Flashcards: Hidden Powers | Episode 58

If you think you know flashcards, think again. Host Kevin Patton outlines the learning science behind flashcards, then shows how they can go way beyond simple memorization in the first of a multipart series on the hidden powers of flashcards. Updates in gene therapy to grow brain cells and smelling without olfactory bulbs.01:12 | Gene Therapy for Brain Cells04:05 | Sponsored by HAPS04:49 | Something Smells Odd08:26 | Sponsored by AAA08:45 | Introduction to Flashcards21:03 | Sponsored by HAPI Online Graduate Program21:45 | Beginning Intermediate Flashcards34:31 | Staying ConnectedIf you cannot see or activate the audio playerclick here.Please take the anonymous survey:theAPprofessor.org/surveyQuestions& Feedback:1-833-LION-DEN (1-833-546-6336) FollowThe A&P Professor onTwitter,Facebook,Blogger,Nuzzel,Tumblr, orInstagram!Memorization has gotten a bad rap recently. Lots of students, and even some educators, say that being able to reason is more important than knowing facts; and besides, why bother committing things to memory when you've got Google? My response to this - after I've finished inwardly groaning - is that of course reasoning is important, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't know facts as well. It's not like you have to choose between one or the other. Besides, facts give you a foundation on which to reason about things. (Stefanie Weisman)Gene Therapy for Brain Cells3 minutesUsing gene therapy techniques, biologists can insert the NeuroD1 gene i...
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