COGx & Yale
Schooling as if Learning Mattered: Addressing Learning Loss & Inequity through the Science of Learning
May 19, 2021 | 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM EDT
Virtual Event
Details
Join an esteemed panel of experts in education as they discuss traditional schooling and how to modernize it for the 21st century. In the discussion, moderated by Javier Arguello (COGx Founder and Yale SOM ’03), panelists will speak to the following questions and reserve time for audience Q&A at the end of the session. More info on the session and panelists is included below.
Challenges with Traditional Schooling:
- The way students think they learn differs greatly from how they learn and as a result they rely on ineffective strategies to learn.
- The current approach to teaching is often disconnected from how students learn and causes too many students to drop-out, struggle, and/or work too hard to do well.
- Schooling decreases creativity and student engagement.
- We produce a surplus of graduates with a deficit of skills that the economy demands.
Science of Learning to Modernize Schooling:
- Top performing schools embrace the science of learning. In this virtual symposium, you will learn from renowned experts on human learning as well as school leaders to address the following questions:
- Why are schooling and learning not synonymous terms?
- What is learning success? How can teachers foster learning success?
- What is the science of learning, and how can it help us modernize our educational system?
- Why is research on human learning often trapped in academia?
- How does adversity and trauma affect learning and how prevalent is the effect?
- How have successful school leaders transformed their culture and learning outcomes by incorporating learning science?
Panelists
Robert Bjork
Distinguished Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychology
Relevant Affiliation:
Learning & Forgetting Lab, UCLA
Areas of Expertise:
Human Learning & Memory; Implications of Science of Learning for Instruction
Education:
PhD in Psychology Stanford University
Steve Joordens
Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto, Scarborough, Department of Psychology
Relevant Affiliations:
Advanced Learning Technology Lab
Areas of Expertise:
Consciousness, Memory, & Attention
Education:
PhD in Psychology, University of Waterloo
David Daniel
Professor of Psychology, James Madison University
Relevant Affiliation:
Founding Managing Editor: Mind, Brain & Education Journal
Areas of Expertise:
Teaching & Learning, Cognitive Development, Translating Science of Learning
Education:
PhD in Developmental Psychology, West Virginia University
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Southern California
Relevant Affiliation:
USC Center for Affective Neuroscience, Development, Learning and Education (CANDLE)
Area of Expertise:
Emotions & Learning; Adolescence; Education Reform
Education:
Harvard University Ed.D., Human Development and Psychology
Javier Arguello
Founder & Executive Director, COGx
Areas of Expertise:
Professional Development on Science of Learning; Translating Cognitive Science Research; Development of programs to enhance learning outcomes.
Education:
MPA, Harvard University; MBA, Yale University; Graduate Fellow Cognitive Science, MIT
Richard Boerner
Superintendent, Graded School São Paulo Brazil
Areas of Expertise:
School leader with extensive experience managing schools in Asia (Bangladesh & South Korea) and the Americas (Brazil and USA); Board president of American Association of Schools in Brazil (AASB), Board president of the American International Schools in the Americas (AMISA), and Board member of Academy of International School Heads (AISH).
Education:
MA, Education Administration, Central Washington University
