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In this episode of the show, we continue our exploration of futures in education with eye-opening and thought-provoking insights from David Price, futurist and author of Open: How We'll Work, Live, and Learn in the Future.
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We live in an ever-growing age of big data, metrics and analytics. What are the implications for education? Is there a potential dark side to these metrics? If so, what is it and how might we respond. We explore these and related questions with Dr. Jerry Muller, author of The Tyranny of Metrics.
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In this interview with Karen Myers, we explore the incredible, inspiring, persistent, and incredibly relevant legacy of Fred Rogers.
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In this episode, we learn from Rebecca Winthrop, author of Leapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive. Rebecca is Director at the Center for Universal Education and Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institute. She offers an important global perspective on education innovation that has implications for education in all parts of the world.
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In this episode, Robin Goldberg, Chief Experience Officer at Minerva, talks about the impact and lessons learned since the start of Minerva's inaugural class in 2014. Robin shares insights about incredible student gains in 21st century skills over a student's first eight months at the school, the truly global experience that students get, and the rich and integrated internship experiences that are paired with a classroom experience built upon what they consider the best of learning science. Among other things, Robin offers a few insights from the 2017 MIT Press book, Building the Intentional University: Minerva and the Future of Higher Education.
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In this interview with Stephen Downes, Stephen blends substantive thinking and real-world application of that thinking, giving him a particularly valuable vantage point from which to make sense of the frontiers of education. He the mind behind the OLDaily, a co-creator behind the first connectivist MOOC, and among many other things, a senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada. In this interview, we explore open education, the current limitations of AI and its potential in the future, education trends to watch, and much more.
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John Couch has a long an impressive career that includes being one of early employees at Apple where he served as VP of Software and more recently VP of Education, founder, school leader, and author of the book Rewiring Education. In this interview we touch on pretty much every one of these topics and more, including John sharing the special ingredient that helped Apple flourish and can do the same thing for schools and other organizations.
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In this episode we talk with with Mark Stevenson, author of We Do Things Differently: The Outsiders Rebooting Our World and An Optimist's Tour of the Future. We explore a myriad of topics related to the future of life in an increasingly networked world to specific futures in education. Underlying it is is the pressing question about what we can do to be co-creators of that future.
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In this interview with Megan Cuzzolino we explore the psychology of awe, its implications for science education, and the potential to inform how we approach teaching and learning more broadly.
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In this interview with Dr. David Labaree, Professor of Education at Stanford University, we discuss his newest book, The Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendancy of American Higher Education. Dr. Labaree provides some important historical and sociological context, and sage advice for any current or aspiring education reformer, change agent, or educational innovator.
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In this interview with Amy McGrath, Chief Operating Officer of ASU Prep Digital, we explore the current state of online and virtual learning, personalized learning, learning models that extend beyond standards, how to find top talent for your innovative organization, and much more.
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In this interview with economist Bryan Caplan, we explore his premise that education may be part of the problem when it comes to economic prosperity in society. Among other things, Bryan argues that we should de-fund education and decrease the number of college graduates, all with the goal of increasing economic well-being for more people. Bryan is author of multiple books, including The End of Education, Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money.
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In this interview with Dr. Tim Renick, Vice Provost and Vice President for Enrollment Management and Student Success at Georgia State University, we explore a compelling vision and strategy for removing achievement gaps in higher education through predictive analytics and preemptive student success interventions.
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In this interview with Dr. David Helfand (astrophysicist, author, professor, former President of Quest University), we discuss his book, A Survival Guide to the Misinformation Age. As the conversation continues, we eventually focus on how to actually teach in ways that help students learn and construct knowledge through the design of intentional but exploratory and student-centered learning.
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In this interview with Dr. Stuart Grauer, we learn about the formative influences on his work in education, how he came to found The Grauer School, a compelling vision for creating "pockets of democracy" in our schools, insights from his book, Fearless Teaching, and Stuart's thoughts on the most pressing problems and promising opportunities in contemporary education.
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