A John Stossel Town Hall: The Exciting Intersection of Neuroscience and Education

Stossel in the Classroom, a Center for Independent Thought program, will host a town hall on Wednesday, April 19, featuring Oakland University Distinguished Professor Barbara Oakley and John Stossel.

The two will discuss how teachers can dramatically improve their students' abilities to learn by using practical insights from neuroscientific research. Barbara will help teachers make slight but powerful tweaks that will enhance their teaching — and their students' learning.

Here’s what we’ll cover:

• Applying how the brain processes information to teaching practices

• Practical strategies for helping students develop essential learning skills

• Techniques for helping students retain information

• Methods for improving learning outcomes

We hope you’ll join us! Just register here.

Barbara is a leading expert in the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior and how to apply them in educating our youth. She created and teaches Coursera’s “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world’s most popular massive open online course with over four million registered students.” 

She’s a New York Times best-selling author whose book A Mind for Numbers has sold over a million copies worldwide. She’s also been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.