This podcast, Bought a Story, was produced by APM Experiences and reprinted with permission.
There’s an thought about how youngsters be taught to learn that’s held sway in colleges for greater than a technology – regardless that it was confirmed improper by cognitive scientists a long time in the past. Educating strategies based mostly on this concept could make it tougher for youngsters to learn to learn.
On this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this concept and the corporate that sells their work. It’s an exposé of how educators got here to consider in one thing that isn’t true and at the moment are reckoning with the results – youngsters harmed, cash wasted, an schooling system upended.
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Episode 5: The Firm
Lecturers name books revealed by Heinemann their “bibles.” The corporate’s merchandise are in colleges everywhere in the nation. A few of these merchandise are rooted in a debunked thought about how youngsters be taught to learn. However they’ve made the corporate and a few of its authors thousands and thousands.
This podcast was produced by APM Experiences and reprinted with permission.