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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...

Episode 2: Learning Styles and Other Misconceptions

In this episode, I talk to Angela and Marina, elementary school teachers at Queens, New York. We talked about various myths and misconceptions in education, including ...

Episode 1: Preconceptions in Learning

In our debut episode, I talk to Nicole, a graduate student in the speech-language pathologist at Adelphi University about two readings: Chapter Eight from Samuel Arbes...

Episode 0: Podcast Announcement

This podcast is based on readings and discussions from the course Technology and Instructional Design, in Adelphi University's Educational Technology program. New epis...