Fröjd’s toolbox

Avsnitt 66: Roundtable on Cognitive Load Theory Effects with John Sweller, Kate Jones, Greg Ashman, Nidhi Sachdeva, and Ollie Lovell

In this conversation, you will listen to a unique panel of international experts in cognitive load theory including John Sweller himself. Together with him, you will meet four experts with a unique ability to apply cognitive load theory (CLT) in the classroom and to support teachers in learning to do so. John Sweller accompanied by Kate Jones, Nidhi Sachdeva, Greg Ashman and Ollie Lovell; what an amazing panel for the topic for this Roundtable!
 
This Roundtable is a valuable listen for every teacher and school leader. But as a listener, you will get the most out of the conversation if you have a basic understanding of cognitive architecture and the basics of cognitive load theory. Feel free to listen to episodes 56 and/or 60 of this podcast before or after this episode. Specifically, on CLT Effects – which today’s Roundtable is about – both Greg Ashman and Ollie Lovell have written books for teachers that are highly recommended and cover a number of the CLT effects in a very accessible way.
https://fillingthepail.substack.com/
https://www.ollielovell.com/
https://www.katejoneseducation.com/
https://scienceoflearning.substack.com/
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
Musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 65: Inclusive Practices at Their Best! Roundtable on Explicit Instruction with Carl Hendrick, Nidhi Sachdeva, Nathaniel Swain, and Pritesh Raichura

Inclusive Practices at Their Best!  Roundtable on Explicit Instruction with Carl Hendrick, Nidhi Sachdeva, Nathaniel Swain, and Pritesh Raichura
This episode brings together a powerhouse panel for a timely and essential conversation about explicit instruction—what it really is, what it isn’t, and why it matters for every learner.
Join this dynamic, thought-provoking roundtable where four international experts unpack how explicit instruction can level the playing field and ensure that every student—regardless of background—has access to the knowledge and skills they need to succeed.
Together, they explore:
What defines effective explicit instruction—and what common practices miss the mark
Barriers teachers face in implementing it well
The most persistent misconceptions and how to move beyond them
Each speaker brings a unique lens—from research to classroom practice—creating a rich, energizing discussion full of insight and challenge. The chemistry and clarity of thought among the panelists make this an episode that flies by and stays with you long after it ends.
If you’re passionate about reaching every student in your classroom, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss—a powerful blend of learning, reflection, and inspiration.
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
Musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 64: Roundtable on Science Communication; How Teaching can and should be based on How Learning Happens

Today's talk is both very interesting and very important. It is about independence and freedom in the teachers' profession and about at the same time giving teachers tools that will help them.
 
So what is this all about? It is about how we best can help teachers and future teachers - currently in teacher training -  to get deep knowledge about How Learning Happens. That is an area that is called the Science of Learning (SOL).
 
What is both important and really interesting is that SOL is not competing with any teaching strategy. SOL is simply something you need to have knowledge in and adapt your teaching to. If you teach based on SOL you will have a lot of freedom in what you are doing in your classroom, and it will help you in a process with the focus on Learning rather than on Performance.
 
A discussion about this needs to include Higher Education and also Elementary and Secondary Education. So we need participants in this talk with expertise in both evidence, SOL and Science Communication. 
 
In today's Roundtable we have an amazing line up! They are all SOL experts, they work in higher Education, and they are doing state of the art work in the area of Science Communication. Our panel today contributes through excellent podcasts, blogs, books, and more. 
 
In this Roundtable you will meet a brilliant international group of SOL-experts:
Anna Stokke (the podcast "Chalk & Talk", special focus on Math)
Megan Sumeracki (Author, Co-founder of "The Learning Scientists" - with podcast, blog, and more)
Matthew Rhoads (SOL and Ed Tech consultant, podcaster, author, ...)
Andreas Jemstedt (Expertise about SOL in relation to AI)
Jonas Linderoth (SOL-communicator with a focus on modelling SOL both in Higher Education and in schools)
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
Musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 63: Highlights Unpacked

In this episode Nidhi Sachdeva and host Kennet Fröjd present to you highlights in the area of the Science of Learning and we have unpacked these highlights for the classroom.
 
These highlights are from a unique Roundtable on Working Memory, Cognitive Load Theory and Desirable Difficulties in episode 60 of this podcast. In that Roundtable you meet an amazing line up; Alan Baddeley, John Sweller, Elizabeth and Robert Bjork, John Hattie and Nidhi Sachdeva.
 
We hope and believe that you will find this episode “Highlights Unpacked” interesting and useful. We also hope that listening to this episode will make you go on and listen to the Roundtable (episode 60), that we believe is an episode that everyone working in schools should listen to if you haven’t done that already.
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
Musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 62: Roundtable on Study Strategies - with Daniel Willingham, Henry Roediger, Nidhi Sachdeva and Jared Cooney Horvath

What can you as a learner, a student, do to make your own learning more effective?
Study Strategies is an important area with great potential to enhance learning. What, when and howcan you do as a teacher to help your students learn and apply effective Study Strategies.In this episode, you can learn and reflect through listening to a dynamic and interesting talkwith four brilliant minds – and international experts – in this area.This Roundtable is really valuable for teachers and students, but also an important listen forschool leaders.
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
Musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 61: Motivation, Development and Wellness in schools; Self-Determination Theory with Richard Ryan

Professor Richard Ryan and Professor Edward Deci started to research and began to develop what is called "Self-Determination Theory" in the 1970s.
It is a general theory with its base in the need of three identified Basic Psychological Needs; Competence, Relatedness and Autonomy.
 
In schools today we are working with challenges with our students' well-being and also with motivation. In this episode you will learn more about Self-Determination Theory and how it may help us working in Education more effectively manage some of our most important challenges.
 
Listen to professor Ryan, reflect, talk to each other. We believe that we can learn from professor Ryan and Self-Determination Theory, and find a good way to combine it with the Science of Learning included in our school practice.
 
Musik: Andreas Lidberg
 
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com

Avsnitt 60: Meet Baddeley, Sweller, Bjork & Bjork, Hattie and Sachdeva in a unique Roundtable on Working Memory, Cognitive Load Theory and Desirable Difficulties

Our amazing group: Alan Baddeley, John Sweller, Elizabeth Bjork, Robert Bjork, John Hattie and Nidhi Sachdeva.
 
In this Roundtable you will meet a group of brilliant minds and at the same time it is a magic meeting having legends in the areas of the Science of Learning talking together about their specialties. 
 
What can be better than Baddeley on Working Memory, Sweller on Cognitive Load Theory and the Bjorks on Desirable Difficulties. Add to that Hattie with Visible Learning or putting it all into context plus Sachdeva as an excellent communicator between evidence and classroom practice.
 
Our participants let us learn about how each area developed. At the same time as you can learn a lot about what you can and should focus on you get the great and unique opportunity to learn about how each of these areas within the Science of Learning developed. So it was also an important bit of history of the area of the Science of Learning.
 
Musik: Andreas Lidberg
Kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com

Avsnitt 59: Powerful Classrooms - with Patrice Bain

Patrice Bain has been a guest at Fröjd's Toolbox several times, and that is very natural because she has so much to contribute with from a teacher's perspective.
 
She has been working in her classroom with Cognitive Scientists for more than 15 years, and a specialty of hers - quite natural based on her unique experiences - is her ability to give concrete and clear guidance about classroom practice based on the Science of Learning.
 
She is especially skilled in retrieval practice that is an area of interest for every teacher to continue developing own classroom practice in.
 
She has now authored a book - this time more than ever from a teacher's perspective - called "Powerful Classrooms; Evidence-Informed Strategies and Resources".
 
Kontakt: frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 58: Roundtable on AI in Education - Benefits, Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks. co-host: Eva Hartell

co-host: Eva Hartell, researcher at KTH
This podcast episode was recorded with a live audience at researchED Scandinavia in Haninge, Sweden, Saturday March 15th.
 
AI is something all of us working in Education need to continuously learn more about and use wisely within Education. 
 
In this Roundtable you will meet three international experts on AI in relation to Education and Learning. Together our three quests represent high technical knowledge in the area as well as high knowledge in relation to the Science of Learning and to teaching and teacher training.
 
To learn more about Benefits, Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks with AI in Education this podcast episode is an unique opportunity.
Listening to this episode you will hear and can learn about many important perspectives through a dynamic and engaging conversation.
 
These three experts really have synergies. You will quickly understand what we mean when you listen to this episode.
 
Our three guests have all been on this podcast before, but now for the first time together. And this is a must listen to in an important area for all of us in education.
 
Our guests are: Dr Nidhi Sachdeva, professor Arnold Pears and professor Dylan Wiliam.
 
kontakt: Frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
musik: Andreas Lidberg

Avsnitt 57:Roundtable on Working Memory and Learning

This podcast episode was recorded with a live audience at researchED Scandinavia in Haninge, Sweden, Saturday March 15th.
 
This Roundtable has its focus on something that is crucial for teachers to know as much as possible about, and especially its implications for teaching and learning. The focus is on Working Memory in relation to Learning.
 
And our three guests are like a gold mine of knowledge in this area. 
 
We have professor Alan Baddeley, truly a world leader in the area of Working Memory from a research perspective. He has researched about Working Memory for more than 50 years and is still active in further research to develop our knowledge about Working Memory. This podcast is a unique opportunity to learn from the best. 
 
Together with him we have professor Daniel Willingham. He is an expert on evidence on how learning happens and the last decade he has made great contributions in translating the Science of Learning for the Education area He contributes with an unique ability to link what we know about the Working Memory to Education. 
 
This Roundtable team's third member is Kate Jones. She is an international expert on the Science of Learning from a teacher's perspective and a teaching perspective. 
 
Together our three amazing guests make a team that together really puts knowledge about Working Memory into perspectives of great value for every teacher and school leader.
 
kontakt: frojdstoolbox@gmail.com
musik: Andreas Lidberg