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Explore " how we learn" with insightful episodes like "How We Learn - Audio", "Break the Code on Propoganda's Power: Dr. Lisa Fazio", "The 4 Levels of Competency: Training your Team and Yourself", "Designing Flexible Learning Spaces at School, and at Home with Robert Dillon" and "Ep 72: Know-It-All Teens" from podcasts like ""Genesis Community Church", "Catalyst 360: Health, Wellness and High-Performance!", "Take Flight – Business Growth Strategies with Business Coach Dan Holstein", "IMPACT LEARNING" and "Talking To Teens: Expert Tips for Parenting Teenagers"" and more!
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Break the Code on Propoganda's Power: Dr. Lisa Fazio
Why do so many “other” people believe propaganda, conspiracy theories and statements from various influencers that clearly lack any factual backing? How is it possible to fall prey to misinformation so consistently? And what does any of this have to do with the way in which we learn? (or for the instructors out there – how we teach)?
Welcome to the Catalyst Health, Wellness & Performance Coaching Podcast. Dr. Lisa Fazio, from Vanderbilt University, is one of the foremost experts on how people learn new information, both true and false, and how to correct errors in people’s knowledge. This includes not only how to mitigate the effects of reading false information but also how to enhance our learning and memory. If her name sounds familiar, her insights on why propaganda works (even when it seems so obviously to be propaganda) was highlighted in David Epstein’s recent writing. The timing of this discussion is impeccable based on all that is happening both worldwide and in our world of health, wellness & Performance.
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The 4 Levels of Competency: Training your Team and Yourself
I’ve been thinking about competency and the path to getting really good at something.
There’s a pattern: We start most things thinking they’ll be easy to master, until we get started and realize it’s harder than we thought. We might even be tempted to give up!
In this week's video, I’m going to take you through the four stages we all go through as we master new things. This is helpful for business owners who, for example, are learning to delegate, are struggling with it a little bit, and perhaps find themselves taking tasks back and doing them themselves!
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Designing Flexible Learning Spaces at School, and at Home with Robert Dillon
Production team:
Host : Maria Xenidou
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
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Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
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Mentioned in this episode:
The Space: A Guide For Educators by Rebecca Hare and Robert Dillon
Robert’s article on EdSurge called “What Does Good Classroom Design Look Like in the Age of Social Distancing?”
The Art of Noticing: 131 ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday by Rob Walker
Listen to this episode and explore:
Childhood: using the outdoors as a school beyond school (3:25)
University: studying journalism before becoming a teacher (5:31)
Deciding to shift his career into Innovation for Education (8:40)
The 3 big problems in Education Robert is helping to solve(11:00)
The art of designing an active learning space (13:31)
The benefits of well-designed learning spaces (14:46)
Practical tips for designing a flexible and agile learning space (17:15)
How teachers and educators can adopt a designer mindset (18:50)
Designing an inclusive learning space with the students and, not for the students (20:44)
The importance of designing the entire school building for active learning and how to signal this from the outside (26:42)
“Optimizing the perimeter”: decluttering walls and using mindful color palettes (29:06)
Reducing the teacher-only space amid social distancing (30:51)
Movement and learning: oxygenating the brain for optimal learning (32:19)
Space and time: optimizing our time in each space for best learning outcomes (33:55)
Adapting our home to become an active learning space during distance learning (36:00)
Bringing good design practices to the digital learning space (38:05)
The importance of creating moments of quiet time and silence during learning (40:04)
How teachers can include both parents and students in the design of online learning space this fall (41:20)
Two questions we can all ask ourselves before we start designing our learning (43:31)
The importance of noticing our space (45:14)
What Robert wants to leave his mark on during his lifetime (46:06)
Ep 72: Know-It-All Teens
Dr. Steven Sloman, co-author of The Knowledge Illusion and professor at Brown University, joins Andy for a conversation on knowledge, making deliberate decisions, and how to talk to your teen about the gaps in their knowledge around things like vaping.
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Full show notes
“Mom! Dad! Shut up! You don’t know what you’re talking about!”
Have you ever heard these words fly out of the mouth of your teenager?
If there were a remote control for a parent’s behavior, these words would probably be the equivalent of the “Volume Up” button.
Why do these words sting so much? Well, press the “Pause” button and consider this:
Your teenagers might be right. You might not know what you’re talking about. What’s frustrating, though, is that your teens probably don't know what they’re talking about either!
But what even were you “talking” about? Let’s take the hot-button topic for example: teens and vaping.
Is vaping bad for teens? Your gut instinct might be to say, “Yes! Of course it is!” But can you explain why? Can you describe how their lungs are absorbing this vapor and how their brains are reacting to the chemicals?
If you tell your teen that vaping is bad, but can’t explain why, then you might just be told:
“You don’t know what you’re talking about! Shut up!”
Knowledge on a topic like teens and vaping might seem peripheral. If you are concerned about your teens and vaping, you won’t change their behavior by claiming knowledge you don’t have.
So what can you do? You can’t be expected to know everything about every subject of controversy! To get some ideas, I spoke with knowledge expert, Dr. Steven Sloman.
Dr. Sloman is a leading researcher on the human mind, a professor at Brown University, and co-author of The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Never Think Alone. He’s an expert on how humans think, and he has one or two ideas on how to work with teens who think they know everything. His book isn’t specifically about teens, but it touches on prevalent issues during the teen years. I was eager to ask Dr. Sloman about human thinking during the teenage years, and how parents might apply his wisdom to issues like teens and vaping.
The Illusion of Explanatory Depth
Parents of teens might be very familiar with the Illusion of Explanatory Depth, even if they’ve never heard of it before. It is the illusion that people understand something when in fact they don’t.
Dr. Sloman cites a Yale study in which people were asked to rate their knowledge of everyday objects. The subjects were presented zippers, toilets, and pens, and asked how well they thought they understood how each one worked. The data shows all the subjects felt pretty confident in their understanding of such everyday objects. But this illusion was burst when the researchers asked the subjects to explain how those objects worked in as much detail as possible!
As it turned out, the subjects didn’t really have much to say. When the researchers asked the subjects to rate themselves a second time on how well they knew those objects, they lowered their rating. This demonstrates the Illusion of Explanatory Depth, that people think they know more than they really do.
So this isn’t really a teen problem, or even a problem linked to teens and vaping. It’s a people problem. Still, the Illusion of Explanatory Depth seems to show up a lot during the teenage years. Your teen might yell, “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” but the Illusion of Explanatory Depth suggests your teen doesn’t know what they’re talking about, either. In fact, they’re more unaware than you of how much they’re living in an illusion. How might we go about addressing issues of teens and vaping?
Why Would Anyone Live in an Illusion?
In order to address the illusion of knowledge in teens, Dr. Sloman first asks:
“Why would anybody live in this illusion of understanding?”
He proposes that we live this way because we fail to distinguish what we know from what other people know. You think you understand how the toilet works because there’s a plumber who understands how the toilet works. You have access to the plumber’s knowledge, but the knowledge is sitting in the plumber’s head, not in yours.
Dr. Sloman explains that the reason we have this illusion is because, in a sense, we do understand! It’s not every individual that understands, but the collective communities that understand. And communities can succeed when everyone has specialized knowledge to share.
Who Do You Trust?
Every day we are taking advantage of other peoples’ knowledge. As long as we can use our toilet, we don’t need to know how the toilet works. Our lack of understanding doesn’t matter until the toilet brakes. Then we realize how dependent we are on the plumber.
This subconscious dependency on other people creates an interesting scenario for teenagers. Teens are caught in a high stakes decision where they have to choose which community they’re going to go along with and rely on for knowledge. They’re wondering what they should believe, how they should behave, and who they should hang around with. Dr. Sloman points out that all these identity questions will shape how teens experience the illusion of knowledge.
Since teens have so much curiosity, what they choose to believe quickly becomes a question of: Who do I trust? Whose ideas am I going to accept?
Exposing the Illusion
Dr. Sloman explains that we make decisions by virtue of the fact that people around us are also making decisions. For example, the best predictor of whether or not someone will give up vaping is whether or not their spouse has given up vaping.
When discussing teens and vaping, Dr. Sloman points out that oftentimes kids pick up the habit from their peers. So simply exposing your teen’s illusion of knowledge won’t be enough to convince them to stop. In a way, it’s most effective to convince the whole group on the issues of teens and vaping, so it’s best to operate at the social level.
On an issue like teens and vaping it’s even harder to convince a teen to quit because the research on vaping is somewhat inconclusive. You can ask teens to explain how vaping works, like in the study at Yale, but you might get a mixed bag of results.
If you sit down with kids who vape and ask them how it works, you might easily expose their lack of understanding. They might say,
“Well, you fill it up here, you press the button here, and it tastes like bubblegum.”
You can press them for further explanation on all three of those steps. Even if they seem super confident in their knowledge, a barrage of follow-up questions will quickly expose how little they know about the device and what’s in it. You can get them to doubt how much they know about vaping, and this is good! By breaking attachments they have to their preexisting understanding of teen...