Announcing Panglot World Languages
There are around 7000 languages in the world, and we know so little about them. On my new podcast, Panglot World Languages, I speak with a g...
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Education Bookcast
Education Bookcast is a podcast in which we talk about one education-related book or article per episode.
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20 of 208 episodesGoodbye :)
Hello everyone, I have not been recording podcast episodes for over a year. This is because I started a company this year, Panglot Labs Ltd,...
156. Entrepreneurial expertise
In order to understand learning, we need to understand the result of learning - expertise. This is much easier to approach in so-called "kin...
155. How experts see
There has been a ton of research on how experts see things differently than novices. (Like, with their eyes.) Everything from where they loo...
154. Mindsets everywhere
Mindset was the first thing I spoke about on this podcast. I even did a separate episode going into the controversies surrounding replicatio...
153. Comparing learning different dance styles: Argentine Tango vs. Ballroom & Latin (Dancesport)
I haven't spoken on the podcast yet about my personal experience learning dancing. At university, I took part in dancesport, which is compet...
152. [VIDEO] Education and generative AI: conference video for STEM MAD Melbourne, October 23
This is my first ever attempt at a VIDEO podcast. If you just listen to the audio, you should be fine. This was a video produced for the STE...
151. 8 years, 150 episodes
This is a quick review of where I am now after 150 episodes and just short of 8 years of Education Bookcast. Thanks for all of your support!...
150. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
Since I've now reached episode 150, I've decided to do something I've never done before - discuss a fiction book. (This episode contains spo...
149. How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green
A lot of the classic expertise research, especially the research about deliberate practice and the "10,000 hour rule", is inspired by K. And...
148. You Know the Fair Rule by Bill Rogers
Any teacher in a Western cultural context knows that classroom behaviour is the most challenging part of the job. A lot of the time, it seem...
147. Large language models (LLMs) - interview with Dr Guy Emerson
Dr Guy Emerson (a.k.a Guy Karavengleman) is a computational linguist working at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. In this episod...
146b. Lessons from EdTech - The 90% Rule
In the second part of this two-part episode about lessons learned from my time working in the education technology sector, I wanted to share...
146a. Lessons from EdTech - the Fundamental Duality of Educational Materials
I've now been working as a data scientist in educational technology for over four years. In that time I've thought a lot about various educa...
145b. How to be a better lecturer (practice) - a message for Guy
This is the second part of the message for my friend Guy about becoming a better lecturer. In this part, I go over 27 practical techniques a...
145a. How to be a better lecturer (theory) - a message for Guy
Another in the series of "really long voice notes from Staś". My friend Guy is a lecturer in natural language processing. He asked me if I c...
144. Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom
Benjamin Bloom is best known for Bloom's Taxonomy, a scheme for categorising ways of thinking about or interacting with learning content on...
143. Talent, revisited
Cover image: horse and rider by Nadia, age 5. The nature of talent is something that I dealt with near the beginning of the existence of Edu...
142. Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is out now! Taster: Music and Learning
Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is here! The Pedagogue-Cast is a separate podcast project I share with Justin Matthys, founder of Maths Pathw...
141+. Feedback on constructivism
After my last episode on behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism ("A Message for Zoë"), I heard back from Zoë herself, and also heard...