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TftF 98: Topics On Fire: Episode 5, Education and New Media
I was invited to take part of a round table discussion on Leslie Poston's podcast, Topics on Fire. Leslie moderated a really fun conversation about education and new media, social media and technology with myself, John Herman and E. Christopher Clark. The conversation centered around teaching philosophy, obsticles, and how technology plays into our own personal teaching practice.I think I gained a lot of insight and I had a great time talking with Leslie, John, and Chris. We recorded the po ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 97: Interviewed at Momstyle News Click to Play Recently I was interviewed by Angeline Duran Piotrowski for the Momstyle News podcast. We discussed reluctant readers and about how to motivate children to read. Momstyle News is a great resource and news site for parents educators of any gender. I had a lot of fun doing the interview, and you can find the original interview here on Momstylenews.com.
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TftF 96: Our Friends in the News Click to Play China Says 6 Americans Detained Over Protest Could Be Held 10 Days from the Washington Post5 Americans Are Arrested for Protest in Beijing from theNYTimes.comWhile I was away at Camp Fatima it turns out that friend of the show and former guest Brian Conley of SmallWorldNews.com was amoung 10 Americans detained in Beijing by Chinese Police. Brian was documenting a protest and was deported along with another videoblogger and 8 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 95: On the Road Again Click to Play "Oh, You Doll! Tweens Embrace American Girls" by CARRIE STETLER from The Star-Ledger "The e-mail trail: Electronic messages can come back to bite the hand that typed them" by J. SCOTT ORR from the Star-Ledger "Officials suspect pregnancy pact" from Associated Press via the Baltimore Sun **UPDATE**I found this while looking up the above links I found the below story on the Baltimore Sun's website."Mayor: No support for claim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 94: YouTube in the Classroom (pt. 4) Suggested Viewing Click to Play For the last few episodes we have been discussing YouTube in theory, almost at a distance. I have even read some comments on blogs like 7 Inch Cinema saying that I'm being a little abstract. To fix this, today we are going to be looking at some YouTube videos for kids. I will admit that YouTube was definitely not designed for kids and teachers. I know that YouTube filters content, but often I find that I'm too young ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 93: YouTube in the Classroom (pt. 3) with Dr. Scott McLeod Click to Play In this episode I interview Dr. Scott McLeod. Scott is the coordinator of the Educational Administration program at Iowa State University and director of the UCEA Center for the Advanced Study of Technology Leadership in Education (CASTLE). You may be more familiar with Scott's work on his blog, DangerouslyIrrelevant.org, where he discusses education and technology from the perspective of administrators and teachers. Though ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 92: YouTube in the Classroom (part 2) with Vanessa Van Petten Click to Play During a session at PodCamp NYC 2 led by Christine Cavalier, I had a revelation about the way we look at YouTube. Christine's session was all about "how to raise kids in this digital world" and there were a lot of interesting ideas brought up. Christine talked a lot about becoming digitally literate so that we can speak to the digital natives in our lives. She also drew a lot from ELL education, and made the cas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 91: YouTube in the Classroom Click to Play In this episode we begin our discussion about the role of YouTube in our culture effects the k-12 classroom. YouTube allows us to have a great deal of engaging content easily accessible. Though not all of the videos are "classroom ready", YouTube is becoming a valuable resource to teachers, students, and learners of all ages. YouTube in not just for consuming content, and a vibrant community of content creators and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 90: Reaching Reluctant Readers (part2) Click to Play In this we continue our two part series on reluctant readers. We talk about the many new approaches teachers, administrators, and librarians are using to get young people to read. In this episode we talk about some of the approaches teachers, librarians, and parents are taking to reach out to reluctant readers. We discuss the use of audio books, graphic novels, and alternative young adult literature. If you are interested i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 89: Reaching Reluctant Readers Click to Play In this episode we begin the first episode of our two part series on reluctant readers. We talk about the many new approaches teachers, administrators, and librarians are using to get young people to read. In this episode we talk about some of the controversy over some of the tactics being used to entice young people to spend more time in the library. Also I talk to Mike Mole` as part of our new 'Better Know a Listener Seri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 88: Thank you Click to Play This is just a quick podcast that I did to let you know that I'm working hard in the studio on a few new podcasts. The first is a discussion dealing with literacy with a focus on reluctant readers. I am also working on an episode that addresses the present and the future of YouTube in the K-12 classroom.I'm going to start a segment that features a different member of the audience each week called "Better Know a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 87: Our Schools are a Hot Mess Click to Play In an article in the January/Febuary issue of the Atlantic Monthly entitled "First, Kill all the School Boards", Matt Miller tries to save American education. In the article Miller explains how centralizing all education in the spirit of Horrace Mann would turn around public education. Miller looks at funding, curriculum reform, and No Child Left Behind.What can be done to yield the proficiency standards we have been payin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Teaching for the Future 86Cuffed Kid (and Parents) to Sue City for $15 Million from The Gothamist:Last month, a Queens kindergartener was handcuffed after a temper tantrum at PS 81, prompting his parents to threaten a lawsuit. Now a lawyer representing Dennis Rivera and his parents reveals they are filing a notice of claim against the city for $15 million.Mind the Gap. It's a high-speed, high-def, Wi-Fi world. But not for everybody. from NEAToday:From the article: “According to Pew Research, there are still 30 mi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Teaching for the Future 85 Click to Play More Time for Math and Reading Equals Less for Other Subjects by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo from Education Week:From the Article: "Most of the nations elementary schools have added at least 75 minutes of instruction time in reading and mathematics each weekand often twice that amountin the five years since the enactment of the No Child Left Behind Act, but many did so by skimming that time from the teaching of science, social s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 84: Financial Aid Shake Down/Give Away Your OLPCFinancial Aid Shake Down: How the US Congress is trying to take away your child's financial aid.LINKS:Boing BoingHugh McGuireNews.comDemocrats in the Congress have introduced a bill that will force colleges and universities to crack down on file sharing. The bill introduces stiff penalties on colleges who do not fight file sharing in two ways. By reducing federal financial aid and by push schools to subsidize student accounts to music subscription services. Some equate these penalties to p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 83: Screenwriters on Strike/Call to ActionScreenwriters on Strike Over Stake in New Media from NYTIMES.comHollywood writers are now officially on strike over issues surrounding how the revenues from new media and repurposed media will be shared with writers. This is more than just a strike over workers rights and compensation, this is a large part of the main stream media refusing to produce content.Highlights from the article:"[C]ompanies were prepared to use alternative programming like reality shows, reruns and movies to fill br ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 82: PodCamp Boston 2 Click to Play News: PODCAMP BOSTON 2: PodCamp was a lot of fun and I know that I am going to need to get it out of my system before I can move on. There are a few things that happened at PodCamp that I think directly relate to my practice here at Teaching for the Future. Here's what happened:I met Neil Gorman.I complained about the nerds on Wikipedia with Andrea Mercado.I met teen podcaster Kabren Levinson and found out that kids and adults are equally clueless a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 81: A Facebook Emergency! PodCampEDU! There is a new PodCamp unconference devoted to the use of new media and education called PodCampEDU. PodCampEDU will be held at American University in Washington DC on November 10, 2007 from 9:00am - 5:00pm. From the PodCampEDU site:"You do NOT need to be a podcaster to attend a PodCamp. If you're interested in podcasting or blogging, if you're a podsafe musician (or want to be), or just someone curious about podcasting and new media, then please join us -- and bring a friend ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 80: Back to School Special New Facebook Group: Facebook Group PodCamp Boston 2: PodCamp Boston 2 Online/Journal Plagiarism: Anatomy of a Plagiarism by Hildy Gottlieb from Help 4 NonProfits (Thanks to Angeles Berman and Tara Yeats)http://www.copyscape.com/ The Future of Work Will Richardson discusses in his blog an article in Business Week that discusses future trends in the employment market. Quick poll on 21st century education The John Moravec at Education Futures polled a group of educatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 79: Cheating in the ClassroomPart 1: Introduction: The point of new technology is to make tasks easier. Computers replace typewriters, which replaced the printing press, which replaced the monastery of monks illuminating Bibles. But there ease goes too far and our actions become cheating? As teachers, educators, administrators, and parents it is part of our job to draw these lines in our communities, schools, and classrooms. Today we are going to focus on how the way we cheat is changing because of our new technology a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 78: Free Culture with Elizabeth StarkClick To PlayI spoke with Elizabeth Stark who is a Law Student at Harvard Law and a member of Harvard Free Culture. She talked to me about her experience as a student activist and about Harvard Free Culture. We talk about the importance of the free exchange of ideas and the role that intellectual property plays in our society.Transcript: Coming Soon.If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 77: High Stakes TestingClick To Play Part 1: IntroductionIn a world where viable careers in manufacturing and service are being exported out of the United States, American students are having to compete more with students form other countries. Not since the Cold War has the education of our children (big or small) has been so important for the social and economic security of our nation. But now in an effort to track our students' progress we are teaching our students to the test? With education initiative like NC ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 76: Teaching for the Future 1.9Mp3News:São Paulo: The City That Said No To Advertising from Buisnessweek.com: I has been a year since the No Advertising initiative in São Paulo was signed into law and it seems to be working out well. The lack of ads has allowed residents to really appreciate the city in a way they were never able to do ever before. I wish Boston or New York would try something like this, imagine what we might be missing.Superintendent’s Speech Stirs Talk of Plagiarism NYTimes.com: The now former Supe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 75: Wiki for the Future!NEWS:Honk for peace' case tests limits on free speech from the San Francisco Chronicle: Deboarrah Mayer is a former elementary school teacher who was fired for expressing her views about the war in Iraq in the classroom. It turns out that teachers are not protected by the first amendment in the classroom, and this article also gives other examples of teachers who have been fired. Trashed: Much left behind at colleges from Boston.com: College students are leaving more stuff behind at school ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 74: An Interview with Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz from JETSET ShowToday's episode is an interview I did with Zadi Diaz and Steve Woolf who are the creators and the producers of the JETSET Show. They talked to for my thesis research and I had a great time talking with them and I wanted to share this interview with you. If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com. Tags: Dav ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 73: The Role of Handheld Tech in SchoolsNEWS:Lousy test question for fourth graders from BoingBoing: Mark from Boing Boing was helping his daughter prepare for a standardized test when he came across this question. If I had handed in this question in an assessment class I would have been in trouble. It's questions like this that make kids and teachers so stressed out about these tests."Sara wants to measure how much applesauce she made this fall. If she uses metric, which unit should she use?A) gramB) literC) kilogramD) centime ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 72: What not to do with your MySpaceNEWS: In Memory of Chris Essex: One of my favorite podcasters and technology educators, Chris Essex, has passed away recently. If you have ever listened to Teach with Tech you know how insightful and helpful he was.In lieu of flowers, an award scholarship will be established in his name at the IU School of Education. Please send donations to the IU School of Education Staff Council, c/o Patty Mitchell, IU School of Education, 201 Rose Ave., Bloomington, IN 47405. 91.2% of Class Time in Thei ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 71: Tragedy in VirginaMy thoughts and my condolences go out to everyone who was effected by the recent tragedy at Virgina Tech.NOTES:VA Tech Questions: from Boing BoingSurvivor Talks Describes Incident: from WiredSad Day at Virgina Tech, Facebook: from NetscapeLoren Coleman on the VTech ShootingVTech Memorials on the Facebook. If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a comment on the homepage or link to us on your blog or podcast. If you want to get in touch, feel free to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 70: Recursivity of the InternetI am happy to announce that today marks the first anniversary of the Teaching for the Future Podcast. Today's episode I'm going to reflect on my year about podcasting about education and how a lot of the issues we talk about here are recursive and seem to keep popping up. Thanks to Chris Penn for the Intro.NEWS:I had death threats in high school by Chris Pirillo: Do unchecked bullies grow up to be unchecked bullies?Dude's Cyber Girlfriend Actually a Dude from DailyGaming.net: I think this i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 69: Video News Releases, an Interview with Diane FarsettaClick to Play Today's episode is an interview that I did with Diane Farsetta who is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Media and Democracy. She sat down to talk to me about Video News Releases and her work with PRWatch.org. She explains the impact of these fake news reports on both local media and media ethics. UPCOMING:Teaching for the Future's Podast-iversary is coming up on April 4th. It's been a great year so far, but on April 4th we'll talk more about what is in store fo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 68: What Can Dave Do For You?NEWS:Schools test Edugaming in Classroom from Joystiq: This is not a new issue and we have been talking about the pedagogy of video games. I'm just glad to see the video game industry is taking notice of this gap in the market. I'd love to see some of the innovation in gaming be applied to educational games.On Hit Lists, Anger Finds an Outlet from the NYTimes.com: Though school violence is down, student created hit lists are on the rise. Though some may consider these harmless many schools ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 67: What is Education?Welcome Soft Reset Listeners, I hope you strike podcast gold with Teaching for the FutureNews:Conservapedia is like Wikipedia, but without all of the Liberals from Wired News: The Conservapedia is a new wiki-based encyclopedia that was created to get away from a perceived liberal bias in the Wikipedia. This is an interesting article about the new site and the reaction from the online media.YouTube for Contract Negotiations from Weblogg-ed: This is an interesting video of a group of teachers ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 66: The Medium is the MessageNews:The End is NEAR from TechLearning.com: As an artist the medium is always part of the message, but what if your medium is a Pringle? David Jakes talks about all the new ways we are getting information. He talks about a bunch of interesting online and off-line ways of spreading a message. This could be an interesting article to work into a lesson about different kinds of literacy. It would be interesting to ask your students how the message changes when it is a YouTube video, on a po ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 65: Always Save! Click to Play News: Whitney Hoffman on Podcast411: I'm really excited to see Whitney Hoffman did an interview with Rob from Podcast 411. Whitney hosts and produces the LD Podcast. The LD Podcast deals with issues of kids and adults with learning disabilities and special needs. I've talked about her show and it is one of the best shows that deals with issues of accessibility and inclusion. Whitney is a rockstar when it comes to accessibility issues. Steve Jobs, Proud ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Beyond Broadcast 2007 Opening Panel: Participatory Culture moderator: Jesse Walker, Managing Editor, Reason MagazineArin Crumley, Four Eyed MonstersKenny Miller, Executive VP and Creative Director, MTV Global Digital Media TeamElizabeth Osder, Senior Director, Product Development, Yahoo! Media GroupThis video was from the firstpanel of the Beyond Broadcast2007 Conference at MIT.This is a clip from the first panel discussion from Beyond Broadcast 2007. The panel was moderated by Jesse Walker and included Elizabeth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF 64: The Politics of EducationToday's episode was originally going to be my way of prepping myself for Beyond Broadcast 2007. I could not get this show out before my conference, but a lot of my ideas still remain the same. The conference was a way for academics and the media to get together and discuss the changing nature of communication and the role of new media. A lot of the conference dealt with ideas of Participatory Culture and participatory democracy. How can we use new media and social networking as a tool ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF Ep. 63: Portabliblity Education News:Does Public Relations Equal Propaganda? from Ed Lee: Ed blogs over at Blogging Me Blogging You, where he talks about social media and marketing. He points out an interesting YouTube video from a group called PR Watch. It's interesting and really well done and asks a lot of interesting questions.Americans Devoting More Time to Media from VOA News: from the article:"This year, the average American will spend 3,518 hours (nearly five months) watching TV, surfing the Internet, listenin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF Ep. 62: Media Literacy of the Saddam ExecutionDisclaimer: This podcast reflects my impressions and my opinions based on my own research. If you disagree I urge you to leave a comment and tell me what I missed. I don't want to edit anything out, but it's my name all over this website and anything offensive is subject to removal. Anything offensive can be emailed to me at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com.We are all very aware that the media is an important part of our everyday lives. In our face or in our ears the media is everywhere. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF Ep. 61: Cheating 2.0We've had an interesting week or so and there are some things that I have not had a chance to mention on the podcast.To kick off Black History Month we were all able to see the first Black football coach to win a Super Bowl. Though it is strange that we've only devoted a month to celebrate the history of African Americans, I think the best way to celebrate is to break as much ground as possible. I'd also want to mention the first female president of Harvard was chosen this week as well.Sc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
TftF Ep. 60: Alive in BaghdadThis episode is an interview I did with Brian Connelly of Alive in Baghdad. We talked about the impact of the Saddam execution video, iraqslogger.com, and what's in store for the future for Alive in Baghdad and Small World News.Upcoming:I'll be talking with media literacy educator and author Frank W. Baker. Frank runs the Media Literacy Clearing House, which is one of the best online media literacy resources for K-12 educators.If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 59: New Media LiteracyWhat is Media Literacy?Media literacy is the process of thinking critically about the media and looking for clues to putting the information into a wider context. This means giving students the tools they need to spot ambiguity and misleading information to allow them to better understand their world. The goal is to allow students to be more aware of the messages they are given so that they can produce their own content.Media literacy is a skill that we need to develop in young people. As t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 58: Lesley Technology Institute Part 2Part 2 of 2. I was one of the student panelists at Lesley University's Technology Institute. We discussed social networking and it's role in the lives of students. The beginning explanation is being done by Rebecca Petersen who is the head of the Center of Academic Technology at Lesley University.Don't forget toDigg meon Digg.com's new Podcast section! It is a great way to get the word out about the show.If you want to help out or participate with Teaching for the Future you can leave a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 57: Lesley Technology Institute Part 1I was one of the student panelists at Lesley University's Technology Institute. We discussed social networking and it's role in the lives of students. The beginning explanation is being done by Rebecca Petersen who is the head of the Center of Academic Technology at Lesley University. This is first part of two podcasts of this event.Don't forget toDigg meon Digg.com's new Podcast section! It is a great way to get the word out about the show.If you want to help out or participate with T ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 56: State of the Union and Guns in SchoolsNews:The Daily Show - Guns in School:I found this wonderful clip on YouTube and I wanted to share it with you. We talked about messures and legislation being developed to allow teachers to carry guns in schools duringEpisode 48.This clip deals with some of what we were talking about and brings up a new "innovation" that uses textbooks as sheilds. David Truss left an interesting comment on Episode 48 that I do not think the Daily Show chose not to focus on."An angry kid that brings a weapon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 55: Email is for Old PeopleNews:Google Opens Dialog with Book Publishers from CNET News: Google hosts their "Unbound" event to convince book publishers that they are not their enemy. Though there has been a lot of debate over Google's efforts to digitize text and create a printed text search engine, I think that ebooks make a lot of sense. During the resent episode of Boing Boing Boing editors Cory Doctorow and Mark Faurenfelder discussed ebooks as both readers and content creators. Faurenfelder talked about the u ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 54: How Connecting Effects ConversationToday's episode was recorded with my new iTalk. It's an attachment that allows me to record with my video iPod. I'm still experimenting with it, but so far so good.Now that I'm using my digital still camera to do the video and the iTalk for audio I feel like I have covered all of my podcasting needs. With that in mind I'm going to be donating my old video/audio recorder to Alive In Baghdad. If you have any digital equipment you would like to donate, let Brian know because Alive In Baghd ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep.53: Julien SmithNews:Listen To Your Kids is a new project from one of my favorite podcasters, Julien Smith. Julien does a hip hop podcast where he discusses topics that he is thinking about and dealing with in his own life. I began listening to his show, In Over Your Head, after I came back from PodCamp Boston. Listen To Your Kids is a website/podcast where kids of any age can say what they are afraid to say. The project was designed to start a dialog between kids and parents that all to often never ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ep. 52 Listen to your Kids
I created this episode as a way to promote an interview I did with Julien Smith about his new site Listen To Your Kids. I like the video format, but I still have a lot of work to do. So far so good, but feel free to tell me what you think in the comments.
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Episode 50: Children Still Are Not Tiny Adults
I'm excited to have finally reached episode 50. Thank you for all of your help and your support over these few months. Also expect to see a new video post during the week around Tuesday or Wednesday. I got a chance to go to the Boston Media Makers meeting in Jamaica Plain. You should definitely check out the Meeting Report. I'd expect to hear some of my audio from that meeting over the next few weeks.
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