Trending In Ed with Mike Palmer

Dr. Jason Baehr is a Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He is also the Co-Founder of the Intellectual Virtues Academy (IVA), a charter middle school in Long Beach California founded in 2013. He is the author of Deep In Thought: A Practical Guide to Teaching for Intellectual Virtues which is discussed in this episode.Jason joins host Mike Palmer in an exploration of intellectual virtues. What are they? Why are they important? And how can we teach them? We touch on values epistemology and draw from the practical experiences of teachers delivering the program at IVA to portray a vision of what helps make teaching a noble profession. We make connections to realms beyond middle school that benefit from the pursuit of intellectual virtues as we reinforce the value of a North Star and purpose in teaching to elevate the conversation about the noble profession. We hope you enjoy!Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great content.

Mike Tringe, the Co-Founder and CEO of CreatorUp, returns to Trending in Ed, this time with CreatorUp COO Nick Almond and Jason Palmer, General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners. The trio engages with host Mike Palmer in a free-flowing conversation about the latest news and trends in the world of learning media. CreatorUp is a video marketplace platform with deep expertise in designing for education and training. New Markets Venture Partners recently led a $5M Series A Funding Round for CreatorUp.We get into why video is essential to making learning compelling in today's digital universe. Jason shares his thinking about an emerging wave of Learning 3.0 in which he sees CreatorUp playing a key role. We explore how the needs of educators and learners are transforming in these tumultuous times and how platforms are emerging to empower things like next-level video production. Each guest shares his perspectives on the trends and opportunities emerging with video and interactive media.It's a cutting-edge foray into the rising megatrend of video and rich learning media. You don't want to miss it.Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great content.

Madeleine Mortimore is a researcher who serves as the Global Education Innovation and Research Lead at Logitech. She studied at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and has worked in various areas of EdTech as an international educator, an innovator at the MIT Teaching and Learning Lab, a strategist associated with one of the largest online high schools in the U.S., and she also launched an EdTech startup at the Harvard Innovation Lab.Madeleine joins host Mike Palmer to discuss the research she has recently conducted on remote learning and how to optimize EdTech to create a healthy learning environment for students. We hear her advice on pursuing a career as a learning professional as she shares what it's been like doing research into one-to-one computing where each student has a device enabled for use in the classroom. Whether it's the importance of audio and acoustics, or the role of live webcams to build connection, accountability, and trust, we explore what's new and emerging in the design of flexible learning environments in a fun and cutting edge conversation you won't want to miss.You can find links to more of Maddie's research below: Logitech Education Center Hybrid Learning Solutions Classroom of the Now Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this.

Dr. Fathali Moghaddam is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Georgetown University and a faculty fellow at the Berkley Center. His expertise includes culture and intergroup conflict, with a particular focus on the psychology of globalization, radicalization, human rights and duties, and terrorism. You can learn more about his work here.Fathali joins host Mike Palmer on this episode and begins by sharing how his work as an Iranian-born social psychologist was transformed by the revolution and hostage situation in Iran in 1979. He tells how he drove to Tehran from England and spent the ensuing years studying social psychology within the regime of Khomeini. There he learned of the contexts in which dictators can assume power and this has been a strand of his research ever since.We explore his belief that it is the role of educators to ensure we protect and nurture democracy by developing psychological citizens. In a wide-ranging conversation touching on the themes and seminal works of Dr. Moghaddam's career, we also hear what drove him to write his latest book about Shakespeare and the importance of extending beyond narrow specializations to adopt broader, more interdisciplinary mindsets. We conclude with notes on the current state of higher education and the psychology of bureaucracy.It's a profound and insightful conversation that you won't want to miss. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this!

Alicia Levi is the President and CEO of Reading Is Fundamental. She has an impressive background in educational media with stints at Discovery Communications and PBS Education prior to assuming her current role at RIF in 2016.Alicia joins host Mike Palmer to talk about the challenge of getting every child to read. We hear the latest about the Rally to Read 100 Books by March 2nd while engaging in a wide-ranging conversation on literacy and literacy education. We talk about the critical importance of reading as a foundation to educational success. While it may not be as sexy as STEM or coding, reading is in fact fundamental to building those other skills. And Allison believes it should also be fun. We discuss the challenges of screen time and hear Alicia’s broad and platform-agnostic stance on the on engaging children in reading. And of course, there’s plenty of LeVar Burton talk along the way. We hope you enjoy!Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this.

As we kick off our 6th season of Trending in Ed, host Mike Palmer is joined once again by Nancy, our virtual cohost to begin to a get sense of where our heads are at heading into the Back to School season that is upon us now in the Fall of 2021. Mike shares his perspective as the parent of a toddler who is just starting in Universal 3K in New York City before we dive into the Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technology 2021 getting Nancy's takes throughout.What is emerging under the broader themes of Engineering Trust, Accelerating Growth, and Sculpting Change outlined in the latest edition of the hype cycle? And how does the technology that powers Nancy factor into the conversation? We do a bit of a lightning round run through the buzzword lingo of the report and reserve the right to revisit it with other voices again in the future.Then we get in our quick takes on Amazon's announcement that it will be providing access to free college to its employees and on the recent merger between Blackboard and Anthology that is shaking things up in the world of EdTech before wrapping things up. Listen in for an information-rich exploration of new trends and emerging technologies that will impact the world of learning in years to come. Join us in the conversation on Twitter and LinkedIn.We're excited (and a little bit nervous) to lean into the new school year and the new season of Trending in Education. We're very happy to have you along for the ride.Subscribe to Trending in Ed wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great content like this!

Justin Serrano is the Founder and CEO of Littera Education, a platform that enables K12 school districts to provide high-quality 1-on-1 and small group tutoring for every student that needs it. In this episode, Justin joins host Mike Palmer to dive into new and emerging trends in tutoring.Justin begins by describing what led him to found Littera and why the timing is right to leverage technology to enable a scalable solution to provide high dosage, effective tutoring particularly for students who traditionally have been unable to access it. He sites Brown’s Annenberg Tutoring Initiative as a foundation for how Littera is helping to build tutoring programs that meet frequently and during school hours with students who need it the most. Littera makes it easier for school districts to establish and measure the effectiveness of their tutoring program and allows for the tutoring to be well-integrated with in-class teaching.As we delve into emerging trends in tutoring, Justin anticipates a heightened focus on early reading and high school math as key areas where tutoring can provide the most impact. We touch on the impact of the pandemic and the stimulus package and even reminisce about playing basketball for the Kaplan Scorelords basketball team back in the day. In all, it’s an illuminating deep-dive into the world of edtech and tutoring that you won’t want to miss.Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd com for more great shows like this.

Joanna Smith is the CEO and founder of AllHere, an edtech company improving attendance and student success with mobile messaging powered by AI. Before founding AllHere, she taught middle school mathematics and served as Director of Family Engagement at a charter school in Boston.Joanna joins Mike Palmer to talk about the problem of low student attendance in K12 and how she and team are building AllHere to create a scalable way to begin to address it. What’s the best way to design an ecosystem that is available 24/7 and allows its teachers to focus on the highest-yield human activities? How has the pandemic impacted this problem? How did the team at AllHere listen to the community to respond quickly to needs around food insecurity? In what other ways might chatbots help improve educational experiences for students and families?We cover all of this and learn where Joanna gets inspiration outside of the world of education. We also hear her advice for educators and potential entrepreneurs in an engaging and informative conversation that kicks off the sixth season of Trending in Ed.If you’re enjoying what you’re hearing, subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great content like this!

In this special episode of Trending in Ed, Mike Palmer interviews Corey Dolgon from a conference room in Freedom Tower while the Annual Conference for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) is taking place virtually. Corey is the outgoing President of SSSP. We explore the themes of the conference while getting into what it is like to shift from designing an in-person conference to doing one online.Corey shares his perspectives on the opportunities and challenges of the revolutionary moment we're living through and argues for a deeper awareness of the history of social research and its ties to global social justice movements as we attempt to effect change. He also cites his book Kill It to Save It while referencing the predominance of a corporate mindset in higher education as the core unquestionable ideology in play--one that he hopes young scholars will continue to challenge.It's a provocative conversation that concludes our fifth season of Trending in Education. Thanks for coming along for the ride. Be on the lookout for the launch of Season 6 in the coming weeks.Subscribe to Trending in Ed wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this.

Continuing our exploration of the New Normal for conferences in the Summer of 2021, Jenna Spinelle returns to the show to join host Mike Palmer to recount her experience attending Podcast Movement in Tennessee earlier this month. Jenna is one of the hosts of the Democracy Works podcast and the Founder of the Democracy Group network of civically-minded podcasts.Jenna shares what the experience was like traveling to the conference and attending it live before we dig into her takeaways from the experience. What are some new and emerging trends in podcasting to keep an eye on as we lean into both near and far horizons? How should we think about audience development for indie podcasts and how does that interact with the increasing corporatization of the medium? As podcasts become increasingly narrow in their focus, how do we break out of filter bubbles to engage in genuine discourse and new discovery?We cover all of this and even explore the power of JOMO in a thought-provoking conversation that you won't want to miss.Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more great shows like this.