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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...
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!
Episode 12: We Close At The Open
In our season finale, Emily from Episode 7 returns to discuss an article about "Alexis Wiggins," a high school learning coach who, after 14 years of teaching, was aske...
Episode 11: The Big Picture
This week, I am joined by Danielle to discuss the design process, cross-disciplinary essential questions, and other big picture guidelines from Wiggins and McTighe. Ou...
Episode 10: "Let's all love math"
This week, Alessia joins me to discuss ways to design good, engaging units, using guidelines from Wiggins and McTighe. Our readings were Chapters 9 and 10 of Wiggins a...
Episode 9: The Six Facets of Understanding
This week, I am joined by Xuemeng and Wendy, students from China and Taiwan, respectively, to discuss the six facets of understanding described by Wiggins and McTighe....
Episode 8: Assessments, the Future School, and the Mysterious Finnish Team
In this episode, Kelly returns to join Brianna to talk about assessments. We start the conversation reflecting on the future school and its implications on the teachin...
Episode 7: Standards and Essential Questions
Welcome back from Spring Break! In this episode, Emily and Shahee join me as we begin to think about instructional design using backwards design by Wiggins and McTighe...
Episode 6: Universal Design
In this episode, I am joined by Kelly and Candice to talk about Universal Design for Learning, or UDL. We talk about all the challenges of using UDL in K-12 and higher...
Episode 5: Models of Technology Integration
In this episode, Brittany returns to talk about models of technology integration that can inform our decisions on what technologies to use for teaching and learning. W...
Episode 4: Experts and Expert Learners
In this episode, I talk to Brittany, a math teacher, about how experts learn and what implications that has on how we teach. We discuss the important differences in ho...
Episode 3: Brain Matters
In this episode, I talk to Jonathan, who teaches math and STEM in Brooklyn, and Jennifer, who is a media specialist in Florida. We discuss what neuroscience tells us a...