5 episodes
My Universities - Learning how to learn Dr Hieu Thi Kieu
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- Education
This podcast covers pieces of advice and reflection on learning how to learn at universities. The ultimate purpose is to help learners love what they learn and learn what they love. This podcast provides a range of topics related to learning at universities: from learning what, learning where, learning when, learning how, learning why and most importantly learning about your possible selves in learning. I am your host, Dr Hieu Kieu.
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Introduction, Questions and Priorities
An introduction: who I am, the importance of learning how to learn and the structure of this podcast.
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Learn what you love and love what you learn: choice and strategy
This episode analyses the choice of learning what you love and the strategies to sustain this love. The choice is analysed by the 5 question whys to be more reasonable about our subject area. The strategies include (1) broad then the deep views and (2) the urgency to creating.
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The unthought thoughts, the unwritten writing and the place where academic writing begins
The first part of episode unpacks the where-do-I-begin question of writing or the universal writing drama which is somehow similar to the troubles accumulating our minds from the unexamined thoughts. The second part discusses the elements of academic writing and factors influencing the readability of the text.
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Persuasion and Presentation: Ethos, Logos, Pathos and 5 Ss
This episode provides 2 approaches to increase your personal impact in speaking including (1) Aristotle’s 3 principles of persuasion (Ethos, Logos, Pathos)and (2) Christine Clapp’s 5 strategies in confidence public speaking (Stance, Sound, Smile, Sight, Silence).
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Read like a writer and write like a reader
This episode is about ways of reading and writing to utilise what we read in writing and what we write in reading. It also develops 9 thinking behaviours in reading and writing with corresponding questions and examples.