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EdSurge Podcast — 499 episodes

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Career Readiness in the Real World

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Heather Brantley

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Live from ASCD + ISTE with Lexi Daly

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Live from ASCD + ISTE with Victoria Andrews

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Live at ASCD + ISTE with Leo Ortiz Villacorta

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Live at ASCD + ISTE with Bria Jones

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Live from ISTE + ASCD with Jerod Wright

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Peggy Hammond

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Barbara Bray

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Erika Sandstrom

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Crystal Yang

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Live from ISTE+ASCD with Tony Vincent

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Dual Enrollment Unpacked

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The Evolving Landscape of CTE

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IdeaSpark Episode 0

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How a Vacant School Building Became a Symbol of Loss, and Then Hope, for a Dying Small Town

17

How AI Has Changed Student Cheating — And How to Respond

18

Inside the Push to Bring AI Literacy to Schools and Colleges (Encore Episode)

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What We Learned About Teaching and Creativity By Commissioning a New Podcast Theme Song

20

Want To Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-Year Colleges? Look At Transfer Students.

21

Should Students Chat With AI Versions of Historical Figures?

22

The Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

23

What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

24

How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?

25

How the Job Market Has Changed for College Grads

26

Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses

27

Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials

28

Rebooting Internet Access Programs to Address the ‘Homework Gap’

29

How Rising Higher Ed Costs Change Student Choices. (Doubting College, Ep. 6)

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How a Returning College Student Advocated to Improve a Fledgling Online Program

31

AI Chatbots Reflect Cultural Biases. Can They Become Tools to Alleviate Them?

32

When the Teaching Assistant Is an AI ‘Twin’ of the Professor

33

The Power of the 'Grit' Narrative in Education. Bootstraps Ep. 7 (Encore Episode)

34

Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6 (Encore Episode)

35

Breaking Up With the SAT. Bootstraps, Ep. 5 (Encore Episode)

36

The Tyranny of Letter Grades. Bootstraps Ep. 4 (Encore Episode)

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The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' Bootstraps, Ep. 3 (Encore Episode)

38

Who Deserves a Seat at the Nation’s 'Best' High School? Bootstraps, Ep. 2 (Encore Episode)

39

Can You Really Just 'Pull Yourself Up' in Education? Bootstraps, Ep. 1 (Encore Episode)

40

What If Banning Smartphones in Schools Is Just the Beginning?

41

Should College Become Part of High School? (Doubting College, Ep. 5)

42

Should Chatbots Tutor? Dissecting That Viral AI Demo With Sal Khan and His Son

43

What Brain Science Says About How to Better Teach Teenagers

44

High School Students Want Answers Before Heading to Campus (Doubting College, Ep. 4)

45

Can ‘Linguistic Fingerprinting’ Guard Against AI Cheating?

46

A Scholar Hopes to Diversify the Narrative Around Undocumented Students

47

Why a New Teaching Approach is Going Viral on Social Media (Encore Episode)

48

Whatever Happened to Building a Metaverse for Education?

49

How VR Can Be an ‘Empathy Machine’ for Education

50

Is It Time for a National Conversation About Eliminating Letter Grades?

51

Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

52

What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

53

How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)

54

An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

55

Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?

56

How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)

57

AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?

58

What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

59

How Classroom Technology Has Changed the Parent-Teacher Relationship

60

Inside the Push to Bring AI Literacy to Schools and Colleges

61

How Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When They’re Removed

62

Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science (Encore Episode)

63

Looking Back at the Biggest Education Trends of 2023

64

Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck? (Encore Episode)

65

After Transforming a College With Online Offerings, a President Steps Down to Tackle AI

66

How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value (Doubting College, Ep. 1)

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Can Kids Grow Up If They're Constantly Tracked and Monitored?

68

The Growing Push to Recruit New Teachers

69

Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids (Encore Episode)

70

How AI Could Spark Fundamental Shifts in Education

71

Why a New Teaching Approach is Going Viral on Social Media

72

Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System? (Encore Episode)

73

What a Popular TikTok Channel Reveals About the Stress of College Admissions

74

How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

75

How to Help Students Avoid Getting Duped Online — and by AI Chatbots

76

How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

77

Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

78

Is VR the Next Frontier in the School Choice Movement?

79

Mockumentary Explores College Admissions — and Post-Pandemic Student Life

80

Today’s Kids Are Inundated With Tech. When Does it Help — and Hurt?

81

Group Project Horror Stories — And How to Avoid Them

82

The Power of Storytelling for Youth

83

Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights? (Encore Episode)

84

Who Does School Reform Serve?

85

Why Legacy Admissions May Be on the Way Out

86

How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research

87

Why Class Diversity Can Be ‘Invisible’ at Colleges

88

Using AI to Test Which Teaching Materials Work

89

Making Children's Media about STEM More Inclusive

90

Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

91

Should Schools Adopt ‘Cellphone Jails’?

92

Has It Become Harder to Connect With College Students?

93

Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids

94

How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement (Encore Episode)

95

Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?

96

How a Viral Video Sparked an Ongoing Discussion of Police in Schools

97

Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?

98

The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' (Encore Episode)

99

Why All Teachers Need Training in Mental Health and Social Work

100

What Does Gen Z Want From Education?

101

Did Liberal Arts Colleges Miss a Chance to Become More Inclusive After the Pandemic?

102

Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights?

103

An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’ (Encore Episode)

104

Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT

105

Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science

106

What Traditional Colleges Can Learn From a Free Online University

107

Do Active-Shooter Drills in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?

108

Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson In ‘Thinking 101’

109

Joyce Carol Oates On Teaching Creative Writing

110

How Hollywood Stereotypes About Teachers Stifle Learning

111

Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them

112

ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity

113

How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters

114

How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

115

What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

116

Is College Worth It? A Father and Son Disagree on Whether to Finish Their Degrees

117

An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’

118

A Teacher’s Podcast Got Him Fired. It Also Led to Greater Self-Reflection

119

How High Schools Should Change for an Era of AI and Robots

120

When the SAT Feels Like a Lock, Not a Key (Encore Episode)

121

Why One of the Most Selective Scholarship Programs Could Shut Down

122

With an Unusual Model and ‘Forbidden Courses,’ a New University Is Taking Shape in Texas

123

How a Student Podcast is Calling Out Inequities in Schools

124

Should We Rethink Our Notion of Who is ‘Smart’?

125

How Metaphors Shape Edtech

126

What Educators Should Know About the Latest in Brain Health. (Encore Episode)

127

What Should Colleges Do to Help Students Find Jobs?

128

How to Make Classes More Active, and Why It Matters

129

What a College Degree Means to Adult Students. Second Acts, Ep. 3

130

Exit Interview: Why This Veteran Teacher is Leaving the Profession

131

Why State Universities Are Buying Up Online Colleges

132

How to Keep Returning College Students on Track. Second Acts, Ep. 2

133

Inside the Booming World Where Students Buy Custom Term Papers

134

This YouTube Star Says AI Will Become a Creative ‘Collaborator’ With Students

135

Educators Don’t Need to Cope. They Need to Resist.

136

The Many Reasons Students Bail on College. Second Acts, Ep. 1

137

Encore: The Tyranny of Letter Grades

138

How to Help Teachers Tell Their Stories — And Why It Matters

139

Does Our Academic System Unnecessarily Pit People Against Each Other?

140

High School Students Say They Learn Their Most Important Skills Outside of School

141

Where Does Education Fit in an Emerging Metaverse?

142

How the ‘Computer Science for All’ Movement Fits In a Broader History of Social-Justice Battles

143

Scholars Create Graphic Novel to Spur Discussion of Inequity in Computer Science

144

Why This Children’s Show Host Pulled His Videos Off YouTube

145

The Illusion of Danger: A Returning Adult College Student's Quest

146

Teen Sleep, Brain Science and the Debate Over School Start Times

147

Encore: Is It Still Teaching When The Professor Is Dead?

148

New Approaches to Attracting and Retaining Teachers of Color

149

Why It’s So Hard to Escape the Narrative of ‘Grit’ in Education. Bootstraps Ep. 7

150

A New Approach to Gifted Education

151

Why One University Is Moving Toward a Subscription Model

152

Educator Face-Off: Is a College Degree the Worst Investment You Can Make, or the Best?

153

Students Have Different Thinking Speeds and Styles. Inclusive Teaching Means Realizing That

154

An Unusual Way to Charge for College: Make It Voluntary

155

Bonus Episode: Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives

156

Zaila Avant-garde Made Spelling Bee History. What Will the 15-Year Old Do Next?

157

Educators are Demoralized. What's the Way Forward?

158

What Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and an EdTech Critic Face Off

159

Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6

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Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?

161

Educators Have Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

162

Who Will Pay for ‘Inclusive Excellence’ at Universities?

163

Clay Shirky Wants to Reframe the Conversation About How Colleges Are Changing

164

Remote School Meltdowns? A Closer Look at Student Well-Being During the Pandemic

165

How Will COVID-19 Impact School Reform Movements?

166

A New Perspective on 'Supercharging' the Brain

167

Scenes From Campus Life During the 'Delta Semester'

168

Encore: The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.'

169

The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

170

How Can Colleges Break Out of the Funk of Low Morale?

171

When the SAT Feels Like a Lock, Not a Key. Bootstraps, Ep. 5

172

Sal Khan's Quest to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream

173

What If Education Was ‘Competency-Based’?

174

Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools ‘Miseducating’ Them?

175

What If Free Online Courses Weren’t Inside Walled Gardens?

176

Breaking Down the Early Childhood Education Crisis — and What Might Be Done About It

177

Are Upstart Online Providers Getting Better at Teaching Than Traditional Colleges?

178

Encouraging Teachers To Share Their Mistakes

179

The Tyranny of Letter Grades. Bootstraps, Ep. 4

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Should Robots Replace Teachers?

181

This Educator Tutored Chinese Students Remotely From Her Basement. Then It All Came Crashing Down.

182

Going Back: What College Teaching Is Like Compared to Last Year

183

Glitches, ‘Gas Fees’ and Lessons We Learned Selling an NFT

184

Why The Coming ‘Upheaval’ in Higher Ed May Change Notions of Equity, and Prestige

185

What the Maps in Our Brain Tell Us About the Learning Process

186

How the Pandemic Has Disrupted Global K-16 Online Education

187

What the ‘Educational Underground’ Says About the Future of Learning and Work

188

Could NFTs Play a Role in Education?

189

The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' Bootstraps Ep. 3

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We Know How to Diversify STEM Fields. The Challenge is Spreading What Works.

191

How to Continuously Improve Teaching

192

How Antiracism Work is Changing Early Childhood Education

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Encore: How YouTube Star John Green Thinks About His Educational Videos

194

That Assignment Where Students Give Someone In Need $1,000

195

Why Curiosity Is Key to Detecting Misinformation

196

The Long and Surprising History of ‘Teaching Machines’

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Recruiting Black Men to Lead in the Classroom

198

The Lessons Teen Moms Can Teach Colleges

199

Who Deserves a Seat at the Nation’s 'Best' High School? Bootstraps, Ep. 2

200

Encore: Should Instructors Rethink Final Exams?

201

Who Really Benefits From College Student Diversity?

202

What Can Teachers Learn From Students' Brainwaves?

203

Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid, But Tech Does Have Implications for Teaching

204

How a Professor of Hip-Hop Is Breaking Boundaries With First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album

205

The Surprising History of a Very American Idea. Bootstraps, Ep. 1

206

Applying to College Has Changed During the Pandemic. This High School Senior’s Podcast Shows How.

207

What Today’s Kids Need for Tomorrow’s World

208

Worried About Student Mental Health, a College President Moved Into the Dorms

209

Encore: What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the ‘70s Reveals About Teaching

210

There Is No Average Student. So How Should Educators Measure Learning?

211

How Shakespeare Can Help Us Rethink Education

212

More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat During the Pandemic. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?

213

A Social-Emotional Learning Expert Explains Why ‘Unity’ Is So Elusive

214

Is It Still Teaching When the Professor Is Dead?

215

How the Race Between Vaccinations and COVID Variants Affects School Reopening

216

Teachers Are Going Viral on TikTok. Is That a Good Thing?

217

Lessons from Students and Professors Who Podcasted Their Campus Lives During the Fall Semester

218

Are Colleges Partly to Blame for the Riot at the Capitol?

219

EdSurge Podcast’s Top Moments of 2020

220

How to Redesign Our Educational System for Lifelong Learning

221

How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts

222

Online or In Person: Which Choice Aced the Pandemic Semester? Campus Diaries Ep. 8

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A Conversation With #EduColor's José Vilson About Inclusive Teaching

224

How to Save Public Higher Ed. New Book Makes Case For Rethinking the Value of Colleges

225

‘No-Excuses’ and ‘Progressive’ Schools Are Training New Teachers Very Differently About Race

226

What Lessons Have Emerged From the Pandemic Semester? Campus Diaries Ep. 7

227

Child Abuse Is Harder to Spot During the Pandemic. What Can Educators Do?

228

High Stakes, High Anxiety This Election Day. Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 6

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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5

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Young People Don’t Always Show Up to Vote. Here’s How Education Can Help.

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No Study Groups and Cheating Concerns. Are Students Learning? Pandemic Campus Diaries, Ep. 4

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The Unusual Lengths School Bands Are Going to Keep Practices Safe, and Why It Matters

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During a Pandemic, Can College Be … Fun? Campus Diaries, Ep. 3

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Is Learning on Zoom the Same as In Person? Not to Your Brain

236

Is This College? Pandemic Campus Diaries, Ep. 2

237

Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences, and Lessons for COVID-19 Era

238

How Do You Prepare for a Pandemic Semester? Campus Diaries, Ep. 1

239

Now That the Pandemic Hit, Will Employers Keep Giving Tuition Benefits?

240

First-Year Teachers Reflect on the Pandemic

241

New Challenges for College Retention in the COVID-19 Era

242

Why It’s So Hard to Lower the Cost of Textbooks

243

Longtime Educator Jamaal Bowman Is Headed to Congress. Here’s His Take on Reopening Schools

244

Should Instructors Rethink Final Exams? Some Profs Try 'Epic Finales'

245

Fighting Misinformation in the Age of COVID-19

246

Do Selective Colleges Favor the Rich and Work Against the American Dream?

247

A First-Gen College Student Talks Fauxmencement, Loan Debt and Advice for Educators

248

What a Forgotten Instructional Fad From the ‘70s Reveals About Teaching

249

Reading, Writing and .. AI Literacy? Conrad Wolfram Wants to ‘Fix’ Math Education

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Parents Are Getting More involved During Remote Learning. Is That a Good Thing?

251

A Professor Known for Viral Videos Gives Advice for Teaching Online

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Did Students Learn As Much During Remote Online Instruction?

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Why Students Want Tuition Refunds Over Shift to Online Teaching

254

Researcher Behind ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice

255

How YouTube Star John Green Thinks About His Educational Videos

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Studying While Financially Stressed During COVID-19

257

What a Global 'Corona Diaries' Project Reveals About Education During The Pandemic

258

One Teacher’s Year Inside the World’s Largest Library

259

When 7 Family Members Continue Their Studies While Sheltered In Place

260

The Future of K-12 School Post-Coronavirus

261

How a Preschool for At-Risk Children Is Prioritizing Mental Health During COVID-19 Closures

262

Bonus Episode: Scenes From College Classes Forced Online by COVID-19

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‘Let Yourself Off the Hook’: Advice for Teachers and Parents During COVID-19

264

How Librarians Continue Their Work Digitally Even as Coronavirus Closes Libraries

265

Bonus Episode: Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. How Can Professors Manage?

266

How Education is Becoming the Front Lines for Debating the Role of Algorithms

267

Bonus Episode: Healing the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis

268

What Does Inclusive Teaching Look Like?

269

Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

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How ‘Dialogue’ Can Create Empathy in a Divided Classroom

271

Why Talking About ‘Screen Time’ Is the Wrong Conversation

272

A Case For Educational Innovation Without ‘Disruption’

273

Students Today Are Learning All The Time. Can Schools Keep Up?

274

How Stretching to Pay for College Is Altering Middle Class Life

275

Can Teaching 'Hope' Revive Democracy?

276

When a Homecoming Video Raises Questions About Campus Diversity

277

Encore Episode: How Far Parents Will Go to Save on College

278

Teaching Students How to Live a Good Life

279

Why Music Education Is More Than Learning How to Play

280

A Podcast for Every Discipline? The Rise of Educational Audio

281

When College Becomes a Benefit of Employment

282

How Algorithms are Changing Low-Wage Work

283

Many Frustrated Teachers Say It’s Not Burnout—It’s Demoralization

284

The Latest Innovation in Student Retention at Colleges: 'Food Scholarships'

285

What Happened to the '$100 Laptop' Project?

286

Speed Demons: How Quantum Computing Could Change Education

287

An Astronaut’s Guide to Culturally Responsive Teaching

288

A ’Golden Age’ of Teaching and Learning at Colleges?

289

The Internet Can Be a Force for Good. Here’s How.

290

Can a Sitcom Teach Philosophy? Meet a Scholar Advising 'The Good Place'

291

The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy

292

Bonus Episode: How Choosing College is Like Buying a Milkshake

293

The Fight to Preserve African-American History

294

A Bored Student Hacked His School's Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

295

Satirical Takes on Higher Ed and Why They Matter

296

Forget the Scientific Method — Why We May Be Teaching Science All Wrong

297

The New Jim Code? Race and Discriminatory Design

298

Can Anyone Be an Inventor? Why MIT’s Invention Education Officer Says Yes

299

Mixed Reactions to the Latest College Admissions Scandal

300

How to Bring ‘Mastery Learning’ to the Classroom

301

What 6 Million Syllabi Reveal About Higher Education

302

Bonus Episode: When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse

303

Sal Khan: Test Prep Is ’the Last Thing We Want to Be’

304

What Impact Investing Means in Education

305

Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’ High School Drop-Out.

306

Higher Ed Has Become an 'Entrepreneurial and Philanthropic Wild West’

307

What It’s Like Navigating the Strictest Student Privacy Law in the Country

308

Can Work Be Dignified in an Automated World?

309

Transgender Students Are Still at Risk, But Schools Can Help

310

Bonus Episode: No Difference Between Public and For-Profit Higher Ed?

311

Inside a Student’s Hunt for His Own Learning Data

312

Better Representation in Artificial Intelligence Starts Early

313

How Goddard's New President Hopes to Save the Struggling Experimental College

314

Why Social-Emotional Learning Is Suddenly in the Spotlight

315

Adult Students Have Moved Into the Mainstream. How Can Colleges Adjust?

316

Teachable Moments Part 4: What We Learn When We Teach

317

The Fast-Changing and Competitive World of Grad Degrees

318

EXTRA: Is The SAT Secure? What the College Board Is Doing to Respond to the Admissions Scandal

319

Teachable Moments Part 3: Reaching Students Through Technology

320

Why Students Can’t Write — And Why Tech is Part of the Problem

321

Teachable Moments Part 2: Teaching In and Out of the Classroom

322

Working to Bring Diversity to Tech is a ‘Trek for a Lifetime’

323

Teachable Moments Part 1: Seeing Students Differently

324

Why Elementary Schools Should Teach Kids to Play Poker

325

The Evolving Role of Race in Children’s Lit, From ‘Harry Potter’ to ‘The Hate U Give’

326

Much Ado About MOOCs: Where Are We in the Evolution of Online Courses?

327

The Science of Empathy: What Researchers Want Teachers to Know

328

Can Online Education Lower Costs and Improve Quality?

329

Is Teaching an Art or a Science? New Book Takes a Fresh Look at ‘How Humans Learn.’

330

The Professor Who Quit His Tenured Job to Make Podcasts and Lecture Videos

331

How Much Artificial Intelligence Should There Be in the Classroom?

332

As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

333

How To Keep Kids From Being Mean Online

334

How to Move From Digital Substitution to ‘Deeper Learning’

335

This Administrator Helped Shape Tech at Colleges For More Than 40 Years. Here’s His Outlook.

336

How Can School Leaders Personalize Learning? New Book Offers a Guide.

337

How This Famed Chinese Venture Capitalist Thinks AI Will Reshape Teaching

338

What Teaching to the Whole Child Looks Like in Action

339

In China, a Generation Raised by 'Tiger Mothers' Seeks a Softer Approach

340

New Book Looks for 'Timeless' Approach to Rethinking Schools

341

Rethinking the First Two Years of Higher Education

342

Has ‘Shift’ Happened? Revisiting a Viral Video From 2008

343

Is Open Content Enough? Where OER Advocates Say the Movement Must Go Next

344

How Do You Prepare Students for Jobs That Don’t Exist Yet?

345

How to Bring Innovation to Campus Without Cheapening Education

346

Cultural Anthropologist Mimi Ito: Good Intentions Don’t Always Mean Equitable Outcomes in Edtech

347

What Do Edtech and IKEA Have in Common? Persuasive Design.

348

Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom?

349

Can You Teach Good Writing? We Ask One of the Greats, John McPhee

350

Who Does Online Learning Really Serve?

351

How A Podcast-Turned-Startup Is Trying to Get Non-Traditional Students Into Tech

352

‘Prohibition Will Get You Nowhere’: Cory Doctorow’s Message to Schools and Educators

353

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. And They Serve Different Audiences Than First Imagined.

354

The Secret Ingredient that Helps Schools, Educators and Students Learn

355

What Students Want Colleges to Know About How They Learn

356

Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

357

Why One Professor Says We Are ‘Automating Inequality’

358

This Accelerator Seeks To Scale Equity in Schools

359

Venture Capitalist Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College

360

Why Purdue Professors Continue to Protest Purdue’s Purchase of a For-Profit U.

361

What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

362

You Know Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson. Now Meet Comedic Scientist Sophia Shrand.

363

Beyond Tuition: How Innovations in College Affordability Are (or Aren’t) Helping Students

364

The Problem With an 'Engineering Model' of Personalized Learning

365

This Australian University Wants to Rethink the Student Experience

366

To Spark and Scale Innovation in District Schools, ‘Every Day Is Day One’

367

Why the Lumina Foundation Is Betting Big on New Kinds of Credentials

368

The Case For a ‘Networked' College

369

‘They Demonize Us.’ Randi Weingarten Talks Tensions With 'Innovators’ (and Betsy DeVos)

370

How Harvard Is Trying to Update the Extension School for the MOOC Age

371

Why Competency-Based Education Stalled (But Isn’t Finished)

372

How Facebook Can Improve Privacy By Talking More With Academics

373

Angela Duckworth Says Grit Is Not Enough

374

Why Demographic Changes Mean Tough Challenges Ahead for College Leaders

375

Social-Emotional Learning May Be A Limited Solution for Reforming School Discipline

376

Computer Science Degrees and Technology’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle

377

Unpacking Why Some Educators See the Word ‘Equity’ As a Threat

378

VR Could Bring a New Era of Immersive Learning

379

What Schools Could Be—and What Education Investors Get Wrong

380

Why Professors Doubt Education Research

381

'A Deal With the Devil': NPR Reporter Anya Kamenetz On Teaching With 'Addictive Tech' Like Facebook

382

The Rise of ‘Outsider Education’

383

‘Marvel-ous Makers’ Bring Black Panther-Inspired Creations to the Classroom

384

Podcast Extra: Overcoming Barriers to STEM Education

385

The Challenges Of Teaching In The Trump Era

386

An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating a Conservative Industry

387

The Evolving World of Microcredentials

388

Ready Player One: Science Fiction’s Vision for The Future of Education

389

Where the Football Field Is Now a Farm: What an ‘Urban Work College’ Looks Like

390

‘When’ Does Learning Happen Best? Dan Pink on the Secrets to Timing and Education

391

Rebroadcast: What If MOOCs Really Do Revolutionize Education?

392

The Evolution of the New York City Edtech Scene, Empowering Parents, Taxes and Policy

393

How Teaching Using Mindfulness and Growth Mindset Can Backfire

394

An Assembly Line of Coding Students? Tough Questions for the Computer Science Movement

395

In a City Marked By Low Economic Mobility, One University Hopes to Build a ‘Tech Pipeline’

396

From Advocating to Letting Your Nerd Flag Fly, Educators Are Grateful For Lessons From Students

397

Who Controls AI in Higher Ed, And Why It Matters

398

Looking to Bring ‘Civil Discourse’ to Education Debates, Ex Superintendent Turns Editor-and-Chief

399

When Teaching Large Classes, Professors Shouldn’t Try To Put On a Show

400

Pick Your Battles: Edtech Leaders Share Strategies for Engaging in Political Discourse

401

Once Reviled in Education, Wikipedia Now Embraced By Many Professors

402

Facebook and Fake News: Esther Wojcicki On Teaching Digital Journalism in High School

403

In PreparedU, A College President Argues for Mixing Liberal Arts And Workplace Readiness

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What Will It Take to Push the K-12 Maker Movement to Be More Inclusive?

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MIT's Mitch Resnick on What 'Toy Story' Gets Wrong About the Future of Play

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Podcast Extra: Personalized Learning’s Unknowns: Silicon Schools’ Five-Year Journey

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Questioning the Core Assumptions of Personalized Learning with Math Blogger Dan Meyer

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Do the Technophobes and Technophiles Both Need a ‘New Education’?

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Can This MIT Student Entrepreneurship Program Bridge the Israeli-Palestinian Divide?

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A Data Scientist’s Warning About ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’

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With 3D Technology, Special Education Students Can Focus on Content—Not Access

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Why Late Adopters Are Skeptical of Edtech (and How to Get Them on Board)

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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From the Mouths of Virtual School Students—Personalized and Flexible, or Over-Hyped and Isolating?

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What If MOOCs Really Do Revolutionize Education? This Popular Online Professor Thinks They Will

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Girls Who Code CEO Reshma Saujani: Why An 'Hour of Code' Isn’t Enough

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How Childhood Has Changed (And How That Impacts Education)

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Tired Edtech Trends That Teachers Wish Would Retire: From the Floor of ISTE 2017

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Stop Calling College Teachers ‘Professors.’ Try ‘Cognitive Coaches,’ Says Goucher President.

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Radiolab's Jad Abumrad On Creativity, Diversity, and the 'Humanities Crisis'

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What Skills Do Google, Pinterest, and Twitter Employees Think Kids Need To Succeed?

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How Students Running ‘EdSurge Independent’ Say Colleges Should Change

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What Edu Reporters Read: Hechinger, EdWeek, & the Chronicle on Top Stories of 2017

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Why Sara Goldrick-Rab Sees Income Share Agreements As ‘Dangerous’ Trend

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Clint Smith on the Power of Twitter and How We (Often) Fail to Teach About Inequality

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Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1

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Does Tech Support Personalized Learning—or Distract Us From What’s Really Important?

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Why Moodle’s Mastermind, Martin Dougiamas, Still Believes in Edtech After Two Decades

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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

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Reactions to a College Alternative: Debating the Merits of MissionU

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Beware of the Word ‘Flexible’: Architect Danish Kurani on Designing 21st Century Schools

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One University's Approach to Innovation: ‘You Have to Go Slow to Go Fast’

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What Students With Learning Differences Really Want Us to Know: Q&A with Ben Gurewitz

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Why Students Living on Campus Take Online Courses

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Dealing with a 'Culture of Fear'—Administrators on PD in the Age of Blended Learning

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How One University Works to ‘Humanize’ Online Teaching

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How Chicago's PilotED Schools Tackles Trauma, Civics Education, and "Student Identity"

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How One Coding School Hopes to Teach Thousands of Students, Without Professors

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How Middle Schoolers in Tennessee Are Gaining Access to Community College Courses

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President of Achieving the Dream On How Colleges Wrestle With Their Data

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Can Administrators Lead Innovation Without Blended Learning Experience?

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Why U. of Michigan’s President Says Universities Should Work to Transform Teaching

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The Three Lessons U.S. Schools Should Borrow from New Zealand

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Former EdTech Director for Obama Administration Sees Innovation Moving to the States

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What Does a 'Modern Classroom' Look Like—and What Should Educators Leave Behind?

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Want to Teach Kids to Code? Why You Should Focus on the Teachers First

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“A Better Future is Possible”: IDEO’s Sandy Speicher on Design Thinking in Schools

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Jim Shelton of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative on Personalized Learning

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EdSurge Extra: Minerva’s Jonathan Katzman on Making ‘the Best Seminar Possible’

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When Everyone Has Different Definitions of "Student Achievement"

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EdSurge Extra: John Deasy on His LAUSD Superintendency, Mistakes, and Going Forward

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EdSurge Extra: Marco Molinaro Asks, ‘How Do We Maximize Learning?’

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Pitfalls and Triumphs—What I Learned From My Year in Edtech

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EdSurge Extra: Bridget Burns' Call to Edtech Entrepreneurs: 'Start With Empathy'

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Megan Stewart, Unity's Head of Global Education

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The '$1000 Pencil'—Why Edtech Companies Aren’t Pushing the Envelope

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What Data Privacy Laws Should Schools Watch Out for This Year?

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EdSurge Extra: We Don’t Have Resources to Keep Up with Edtech--Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes Q&A

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Empathy, Technology, and How to Reduce School Suspensions by 50%

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Yuta Tonegawa and the Japanese Hour of Code

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What Does a Superintendent Look For in an Edtech Product?

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Is Google Education Threatened By Amazon's Open Content Platform?

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The Edtech Industry Has "Created a Mess"——Q&A with Mike Dorsey and Alan November

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EdSurge Extra: SNHU’s Paul LeBlanc Wants Higher Ed to Back Up Its Claims

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Game Design 101--How University Students Are Getting a Crash Course in Collaboration

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Savannah College's VR Multiplayer Robot Arena Wins E3 College Gaming Competition

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EdSurge Extra: On the Floor of E3 with a Game Design Academy Founder

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Virtual Reality, Cultural Exchange and Empathy: An Interview with Global Nomads' Grace Lau

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How Does an Edtech Company Grow? A Look Inside EdSurge

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Author Paul Tough on Whether Grit Can Be "Taught"

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EdSurge Extra: The Department Of Energy's Cybersecurity Technology at Maker Faire

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Edsurge Extra: The Department of Energy's Supercomputers at Maker Faire

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EdSurge Extra: The Department of Energy's Sensor Technology at Maker Faire

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EdSurge Extra: The Soldering Tent at Maker Faire

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EdSurge Extra: The Baker Family at Maker Faire

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EdSurge Extra: Maker Movement Q&A with MIT's Mitch Resnick

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How Will We Know What U.S. Education is Equitable? Interviews From NVSF Summit 2016

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EdSurge Extra: EdSurge CEO Betsy Corcoran Interviews Edgenuity CEO Sari Factor

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School Segregation is Everyone's Issue, with Hartford Schools' Enid Rey

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What Do Students Think of Technology in the Classroom?

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Ted Mitchell and the Realities of Higher Ed Innovation

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White House Science Fair, Part 2: A Subway Trash Vacuum

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White House Science Fair, Part 1: A Solar Car Charger

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EdSurge Extra, Investor Spotlight: Brigette Lau of Social Capital

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EdSurge Extra, Investor Spotlight: Brian Dixon of Kapor Capital

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EdSurge Extra, Investor Spotlight: Jennifer Carolan of Reach Capital

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Inside Newark's New Initiative to Teach Residents How to Make Mobile Apps

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What it Takes to Turn Around a Rural School

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Can Technology Save the Teaching Profession? Q&A with Barnett Berry

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Mindset Works' Eduardo Briceño: Run a Marathon to Solve the Right Problem

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EdSurge Extra: 'Kid President' Creator Talks Student Voice, Video in the Classroom, and Beyonce

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Reading Rainbow's LeVar Burton on Whether Digital Books Will Replace Print

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Data, Efficacy and Accountability with Former Principal Eric Sheninger at SXSWedu

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The Price of Free

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Can Tech Curb Sexual Assault on College Campuses?

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Larry Cuban on Edtech and the Problem with Venture-Backed Companies

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Is Personalized Learning a Waste of Time, or the Big Answer?

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Our Adaptive Learning Meetup

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The News—January 23-30