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Learning Made Easier
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Episode 149: Strategic Half-Assing
We all know a perfectionist who struggles with beliefs like “Only perfect is good enough.” But there is a way to derail those damaging beliefs! Join A...
Episode 148: How to Help Students Focus on Learning, Not Grades
Often, our students measure learning not by skills gained or new ways of looking at content, but by the grades earned. We have talked about what grade...
Episode 147: How to Stop Being Afraid of Mistakes
Mistakes are one of the cornerstones of how learning happens, but many educators and students are afraid of them. Join Dinur and Adam as we discuss wh...
Episode 146: Patchwriting – What It Is, and How to Avoid It
Patchwriting is a form of plagiarism that most students aren’t aware is plagiarism – substituting in words into the sentence structure of a source. It...
Episode 145: The Blame Game
It’s way too easy to blame others and ourselves when things go wrong. But there are more healthy ways to handle problems! In this episode, Dinur and A...
Episode 144: How to Make Your Teaching More Inclusive
We’ve all probably heard the term “inclusive teaching.” But what does it mean, for ourselves and our students? Join Dinur and Adam as we talk about th...
Episode 143: How Students Perceive “Cheating”
In a recent Inside Higher Ed article, survey results showed 9 different reasons why students cheat. Join Adam and Dinur as we go over these reasons, a...
Episode 142: Finding Your Inner Six-Year-Old
Finding joy in learning used to be easy – when we were in grade school. What happened? Why did learning become drudgery, instead of fun? In this episo...
Episode 141: How to Make Decisions When You Feel Stuck
We’ve all been there – we have a decision to make, and we can’t make it. In this episode, Adam and Dinur talk about the different reasons this can ha...
Episode 140: Trauma-Informed Teaching
The pandemic has traumatized almost everyone. In higher education, however, we are trying to keep going on as if nothing’s wrong. Borrowing from the K...
Episode 139: How to Be Assertive Without Being Mean
For many people, setting boundaries feels automatically mean. How do we get past feeling like setting a boundary makes us a mean person? In this episo...
Episode 138: How to Stay Safer on Campus
The college lifestyle has been identified as one of the two top criminal victimization lifestyles in the United States (the other one is the criminal...
Episode 137: Four Common Self-Respect Mistakes First-Year Students Make
In this week’s episode, Dinur and Adam talk about the common mistakes first-year students when they don’t have enough self-respect. These mistakes inc...
Episode 136: Four Financial Mistakes First-Year Students Make
Last episode, we talked about the academic mistakes first-year students tend to make. Join Dinur and Adam as we discuss the financial mistakes first-y...
Episode 135: Four Academic Mistakes First-Year Students Make
Skipping class? Avoiding the professor? Studying only when you think of it? All of these have been identified as common first-year college student mis...
Episode 134: Going Back Home After Your First Term or Year
You’ve just experienced your first semester (or first year) in college, and it was eye-opening! Now you’re going home, back to the way things were, wh...
Episode 133: Handling Specific Groups of Difficult People
In the first few episodes of this series, Dinur and Adam talked about how to deal with difficult people. In this final episode of the series, we’re go...
Episode 132: Internal Shifts to Help Deal with Difficult People
In addition to what we do in interaction with the difficult person, we also need to take note of how we’re interacting with ourselves. If we’re stress...
Episode 131: Responding to Difficult People
In our last episode, we talked about how to deal with difficult people before they get really difficult. In this episode, Adam and Dinur talk about wa...
Episode 130: How to Deal With Difficult People
We’ve all had to deal with that person – the one who irritates us, or seems to be angry all the time, or doesn’t follow through on their part of the g...
Episode 129: How to Say No
Last time, we talked about how to be assertive with professors and classmates. In this episode, join Adam and Dinur as they talk about ways to approac...
Episode 128: How to Be Assertive
Being assertive is a necessary skill in today’s world, but too many times, we aren’t taught it. In fact, being assertive is discouraged in many cultur...
Episode 127: Manage Your Time With Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson’s Law says: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. According to Parkinson’s Law, if you allow yourself an hour, i...
Episode 126: Derail Bad Habits by “Playing the Tape”
We’ve all been there. We have work to do, but the video game or the TV show is calling us, and we’d much rather play than work. How do we resist that...
Episode 125: Dealing With Anxiety
Here’s the thing about anxiety: it’s a feeling that tells us “you’re going to die.” It’s an old emotional response to actual danger, and it used to ke...
Episode 124: How to Make Study Time Work For You
Have you ever finished a study session and felt like “I didn’t get anything done” or “I don’t remember what I did”? Do you feel like you need to make...
Episode 123: How to Stop Procrastinating
Procrastination is the bane of many students’ existence. You think you’re on top of things, and suddenly the due date is right on top of you! Worse ye...
Episode 122: Getting Students Participating in Online Discussions
When you’re teaching a class online, discussion boards are a common tool. But what do you do when students don’t participate? In this episode, Dinur a...
Episode 121: Should You Use Public Transportation?
What are the advantages of using public transportation when you’re a student? Join Dinur and Adam as we discuss this issue. Show Notes Remix.com, “8 B...
Episode 120: Should You Change Your Major?
You entered college expecting to major in something (be it engineering, criminal justice, art history, or literally anything else). But a few courses...
Episode 119: Twice Exceptional
Twice-exceptional, in a broad sense, means a student who is both gifted in at least one area, and disabled as well. Join Adam and Dinur as we talk abo...
Episode 118: How to Thank Your Professors
You’ve had a class that was just absolutely fantastic, and you’d like your professor to know it. What are the best ways of showing that appreciation?...
Episode 117: There’s No Such Thing as “Lazy”
The word “lazy” is a pretty nasty word. It’s negative and abusive. So why do we use it so much? Join Dinur and Adam as we discuss what “lazy” actually...
Episode 116: FOMO – the Fear of Missing Out
How do you decide what to keep and do, and what to ignore and discard, as a college student? The heart of this question is FOMO, or the fear of missin...
Episode 115: Handling Stress and Staying Focused in a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has created stressful and overwhelming challenges, which can cause strong emotions in adults and children. But learning to cope...
Episode 114: How to Manage Work AND School
You’re working part time or full time, taking classes, and potentially taking care of family. How will you manage your stress so your grades stay good...
Episode 113: College Presentations and Social Anxiety
The dreaded word “presentation” strikes fear into the hearts of many students, especially when they have social anxiety. But there are ways to handle...
Episode 112: How to Handle Finals Week
Finals week is an extremely stressful time for both professors and students, because of the sense of being overwhelmed. How can we make finals week a...
Episode 111: How to Handle Mistakes
Some mistakes are just embarrassing, and some have possible effects on your grade, your degree, or worse. How do you approach your professor when you’...
Episode 110: Keeping in Touch
Keeping in touch is hard enough when we’re all on campus. But how do you maintain solid relationships with classmates, peers, and professors in the mi...