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EdSurge Podcast

339 Episodes

25 minutes | 12 hours ago
Teachers Are Going Viral on TikTok. Is That a Good Thing?
Teachers are becoming stars these days on TikTok, that social media platform for sharing short videos. Some of them say the platform serves as a kind of virtual teaching lounge during COVID. But is it a good thing for the teaching profession that classroom instructors are part of a site known for dance crazes, jokes and other irreverent content?
42 minutes | 7 days ago
Lessons from Students and Professors Who Podcasted Their Campus Lives During the Fall Semester
Last semester was historic: the first full term under the shadow of COVID-19, and nobody really knew what to expect or how well various teaching adaptations would work. So what are some lessons from the fall semester? We talked with the professors and students who participated in our Pandemic Campus Diaries podcast series in the fall for their takeaways.
26 minutes | 14 days ago
Are Colleges Partly to Blame for the Riot at the Capitol?
This week we talk with a history professor who thinks that not only can colleges do more to encourage civic education that could prevent future crises like the mob storming the U.S. Capitol last week, but that higher education is partly to blame for last week’s events.
34 minutes | 20 days ago
EdSurge Podcast’s Top Moments of 2020
On this episode we’re going to revisit some of the most memorable moments from our podcast in 2020 -- and some bonus material that we wanted to get on but just didn’t quite fit.
32 minutes | a month ago
How to Redesign Our Educational System for Lifelong Learning
The disruptions in the job market caused by COVID-19 mean colleges and employers will need to rethink the relationship between the workplace and the classroom. That’s according to Michelle Weise, who makes the case in her new book, Long Life Learning.
25 minutes | a month ago
How the Brain ‘Grasps’ New Concepts
Forgetting is a feature, not a bug. That's one of the surprising truths about how the brain works in the new book "Grasp: The Science Transforming How We Learn." We talk with the book's co-author, Sanjay Sarma, a professor and the vice president for open learning at MIT.
46 minutes | a month ago
Online or In Person: Which Choice Aced the Pandemic Semester? Campus Diaries Ep. 8
Some colleges were committed to doing as much in-person teaching and activities as possible this semester, even during this health crisis. While other colleges decided early on to focus attention online and pretty much shutter campus for now. For our series finale of the Pandemic Campus Diaries series, we ask: which decision was the right one for students and professors?
42 minutes | 2 months ago
A Conversation With #EduColor's José Vilson About Inclusive Teaching
How can educators make their teaching more inclusive? For perspective and advice, we recently talked with José Vilson, co-founder and executive director of #EduColor, a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to issues of race and social justice in education and author of “This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education."
35 minutes | 2 months ago
How to Save Public Higher Ed. New Book Makes Case For Rethinking the Value of Colleges
This week's guest, John Warner, has just released a timely book with fresh arguments on how to frame this larger question of who should pay for higher education -- and even how we should think about college’s place in American life. The book is called “Sustainable. Resilient. Free.: The Future of Public Higher Education.”
30 minutes | 2 months ago
‘No-Excuses’ and ‘Progressive’ Schools Are Training New Teachers Very Differently About Race
Residencies are the new trend in teacher education. What are they teaching about race? Victoria Thiesen-Homer, a postdoctoral research fellow at Arizona State University’s School of Social Transformation, embedded herself in a no-excuses and a progressive residency school for her new book, “Learning to Connect: Relationships, Race, and Teacher Education."
25 minutes | 2 months ago
What Lessons Have Emerged From the Pandemic Semester? Campus Diaries Ep. 7
This stressful and disrupted semester is leading professors to rethink how they teach, and helping students learn about themselves. But are there things that will stick even after the health emergency ends? Hear views from six campuses on the latest installment of our Pandemic Campus Diaries series.
24 minutes | 3 months ago
Child Abuse Is Harder to Spot During the Pandemic. What Can Educators Do?
Other than their parents and caregivers, children spend more time with their teachers and school staff than with almost any other adults. So when something is wrong or seems off, educators are often the first to notice. As a result, educators end up detecting a significant number of child-abuse cases each year. But with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic, these situations where trouble might be noticed have disappeared overnight. To get a sense of where this issue stands seven months into the pandemic, EdSurge connected with Bart Klika, chief research and strategy officer at Prevent Child Abuse America
33 minutes | 3 months ago
High Stakes, High Anxiety This Election Day. Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 6
Today is Election Day in the U.S. And for this installment of our Pandemic Campus Diaries series, we are focusing on how the election and social unrest have been playing out on campuses during this pandemic semester. Students seem to be voting this election season like never before. But some professors are struggling to hold productive discussions of political issues in this polarized time.
28 minutes | 3 months ago
Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?
Students these days are distracted. Devices and social-media notifications constantly beckon, and in this time of COVID-19 and widespread remote instruction, the distractions have multiplied. So what are educators to do? EdSurge connected with James Lang, author of the new book "Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It."
31 minutes | 3 months ago
Who Is Missing From College? Pandemic Campus Diaries Ep. 5
This week we’re focusing on who is disappearing from higher education due to the pandemic, and what professors are doing to try to keep students going in these challenging times. It's kind of a mystery story because it's incredibly difficult to determine who is missing when the people involved don't even see each other in the real world, and everyone is so focused on their own socially isolated bubbles.
35 minutes | 3 months ago
Young People Don’t Always Show Up to Vote. Here’s How Education Can Help.
Research shows young citizens are motivated to vote. But they don’t always make it to the polls. Why not? To find out, we interviewed Sunshine Hillygus, political scientist and co-author of the new book “Making Young Voters.” She shares surprising insights about what kind of K-12 and higher education actually influences youth voting behavior. Hint: It’s not civics class.
43 minutes | 4 months ago
No Study Groups and Cheating Concerns. Are Students Learning? Pandemic Campus Diaries, Ep. 4
What is studying like this semester when teaching is strained by safety measures like plexiglass barriers and masks in classrooms and online classes taught by so many professors who are new to the format and clearly struggling to figure out what works. Are students learning?
20 minutes | 4 months ago
The Unusual Lengths School Bands Are Going to Keep Practices Safe, and Why It Matters
Scientists around the country have been teaming up with band educators to test what is and isn’t safe when it comes to music education, and what kind of protective gear or PPE works. We talk to a musician who has worked in so-called clean rooms to measure just what particles come out of various musical instruments.
37 minutes | 4 months ago
During a Pandemic, Can College Be … Fun? Campus Diaries, Ep. 3
Getting the balance between safety and openness right is a continuous challenge during the pandemic. And much has clearly been lost in terms of social interaction this fall. Can colleges find a way to stay open and offer meaningful extracurricular activities?
24 minutes | 4 months ago
Is Learning on Zoom the Same as In Person? Not to Your Brain
At this point the Zoom call has almost come to define learning and working in the age of COVID-19. A few months ago, people began realizing that all these video calls were making them tired—exhausted even—more so than a day of in-person class or all-day meetings. The phenomena even has a name: Zoom fatigue. And it’s backed by some pretty interesting brain science.
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