Designing Lessons Based on Cognitive Science with Dave Snyder

Edtech Throwdown Episode 213: Designing Lessons Based on Cognitive Science with Dave Snyder Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown. This is Episode 213 called Designing Lessons Based on Cognitive Science with Dave Snyder. In this episode we’ll talk with Mr. Dave Snyder about current research in cognitive science and how it has shaped his lessons and the overall classroom experience for his students and their learning. This is another episode you don’t want to miss. Check it out. Segment 1: In today’s episode, we are talking to Dean of Academics at Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, NJ , Mr. Dave Snyder, welcome to the show! How are you doing today? Can you give everybody your quick pitch, hero’s origin story? What’s your own education? What is your teaching experience? What do you do now? Talk about our NJECC meetup our general impressions of what Dave’s sessions was all about Dave reached out to us and asked if we could check out his session at a recent conference What was it called again? Focus was on cognitive science, which I thought I knew about, but as I am sitting and listening more, a lightbulb goes off for me as much of what you were saying resonated with my own classroom experience … having mixed results with cooperative learning, seeing students struggle through inquiry-based lessons that end with mixed results, jigsaws that fall flat for most Segment 2: Presentation: Can you give an overview of your presentation, topic, and what brought you to feature this at a tech-themed education conference? You began with a survey question about what most affects a student's ability to learn science: 1. What they already know 2.How motivated they are 3. Their learning style 4.How interesting the material is 5.How much inquiry-based instruction (discovery learning) they have Can you explain what this illustrates about cognitive science as it pertains to the classroom? Walk people through the working memory game from slide 11. Can you explain what this illustrates about cognitive science as it pertains to the classroom? Explain the forgetting curve and how it changes with multiple reviews. What has that meant for your classroom? This seems to go against what a lot of science teachers have learned about inquiry and student-centered learning. Does it go against those practices? Role of tech? Edtech Throwdown: Vote on twitter @edtechthrowdown and under the pinned post on the profile. Segment 3: Where to Find EdTech Throwdown Do us a few favors:

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Designing Lessons Based on Cognitive Science with Dave Snyder is an episode from GotTechED the Podcast by Eric Guise/Nick Johnson.

This episode is 52:32 long.

This episode was published on Apr 20, 2026.

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