Future Learning Design Podcast

Laura Eigbrecht and Professor Ulf-Daniel Ehlers discuss creating the university of the future, emphasizing future skills and transformative education. Topics cover decentralized community-centered hubs, radical ideas like eliminating grading systems, and reimagining education through a global perspective.

Dave Cormier, author of 'Learning in a Time of Abundance', discusses the impact of technology on learning. Topics include community-based learning, dangers of social media, serendipity, information overload, and embracing humility in the 21st century.

Dr. Emily Meadows, LGBTQ+ consultant, talks about creating inclusive spaces in schools for all students, especially LGBTQ+. Topics include addressing biases, promoting dialogue, defining terms like liberation and equity, and fostering belonging through connections and policies in educational settings.

Prof. Guy Claxton discusses the mind-body split in education, advocating for 're-membering' our learning bodies. They explore the balance between traditional and progressive teaching methods. The conversation delves into embracing uncertainty and active inference in education, emphasizing the interconnectedness between mind and body for optimal learning. Finally, they discuss the motivation behind young people's reckless behaviors as a search for 'aliveness', advocating for wholesome ways to achieve vitality.

Designer turned educator, Kiran Bir Sethi, shares insights on empowering children through design-led education. She discusses her journey from graphic designer to social entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of cultivating an 'I CAN Mindset.' Topics include shifting from problem-solving to solution discovery, structuring values in education, and the significance of reflection and prototyping for sustainable change.

Guests from Rethinking Assessment and Mastery Transcript Consortium discuss the future of assessment, focusing on competency-based education, project-based qualifications, strengths-based assessments, and the shift towards personalized learning. They also explore challenges in assessment practices, transformative education models, and the importance of learner profiles and motivations for educational transformation.

Guest Kevin Simpson, founder of AIELOC, discusses combating discrimination in education, addressing white supremacy culture, centering indigenous voices, empowering radical dreaming, and initiatives of the Anti-Discrimination Task Force.

Trevor Mackenzie, an expert in inquiry-based learning, discusses teacher dispositions, question routines, and levels of structure in education. He emphasizes the importance of curiosity, humility, and cultural aspects. The podcast explores transforming educational ideas into action, balancing teaching responsibilities, and enhancing education through question routines and embodied learning.

Dr. Laura Desirèe Di Paolo, a cognitive scientist, challenges the narrow focus on memory in education discussions. She explores the active inference of our mind-brain-bodies and advocates for a more holistic approach to learning. The podcast discusses redefining education, learning through 'aha moments,' epistemic actions, adaptation to errors, balancing prediction error, and embracing embodied learning in early education.

Eric Dozier (https://www.ericdozier.com/) is not only an incredible musician and, as he calls himself, itinerant blues preacher, but also a cultural activist and anti-racism educator.  We talk about the power of music as a social force that brings people together to learn, builds community and holds space for transformation, in particular in Eric’s critical work challenging white supremacy culture and racial injustice. Eric is former musical director for the World Famous Harlem Gospel Choir and the award winning Children’s Theatre Company of NYC, co-founder and former National Director of Arts and Education for One Human Family Music Workshops, Inc., an organization devoted to eradicating discrimination by ‘Uniting the World.. One Song at a Time"; and one-half of the duo Moanin' Sons, which develops a creative context, through music, to address racial inequality. Through his insightful lyrical stylings, soulful melodies, and interactive workshops, he continues to dedicate his musical, spiritual, and intellectual talents to welding the hearts and minds of a divided humanity into one loving fellowship. Eric is also the co-founder of the Oneness Lab with Homa Tavangar a previous guest on the podcast (https://www.onenesslab.com/). And the co-composer of ‘Henry Box Brown - A Musical' a music about the true story of Henry Box Brown, an 1850’s enslaved Virginia man who shipped himself to freedom in a box with the help of African American and white abolitionists. Hopefully soon to be opening on Broadway!: https://www.henryboxbrownthemusical.com/ In this episode you can hear Eric perform his stunning song 'Cotton and the Cross' that he wrote, with Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show. Social Links Instagram: @ericdozier - https://www.instagram.com/ericdozier/ LinkedIn: @ericdozier - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericdozier/