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CarnegieViews
by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has interviewed people whose work bears on agendas that are central to the Foundation. Although the views of the interviewees are not necessarily those of Carnegie, we hope that they provide food for thought and support positive change and enhanced learning in our nation’s schools.
Episodes
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Thomas Carey: Transforming Learning Together
Thomas Carey has been a faculty member, innovation leader and senior executive in Canadian universities for 30 years. In the U.S., he has been a Visiting Senior Scholar at San Diego State University for six years, where he heads a program for collaborative course transformation teams in the...
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William Ayers and Ryan Alexander-Tanner: To Teach: the journey in comics William Ayers and Ryan AlexanderTanner: To Teach: the journey in comics
William Ayers is an educator, writer and social justice crusader. He and Exeric Award winning cartoonist Ryan Alexander-Tanner have created a comic book version of his 1993 book, To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, now titled To Teach: the journey, in comics. store.tcpress.com/0807739855.shtml In...
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Rick Hess: Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling
Frederick M. (Rick) Hess is a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. In the recently published book, Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling, Hess introduces us to the concept of break-the-mold "greenfield...
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Katherine Merseth: The Purpose of Schools Katherine Merseth: The Purpose of Schools
Katherine Merseth is Senior Lecturer and Director of Teacher Education Programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In
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Mimi Ito: Interest-driven Learning and Digital Media
Research Director for the Digital Media and Learning Hub and a research scientist at the UC Irvine. Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist who studies new media use and is developing a research area focused on interest-driven learning.
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Ruth Deakin Crick: Introducing ELLI
Ruth Deakin Crick is with the Graduate School of Education, the University of Bristol, UK. She has introduced the notion of the assessment of 'learning power' through seven dimensions. Crick and colleagues have implemented and tested this assessment internationally and in the U.S. in Chicago and...
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Tom Vander Ark: New Schools, New Tools, New Funding
Tom Vander Ark is head of Revolution Learning. He says that we are in a perfect storm of financial support, government awareness and the development of new tools to advance innovation in education. An Innovation Agenda for Learning In late November, at a meeting sponsored by The John D. &…
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Esther Wojcicki: Student Engagement is Key
Esther Wojcicki is chair of the Creative Commons Board of Directors, head of the Palo Alto High School Journalism Program, a consultant to Google, and an education blogger for the Huffington Post. She says that engaging students and empowering teachers is the key to needed innovation in American...
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Rob Thomas: “Experience One”, Outstanding Baccalaureate Colleges Professor of the Year
Carnegie’s Gay Clyburn interviewed Rob Thomas, a professor of geology at The University of Montana Western. Thomas is one of four college and university educators named as a national winner of the 2009 Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. Rob Thomas was named the Outstanding...
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Tracey McKenzie: Students as Teachers and Learners, Outstanding Community College Professor of the Year
Carnegie’s Gay Clyburn interviewed Tracey McKenzie, a professor of sociology at Collin College in Frisco, Texas. McKenzie is one of four college and university educators named as a national winner of the 2009 Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. Tracey McKenzie was named the...
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Richard Miller: Students as Designers, Outstanding Master’s Universities and Colleges Professor of the Year
Carnegie’s Gay Clyburn interviewed Richard Miller, a professor of psychology at the University of Nebraska, Kearney. Miller is one of four college and university educators named as a national winner of the 2009 Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. Richard Miller was named the...
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Brian Coppola: Engaging Students in Research, Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor of the Year
Carnegie’s Gay Clyburn interviewed Brian Coppola, one of four college and university educators who actively engage their undergraduate students in hands-on research and extensive team work who were named national winners of the 2009 Carnegie/CASE U.S. Professors of the Year Awards. Brian Coppola...
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Byron McClenney: Getting Institutions to Look at Themselves
Carnegie Developmental Math Convening September 2009 In early fall, Carnegie invited 25 people with an interest in student success to hear about and to comment on Carnegie's current work in developmental mathematics in community colleges. Carnegie is catalyzing and supporting the growth of a...
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Carol Lincoln: Optimistic About Possibilities for Student Success
Carol Lincoln, Director of Achieving the Dream, discusses the challenges of students success in community colleges.
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Uri Treisman's Joyful Conspiracy
Philip "Uri" Treisman is a Carnegie Senior Partner, advising the Foundation on work in developmental mathematics. He is professor of mathematics and of public affairs at the University of Texas, where he is also the executive director of the Charles A. Dana Center. He was named "2006 Scientist of...
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Akili Lee: How to Leverage Social Network Tools for Learning
Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills. Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted…
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Alex Chisholm: Games to Teach Perspectives
Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills. Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted…
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Nina Zolt: Students Just Want to Create and Collaborate
Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills. Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted…
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Larry Rosenstock: Preparing Kids to Enter an Adult World
Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills. Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted…
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Ethan Beard: Facebook For What?
Educators, content developers, policy makers and investors gathered to determine how they could collaborate to create engaging learning-oriented content that would teach 21st century skills. Sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Mitchell Kapor Foundation . Hosted…
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Melissa Gresalfi: Transformational Play and Math Education
Examining students’ learning in novel classroom contexts, including gaming environments, reveals another way to think about math education.
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Katie Salen: Quest to Learn, a School Based on "Kid Culture"
Design and innovation are at the heart of Quest to Learn, a school committed to helping students achieve excellence in the skills and literacies needed for career and college success in the 21st century.
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Nichole Pinkard: Digital Media and Learning
The Carnegie Foundation is focusing on where and how technology can add value as we seek to advance more ambitious learning goals for all students, and where we can assist educators as they move toward making these new learning goals universal. The Foundation has enlisted expert advisors to help…
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Myra Snell: Role of Faculty Learning in Community Colleges
The vast majority of students entering California’s community colleges are under-prepared for college, testing into "basic skills" or "developmental" classes; and many will never make it to the credit-bearing courses necessary to earn a degree. In response, The Carnegie Foundation for the...
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Peter Garcia: Role of the Community College President in Ensuring Student Success
The vast majority of students entering California’s community colleges are under-prepared for college, testing into "basic skills" or "developmental" classes; and many will never make it to the credit-bearing courses necessary to earn a degree. In response, The Carnegie Foundation for the...
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Robert Barr: Role of Institutional Research in Community Colleges
The vast majority of students entering California’s community colleges are under-prepared for college, testing into "basic skills" or "developmental" classes; and many will never make it to the credit-bearing courses necessary to earn a degree. In response, The Carnegie Foundation for the...
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Eric Siegel: Peers and Colleagues Build Student Confidence
Eric Siegel, with the New York Hall of Science, describes the perfect museum, how to engage diverse audiences, and how people have to have interaction with others to learn.
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Mike Petrich: An Invitation to The Learning Studio
Mark Petrich, from the San Francisco Exploratorium, talks about how tinkering is the way people make sense of the world, and explains why the Exploratorium brings scientists, artists and educators together to learn how they explore the world.
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John Seely Brown: The Open Architectural Studio
John Seely Brown, the self-proclaimed "chief of confusion," asks what we can do to find a way to get kids to play with creating knowledge, and challenges us to do a better job in fostering imagination.
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Jamie Cortez: Try it and Fail
Artist and performer Jamie Cortez discusses the need for a reward system for tinkering in public schools as well as the need for educators and students to understand that failing is an important part of learning.
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Allison Clark: You Can Still Be You and Become a Scientist
Allison Clark, with the Hip Hop Information Technology Tour, talks about using music to draw kids into digital learning and her goal of getting them to become producers of technology, not just users.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has interviewed people whose work bears on agendas that are central to the Foundation. Although the views of the interviewees are not necessarily those of Carnegie, we hope that they provide food for thought and support positive change and enhanced learning in our nation’s schools.
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