We’re in our second week of exploring power and power relationships in schools which is a topic that I don’t think we reflect on nearly enough in schools. (Here’s the first “power” podcast with Rob Fried.) There’s an inherent tension when it comes to learning and power, namely how much power do you as a …
#74 – The Power of Learners with Sylvia Martinez Read More »
So it’s a new month, and that means a new theme for our conversations, and it’s a theme I’ve been looking forward to diving into, namely “power” and the ways in which power relationships basically define the schools we’re in. Power is not something we often talk explicitly about in schools. It’s a complex dynamic …
This is the fourth and final episode in our exploration of the theme community this month, and I want to say from the start, that this conversation you’re about to hear on equity, community, and culture has been one that I’ve been struggling with recently. There are many challenges and tensions that we face in …
#72 – Equity, Culture, and Community with Tricia Ebarvia Read More »
So in case you may be new to the pod, each month we take on a different theme from four different angles, and this week, we’re looking at our theme of community through our third lens, that of classroom practice. As in what would the classroom look like if the community itself was the curriculum? …
#71 – Community as the Curriculum with Dave Cormier Read More »
Welcome to our second podcast on the theme of “community.” While the web has been around for about 25 years now, learning on the Internet really started way before the web was even in development. For those of us old enough to remember the days of computer modems and online bulletin boards, if you had …
It’s a new month as we turn into September 2019 and that means a new theme for our podcasts and for our conversations in MLC, our Modern Learners Community. Podcastwise, I’m a little sad that our dive into the theme of Story in August is over. What I’ve learned is that we tell stories in …
This is the fourth and final podcast in our series on the theme of “story,” and I hope you’ve enjoyed listening to them as much as I’ve enjoyed recording them. As many of my guests have expressed, we are in between stories in education, and this is both a challenging and exciting time for us …
#68 – Talking About Race, Culture, and Identity with Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi Read More »
If you listened two our previous two podcasts on the topic of “story” I think you’ll agree that we educators are at an interesting spot when it comes to the way we think and talk about education and schooling moving forward. The old story that you have to be somewhere at a particular time with …
#67 – Creating a New Story of Learning With Mary Anne Moran and John Clements Read More »
All this month in the community we’re talking about the theme of story, how the story of school and education is changing, and what we need to do to help create a new story for teaching and learning moving forward. And so along those lines, in this week’s podcast I interview long time blogger, author, …
#66 – Futurist Bryan Alexander: Stories of Change Read More »
Each month our Modern Learners Community (MLC) , we take on specific theme, and in August, our theme is “story.” As in what is the current story of learning we are telling in our schools, how is that story changing, and what might the new story be? And so to kick things off this month, …
Unpleasant Truth about Education #47: Kids learn more deeply in school when participating in extracurriculars than they do when being taught in classrooms. That’s one of the many provocative conclusions drawn by authors Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine in their book In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School. It’s …
For over 30 years, Gary Stager has been at the forefront of those arguing for a more constructionist approach to learning. In this podcast, he discusses the power and importance of letting students experience learning by doing in every interaction with school. Gary has been greatly influenced by the work of Jean Piaget, Seymour Papert, …
#63 – Gary Stager: “The Project Can Replace the Instruction” Read More »
A lot of schools tout a “global curriculum,” but not many can say that they have a truly global campus. But that’s what “Avenues: The World School” is building. With physical campuses in New York City and Sao Paulo, a Shenzen, China opening this fall, schools developing in Miami, Silicon Valley, London, and Mumbai, and …
Is it possible to create a different school experience? Given the chance to do things really differently in your school, what would you do? That’s the opportunity that Peter Wieczorek has as the director of Northwest Passage High School in Coon Rapids, MN, a public charter school that is pushing the envelope when it comes …
What if diversity is NOT the goal? That’s the question that our two guests dive into in this our 60th episode. Bruce and I chat with with Homa Tavangar and Eric Dozier who are collaborators at the Oneness Lab where they “seek to discover, learn and live models of cohesion and unity, toward building a …
