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Service Learning, Social Movements and Community Engagement with Dr. Corey Dolgon

April 12, 2021April 12, 2021 Trending in Education Community Engagement, Corey Dolgon, Service Learning, Soical Movements

Dr. Corey Dolgon is a Professor of Sociology at Stonehill College. He’s an expert in several areas of sociology and service learning and is the author of five books, including The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in American’s Paradise (2005) and Kill it to Save it: An Autopsy of Capitalism’s triumph Over Democracy (2017). He recently edited The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement.

Corey joins Mike Palmer to talk about the history of service learning and social movements in America.

Book cover: The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety

Workforce Skills

Psychological Safety and the Importance of Culture with Dr. Timothy Clark

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 Trending in Education Leadership, psychological safety, Timothy Clark

Dr. Timothy R. Clark is founder and CEO of LeaderFactor, a training, consulting, coaching, and assessment organization that focuses on leadership development, organizational change, strategic agility, psychological safety, and emotional intelligence. He is the developer of the EQometer assessment and The 4 Stages of Psychological Safety training program.

Tim joins Mike Palmer to talk about the role psychological safety plays in developing strong cultures. He walks us through the four stages of psychological safety and helps us understand how we can begin to build vibrant cultures that model and reward vulnerability.

Learning

Making a Robot that Hugs with Alexis Block

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Trending in Education Alexis Block, HuggieBot, Max Planck Institute, robots

Alexis Block is a PhD Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems. She’s also the creator of HuggieBot and now HuggieBot 2.0 which have allowed her to do groundbreaking research in Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

Learning

Active Learning Online with Author Dr. Stephen Kosslyn

April 5, 2021April 5, 2021 Trending in Education Active Learning, Active Learning Online, dual coding, Stephen Kosslyn

Dr. Stephen Kosslyn returns to the show to dive into the topics covered in his new book Active Learning Online with Mike Palmer. What does deep processing really mean and how can its power be unlocked for learning? How do chunking and associations relate to how we learn? What is the dual coding principle and how should instructional designers tap into it to ensure their lessons stick in the minds of their learners?

EdTech

Building Virtual Reality Learning Experiences with Steve Grubbs

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021 Trending in Education 3D, Steve Grubbs, virtual reality

Steve Grubbs is the Founder of Victory XR, a company that specializes in using Virtual Reality to make compelling learning experiences. Steve joins Mike and begins by telling how he has stayed connected to education and technology in different capacities through his professional life before zeroing in on the work he’s been doing of late. Whether it’s building a VR simulation of the march across the Pettis Bridge in Selma or exploring anatomy, history or astronomy, Steve walks us through various ways in which 3D VR experiences are more emotionally resonant and in many cases more effective than their 2D alternatives.

Education

Kids Need to Play This Summer with Dr. Nicholas Tampio

March 31, 2021March 31, 2021 Trending in Education Fordham University, K12, Nicholas Tampio, play

Dr. Nicholas Tampio is a Professor of Political Science at Fordham University who recently wrote an opinion piece for the Washington Post about the importance of play in K12 education as we begin to plan for the summer.

Learning

Building a Makerspace for Kids’ Learning with Cara Lesser

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 Trending in Education Cara Lesser, KID Museum, kids, maker, makerspace

Mike is joined by Cara Lesser. CEO and Founder of the KID Museum in Bethesda, Maryland. Cara starts by describing how she transitioned from working on healthcare policy to growing interested in education as her children entered school. Inspired by the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, she sought to create an institution dedicated to what she felt was lacking in her children’s education: creative, hands-on problem-solving.

Workforce Skills

The Leadership Balancing Act with Author Andy Temte

March 29, 2021March 29, 2021 Trending in Education Andrew Temte, Kaplan North America, Leadership

Mike welcomes Dr. Andrew (“Andy”) Temte, President and Global Head of Corporate Learning for Kaplan North America and author Balancing Act: Teach Coach Mentor Inspire. We start by discussing Andy’s non-linear career path, and how he embraces the bumps along the way. We also talk about the importance of the whole person and engaging with the behavioral skills as well as the deep expertise. Andy explains the importance of continuous improvement and organizational health. And how he learned to let go of “command and control” by embracing approaches that teach, coach, mentor, and inspire his team.

Higher Education

Future-Proof Leadership Literacies, Robots and the Power of Science Fiction with Colonel Chris Mayer

March 25, 2021March 24, 2021 Trending in Education Chris Mayer, future-proof leadership

Colonel Chris Mayer is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the US Military Academy at West Point where he also teaches Ethics and Philosophy. Chris returns to join Mike Palmer to revisit the conversation started during Chris’ first appearance in November of 2019. We review Bob Johansen’s book The New Leadership Literacies as we take a few twists and turns to touch on how the world of robotics is evolving and how we. can learn from science fiction as we try to peer further out to possible futures in 2030 and beyond.

Workforce Skills

How to Be The Good Boss with Author Kate Eberle Walker

March 24, 2021March 29, 2021 Trending in Education Kate Eberle Walker, Leadership, Presence Learning, The Good Boss

Kate Eberle Walker is the CEO of Presence Learning and the author of the new book The Good Boss: Nine Ways Every Manager Can Support Women at Work. She returns to the show to talk to Mike Palmer about the rules in the book that draw from Kate’s experiences, those of other leaders and managers across industries and other relevant statistics and research.

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