Unlearning Learning

By Umes Shrestha

Hi I am Umes Shrestha. I am a teacher and a teacher developer. I love designing and delivering workshops -- and help teachers become awesome :)

This podcast is my audio guff, teaching, learning related, ideally for teachers, teacher trainers, and educators.

Language: Nepali and English, mixed with a few Newari tone here and there.

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com

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16. Ten Things A Participant Can Do

Unlearning LearningOct 04, 2021

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16. Ten Things A Participant Can Do

10 Things You Can Do to Make Your Workshop Experience Productive

1. Understand you real reasons for joining the workshop and check if they align with the workshop objectives.

2. Understand the modality of the workshop.

3. Try to get in touch with other participants.

4. Don’t go into a workshop without any preparation.

5. And go with an open mind, without judgment.

6. Try to ‘get out of your comfort zone’

7. Provide proper and concrete feedback to the facilitator

8. Stay in touch.

9. Request the trainer for a follow-up session.

10. Share the ideas & skills with someone else – a friend or a colleague.

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Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/

Oct 04, 202107:40

15. Advice Suggestion Feedback

We love giving advice, suggestion, and feedback - that too unsolicited. As a teacher, I've made this mistake several times. And, as a teacher developer, I've done this during workshop sessions too.

We have done this mistake, I'm sure.

Experience is a great teacher and I've come up with my own "rule of thumb" regarding this complex issue of giving and receiving advice, suggestion, and feedback. Talking about this rule and sharing a few examples in this podcast.

Aug 14, 202108:40

14. How learning happens - Part 1 (Summary/Review)

Note: Recorded in English + Nepali mixed language

This episode is for teachers who are trying to unravel the complex issue of learning and teaching. I will be recording a series of episodes summarizing and reviewing each chapters from the seminal book "How Learning Happens".

Book: How Learning Happens - Seminal Works in Educational Psychology and What They Mean in Practice
Paul A. Kirschner and Carl Hendrick

Chapter 1: A novice is not a little expert

The takeaways are:
a. Beginners aren’t “little” experts; they know less and think differently than experts.
b. Children also aren’t small adults. They see the world very differently and therefore have to learn differently.
c. A teaching approach that works well with an expert will most probably not work well with a beginner and can even be detrimental to their learning.
d. Try to differentiate at an early stage.
e. The epistemology of the expert is not the proper pedagogy for the learner.

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Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/

Mar 09, 202114:57

13. Unlearning the Learning Beliefs

The three learning myths I talked about in this episodes:

The Learning Pyramid
The Learning Styles
Knowledge is out there (in the internet)

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/

Article Source:
https://www.teachertoolkit.co.uk/2017/12/26/20-research-myths/

Feb 24, 202110:48

12. Creativity, Communication & Mistakes with Abha Dhital

This time I'm talking with Abha Dhital, who loves writing, doodling, branding, and storytelling.
Recording this episode was fun and reflective at the both time.

Give it a listen, okay.

Find Abha here:
https://abhadhital.wixsite.com/abhadhital/about

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/

Jan 27, 202155:45

11. Inspire and Grow with Biliz Maharjan

This is my first episode in 2021 and I tried to have a guest in for the first time as well :)

My guest is Biliz Maharjan, an MBA/IT graduate working an Investment/IT Analyst in a Merchant Banking Company. For me, his writing captured my attention and I got hooked into it. In this almost an hour long conversation, we dive into a lot of stuffs on learning, writing, teaching, habits, and we also did an impromptu section on "5 things that made you a better learner" and "One favorite book, one favorite habit, and one favorite quote".

Hope you'll enjoy this conversation.

Find Biliz here:
https://www.bilizmaharjan.com/

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/umes-shrestha-b2403958/

Jan 10, 202155:59

10 My Take on the Significant Education Studies 2020

I recorded this episode after reading this "important" blog article posted on edutopia.org (Link: https://www.edutopia.org/article/10-most-significant-education-studies-2020).

I have added my own perspectives and a few opinions as well on these studies. And in doing so, I have cited some references of Robert Bjork (Input less, Output more), Angela Duckworth (Grit), Daniel Wellingham (Memory is the residue of thoughts), and John Sweller (We are our long term memory).

I've used both Nepali and English language, as my primary target of this podcast is Nepali teachers, educators, and learners.

Dec 20, 202026:32

09 Challenges in Implementing Activities to Engage Students

In this episode, I share some of the ideas posted by teachers on how to solve the perennial problem teachers face: completing the course/syllabus. I also talk about how I used to label teachers as "lazy" and how wrong I was to do so.

Book mentioned: Switch by Chip and Dan Heath

Our facebook group: www.facebook.com/groups/teachersempoweringteachers

Find me here:
Instagram: @umesunlearn
Email: umes.shrestha@gmail.com

Dec 05, 202007:42

08 SCARF Model for Trainers

In this episode, I am sharing an extremely helpful tool/model for trainers, facilitators, and teachers. With this, they will be able to understand how to make any workshop situation "non-threatening" for the participants and how to create challenging yet empowering situations for the participants.

Major source:

David Rock - Your Brain at Work
SCARF: Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, Fairness

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Links:

Empowerment Academy
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Dec 02, 202016:00

07 What a difficult participant taught me

In this episode, I want to share my experience of dealing with a "difficult" participant. Eventually every facilitator or trainer (and even teachers) will face difficult and even disruptive participants in workshop sessions. And, here's my version of the situation and my learning.

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