Podcast: Larry Berger on EdTech Past and Future
[…] Fellow, Berger worked for Dan Goldin at NASA planning for what they called “Children’s lanes on the information superhighway.” In 2000, when there were a few desktops in the back of classrooms for playing Oregon Trail and logging Accelerated Reader points, Berger and Greg Gunn co-founded ed-tech pioneer Wireless Generation. They set out to automate teacher […]
Suneel Gupta on BACKABLE: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You
Thanks to Screencastify for supporting this episode of the podcast. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom sits down with author and entrepreneur Suneel Gupta to discuss his new book BACKABLE: The Surprising Truth Behind What Makes People Take a Chance on You. Suneel Gupta is the co-founder of Rise and teaches […]
Fred Dust on Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication
[…] going to pass it to you. What are some things you don’t want me to touch? What do you want to work on? Then pass the power back to me.” He also advised to not have conversations when you are hungry or tired and made the case for paying more attention to indigenous texts, […]
Town Hall Recap: What On Earth is a Metaverse?
[…] with limited consequences. The metaverse will belong to the rich…think elysium but virtually lower tier tech, add-ons and virtual assets will be reflective of the funds that back/access them Privacy Issues. We already have privacy concerns whenever we surf the web. Tracking your move online may become more invasive in a metaverse environment. Finding […]
Ed Hess on Adapting to the Speed of Change
Tom Vander Ark is joined by Ed Hess to talk hyper-learning — one of the new demands of the 21st-Century workforce.
Town Hall Recap: New Pathways
[…] arrogant, God, forgive me, but this is what I need to say. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one […]
In Conversation: Louka Parry and Tom Vander Ark
[…] which we recommend you check out for more conversations about the future of learning. How do we individuate as much as possible for one purpose… to contribute back into the collective? Louka Parry Links: About Louka The Learning Future Podcast Salzburg Global Seminar Thomas Homer-Dixon on Commanding Hope and the Nature of Complexity Podcast […]
Erika Giampietro and Destiny Egbuta on the Massachusetts Early College Promise
[…] job I feel confident in — as a nurse, anesthetist and possibly a future pursuing medical school and a family and doing something where I can get back to the education system. A big part of being able to do that is having a college degree, which I am so happy I got the […]
Town Hall Recap: Ed3
In this Getting Smart Town Hall, we covered the transition from Web1 to Web3 and what that means for education, specifically.
Mike Magee on The Innovation of Minerva University
[…] of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the Walton Foundation, the New Pathways campaign will question education’s status quo and propose new methods of giving students a chance to experience success in […]
