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Check out the Educate podcast “Ditching the lecture for active learning"!

This week’s podcast is a recommendation to check out the Educate podcast called “Ditching the lecture for active learning."  It details a couple great examples of how college lecture halls are using active learning, which, if you've listened to Pursuing Mastery, you know is a topic near and dear to my heart! <3

Links from this episode:

Ditching the lecture for active learning: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/09/17/active-learning

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Check out the Educate podcast “Ditching the lecture for active learning"!

This week’s podcast is a recommendation to check out the Educate podcast called “Ditching the lecture for active learning."  It details a couple great examples of how college lecture halls are using active learning, which, if you've listened to Pursuing Mastery, you know is a topic near and dear to my heart! <3

Links from this episode:

Ditching the lecture for active learning: https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/09/17/active-learning

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5 Techniques For Students That Build Memory, Understanding, And Ability

Sean Dagony-Clark, Flatiron School’s Director of Educational Development, describes five learning techniques that will help students build memory, understanding, and ability! These techniques are reflection, deliberate practice, self-testing, spaced repetition, and the Pomodoro technique. Using them will help accelerate your academic journey and make studying far more productive.

Further reading from this episode:

reflection:

https://ascd.org/publications/books/108008/chapters/Learning-Through-Reflection.aspx

deliberate practice:

https://www.missiontolearn.com/deliberate-practice/

self-testing and spaced repetition:

https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/49750/a-better-way-to-study-through-self-testing-and-distributed-practice

Pomodoro technique:

https://facilethings.com/blog/en/science-behind-pomodoro-technique

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Sean Goes Back to School with Nico Marcora (part 2 of 2)

Note: This episode is also available as a video! You will probably find it easier to follow in that format. So if you’d like to see Nico’s screen and Sean and Nico’s faces, go here: https://youtu.be/9O7RE9KWkUw

Sean Dagony-Clark, Flatiron School’s Director of Educational Development, goes back to school with Nico Marcora, a Master Instructor of Software Engineering in our London campus, to learn about data types in JavaScript.

This is the second of two parts. If you didn’t hear the first one yet, you can find it earlier in your podcast feed!

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