 59 min · Season 9 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Daniel L. Smith, Professor of Nutrition Sciences, is a self-professed skeptic about nutritional science. He takes us on a journey through how science works and…
- Maximizing the Magic of Teachable Moments · 1 h 2 min · Season 8 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail The elusive teachable moment is not endangered. In this episode we talk about how to orchestrate and leverage teachable moments to catalyze deep and durable…
- Never Graduate From Preschool · 60 min · Season 8 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Young learners are motivated by curiosity and wonder. This generates "why" questions that are answered by looking for patterns in the particulars they encounter…
- Questioning Your Way to Vocational Clarity · 45 min · Season 8 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Many people feel stuck in their careers. At the root this is because they lack clarity about who they are and what they were made to do. Clarity emerges on the…
- Discerning Your Calling · 1 h 0 min · Season 8 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail Vocation should not be chosen pragmatically based merely on opportunity. Vocation is literally a calling to use your unique giftedness for the glory of God. Dr…
