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Show Notes
Psychology Life Lessons is a podcast where we listen in on conversations with psychology experts and try to extract life lessons, and maybe a little wisdom.
In this episode, Dr. Steve Joordens shares his pioneering work in leveraging technology to offer quality education to large classes at the University of Toronto. He passionately discusses his advocacy work, from increasing diversity in DNA databases to combating loneliness among students and challenging the aggressive marketing of sports gambling. Joordens’ innovative approach to education, combined with his commitment to social causes, offers valuable insights into the power of technology and education to drive societal change.
Steve Joordens is a Professor of Psychology who teaches primarily at the University of Toronto, but also offers several “Massive Open Online Courses” with coursera.ca and a Human Memory Through The Lifespan course with The Great Courses. He is also Director of the Advanced Learning Technology Labs, and one of the technologies to come from that lab – peerScholar – is now used as an institutional solution for formative peer and self assessment in 10 countries. A passionate teacher and educational researcher, Steve also advocates for a variety of causes including banning the marketing of gambling, and supporting the GenWell Initiative, a NFP directly taking on the loneliness pandemic.
To learn more about peerScholar, check out the videos at videos.peerScholar.com or visit peerScholar.com. You could also listen to by the Canadian Psychological Association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE7CoZ0hh50).
To learn more about Steve’s efforts to support olympian Bruce Kidd and his effort to ban the marketing of gambling, listen to this PodCast hosted by the Canadian Psychological Association (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsuvHirevSg).
To learn more about GenWell and their attempts to spread the gospel of social connection, see: https://www.genwellproject.org/
If you’re curious about the indigenous welcome activity that Steve mentions, you can see a video outlining it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ifVnzXqkfo5i7HhuV8oW6wU-C_PiVm1X/view
You can email Steve with any thoughts, reactions or questions you might have via [email protected]
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