Blogs & Podcasts - Foundation for the Art and Science of Learning (FASL)

Projecting from Personal Knowledge

Post author:FASL
Post published:July 7, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Leadership

In 2002 a psychologist won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Why does a psychologist win an economics award and why should we care?

Deciding with Personal Knowledge

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 30, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Leadership

In 2002 a psychologist won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Why does a psychologist win an economics award and why should we care?

When China Ruled the Seas – Book Note

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 4, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Mental Meanderings

In the early 1400s China assembled fleets of dozens of ships carrying as many as 20,000 people or more to explore the world. Does a country’s history create a certain psyche for that country?

Thinking, Fast and Slow – Book Note

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 4, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Leadership

In 2002 a psychologist won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Why does a psychologist win an economics award and why should we care?

Fast Thinking

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Leadership

When we are young, what we are learning wires our brain. When we are older, our brain modifies what we are learning to fit what we already know – what is already wired.

Change Is Hard

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Leadership

Many of us like to imagine ourselves as adventurous but are we really? Might we really be far more cautious by nature than we care to admit? The tendency to stick with what is familiar is powerful.

What Are We Learning?

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Learning

Can students learn deeply without learning surface knowledge?

What Does It Mean to Have Learned?

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Learning About Learning

Suppose you are having a parent-teacher conference, it’s the end of the first six weeks, and the parent says, “Has my child learned much in your class? How do you respond?

Doubt and Uncertainty

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / Mental Meanderings

We value confidence in a leader, but confidence in what? Typically, we value self-confidence but is self-confidence over valued? Do we need leaders with a decent dose of self-doubt?

There is a Science of Learning

Post author:FASL
Post published:June 2, 2020
Post category:Blog Posts / MEGAThinking

There is a science of learning but very few of us studied it in college, or since. If we want to improve student learning, we can look to the science of learning.