Uncommon Sense Teaching

Beth Rogowsky, Ed.D., is a professor of education at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Before entering higher education, she taught English language arts for fourteen years in rural and urban middle schools. She also completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience at Rutgers University, where her work focused on language and literacy.

Rogowsky is a co-author of Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn (2021), written with Barbara Oakley and Terrence J. Sejnowski. The book applies findings from neuroscience and learning research to classroom teaching.

Terrence J. Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory. He is also a Distinguished Professor at the University of California, San Diego, and directs its Institute for Neural Computation. Sejnowski earned a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University and completed postdoctoral research in biology at Princeton and neurobiology at Harvard Medical School.

A pioneer in computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence, Sejnowski has published more than 500 scientific papers and 12 books. His published works include The Computational Brain, coauthored with Patricia Churchland; The Deep Learning Revolution; ChatGPT and the Future of AI: The Deep Language Revolution; and Uncommon Sense Teaching, coauthored with Barbara Oakley and Beth Rogowsky.