Synopsis
A weekly podcast, with insightful conversations about edtech and the future of learning, hosted by EdSurge's Jenny Abamu and Jeffrey R. Young. Whether youre an entrepreneur, an educator, or an investor, theres something for everyone on the air.
Episodes
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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms
19/03/2024 Duration: 54minThere are key junctures in education that are especially important for helping students feel they belong in school or college. And new research points to better ways to strengthen student-teacher relationships and a sense of belonging, argues Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. See show notes and partial transcript at EdSurge: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2024-03-19-what-new-research-says-about-fostering-a-sense-of-belonging-in-classrooms
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How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)
12/03/2024 Duration: 01h04minThere’s growing skepticism of higher education, complete with popular memes on social media that “college is a scam.” Experts in policy and marketing have some suggestions on how to counter that narrative.
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An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars
05/03/2024 Duration: 57minA longtime educator worries that the raging culture wars in education create toxic environments that hurt academic learning. He’s started a podcast that brings together people with deeply different views on issues that are most dividing school communities these days and uses depolarizing techniques to try to model repairing such breaches.
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Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?
27/02/2024 Duration: 38minCould virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education, is trying to record and teach some key practices of his tribal elders using VR video.
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How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)
20/02/2024 Duration: 34minIn part two of our podcast series Doubting College, which explores the growing skepticism of higher ed, we talk to students and counselors at a public high school about how students are thinking through their choices after graduation.
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AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?
13/02/2024 Duration: 45minA recent study ranked the top professions that are likely to be disrupted by ChatGPT and other new AI technologies, and most of them require college degrees. How does higher ed need to change what it teaches to respond?
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What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?
06/02/2024 Duration: 48minDid the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier days of oral storytelling? That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational writings have recently gotten attention.
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How Classroom Technology Has Changed the Parent-Teacher Relationship
30/01/2024 Duration: 27minIt can be harder than ever for teachers to manage their relationships with parents, even though digital tools make interactions more frequent. This week’s EdSurge podcast looks at why.
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Inside the Push to Bring AI Literacy to Schools and Colleges
23/01/2024 Duration: 53minThere’s a growing push to add AI literacy as a subject in schools and colleges. But what exactly is AI literacy, and can educators promote curiosity about the subject amid their own concerns, and in some cases fear, around ChatGPT and other generative AI?
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How Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When They’re Removed
16/01/2024 Duration: 01h18sHolding student attention may be harder than ever. Even if educators make students put away their smartphones, internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others and made it harder for people to be present, argues a Georgetown University professor.
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Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science (Encore Episode)
09/01/2024 Duration: 01h03minExperts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? This is a rebroadcast of one of our most popular episodes of 2023.
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Looking Back at the Biggest Education Trends of 2023
02/01/2024 Duration: 56minWhat were the biggest surprises and trends in education in 2023? Hear from five EdSurge reporters as they give their highlights and analysis and also talk about what they’re digging into in the coming year.
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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck? (Encore Episode)
26/12/2023 Duration: 48min“Why do some schools get better quickly, and others get stuck?” That question drove MIT professor of digital media Justin Reich to write a new book about what he’s learned as a teacher, edtech consultant and professor about making small regular improvements. This episode originally ran this summer.
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After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI
19/12/2023 Duration: 53minPaul LeBlanc grew Southern New Hampshire University to an online education powerhouse with more than 200,000 students. This month he announced that he’ll step down as president after the academic year, and he talks to EdSurge about online education, about how he responds to critics who worry that the university has borrowed too much from for-profit universities, and about why his next project involves rethinking teaching with AI.
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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value (Doubting College, Ep. 1)
12/12/2023 Duration: 47minWhen the libertarian billionaire Peter Thiel started a fellowship 13 years ago that pays young people $100,000 each to not go to college for two years, it made a splash and drew criticism. These days that sort of skepticism of college is far more mainstream. We dive into the history and impact of the program on the first episode of our new podcast series about changing public views of higher ed, called Doubting College.
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Can Kids Grow Up If They're Constantly Tracked and Monitored?
05/12/2023 Duration: 48minStudents these days are under constant watch with digital tools — whether it’s friends posting pictures on social media, or learning management systems sending parents alerts about missed assignments. And that can make it hard for students to learn to solve their own problems, argues Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.
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The Growing Push to Recruit New Teachers
28/11/2023 Duration: 30minSchools of education are working harder at recruiting these days, in response to enrollment declines. Can more people — and more people from a variety of backgrounds — be convinced to join the teaching profession in this particularly trying time?
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Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids (Encore Episode)
21/11/2023 Duration: 51minIt’s important to nurture philosophical thinking in kids throughout school and college. So argues a philosophy professor who wrote a book that highlights the natural tendencies of kids to think like philosophers. When big, important questions arise, he says, parents and educators should treat kids like conversational equals. This is a rerun of an episode that first ran in June.
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How AI Could Spark Fundamental Shifts in Education
14/11/2023 Duration: 52minThe rise of generative AI technology such as ChatGPT could rapidly reshape knowledge work in the next few years. A trio of education researchers recently sat down to map out what those changes could mean for education — and what steps should be taken to bring out the best of the tech while avoiding pitfalls.
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Why a New Teaching Approach is Going Viral on Social Media
07/11/2023 Duration: 01h04minWhen a professor’s research showed that standard methods of teaching problem-solving weren’t working, he set out to figure out what led to more student thinking. His resulting approach is spreading through classrooms, helped by teachers sharing examples on social media.