Episode 29: Remote Teaching and Learning in Japan

In this season's finale, I talk to Jonathan (@jonathandehaan) and James (@cheapshot), who are professors in Japan teaching English language. Confronted with the challe...

Episode 28: Remote/Online Learning for International Students

Clara and Aaron talk to two international students, Grace and Yan, about their experiences with remote/online learning. Both of them are taking courses that have had t...

Episode 27: Protips for New Online Instructors

In this episode, we chat with Nafiza, alumni of our Educational Technology program, and now working as Educational Technology Specialist at Teachers College, Columbia ...

Episode 26: Taking Advantage of the Learning and Writing Centers

Our guest this week is Brandon Dove, the Coordinator of Virtual Campus and Online Services at the Learning and Writing Centers. Brandon discusses what these centers ar...

Episode 25: Peers and Community in Remote Learning

Our guests are Professor Matthew Wright, chair and professor of Adelphi's physics department, and two of his students, Carissa and Ravyn. We focus on the importance of...

Episode 24: Going Rogue with Social-Emotional Learning

Aaron and Clara are joined by Adelphi University professors Devin Thornburg, Ionas Sapountzis and Lisa Minicozzi on the topic of social-emotional learning (SEL) in thi...

Episode 23: Clara Responds: Designing Online Interactions

After listening to all the case study analyses from the students in my Technology and Instructional Design class, Professor Clara Bauler returns to share her thoughts ...

Episode 22: How Has Your Life Changed as a Result of Remote Learning?

In this episode, Clara and Aaron talk to Ming, a professor at Adelphi University, Paige, a student at Adelphi and a teacher, and Diego, an eighth grade student. Clara,...

Episode 21: Students Respond to Clara's Case Study

In last week's episode, Professor Clara Bauler presented a case study for my students to respond to. This week, the students have listened to the episode and provided ...

Episode 20: An Audio Case Study With Clara Bauler

Our first episode of Season Three is a conversation between Aaron and one of the new co-hosts, Professor Clara Bauler. In this discussion, we talk about how we think o...

Season 3 Announcement: Back with changes!

Episode 19: Rubrics, Social Media and the Future of the Conversation

In our season finale, Brooke and Krissy join the podcast to discuss rubric, feedback, and using social media for teaching. Our readings were Chapter 8 from Wiggins and...

Episode 18: Successful Failure

This week, Jeanell and Shannon join me to talk about productive failure, a topic that has recurred in our in-class discussions on embracing failure. We picked articles...

Episode 17: The Uber Question (as in "overarching")

For this episode, Christine and I started with a chapter from Warren Berger's "A More Beautiful Question". The chapter was "Why We Stop Questioning." After that we dis...

Bonus Episode: Kill Your Darlings (with Ryan Sobeck)

In this bonus episode, I talk to Ryan Sobeck, an alumni of the educational technology program at Adelphi University and currently an instructional design at the Facult...

Episode 16: Understanding Understanding

Yi-Hsin (Novia) and Shannon join the Conversation to talk about what it means to understanding something. Our readings are: Chapters 2 and 4 from Wiggins and McTighe's...

Episode 15: When Kids Ask "Why?"

In this episode, I talk to Brandon, who is a musician, about how experts and novices learn, and what constitutes being an expert, especially in the field of music. Our...

Episode 14: Learning in the Brain

In this episode, I talk to Tanja, back again from the first episode, and Xingyue, an international student from China. We discuss what happens to the brain when learni...

Episode 13: No Such Thing As Learning Styles

Welcome back to Season Two! This week, Tanya and I discuss misconceptions in education, most notably learning styles, as well as others such as digital natives, multit...

Season 2 Announcement: We're back!

We are back for Season 2! A special thanks to Brandon Dove for composing the music!