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Join Steve Pearlman, Ph.D. for fascinating and life changing discussions. • What critical thinking is and how to do it, for you and for your children • Ways to rethink social issues that impact you • Conversations with global experts • Groundbreaking ideas changing the world • Understanding your brain and your mind-body connection • The power and pitfalls of our educational system And so much more!
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Unlock your Divergent Thinking and Creative Problem Solving
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Have you ever considered the fact that for the vast majority of humanity's existence, problem solving was almost always directly tied to physical movement? After all, there were almost no problems--finding or hunting food, needing shelter, getting water, etc.--that didn't require a physical solution. Thus, physical movement actually affects brain f…
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The Unfortunate Jedi Mind Trick that Broke Reality
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How is that people have come to "speak their truth"? Why do some people think words can be "violence"? Politically speaking, why can't people even agree on basic facts? Whether you know it or not, your thinking has been affected, if not in certain ways infected, by a philosophy that emerged from academia in the latter half of the previous century--…
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More Headagogy coming soon! Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!!Steven J. Pearlman, Ph.D., The Critical Thinking Initiative による
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Quick Tip: Ignite your Creativity and Problem Solving By Thinking ... Less!
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Ever wondered how our brain's networks conspire to spark that brilliant idea just as you're about to fall asleep? Prepare to illuminate the shadowy corners of your mind with a simple technique for harmonizing the different brain networks involved in creativity. Toss out the conventional playbook and learn to indulge in a mental snack break that can…
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Thinking Left Behind: 5 Reasons Education Fails at Critical Thinking
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Do you think our educational system does enough to teach critical thinking skills? Most people don't but they also don't know just how right they are ... and why. Contrary to some beliefs, educations failures have nothing to do with political ideologies and social trends, and they're also not the fault of teachers. This episode is a wake-up call th…
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Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman
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Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success. What's the relationship between thinking and studentship? How can we -- and why should we -- move students to think about disciplinarity? Are colleges promoting the thinking of which Newman advises students? And how can they benef…
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Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students? As Steve discusses, ChatGPT certainly is a revelation, but no one is really…
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Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2)
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Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ... privilege and the expression of structuralized racism the effort to dismantle public education through standardization how rubrics as a concept contribute to the undermin…
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Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity?
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Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good and bad, as an educational system regarding teaching, learning, democracy, assessment, studentship, dialogue, politics, critical thinking, teacher train…
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Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting
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Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014. Frances is a member of the New Zealand Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs (2022), and named one of the top 50 EdTech Educators in the World by EdTech International (2016). They discuss progre…
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Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges. Student vs. faculty conceptions of rigor G.I. infections "Summer School"Steven J. Pearlman, Ph.D., The Critical Thinking Initiative による
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Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy.Steven J. Pearlman, Ph.D., The Critical Thinking Initiative による
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Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. What's really at the heart of NYU's actions? What role did the petition play? What role should rigor play in education? And what in the world does the …
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2)
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Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens? Why should you…
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Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1)
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Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time. What really happens when we give Excalibur to Uryens? Why should you…
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Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do, joins Headagogy to discuss his latest book, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. The discussion with Bain not only delves into examples of these courses and their relationship with problem based learning, but also into critical ideas for teac…
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In this concluding episode on peer assessment, Steve conveys the research on peer assessment, learning outcomes, and soft skills. There should be no doubts about its value, especially, in the words of Walter Lippman, "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom. The music means nothing if the audience is deaf."…
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Continuing his assessment into peer assessment as an important method of ungrading, Steve not only talks about how he implements it, but several other important issues, such as how peer assessment: De-emphasizes the focus on grades Relieves students' stress Fosters democratic ideals and an empowered populous, and IMPROVES learning outcomes.…
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In this first episode of a three part series, Steve delves into the hot topic of "ungrading" with a focus on the particular and unique value that involving students in assessment brings to the greater ungrading discussion. Learn more about grades as the locus of power in academia, the unconscious forces behind grades, students' literal capacity (or…
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The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 2)
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The continuation of the interview with Kieran O'Mahony.Steven J. Pearlman, Ph.D., The Critical Thinking Initiative による
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The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 1)
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This interview with Kieran delves into fascinating neuroscience about learning that can help transform what we do in our classrooms through understanding things like the Reticular Activating System, working memory, and neurotransmitters. Kieran offers concrete things every educator can immediately adapt in order to improve their learning outcomes a…
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A Time Machine out of a DeLorean? STEM, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
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What is the relationship between STEM and creativity? Or, at least, what's the perceived relationship? And what happens when we invest millions of dollars and years of effort to improving STEM educational practices? What happens cognitively when we do it well for just a few months? All that and more, including a shoutout to Louisiana.…
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Dr. Cornelius Grove & "A Mirror for Americans"
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Steve interviews Dr. Cornelius N. Grove about his most recent book, A Mirror for Americans, which delves into the research as to why students in East Asia invariably outperform American students on international tests. The discussion explores myths about education in East Asia, such as the misconception about drilling, and delves into educational a…
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Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory
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Steve tackles some of the controversy around Critical Race Theory (CRT), in part by examining its lineage back to critical theory and critical pedagogy. In doing so, he delves into broader question of how power is wielded in the academy, and what the academy is as a power structure. Curiously, also, Ferris Bueller.…
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Relationship Rich Education with Peter Felten and Leo Lambert
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What's "imposter syndrome" and how does it impact our students' relationship with us? How does it impact our relationship with students? Just how critical are our relationships with students with respect to their academic success and our achievement of desired learning outcomes? What are simple things we can do as individual educators to build more…
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Critical Thinking vs. Content: Resolving the Frictions
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Do you want to teach critical thinking but struggle to do so given how much content you need to cover? Do you feel departmental, institutional, or disciplinary pressures to cover certain material? What are the four major objections educators voice about teaching critical thinking relative to content? Why are critical thinking and content actually n…
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Jesse Stommel of the University of Denver, author of An Urgency of Teachers, and “ungrading” maven joins Steve for a thought provoking and, at times, joyously contentious discussion about inviting students to assign their own grades to themselves. Ultimately, the conversation swerves into grading’s and education’s implications for society and polit…
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