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EdSurge Podcast

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Mar 24, 2022 • 1h 24min

Bonus Episode: Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives

The false choice between personal growth or a decent paycheck isn’t serving teenagers well. Young people want more than good livelihoods. They want good lives. On this podcast extra, we bring you the results of a year-long research projects into how to better design college-to-career pathways.
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Mar 22, 2022 • 24min

Zaila Avant-garde Made Spelling Bee History. What Will the 15-Year Old Do Next?

The 15-year old who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee last summer is no stranger to victory, having previously won three Guinness World Records for very non-academic feats. We sat down with Zaila Avant-garde to hear what's next -- and we challenged her to show off her spelling skills on the spot.
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Mar 15, 2022 • 1h 4min

Educators are Demoralized. What's the Way Forward?

Burned out, tired, demoralized, at a breaking point. Spend time with educators these days in K-12 or higher ed and phrases such as these will come up often. For those in classrooms and for school leaders, the challenge is how to meet the many needs of educators during this time—social, emotional, intellectual and ethical.
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Mar 8, 2022 • 41min

What Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and an EdTech Critic Face Off

What happens when a venture capitalist who funds edtech companies faces off with an edtech critic about what role AI should play in education? We found out, in this discussion between professor Neil Selwyn and venture-fund founder Ryan Craig.
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Mar 1, 2022 • 45min

Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6

The Rhodes Scholarship was designed to forge a network of people who would go on to rule the world. So who gets this opportunity? And how is the oldest and best-known graduate scholarship dealing with the legacy of its founder, who used ruthless and racist practices to build the diamond empire that funded the effort?
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Feb 22, 2022 • 39min

Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?

Philosopher and historian of technology Justin E. H. Smith has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from. And he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years — and what tech might be doing to us as learners and thinkers. Understanding that past, he argues, can help make a course correction.
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Feb 15, 2022 • 33min

Educators Have Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse

Even though the metaverse is not really here yet, some educators are already trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in this new, more-immersive internet.
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Feb 8, 2022 • 40min

Who Will Pay for ‘Inclusive Excellence’ at Universities?

There are universities aiming to do top-notch research and serve large numbers of students of color and low-income students. This goal—what some campus leaders call ‘inclusive excellence’—challenges common assumptions about prestige in education. And according to the authors of the book “Broke,” it’s hard to accomplish in a time of reduced state support for public colleges.
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Feb 1, 2022 • 37min

Clay Shirky Wants to Reframe the Conversation About How Colleges Are Changing

Clay Shirky has long been an influential voice on how technology is impacting society. These days the NYU professor has been weighing in on where higher ed is headed, with a newsletter called "The (Continual) Transformation of Higher Education."
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Jan 25, 2022 • 33min

Remote School Meltdowns? A Closer Look at Student Well-Being During the Pandemic

A group of researchers at Harvard have a unique window into student well-being during the pandemic, following a group of a couple thousand families with young children in Massachusetts. They're seeing more behavior issues in kids during remote learning, and they have advice for educators on how to manage shifts back and forth between online and in-person teaching.

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