Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2022
Listeners to the EdSurge Podcast prefer to study brains—and what analysis exhibits can greatest attain and educate them.
Our two hottest episodes of 2022 addressed simply that topic, exploring recent findings in studying science and the way educators can apply them.
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Every January we glance again at what listeners responded to essentially the most prior to now 12 months, and under we rely down the highest 10. The listing consists of some new issues we tried this 12 months, like an episode the place the creator of an investigative EdSurge article learn the function aloud, and an episode recorded in entrance of a dwell viewers as a session on the SXSW EDU convention. Also making the listing was the finale of our narrative Bootstraps sequence, this one exploring the historical past and fairness points of the Rhodes Scholarship.
The psychological well being of college students and educators drew consideration this 12 months in an enormous manner, as colleges and faculties proceed to wrestle as the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic lingers on.
Just like final 12 months, a pair of widespread episodes explored rising applied sciences. While final 12 months the brand new large factor was NFTs, this 12 months it was the metaverse.
We’ll be out with a brand new episode each week, and we hope you’ll make listening a behavior.
10. Guiding Young People Not to Colleges or Careers — But to Good Lives
By Rebecca Koenig
The false alternative between private progress or a good paycheck isn’t serving youngsters nicely. Young individuals need greater than good livelihoods. They need good lives. On this podcast additional, we deliver you the outcomes of a year-long analysis challenge into easy methods to higher design college-to-career pathways.
9. Power, Prestige and the World’s Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6
By Jeffrey R. Young
The Rhodes Scholarship was designed to forge a community of individuals who would go on to rule the world. So who will get this chance? And how is the oldest and best-known graduate scholarship coping with the legacy of its founder, who used ruthless and racist practices to construct the diamond empire that funded the trouble? This was the finale to our Bootstraps sequence on who will get what alternatives in training.
8. Who Will Pay for ‘Inclusive Excellence’ at Universities?
By Rebecca Koenig
There are universities aiming to do top-notch analysis and serve massive numbers of college students of coloration and low-income college students. This aim—what some campus leaders name ‘inclusive excellence’—challenges widespread assumptions about status in training. And in accordance with the authors of the e-book “Broke,” it’s laborious to perform in a time of lowered state assist for public faculties.
7. What Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and an Edtech Critic Face Off
By Jeffrey R. Young
What occurs when a enterprise capitalist who funds edtech firms faces off with an edtech critic about what function AI ought to play in training? We discovered, on this dialogue between professor Neil Selwyn and venture-fund founder Ryan Craig.
6. Educators Have Pointed Advice for Tech Companies Building the Metaverse
By Jeffrey R. Young
Even although the metaverse just isn’t actually right here but, some educators are already attempting to get forward of the curve to assist affect what varieties of training services emerge on this new, more-immersive web.
5. Educators Are Demoralized. What’s the Way Forward?
By Jeffrey R. Young
Burned out, drained, demoralized, at a breaking level. Spend time with educators nowadays in Okay-12 or increased ed and phrases akin to these will come up usually. For these in school rooms and for varsity leaders, the problem is easy methods to meet the various wants of educators throughout this time—social, emotional, mental and moral. This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at SXSW EDU.
4. Remote School Meltdowns? A Closer Look at Student Well-Being During the Pandemic
By Jeffrey R. Young
A bunch of researchers at Harvard University have a novel window into pupil well-being in the course of the pandemic, following a pair thousand households with younger youngsters in Massachusetts. They’re seeing extra habits points in youngsters throughout distant studying, and so they have recommendation for educators on easy methods to handle shifts backwards and forwards between on-line and in-person instructing.
3. Clay Shirky Wants to Reframe the Conversation About How Colleges Are Changing
By Jeffrey R. Young
Clay Shirky has lengthy been an influential voice on how expertise is impacting society. These days the NYU professor has been weighing in on the place increased ed is headed, with a publication referred to as “The (Continual) Transformation of Higher Education.”
2. A New Perspective on ‘Supercharging’ the Brain
By Jeffrey R. Young
An evolutionary biologist who research the physiology of growing older has some shocking recommendation about mind well being. And it has implications for colleges and faculties—and anybody eager about studying.
1. Students Have Different Thinking Speeds and Styles. Inclusive Teaching Means Realizing That
By Jeffrey R. Young
Many classroom environments favor a sure sort of thinker, often the scholars who’re fast to recall a reality when the teacher asks a query. But that’s not the one kind of thoughts, and it’s not even at all times the perfect sort of thoughts for studying, says Barbara Oakley, a professor of engineering at Oakland University who works at translating the newest mind analysis into sensible recommendation for lecturers and learners.
