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EdSurge Podcast

462 Episodes

52 minutes | Jun 6, 2023
Why Schools Should Teach Philosophy, Even to Little Kids
It’s important to nurture philosophical thinking in kids throughout school and college. So argues a philosophy professor who wrote a book that highlights the natural tendencies of kids to think like philosophers. When big, important questions arise, he says, parents and educators should treat kids like conversational equals.
31 minutes | May 30, 2023
How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement (Encore Episode)
Professors are finding that they can’t just go back to teaching as they did before the pandemic and expect the same result. It takes more these days to hold student attention, and convince them to show up. Check out part two of our series reported from the back of large lecture classes to see how teaching is changing.
43 minutes | May 23, 2023
Will AI Chatbots Boost Efforts to Make Scholarly Articles Free?
For decades, proponents of open access scholarship have worked to make the research in scholarly journals freely readable to all. Will this moment of AI chatbots accelerate the effort?
32 minutes | May 16, 2023
How a Viral Video Sparked an Ongoing Discussion of Police in Schools
In 2015, a video went viral showing a white school resource officer violently flipping over a Black student in her desk and dragging her across the room before arresting her. It sparked a lawsuit against a vague South Carolina law that brings the criminal justice system into schools for minor offenses, and a nationwide discussion about systemic racism in school policing.
51 minutes | May 9, 2023
Is It Time to Rethink the Traditional Grading System?
A growing number of educators are wondering whether the grading system is hindering students rather than helping them learn. A new book explores alternative methods of marking papers in ways that encourage students to continually revise their work rather than quibble over which letter grade they deserve.
44 minutes | May 2, 2023
The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.' (Encore Episode)
Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted. Where did this idea come from? The answer goes back more than a 100 years, to a once-famous scholar named Lewis Terman. And it turns out his legacy, and the future of gifted programs, are still very much under debate.
45 minutes | Apr 25, 2023
Why All Teachers Need Training in Mental Health and Social Work
These days teachers need some basic training in a number of fields, including mental health and social work, to be effective in the classroom, argues Stephanie Malia Krauss, author of a new book about the importance of teaching holistically in this time of pandemic and social unrest.
28 minutes | Apr 18, 2023
What Does Gen Z Want From Education?
With every new generation of students there’s an effort to understand what’s different about them, and what motivates them as they enter society and the workforce. For Gen Z, a key factor is their skills in organizing on social media and interest in working across traditional partisan divides on issues like gun control, environmental protection and racial justice, argues Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who calls them the “solidarity generation.”
46 minutes | Apr 11, 2023
Did Liberal Arts Colleges Miss a Chance to Become More Inclusive After the Pandemic?
Two longtime professors hoped the pandemic would reset the small liberal arts colleges where they taught. So they wrote a book-length manifesto laying out a vision for making the colleges more accessible — and true engines of social mobility. Three years into the pandemic, they reflect on how that’s going.
46 minutes | Apr 4, 2023
Is Improving Reading Instruction a Matter of Civil Rights?
A new documentary called 'The Right to Read' follows an educator and activist pushing to require schools to offer reading instruction that has been proven effective, calling it a matter of civil rights. But the main character in the film started out reluctant to participate. Here’s why, and what he hopes comes of the film.
38 minutes | Mar 28, 2023
An Inside Look at the ‘Student Disengagement Crisis’ (Encore Episode)
EdSurge visited large lecture classes to get a sense of what college feels like now that COVID is more under control after years of pandemic disruptions. Students and professors say that years of remote instruction—often referred to as ‘Zoom University’—has left many students more likely to get distracted by their devices, or to place less value on class, thinking they can get whatever is happening in classrooms on their own.
42 minutes | Mar 21, 2023
Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT
Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we talk with one of those experts, and others who are seeking to build guardrails to help educators successfully adapt to the latest AI technology.
62 minutes | Mar 14, 2023
Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science
Experts have described this as a 'golden age' of discovery in the area of learning science, with new insights emerging regularly on how humans learn. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights?
33 minutes | Mar 7, 2023
What Traditional Colleges Can Learn From a Free Online University
A free-tuition online institution called University of the People has grown into a mega-college. Its founder and president says other colleges can learn from the model to drastically cut their costs.
32 minutes | Feb 28, 2023
Do Active-Shooter Drills in Schools Do More Harm Than Good?
Active-shooter drills are now common at schools and colleges. But the sometimes-intense simulations can be traumatic for some children, and some parents are asking to let their students opt out of the experiences.
43 minutes | Feb 21, 2023
Why All of Us Could Use a Lesson In ‘Thinking 101’
Human brains are wired to think in ways that often lead to biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.
45 minutes | Feb 14, 2023
Joyce Carol Oates On Teaching Creative Writing
The acclaimed author has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. Maybe, she allows, it’s “like a chess grandmaster might play chess with a really brilliant 12-year-old and come close to losing — the experience is somehow pleasant in itself.”
34 minutes | Feb 7, 2023
How Hollywood Stereotypes About Teachers Stifle Learning
Romanticized depictions of teaching in popular culture fail to capture the way teaching actually works — and they create an unattainable model that stifles the impact of teachers and professors, argues Jessamyn Neuhaus, who teaches courses about popular culture runs the Center of Teaching Excellence at the SUNY Plattsburgh.
46 minutes | Jan 31, 2023
Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them
Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.
30 minutes | Jan 24, 2023
ChatGPT Has Colleges in Emergency Mode to Shield Academic Integrity
Many professors are expressing frustration and even “terror” over ChatGPT, the latest AI tool that students may be using to write their papers for them. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.
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