Getting Smart Podcast | Google’s Jaime Casap on Inequity and Inquiry
Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google, shares more about inquiry-based learning, technology in education, bridging the digital divide and how a boy who grew up on welfare in Hell's Kitchen was able to beat the odds and succeed.
Getting Smart Podcast | Zoran Popovic on Accelerated Learning with Smart Tools
In this episode of the podcast, Zoran Popovic, Director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, chats about computer science, gaming, virtual reality and how we can help today's students be successful using artificial intelligence.
Getting Smart Podcast | Teach to One: Inventing the Future of Math Learning
In 2007, Joel Rose conceived an idea for an innovative, blended way to teach middle school math. Today, it has spread to over 40 schools reaching 13,000 students. Here, Tom talks to Joel about the program and where it's headed.
Getting Smart Podcast | Special Ed Teacher to White House Tech Advisor
In this podcast, Tom chats with Seth Andrew, who shares insights gained in his journey from teaching special education, to founding an ambitious school network serving 5000 students, to becoming a White House Tech Advisor.
Getting Smart Podcast | McGraw’s Stephen Laster on the Path Forward for EdTech
McGraw-Hill Education is a leader in adaptive learning. In this podcast, Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer at McGraw, discusses the "Platform Revolution" in technology and his predictions for what's next in EdTech.
Getting Smart Podcast | Two EdLeaders on Global, High-Quality PBL
In this episode of the podcast, Rody Boonchouy and Brandon Wiley from the Buck Institute for Education discuss the importance of global, high-quality PBL in the future of education.
Getting Smart Podcast | Project Based Engineering at Olin College
In this episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Tom and Bonnie discuss how project-based learning is more important than ever for students to succeed and share an interview with Olin College of Engineering students who experience project-based engineering.
Getting Smart Podcast | The Voices of Tomorrow’s Leaders
Student leaders at this year's iNACOL's Symposium shared how they reimagined and personalized their own educations to overcome many challenges in their lives and succeed in school.
Getting Smart Podcast | Big Picture Learning in the Real World
Andrew Frishman, co-executive director of Big Picture Learning, chats with Tom in this episode of our podcast about what educating "one student at a time" means in real terms in schools across the United States.
Getting Smart Podcast | Experiencing Place-Based Education at Teton Science Schools
I had the opportunity to spend two days in the beautiful Teton Mountain range experiencing my own place-based learning at Teton Science Schools. Join me on this "audio field trip" for your own place-based experience.