You deserve better brain research
From Change, Technically by Dr. Ashley Juavinett and Dr. Cat Hicks
June 23, 2025 · 53 min · Season 1 · Episode 11
About this episode
The episode discusses the importance of better brain research in learning, highlighting a study on programming concepts and cognitive offloading.
SHOW NOTES: For an example of a consideration of learning with information searching, a paper by Saskia Giebl and co-authors explored students learning basic programming concepts aided with a search engine and how active problem-solving before the search helps encourage stronger learning. This paper draws from a lot of the classic learning science/memory effects that Cat references: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1475725720961593 “Cognitive offloading” is a concept with ...
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Hosts: Dr. Ashley Juavinett, Dr. Cat Hicks
Topics covered
- brain research
- learning science
- programming concepts
- cognitive offloading
- active problem-solving
Keywords
- brain research
- learning
- programming
- cognitive offloading
- active problem-solving
- memory effects
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: SAGE Journals
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