Education Bookcast

Announcing Panglot World Languages

There are around 7000 languages in the world, and we know so little about them. On my new podcast, Panglot World Languages, I speak with a guest about 1 new language pe

Goodbye :)

Hello everyone, I have not been recording podcast episodes for over a year. This is because I started a company this year, Panglot Labs Ltd, and I've had to put all my

156. Entrepreneurial expertise

In order to understand learning, we need to understand the result of learning - expertise. This is much easier to approach in so-called "kind" domains, such as chess, whe

155. How experts see

There has been a ton of research on how experts see things differently than novices. (Like, with their eyes.) Everything from where they look, how long they focus for, an

154. Mindsets everywhere

Mindset was the first thing I spoke about on this podcast. I even did a separate episode going into the controversies surrounding replication of Carol Dweck's original wo

153. Comparing learning different dance styles: Argentine Tango vs. Ballroom & Latin (Dancesport)

I haven't spoken on the podcast yet about my personal experience learning dancing. At university, I took part in dancesport, which is competitive ballroom and latin danci

152. [VIDEO] Education and generative AI: conference video for STEM MAD Melbourne, October 23

This is my first ever attempt at a VIDEO podcast. If you just listen to the audio, you should be fine. This was a video produced for the STEM MAD conference in Melbourn

151. 8 years, 150 episodes

This is a quick review of where I am now after 150 episodes and just short of 8 years of Education Bookcast. Thanks for all of your support! Feel free to leave a review

150. A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

Since I've now reached episode 150, I've decided to do something I've never done before - discuss a fiction book. (This episode contains spoilers.) A Wizard of Earthsea

149. How Popular Musicians Learn by Lucy Green

A lot of the classic expertise research, especially the research about deliberate practice and the "10,000 hour rule", is inspired by K. Anders Ericcson's study of violin

148. You Know the Fair Rule by Bill Rogers

Any teacher in a Western cultural context knows that classroom behaviour is the most challenging part of the job. A lot of the time, it seems like crowd control is the ma

147. Large language models (LLMs) - interview with Dr Guy Emerson

Dr Guy Emerson (a.k.a Guy Karavengleman) is a computational linguist working at the Cambridge University Computer Laboratory. In this episode, we discuss issues surroundi

146b. Lessons from EdTech - The 90% Rule

In the second part of this two-part episode about lessons learned from my time working in the education technology sector, I wanted to share a very significant quantitati

146a. Lessons from EdTech - the Fundamental Duality of Educational Materials

I've now been working as a data scientist in educational technology for over four years. In that time I've thought a lot about various educational concepts within edtech,

145b. How to be a better lecturer (practice) - a message for Guy

This is the second part of the message for my friend Guy about becoming a better lecturer. In this part, I go over 27 practical techniques and tips for improving lecturin

145a. How to be a better lecturer (theory) - a message for Guy

Another in the series of "really long voice notes from Staś". My friend Guy is a lecturer in natural language processing. He asked me if I could give him some tips about

144. Developing Talent in Young People by Benjamin Bloom

Benjamin Bloom is best known for Bloom's Taxonomy, a scheme for categorising ways of thinking about or interacting with learning content on a scale from less to more soph

143. Talent, revisited

Cover image: horse and rider by Nadia, age 5. The nature of talent is something that I dealt with near the beginning of the existence of Education Bookcast, reviewing b

142. Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is out now! Taster: Music and Learning

Season 2 of the Pedagogue-Cast is here! The Pedagogue-Cast is a separate podcast project I share with Justin Matthys, founder of Maths Pathway. We discuss the kinds of

141+. Feedback on constructivism

After my last episode on behaviourism, cognitivism, and constructivism ("A Message for Zoë"), I heard back from Zoë herself, and also heard from Malin Tväråna, an educati