Episodes
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
35 Frank Baker on Media Literacy in K-12 Schools
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Tuesday Sep 13, 2022
Frank Banker is author, news producer, former teacher, and present teacher trainer. In addition to the mass of open source materials he produces, and his political activism in support of Media Literacy in schools, he wrote a book called Media Literacy in the K-12 Classroom. In this session, recorded in December of 2019 he promotes media literacy in schools and in society at large.
Friday Sep 09, 2022
34 Serbest Salih on Children’s Expression and Analogue Photography
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Friday Sep 09, 2022
Serbest Salih created Sirkhane Darkroom, a mobile darkroom that provides workshops for children in the border are between Turkey and Syria. His project received global media attention after the publishing of the book, I Saw the Air Fly, a collection of children's photographs. Serbest's mission is unique in that he was once a child seeking refuge across the same border. His goal, through the slowness of film photographic processing, if for children to construct meaning of their experiences and their world.
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
33 Josh Burker on Turtle Art
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Wednesday Aug 31, 2022
Josh Burker runs the Maker Space at New York City's Marymount School. Here he makes the case for why he teaches with Turtle Art across all grade levels and walks through the kinds of projects his students engage in. Most importantly he discusses the kind of learning happening when students make as a community.
Monday Jan 17, 2022
32 Tal Slemrod on Data Driven Decision Making and Remote Learning
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Dr. Tal Slemrod has been collecting data on what students and teachers prefer in regards to different forms of remote learning. Now, during Omicron spikes where the narratives are emotionally charged and Reality is quickly constructed according to cognitive bias, Dr. Slemrod reminds us of how data can counter policy loaded with politics. A great listen for anyone affected by the school closures of late.
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
31 Ayleen and Ximena on School Safety and Student Advocacy during Omicron Spikes
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
Wednesday Jan 12, 2022
School board meetings have become politicized, teacher unions and mayors embattled, and teacher have been called unprintable names. But what happens when it is the students who decide to fix what they perceive to be a dangerous environment. Ayleen and Ximena organized a district wide petition for students to strike by not showing up to school if demands for a safer environment are not met. Student agency and advocacy in Oakland, California.
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
30 John Thill on Library Systems and Phases during Covid_19
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
Thursday Sep 10, 2020
John Thill explains cycles of planning for systems and phases through the Covid_19 period, the challenges of balancing ongoing research, anecdotal evidence, and local, stated, and national politics. John details innovations such as door step book delivery, online programming, and becoming what is needed during the pandemic.
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
29 Hugh Gash on Mysticism and Radical Constructivism
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Tuesday Sep 08, 2020
Hugh Gash calls educators to encompass the mystical experience in teacher reflection, an acceptance that much of how learning happens cannot be known, and in that acceptance lies hidden epiphanies. Gash also discusses "Radical Constructivism" including circularity, social, and embodied experience in learning. Gash's concepts are refreshing to an increasingly edu-corporate approach to learning design.
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
28 Arnab Chakravarty on Light, Time, and Self
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Sunday Sep 06, 2020
Before we all were participating in the Covid_19 pandemic social experiment of living like astronauts, Arnab Chakravarty had already embarked on his own journey into his own circadian rhythms. His ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) thesis was the culmination of months living "off the clock". In this session Arnab delves into moving away from a monochronic mindset.
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
27 Scott McLeod on the Covid_19 Crisis of Leadership in Schools
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Dr. Scott McLeod of Dangerously Irrelevant has been interviewing educators from around the world during Covid_19 crisis, and blogging about the crisis in school leadership during the pandemic political plague in the U.S. Here he discusses openness to teaching and learning innovation and the plan to continue learning online until school reopenings.
Friday Jul 31, 2020
26 Jenae Cohn on A Day in the Life of an Online Professor
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Friday Jul 31, 2020
Dr. Jenae Cohn discusses multimodal communication, taking the students' pulse, broadening bandwidths, call and response content creation, strategizing synchronous and asynchronous time, onboarding the tech stack, online course design, and the new ethics around tech and student privacy. An amazing discussion bridging the current hybrid learning design challenges from K-12 to higher education.