Ep 128: Breaking Through Barriers: Understanding and Addressing Student Misconceptions (3 of 3 episodes)

New Teacher Talk · Mar 26, 2025 · 13m · transcript

Join host Dr. Ken King, education professor at Aurora University, as he explores the fascinating world of student misconceptions and why they're so resistant to change. In this thought-provoking episode, Dr. King unpacks how higher knowledge interference and cognitive biases like confirmation bias create persistent learning obstacles for students. Discover how social media algorithms reinforce these biases by creating echo chambers, and why surface-level learning without conceptual understanding leaves misconceptions unchallenged. Dr. King provides practical, classroom-ready strategies…