{"id":10844,"date":"2017-06-09T07:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/?p=10844"},"modified":"2017-06-09T07:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T12:55:49","slug":"the-simon-initiative-short-videos-on-the-science-of-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-simon-initiative-short-videos-on-the-science-of-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simon Initiative&#8211;Short Videos on the Science of Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/author\/michael-feldstein\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Feldstein<\/a>'s <a href=\"http:\/\/mfeldstein.com\/understanding-learning-science-and-its-value-to-educators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recent blogpost <\/a>on Carnegie Mellon's <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/simon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Simon Initiative<\/a> caught my attention. He was a media fellow for this project and shared three short videos on Learning Science and its importance to educators. So I thought I'd share them here as well. Perhaps you have a few minutes in the summer to squeeze these in and hopefully they'll pique your interest enough to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>\"What is Learning Science from an Educator's Perspective?\"<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YFAFnbfKnRU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"How can Learning Science Improve Teaching?\"<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2irinfivjfY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\"What Learning Science Tells Us About How to Use Educational Technology\"<br \/>\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"460\" height=\"275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IxdSzBC-ESg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Karen Nichols Michael Feldstein's recent blogpost on Carnegie Mellon's Simon Initiative caught my attention. He was a media fellow for this project and shared three short videos on Learning Science and its importance to educators. So I thought I'd share them here as well. Perhaps you have a few minutes in the summer to <a href=\"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/the-simon-initiative-short-videos-on-the-science-of-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">...continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"The Simon Initiative&#8211;Short Videos on the Science of Learning\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[401,400],"class_list":{"0":"post-10844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-online","7":"tag-ed-tech","8":"tag-science-of-learning","9":"h-entry","10":"hentry","11":"h-as-article"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p82MQk-2OU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3426,"url":"https:\/\/cat.xula.edu\/food\/this-just-in-reflection-is-good-for-learning\/","url_meta":{"origin":10844,"position":0},"title":"This Just In: Reflection Is Good for Learning","author":"Bart Everson","date":"June 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Who'd've thought? 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