Today’s show is the kickoff to our math theme in Modern Learners community. We’ll be exploring our beliefs about math education. We’ll look at what’s working, what’s not, and what’s possible! Considering the impact that machine learning and AI are having on the world, it’s important we start to consider how these fields will impact

It’s hard to believe that we’re entering the holiday season already here in the US. It’s a couple of days before Thanksgiving and the real insanity is about to begin. And most of that insanity stems from the multi-billion dollar month-long war for capturing our attention. You don’t even have to turn on the television

Welcome to the fourth and final episode in my month-long exploration of “power” in schools. I don’t know about you, but I found all of these conversations fascinating in terms of how much the power relationships we have in schools impact the experience that kids have, and the extent to which we are functionally unaware

This is our third podcast on the theme of power, and when you think about both the good and the bad aspects of technology and the Internet and social media over the last decade, it’s hard not to conclude that like it or not, the individual has much more power in her hands today than

http://media.blubrry.com/modernlearners/content.blubrry.com/modernlearners/Sylvia_74_final.mp3 We’re in our second week of exploring power and power relationships in schools which is a topic that I don’t think we reflect on nearly enough in schools. (Here’s the first “power” podcast with Rob Fried.) There’s an inherent tension when it comes to learning and power, namely how much power do you as

So it’s a new month, and that means a new theme for our conversations, and it’s a theme I’ve been looking forward to diving into, namely “power” and the ways in which power relationships basically define the schools we’re in. Power is not something we often talk explicitly about in schools. It’s a complex dynamic