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Part campaign log, part anxious retrospective, tune in each week as our host Darrell dissects his previous D&D sessions and highlights moments to take from! Each episode focuses on the heroics and catastrophes of his home campaign, learning a thing or two along the way to provide helpful tips to become better dungeon masters for our players - includes module playthroughs, untested homebrew, world building, and everything in-between!
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This is a podcast about evidence-based teaching and the science of learning. I’m your host, Luke Rowe, and I’m a lecturer and learning scientist in Melbourne, Australia. I’m extremely passionate about the education and the learning sciences, and I started this podcast with the hope of sharing this passion with you! The mission here at Powerful Learning is to help you know more, do more, and be more. Come join me and my guests on a learning journey into topics such as feedback, metacognition, ...
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In this evidence-rich episode we are joined by our guest, A/Professor Sean Kang, as we explore scientifically proven principles of practice to supercharge your learning journey. Sean is a cognitive psychologist whose research focuses on applying the cognitive science of human learning and memory towards improving instructional practice. He has writ…
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What's the purpose of education? Could it have something to do with human flourishing? In this episode, we invite guest and human flourishing expert, Dr. Kylie Trask-Kerr, to explore the topic of human flourishing in various educational contexts, including at the level of individuals, classrooms, schools, and broader communities. Kylie is an experi…
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EXTENDED VERSION This is an extended version of episode 14, with Dr. Mike Witter. It's been provided to support those of you who would like to take a deeper dive into the notion of 'teacher quality'. Some additional topics that we discuss on this extended version include: Teacher-performance pay Professional Learning and Development to Improve Teac…
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What does it mean to be a good teacher? This is a multifaceted concept that has been the subject of research for over a century. While we've made significant progress, there are still many questions that remain unanswered about the purpose of education, the distinction between teacher quality and quality teaching, how to measure effective teaching,…
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How much classroom discussion involves the teacher talking compared to their students? For most teachers, the reality is sobering: the typical teacher spends far more time talking and asking questions than their students and this is often detrimental to learning and engagement. Sadly, research even suggests that some students can go through an enti…
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Have you ever heard of the ‘feedback sandwich’? What about the idea that the best feedback is often given immediately after performance and without delay? And if feedback is simply a transfer of information from one person to another, then why does the research suggest that feedback given is often vastly different from feedback received? In this ep…
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What do we mean by the term ‘Feedback’ – is it really just as simple as giving a student information about their performance? Or is there more to it? And what are some of the models and strategies that underpin high-impact feedback in various educational settings? In today’s podcast, I’ll attempt to tackle some of these tricky questions by standing…
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What does it mean to be engaged in your learning? When superficially understood, engagement refers to the level of involvement and participation that students have in their own learning process. But that’s an impoverished view of engagement. In today’s podcast, we’re going to take our understanding of student engagement to the next level with my gu…
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Do schools really “kill creativity”? (a claim famously made by the late Sir Ken Robinson). Does a tightly structured curriculum stifle creative potential among some students while rewarding a conformist mentality among others? How can we best foster and nurture creativity in schools whilst maintaining academic excellence? In today’s podcast, I’ll b…
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iPads, podcasts, vodcasts, YouTube, interactive books, the metaverse, zoom, virtual and augmented reality, eBooks, laptops, social media, antiscocial media, creators, consumers, coding and maker spaces... Welcome to the 21st century classroom where students engage with text through multiple modalities that are fundamentally shifting the way we thin…
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Feedback is one of the most widely-used and regularly deployed strategies in the toolkit of educators. And rightfully so. Much of the research points to the fact that feedback can be extremely powerful at improving student learning. Yet did you know that major reviews of the scholarly literature on feedback suggest that up to one-third of all appro…
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How important is the notion of ‘health and wellbeing’ in schools? Should schools simply 'stay in their lanes' and avoid this topic altogether? Or should they play a pivotal role in the lives of learners in how they develop their health and wellbeing? And if you agree with the latter point, then to what extent should teachers be responsible for the …
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In 2008 Professor John Hattie released his landmark publication, Visible Learning. This book synthesised research from over 800 meta-analyses representing findings from research involving millions of students and over 100 different influences on academic achievement. John’s book was widely celebrated for having built that elusive bridge between the…
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How do you know if you're an effective teacher? How do you interpret and evaluate evidence to inform your teaching practice? At least part of the answer to these questions must have something to do with the impact a teacher has on the learning of their students. But the next question of course is ‘How do we know that our students are learning?’ One…
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Do you want to integrate ‘Evidence-Based Teaching’ into your practice? If so, where should you begin? What are some of the key steps and working 'models' that we can adopt to help integrate evidence-based teaching into our educational practice? In this podcast, we'll look into some of the key features of different models of evidence-based teaching …
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Why is it that there seems to be such a massive gap between research and practice when it comes to teaching and learning? It turns out that this is a highly complex question to answer. But that will not deter us from trying! So, for today’s podcast, we’ll look into some of the anecdotal and empirical claims about why the research-practice divide ex…
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Have you ever wondered what is meant by the terms ‘Evidence-Based Teaching’? Why is it that evidence-based teaching has become such an important topic among circles of students, educators, and policy-makers? And what are some of the models and strategies that underpin evidence-based teaching? Well, in this series I’ll attempt to tackle some of thes…
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Interested in discovering more about about the science of learning and evidence-based teaching? Look no further.... Welcome to the Powerful Learning Podcast! This episode provides you with a brief outline of things to come. Luke shares his mission and vision for the podcast and a bird's eye view of the research framework he'll be drawing upon when …
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It's over! Almost! For real this time, I swear. The group has been trying to kill this evil snakething for close to ten sessions and the moment is finally here, including all of the stuff that happens when they get back to town. More sadness awaits, but just maybe a smidge of hope that things aren't as terrible as when they left Orlane the first ti…
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The Party Without A Significant Identifier Yet is back with more exploration of the dungeon of Explicita Defilus! We're getting close to finishing this quest, since it's more inevitable than eventual that they succeed. Unless I've just been setting this up this whole time to talk about how I wiped the party because of my own knack for underestimati…
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Part 1 of the 2 Part, 5 or 6 Part Sub-Series! Alright they're in the dungeon this time, so it's dungeon time again - still no dragons in sight but look they're just level 2/3 babies doing there best out here in a dangerous world. They'll find dragons eventually, I promise! Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.com Tunes: "Nightfall…
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So yeah, it didn't go great for the party last time but at least they made it out alive. They're short-handed and need to figure out how to proceed from there. It's not like they'll just cut their losses and bail out early right? They wouldn't leave their friend to perish at the hands of the cult. Right? Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepod…
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Now we're in the meat of it, the gross filthy chunk of the module! Things get interesting as soon as the players make their way into the village of Orlane, quickly going downhill for them - in ways I wasn't even expecting. Also, it seems I have a real problem pronouncing the word "troglodyte." Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.…
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Time for some module talk - or at least the build towards it. I got the chance to run the classic module Against the Cult of the Reptile God (meaning my friends took the bait I set for them) and it ended up being one of the high points of not just my campaign, but from all of my gaming experiences. So let's talk about it for a while! This is the fi…
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Just like in real life, your friends are going to want to make friends with imaginary people you pull from your head. There's plenty of things you can do with that, and not just to break their hurts and deliver soul crushing disasters upon them. Sometimes they just, y'know, hang out. Like real people. These ones just might have scales or cast light…
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Wow! A new episode? It's like I finally got it together so I can upload something - but nah, it's been pretty hectic over here at DMDCPCHQ. I did take some time to enjoy Gen Con weekend though, as a player no less. Got to play a lot of great games with a lot of great people, and figured it'd make for a good experience to share. Campaign logs aren't…
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I realize now I am guilty about stringing my players along through scripted scenarios. I don't know if that's good or bad, but I sure do talk about it a lot this episode. Plus when players get some decision paralysis, so hopefully one of those will prove useful in hindsight. Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.com Tunes: "Nightfa…
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At some point, your friends will talk about you playing D&D. And then those friends will probably want to play D&D with you. You probably have space at your table, so how about an episode about handling new members? Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.com Tunes: "Nightfall" by Eric Godlow "Enchanted Village" by Augustin C "Night …
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Ah yes another one - finally back and doing this podcast thing again. Talking about fleeing, perhaps not fleeing? Who knows! The trio of adventurer's reach the shore, only trading one dangerous circumstance for another. Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.com Tunes: "Nightfall" by Eric Godlow "Seasonal flows on warm Martian slope…
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You're feeling good, you've got your party, they've got their character sheets - but wait! Now it's time to actually start playing the game! So you have your first adventure, and odds are good the players will throw a wrench into those plans. Don't worry though, you're the DM. They'll find the adventure, or adventure will find them, or something li…
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Alright so you know you wanna sit around pretending to be different people for a few hours every week - now what? Ya gotta find some """friends""" to enjoy it with, and maybe not in the places you'd think to look. Or maybe it is, who knows? Twitter: @dmdcpodcast E-mail: dmdiscoursepodcast@gmail.com Intro - "Reaction" by Eric Godlow Lore Ambience - …
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