<p>Barbara Oakley shares about her course, Speak Freely, Think Critically, and gives practical advice about teaching on episode 592 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>If you look at free speech from a historical and neuroscientific perspective, you can get a much better sense of people&#8217;s motivations and the continuing patterns that we see through history of people being really pro free speech until it affects them.
-Barbara Oakley</p>
<p>Really intelligent people find it very hard to be flexible, to change their mind.
-Barbara Oakley</p>
<p>Learning is hard. Your job as a professor, as a teacher, is to help make it understandable, to help make it easier.
-Barbara Oakley</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/free-speech">Speak Freely, Think Critically: The Free Speech Balance Act</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.swaybeta.ai/">Sway.AI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.coursera.org/instructor/barboakley">Barbara Oakley – Coursera Instructor Profile</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn">Learning How to Learn</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.coursera.org/learn/critical-thinking-deductive">Think Critically: Deductive Reasoning and Mental Models</a></li>
<li><a href="https://barbaraoakley.com/">Barbara Oakley’s Website</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Oakley">Barbara Oakley – Wikipedia</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.academyofideas.uk/p/the-hidden-neuroscience-of-democracy">Academy of Ideas: The Hidden Neuroscience of Democracy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9780399165245">A Mind for Numbers, by Barbara Oakley</a></li>
<li><a href="https://retrievalpractice.org/">Retrieval Practice (retrievalpractice.org)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://obsidian.md/">Obsidian</a></li>
<li><a href="https://intentionalacademia.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-use-obsidian">How and Why I Use Obsidian, by Robert Talbert</a></li>
<li><a href="https://smarterhumans.ai/">SmarterHumans.ai</a></li>
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