Episodes
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35 Frank Baker on Media Literacy in K-12 Schools
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,...
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34 Serbest Salih on Children’s Expression and Analogue Photography
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...
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33 Josh Burker on Turtle Art
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…
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32 Tal Slemrod on Data Driven Decision Making and Remote Learning
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…
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31 Ayleen and Ximena on School Safety and Student Advocacy during Omicron Spikes
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...
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30 John Thill on Library Systems and Phases during Covid_19
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...
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29 Hugh Gash on Mysticism and Radical Constructivism
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...
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28 Arnab Chakravarty on Light, Time, and Self
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...
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27 Scott McLeod on the Covid_19 Crisis of Leadership in Schools
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…
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26 Jenae Cohn on A Day in the Life of an Online Professor
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...
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25 Meredith Dodd on Digital Tools, Documentation, and Reggio Emilia during Covid19
Meredith Dodd of the University of Chicago Dewey Lab School talks about the mindfulness of tool within a Reggio Emilia environment applied to our hybrid digital and physical world. While we set out to discuss SeeSaw, Zoom, and mobile devices with early childhood, we quickly wander into what the...
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24 Andy Quitmeyer on Digital Naturalism
Andrew Quitmeyer lives in Gamboa, Panama running DinaLab, a center for Digital Naturalism. He works to change the way researchers interact with their data collecting by moving the lab to the floor of the rainforest. The implications of his ideas go way beyond scientific study, it seems similar to...
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23 John Fallon and Paul Darvasi on Gaming and Holistic Literacy
John Fallon and Pual Darvasi discuss alternate reality gaming in the classroom. In their breakdown of "Blind Protocol" they discuss how teaching English Language class turns into an exercise in holistic literacy where knowledge becomes, in the Deweyesque sense, actionable upon the context of the...
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22 Wiktor Przybylski and Jakub Kowalik on What Hackerspaces Offer that Work and School Do Not
Wiktor Przybylski and Jakub Kowalik run Hackerspace Krakow and here they discuss the freedoms of learning in a Hackerspace compared to work and school environments.
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21 MH Rahmani on Perception and Cognition in a Making Process
M. H. Rahmani explains the prolonged space of problem defining in the process of making. His thesis project, reFrame, serves as an example of making as a long process for investigating scientific, psychological, philosophical inquiry. John Dewey called for "Art as Science". This talk breaks down...
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20 Sylvia Martinez on Invent to Learn 2019
Sylvia Martinez discusses the need for teacher time and continued development of theory of knowledge, the updated Invent to Learn 2019 edition, and the upcoming Constructing Modern Knowledge make space she and Gary Stager host every summer.
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19 Robert Sommer on Personal Space, the Behavioral Basis for Design
Dr. Robert Sommer, author of Personal Space, the Behavioral Basis of Design discusses his seminal work. Dr. Sommer elaborates on learning spaces and the multitude of perspectives with a single learning space.
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18 Stephanie Cox Suarez on Documentation and Making Learning Visible
Dr. Stephanie Cox Suarez discusses her experiences with documentation with the Project Zero Making Learning Visible project and her work with the Reggio Emilia approach. Here she touches on themes of the importance of documenting group learning, using repeated viewing of documentation, and…
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17 YJ Kim on Playful Assessment in Maker Centered Learning
Yoon Jeon Kim, research scientist from MIT Playful Journey Lab joins Journeys in Podcasting to discuss her work with Playful Assessments, methods for keeping formative assessment a co-construction between teachers and students.
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16 Monica Burns on Scannable Technologies in the Classroom
Journeys in Podcasting continues the theme of "Hacking Active Learning Spaces" by inviting Apple Distinguished Educator and author Monica Burns to discuss the potentials of augmented reality in the classroom. (from a 2016 podcast session) *audio glitches, recorded on Google Hangouts
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15 Angela Stockman on Making and Writing Workshop
Angela Stockman, author of Make Writing, Hacking the Writer's Workshop, and Hacking School Culture, discusses her experience mixing writer's workshop with maker centered learning. Angela talks about her visit to Reggio Emilia and the maker approach to early childhood. Note: internet connections...
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14 Epunk of C-Base on the Mothership of all Hackerspaces
Epunk of C-base, the mothership of hacker spaces dedicates a part of his afternoon to discuss the GDPR and data privacy issues, crowdsourced environmental pollution monitoring projects, and open source education outreach projects. Epunk explains the philosophy of the mothership, how hacker spaces...
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13 Rachel Fink on Reggio Emilia in an Israeli Context
Rachel Fink is the co-founder of The Journey: Early Childhood Center in Tel Aviv, Israel. Here she explains the JECC's origins, the politics of "childhood", collective construction, Hebrew as a context for learning, tools of construction and wonder, documentation as a breathing organism, and the...
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12 EdCamp Bogota
Kay Stokes, Dan Pink, Stephanie Cerda, Mike Pennington, Austin Levinson, Juan Daza, Hadley Ferguson, and Noam Chomsky give commentary on the what drive teacher autonomy, purpose, and mastery in EdCamps. Members of Journeys in Podcasting host their own EdCamp and reflect on the experience.
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11 Gamification Part 1
CNG fourth graders remake The Fly. Before ISTE2015, HackEd collected voices on gamification - Michael Matera, Chris Aviles, Kevin Werbach, Marianne Malstrom, and Steve Isaacs. Jane McGonigal explains how games can make our lives better and James Paul Gee explains how game design will help us…
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10 Transmedia
The modern secondary orality is about engaging with text, remixing, co-creating mashups, sharing text across time and space synchronously and asynchronously, making thinking not just readable but visible, fusing text into transmedia events. Is this a return to a pre-industrialized polychronic...
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09 Simulations, Models, and Minecraft
Non-linguistic expression of content with models of the inner ear. Storyboards, movie design, need to know, student driven inquiry. Roman gods with simulations of archetype worshipers. Simulation design for learning space. Minecraft, Matt Ritchards, The Mind Lab, and the end of classroom walls.
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08 iPads and Literacy Part 2
James Hannam @thelearnmaker discusses iPads, school culture, and being an Apple Distinguished Educator Trainer. Post-graduate researchers and doctoral candidates, Ya-Huei Lu and Elisha Ding, walk us through multiple tech integration research projects and offer tips on best practices for...
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07 iPads and Literacy Part 1
In House we discuss three case studies integrating iPads to record private speech as students approach poetry from multiple perspectives, a simulation into the human body, and student made movies in a poetry film festival. Beyond we talk to Daniel Kemp, app designer of Book Creator, and Brian...
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05 Student Critiques
Student critiques, prototype loops, feedback sessions... featuring our in house study with middle school teacher Caitline Kingsley's classroom where students use peer feedback forms and Google Docs to facilitate online and face to face collaboration. Dr. Ron Berger of Expeditionary Learning...
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04 Student Driven Inquiry
Rachel Kreibich explains her experiences innovating with the SOLE project (student organized learning environments). Her inspiration was Sugata Mitra's research on The Hole in the Wall project. John Larmer of the Buck Institute explains how inquiry works within a project based model. Paul Curtis…
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03 Socratic Circles
In house we study a series of Socratic Circles from a project with Lynsey Tveit and Jessica Hertz and compare other methods and practices such as Circle of Knowledge and The Unquiet Librarian's experiences with Twitter backchannels during Socratic Circles. We interview Dr. Aaron Kuntz from the...
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02 Student Created Tutorials
Colegio Nueva Granada Math department walks us through their project on student created tutorials. iPad App Explain Everything creator Reshan Richards interviews with us discussing the design and intent of the app and its potential for cognitive development.
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01 Collaborative Spaces
Journeys in Podcasting in a project designed by Natalia Leon (third grade teacher), Diego Lopez (technology integrator), and Chris Davis (technology innovation project coordinator). Podcasts center around an in house study of a teaching mindset or method present on our campus at Colegio Nueva...
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