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Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley
Teaching in Higher Ed
49 minutes 3 seconds
2 weeks ago
Metaphors, Free Speech, and How We Learn with Barbara Oakley
Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people's motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley
Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley
Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley
Resources
Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act
Sway.AI
Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile
Learning How to Learn
Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models
Barbara Oakley’s Website
Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia
Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy
A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley
Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org)
Obsidian
How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert
SmarterHumans.ai
Teaching in Higher Ed
Thank you for checking out the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast. This is the space where we explore the art and science of being more effective at facilitating learning. We also share ways to increase our personal productivity, so we can have more peace in our lives and be even more present for our students.
