Southern Fried Scholar

In this introductory episode of the Southern Fried Scholar, Dr. Kelly Jones invites listeners to celebrate lifelong learning, creativity, story… and podcasts. Show Notes Freakonomics Radio: This is Your Brain on Podcasts (episode by Stephen J. Dubner - October 12, 2016 ) Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex (study by the Gallant Lab at UC Berkeley) Academics can change the world – if they stop talking only to their peers (article by Dr. Savo Heleta) What is lifelong learning? This is a great overview from infed.org (the informal education encyclopedia) Learn more about meta-learning from Jay Cross This is a great overview of participatory culture, a theory developed by Henry Jenkins And if you want to geek out on learning theory, read about Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age If you enjoyed this show, please rate and review SFS on iTunes - this is the best way to