Ep. 111: Daniel Willingham – Cognitive Advantages to Teaching the Right Way

Send us a text What do cooking, fishing, putting together a bookshelf, and a fixing a wall mount in the garage for your bike have in common? They are far easier to do by yourself than to teach it to someone. Those who teach recognize the challenge in going beyond learner engagement and external rewards or punishment; instead setting learners’ intrinsic motivation on fire by making them curious and engaged children. On this episode cognitive psychologist, prolific author, columnist for America...