Understanding How We Learn, a Chat with Yana Weinstein & Megan Sumeracki | TAPP Radio 27

0:59 | New discovery about the shape of red blood cells
4:54 | Featured: Chat with the authors of a new book about how we learn

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"Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there's a preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for teachers and learners alike."
Yana Weinstein & Megan Sumeracki in Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide

 

1 | Regulation of Red Blood Cell Shape 4 minutes

Recent evidence points to a myosin-actin interaction in  the cytoskeleton connected to the plasma membrane as a key mechanism for regulating RBC deformability. Thus that old myosin-actin attraction learned while exploring muscle contraction accomplishes important tasks in other parts of the body, too!

• Healthy red blood cells owe their shape to muscle-like structures (brief synopsis)
• Myosin IIA interacts with the spectrin-actin membrane skeleton to control red blood cell membrane curvature and deformability (research article)

 

2 | Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide 23 minutes

Dr. Yana Weinstein and Dr. Megan Sumeracki join Kevin for an informative chat about their new book Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide. These learning scientists explain how A&P professors can use the six strategies for learning in their courses to help students learn.

• Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide (the book; multiple formats available)
  • Featured in The A&P Professor Book Club
• learningscientists.org (the website for The Learning Scientists; links to blog, podcast, videos, downloadable resources; good link to share with your A&P students)
  • @AceThatTest (follow The Learning Scientists on Twitter)
• Related resources from The A&P Professor
  • Episode 1: Spaced Retrieval Practice (the pilot episode of this podcast explored Kevin's experience with combining spacing and retrieval practice (discussed by Weinstein & Sumeracki in today's chat).
  • Episode 7: Teaching for Long Term Learning
  • Seminar: Long Term Learning | Five Strategies for Teaching A&P

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Modeling Professional Integrity | TAPP Episode 26

0:42 | A new micro-organ in our lymph nodes?
5:31 | Daily Nuzzel newsletter with curated headlines for A&P teachers
7:18 | Succeed in A&P podcast mentioned us!
9:04 | Featured: Modeling professional integrity18:36 | The A&P Student blog

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I don't think it works very well to tell our students to be ethical. We have to show them what ethical looks like.
Kevin Patton

1 | A New Micro-Organ? 4.5 minutes
One headline announced the discovering of a new human micro-organ. It turns out, researchers have found a distinct structure just beneath the capsule of lymph nodes called the subscapsular proliferative focus (SPF) where memory B cells hang out—not deep in the germinal center (GC).  This puts them in a good position to be activated by macrophages acting as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and mount a strong secondary immune response.

• Researchers Discover New ‘Micro-Organ’ in Human Immune System (news item about the discovery)
• Memory B cells are reactivated in subcapsular proliferative foci of lymph nodes (research article from Nature Communications)
• Second Harmonic Generation Imaging Microscopy: Applications to Diseases Diagnostics (describes the SHG method used to visualize the lymph node cells; see image)

2 | Curated daily headlines in the Nuzzel newsletter 2 minutes
Sign up for a free email subscription to Kevin's daily headlines curated especially for A&P teachers.

• The A&P Professor Nuzzel newsletter nuzzel.com/theAPprofessor

3 | Succeed in A&P podcast
 2 minutes
The A&P Professor podcast received a couple of mentions in Jim Connely's podcast Succeed in A&P. Check out the August 31 episode, featuring Krista Rompolski!

• Listen in iTunes
• MHHE blog (scroll down to the podcast entry)
• The Syllabus Episode (from The A&P Professor, our podcast featuring contributions from Krista Rompolski)

4 | Modeling Professional Integrity 9.5 minutes
Greg Crowther, whose song was featured in episode 25, calls in with an important point about modeling professional integrity for students: we should always cite the work of others. Whether we are using material legally is a separate issue. If we tell students they are plagiarizing if they don't cite others' works, then we are hypocrites if we don't model that behavior ourselves.
Kevin mentions some other benefits of consistently citing the work we use in our courses.

• Promoting Academic Integrity in our Course (episode 25, also featuring a song by Greg Crowther)
• The HAPI graduate program in which Kevin teaches
• Barbara Waxer (a media expert slated for a future episode)

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  Vesalius: The Fabric of the Human Body

5 | The A&P Student

3.5 minutes
The A&P Professor is Kevin Patton's blog for A&P students. You can link to the blog, or to any specific post within the blog, from your course materials (syllabus, course page, learning management system, emails/messages to students). Kevin (mostly Jenny, his wife) sends out bookmarks you can distribute to your students. This wacky bookmark has an anatomical illustration of eyeballs in their orbits on the obverse and information (including URL) about the blog on the reverse. If you mention that you are a podcast listener, you'll also get the almost coveted The A&P Professor label pin (authorized for use on your academic attire).

• theAPstudent.org (the link to the main blog page)
• Bookmark request page (fill out the form accurately, or the request will be rejected)

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