16:1 - Education, Teaching, & Learning

No Child Left Behind was the dominant topic in educational policy circles for much of the early and mid 2000s. The legislation, enacted by Congress under the G.W. Bush administration, created a chaotic tangle of testing, accountability, credentialing, and training for public school educators in the United States. Join Kate and Chelsea as they discuss the lasting legacy of NCLB.Sources:AP News - "Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district" NBC News - "Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers" By Mike HixenbaughWikipedia - No Child Left BehindWikipedia - Every Student Succeeds ActNPR - "No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn't" by Cory TurnerUnderstood - "What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?" by By Andrew M.I. Lee, JDVox - "The scariest lesson of No Child Left Behind" by Libby NelsonThe Washington Post - "‘No Child Left Behind’ has failed" by Lily Eskelsen García and Otha ThorntonThe Washington Post - "Are states really trying to overcome the harmful legacy of No Child Left Behind?" by Valerie Strauss 

Welcome to Episode 50! Thanks for joining us for a milestone episode. We are celebrating our big 5-0 by bringing on our very first guest, Risha Allen, who is something of an expert in banned books. When we dreamed up the list of possible show topics for 16:1 several years ago, banned books was one of the first things we discussed, and we are happy that we saved it for this special guest! If you don't know Risha Allen, you can find her on Instagram at @rishaallen and as Tiktok's Music Teacher at @rishdishfish. Risha is a National Board Certified educator who is spending her 15th year of teaching doing something she's never done before: teaching music! Prior to teaching music at the elementary level, Risha developed her mastery teaching high school English in three different states (Kentucky, Ohio, and North Dakota). Her relationship to banned books? Well... it involves young adult literature, a bit of witchcraft, and a LOT of committees. Listen to find out why Risha is southeastern Kentucky's most notorious leader of literature circles! Join Katie and Chelsea as they get to hear Risha's never-before-told story of censorship, the power of social media, and the lasting gifts of falling in love with reading.Content note: discussions of sexual assault and other adult content are included in this episode.Authors Mentioned:Laurie Halse AndersonChris CrutcherJo KnowlesIrving RothSheri ReynoldsNikki Giovanni Sources:Banned Books WeekAmerican Library Association - List of America's Libraries 2021 Special Report: Covid - 19NBC News - "Book bans in schools are catching fire. Black authors say uproar isn’t about students." by Tat Bellamy-WalkerPEN America - The Freedom to Write20 Thousand Hertz - Aural ExamThe Book Loft - "Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" by Susan QuinnReading Partners - "The little-known history of banned books in the United States" By Ally BushThe New York Times - "Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?" by Alan FlippenTiktok - @mndiaye_97

Welcome to the first episode of 2022! This week everyone gets to learn a new word: autodidacticism! Episode 49 discusses being your own teacher and methods for teaching yourself. In Chelsea's case, most of her career exists thanks to self-teaching. Meanwhile, Katie struggled to figure out what she has ever taught herself (if anything). Your hosts break the big news about our 50th episode and the very first guest we will ever have on our show, Risha Allen! As always, please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on whatever platform you use to listen!Learning From Autodidacts by Pat Galagan99% Invisible - Built on SandAnnapolis Makerspace

Welcome and thanks for listening to episode 48, The Disappearing Internet! This episode deals with the ephemeral nature of the internet and the lasting impacts of losing websites, software, and other pieces of technology (and the content that is associated with them) over time. While it may seem natural for the internet to grow and evolve, we seldom contemplate the lost of our social, political, cultural, and creative history on the web. How does the internet disappear, and who is doing the work to archive and preserve all of the ridiculous Tweets and blog posts we create? From the demise of Yahoo Answers and Xanga to preservation efforts headed up by The Internet Archive and the Library of Congress, Katie and Chelsea discuss the vanishing content that you don't miss until it's gone forever. Friendly reminder, we are taking the next episode off for Christmas and family time. Please take some time this Holiday season to take care of yourself! We will see you in January!The Million Dollar HomepageThe Internet ArchiveNPR - "Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet" by Laurel WamsleyBBC - "Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9m" By Justin HarperFast Company - "Parts of the web are disappearing every day. Here’s how to save Internet history" By Kayla Harris AND Christina Beis AND Stephanie ShrefflerThe New York Times - "Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down" By Daniel VictorVideo Game History FoundationWikipedia - DiscordPolygon - "Video game archivists celebrate new victory in preservation of abandoned games (update)" By Allergra FrankElectronic Frontier FoundationInternet Archive - Software LibraryBBC - "Why there’s so little left of the early internet" By Stephen DowlingThe Verge - "Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration" By Jon Porterhow is prangent formed - YouTube/Yahoo Answers meme videoCreative Bloq - The Evolution of Twitter's LogoIna Garten's Real Margarita Recipe

This week's episode delves deep into the field of educational psychology. Behaviorism, neuroscience, information processing-- we're serving as your guides as we walk through the textbook highlights. Katie learns about the family trees of President George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II, and Chelsea shares about having fun with Unity.Psychology Discussion Net - Gestalt Theory of Learning (With Objections)Wikipedia - Psychology of LearningWikipedia - Jean PiagetWikipedia - B. F. SkinnerFrontiers in Psychology - Why Educational Neuroscience Needs Educational and School Psychology to Effectively Translate Neuroscience to Educational Practice by Gabrielle WilcoxMarian University Indianapolis - The Three Disciplines of Educational NeuroscienceThe Social Cognitive Theory - Boston University School of Public Health - Wayne W. LaMorte, MD, PhD, MPH

Episode 46! This week the hosts discuss popular science and science literacy. Chelsea tackles the history of popular science, the conduit through which the general public receives information about scientific advancements. Katie covers a few pop sci figures of the 1990s and declares her love and admiration of Lily Tomlin as Miss Frizzle. Your hosts cover the challenges faced by journalists who cover topics of popular science, the impact of digital media on skepticism and relativism in narratives involving science, and the ways that science fiction can encourage science literacy. Chelsea and Katie bring it home for Fill in the Blank, when Katie reveals answers about her favorite Grand Teton animal, Grizzly Bear 399!Wikipedia - Popular ScienceWikipedia - Bill NyeWikipedia - The Magic School BusWikipedia - Jack Hanna's Animal AdventuresProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - "(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world"The Crazy True Story of the Zanesville Zoo Escape

This week on 16:1, the hosts follow the money in an in-depth analysis of the sources of (and strings attached to) public school funding in the United States. Learn about the competing funding formulas that are occasionally unconstitutional, the levies that might greet you at the ballot box, and the struggles that state departments of education face to balance budgets. Since last episode, Chelsea has spent some time learning about arts and crafts, and Kate has become familiar with an unusual bear.Sources:Understanding Levies, Ohio School Boards AssociationThe Next 400: School funding system ruled unconstitutional 4 times, failing students in poor rural, urban areasOhio Budget Bill - Fordham InstituteThe Cutest Bear

Another week, another episode of 16:1! This episode is all about Assistive Technology and what that can look like in a classroom. Your hosts discuss the myths and misconceptions surrounding assistive technology. Katie talks about what assistive technology looks like in her classroom and the ways that is sometimes appears without even intentionally preparing for it. Chelsea and Katie share about what they have learned over the past two weeks, including how to mod a video game and the realities of the justice system.IRIS Center - Assistive TechnologyEdTech - "Using Assistive Technology to Empower Students with Disabilities" by Micah CasteloWired - "The Internet Is for Everyone, Right? Not With a Screen Reader" by Arielle PardesWikipedia - Perkins School for the Blind

On this episode of 16:1, your hosts tackle propaganda! Chelsea and Katie talk about the types of propaganda and enjoy a friendly debate regarding whether propaganda is a good, bad, or neutral-valued term. Katie shares about how she teaches propaganda during her Holocaust unit and gives listeners a few ideas about how lessons concerning propaganda and propagandistic devices can be taught and incorporated into the classroom. In what we learned this week, Chelsea discusses how she has been creating music, and Katie fangirls over Come From Away, her new emotional support musical.Wikipedia - PropagandaPsychology Today - "The Con of Propaganda" by Noam Shpancer Ph.D.Psychology Discussion - "Propaganda: Meaning, Definition and Need"Harvard EdCast: Propaganda Education for a Digital AgeMotioncue - 11 Types of Propaganda Techniques in Advertising (With Examples)

Content note: This episode discusses gun violence and death. This week, the hosts tackle the gun violence epidemic in the United States and its intersection with schools and college campuses across the country. From Columbine to Sandy Hook to Virginia Tech, from lockdown drills and evacuations to gun control legislation, we're discussing our nation's track record and contemplating what students and teachers do to prepare for the worst. Join us as we review our sobering history and lean forward to #MarchForOurLives.