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Podcast: The Jim Rutt Show
Episode: Currents 020: Barbara Oakley on Teaching Fluency
Description: Barbara Oakley talks to Jim about fluency across domains, understanding-centered learning, education evolution, online learning, and much more...
In this Currents episode, Jim and Barbara Oakley start by talking about her eclectic background & career, then go on to talk about her article, How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math: how a liberal arts person learned advanced math and became an engineering professor, fluency across domains, understanding-centered learning & the limits of procedural understanding, cultural-based education differences, slow educational evolution, online education, primary vs secondary biological learning, the direct instruction education method, the role of confidence in learning, comparing learn...