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Feb 21, 2023

Don Berg is an author, education psychology researcher, alternative education practitioner, and leader.  He has over 20 years of experience leading children in self-directed educational settings.  In this episode we focus on motivation, going beyond the traditional intrinsic-extrinsic paradigm to discuss the need for...


Feb 15, 2023

Interleaving is a concept that has been around in the pyschological literature for about 10 years, the findings are quite robust but there is a lot of confusion about exactly what interleaving is and how it should be used in the classroom.  This episode we define what interleaving is and is not, the consider the...


Feb 8, 2023

Following on from last week Bradley Busch from InnerDrive talks about the importance of retrieval practice in learning and how it links to the broader landscape of learning through the development of schemas, how to develop effective questions, not to mention why students don't opt for retrieval practice in their...


Feb 1, 2023

Many teachers understand the concept of retrieval practice in learning, in this week’s podcast we are looking back at some seminal research on this by Roediger and Karpicke (2006) that looks at how effective recall is over reading as a learning strategy, whether more retrieval practice means better learning and how...