Hub chats
Hub chats
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’Hub Chats’ is created by the Macquarie University Teachers’ Learning Hub, at Macquarie University in Sydney.
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The content primarily focuses on educational strategies and support for teachers, showcasing themes like out-of-field teaching, inclusion, and technology in the classroom. Episodes include topics such as teaching Society and Culture and Legal Studies for the first time, integrating AI in education, and managing complex behaviors in students.
’Hub Chats’ is created by the Macquarie University Teachers’ Learning Hub, at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Episodes are released fortnightly.
In this episode, Dr Jodie Torrington chats with Associate Professor Penny Van Bergen, an educational psychologist at Macquarie University, about the science of learning and what it means for everyday classroom practice. Penny unpacks cognitive load and working memory limitations, explains why deep encoding and retrieval practice are so important for building lasting knowledge, and tackles the explicit teaching versus inquiry-based learning debate. Spoiler: it’s not an either-or!
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