The Future of Learning Is Now, Thanks to Science
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Is there a right or wrong way to learn? Dr. Stephen Kosslyn is an expert on the science of learning, with more than 30 years of experience working at elite institutions such as Harvard and Stanford. He also thinks that higher education could learn a lot about how people learn, and that's why he became the Founding Dean and Chief Learning Officer of the Minerva Schools at KGI. On this podcast, Dr. Kosslyn explains how people learn and how his institution is changing the way learning is approached — one student at a time.
Resources from Dr. Stephen Kosslyn:
- Minerva Schools at KGI
- "Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education"
- "Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses"
Studies and research discussed:
- Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics | 2014 study
- Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses | Inside Higher Ed
- Tutors See Stereotypes and Gender Bias in SAT. Testers See None of the Above. | New York Times
- New Evidence of Racial Bias on SAT | Inside Higher Ed
- Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans | Claude M. Steele. Stanford University, 1995
- Stereotype Susceptibility: Identity Salience and Shifts in Quantitative Performance | Margaret Shih, Todd L. Pittinsky, Nalini Ambady, 1999
- Twenty Years of Stereotype Threat Research: A Review of Psychological Mediators | National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine
- "Cognitive Psychology: Mind And Brain"
- "Image and Brain: The Resolution of the Imagery Debate"
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| 0:00.0 | I'm curious if I'm a person and I want to learn something outside of an institution is there a best way to do it |
| 0:09.6 | well there's an actually immense scientific literature on learning. |
| 0:14.0 | I mean, it's just incredible how much has been learned |
| 0:17.2 | about the nature of learning. |
| 0:19.3 | And it's also incredible how little of that |
| 0:21.8 | has made it out of the journal pages and out of the lab and into actual |
| 0:27.1 | classrooms. Hi, I'm Cody Gough with The Learn Ed Curiosity.com. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Ashley Hamer. Today we're going to learn how to learn. |
| 0:43.6 | Every day we learn what we don't know because learning... |
| 0:46.2 | I mean because curiosity makes you smarter. |
| 0:49.8 | This is the Curiosity Podcast. We're going to talk about learning today, but first let's talk about the Minerva Schools. |
| 1:00.6 | Our guest today is Dr Stephen Kostlin and he's the founding dean and chief |
| 1:04.7 | learning officer of the Minerva schools at KGI the Keck Graduate Institute. |
| 1:09.3 | This matters because Minerva is a new type of university and it was put together using decades of research |
| 1:15.1 | about learning which Dr. Kostlin knows a thing or two about. |
| 1:18.6 | He's a cognitive neuroscientist, researcher, and educator and has published more than 300 scientific papers and 14 books |
| 1:26.0 | plus he spent 30 years at Harvard University in a variety of positions including Dean of Social Sciences in in 2017 Dr. Kostlin and of Minerva and the future of higher education. It outlines the school's vision and acts as a blue print for transforming higher education. |
| 1:47.6 | It's pretty lofty stuff. |
| 1:49.0 | Today, Dr. Kostlin will talk about how you can learn, |
| 1:51.8 | whether you're inside or outside of the classroom. |
| 1:54.6 | But in the process, you'll learn a lot about the Minerva schools and how they're rethinking |
| 1:58.3 | higher education. |
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