Ranked #1
Does Higher Education Improve Critical Thinking?
Does Higher Education Improve Critical Thinking?
Steve and Dave delve into recent research on critical thinking growth throughout college. Learn the extent to which it i... Read more
7 Jan 2020
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29mins
Ranked #2
Fostering a Growth Mindset in Your Students
Fostering a Growth Mindset in Your Students
Steve and Dave welcome Dr. Marianne Fallon for a fascinating discussion about the power of a growth mindset for students... Read more
16 Aug 2018
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52mins
Ranked #3
Writing to Learn ... and THINK
Writing to Learn ... and THINK
Steve and Dave offer some concrete, class-ready exercises for using writing to learn to improve learning outcomes and fo... Read more
9 Oct 2018
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29mins
Ranked #4
Getting Thoughtful About Mindfulness Education
Getting Thoughtful About Mindfulness Education
Mindfulness education is gaining popularity in academia, but does helping students get their Zen on also help them to th... Read more
20 Nov 2019
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22mins
Ranked #5
Critical Thinking, Hoaxes, and Constructivism
Critical Thinking, Hoaxes, and Constructivism
Dave and Steve tackle the controversial "Sokel Squared" hoax by academics who got fabricated articles published in acade... Read more
16 Oct 2018
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37mins
Ranked #6
Creating Changemakers - An Interview with Vipin Thekk
Creating Changemakers - An Interview with Vipin Thekk
Vipin Thekk of ChangemakerCommunities.org joins Dave and Steve to discuss the work he does in helping reshape schools an... Read more
17 Dec 2018
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30mins
Ranked #7
Strategies for Overcoming Student Resistance
Strategies for Overcoming Student Resistance
Special guest Anton Tolman, the lead editor of the book, Why Students Resist Learning: A Practical Model for Understandi... Read more
24 Oct 2018
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42mins
Ranked #8
How to offer students feedback. Or not.
How to offer students feedback. Or not.
Steve and Dave tackle the complex issue of how to respond to student work effectively. Spoiler alert: It's somewhere bet... Read more
6 Dec 2019
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33mins
Ranked #9
Wicked Problems: An Interview with Jackson Nickerson
Wicked Problems: An Interview with Jackson Nickerson
Steve and Dave welcome Jackson Nickerson, Ph.D., who is the Frahm Family Professor of Organization and Strategy at the O... Read more
7 Jun 2019
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35mins
Ranked #10
Interview with Michael S. Roth
Interview with Michael S. Roth
Dave and Steve welcome Michael S. Roth, author of Beyond the University: Why Liberal Education Matters. Michael offers ... Read more
21 Feb 2019
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38mins
Ranked #11
Are X-labs the Future of Learning and Thinking?
Are X-labs the Future of Learning and Thinking?
Steve and Dave look at the recent article from The Chronicle of Higher Education about James Madison University's X-lab,... Read more
1 Apr 2019
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31mins
Ranked #12
Do Grades Hinder Learning?
Do Grades Hinder Learning?
Steve & Dave respond to an article and, more broadly, to the "ungrading" movement, which assert that grades interfer... Read more
8 Oct 2019
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25mins
Ranked #13
Should thinking really be "critical"?
Should thinking really be "critical"?
Dave and Steve engage the questions and critiques around whether or not the term "critical" is the best one for the kind... Read more
16 Aug 2019
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28mins