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Rethinking Credentials with Mario Vasilescu

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Trending in Education Mario Vasilescu, media literacy, Readocracy

Mario Vasilescu is the Co-Founder and CEO of Readocracy, a product that explores how we might get credit for all the content we consume these days. He joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about how credentialing is ready to be transformed for the 21st Century. We then explore how they’re building media literacy and knowledge mapping into the design. We conclude with Mario musing about AI, the Blockchain and more. In fact, as referenced in the conversation, the logo for this episode was designed by Mike using DALL-E 2.

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Global Talent Trends in 2022

October 10, 2022October 10, 2022 Trending in Education Global Talent Summit, trends

Mike reports back from the Global Talent Summit in Washington, DC. We learn what Ana Rold from Diplomatic Courier and Kelly Ryan Bailey from Skills Baby pulled together with help from Gallup and a team of experts and thought leaders focused on the skilling revolution and its impact on the future of work.

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Teaching Gen Z Accounting on TikTok with Rebecca Mendoza

September 29, 2022September 29, 2022 Trending in Education accounting, future of work, Rebecca Mendoza, TikTok

Professor Rebecca Mendoza is the Lead Faculty for Accounting at Palo Alto College in San Antonio. She joins us to talk about how she is overcoming Impostor Syndrome to launch her teaching career and reach Gen Z students in new and relevant ways.

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Using VR to Transform Math Education with Anurupa Ganguly

September 26, 2022September 26, 2022 Trending in Education Anurupa Ganguly, math education

Anurupa Ganguly, the Founder and CEO of Prisms VR, returns to Trending in Ed to catch us up on her journey as Prisms begins to implement VR Math interventions at scale. We hear what it’s been like since February of 2021 when we first spoke with her.

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Activating Generation X with Celine Coggins

September 19, 2022September 18, 2022 Trending in Education Celine Coggins, generations, genx, Grantmakers for Education, Teach Plus

Celine Coggins is a social entrepreneur passionate about building networks and collective action to reduce inequity. She founded Teach Plus in 2007 to address the growing need for authentic teacher leadership to transform the nation’s schools and our education system. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Grantmakers for Education.

Celine joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about her new endeavor The Legacy Years Project, an initiative looking to activate members of Generation X to establish a positive collective legacy.

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The Power of Music and the Arts in Education with Kathryn Patricia Cobbler

September 15, 2022September 15, 2022 Trending in Education Arts Education, Kathryn Patricia Cobbler, Music

Kathryn Patricia Cobbler is a musician, composer, and educator. She joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about the role of music and the arts in education. As a special treat, we include some of Kathryn’s original composition, When Mountains Speak, as part of the episode.

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Democratizing AI with Dr. Sameer Maskey

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Trending in Education AI, Fusemachines, Sameer Maskey

Dr. Sameer Maskey is the Founder and CEO of Fusemachines, an AI Education and Services Company. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University. He joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about his mission to democratize AI by making high-quality AI education affordable and accessible to everyone.

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The Best of Trending in Ed – Wendy Zukerman LIVE from the Javits Center for NAB in New York

August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 Trending in Education GImlet, Science education, Science Vs., Wendy Zukerman

For this installment of the Best of Trending in Ed, we’re returning to an episode we recorded live at the Javits Center for NAB New York in the Fall of 2018. Wendy Zukerman joins hosts Mike Palmer and Brandon Jones in a conversation about science, media, podcasting, and the work she is doing at the Science Vs which is still going strong at Gimlet to this day.

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Lessons Learned from James Webb, SpaceX, and CERN

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Trending in Education CERN, Elon Musk, James Webb Space Telescope, NASA, SpaceX

Mike Palmer is rejoined by Nancy, our virtual cohost, in a conversation about the new images released from the James Webb Space Telescope. We commend NASA for its lyric prose that accompanies the images of cosmic cliffs and young hot stars being born. Then we talk about Elon Musk. It’s pretty much unavoidable to do so nowadays. We focus on recent news of an explosion during a Space X booster rocket test before shifting to our frustration about all the wasted energy and effort surrounding Musk’s bid to acquire Twitter.

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Trends in Global Professional Education with Lisa Rohrer

July 7, 2022July 7, 2022 Trending in Education Lisa Rohrer, professional education, upskilling

Lisa Rohrer is a Senior Advisor and Board Member with Emeritus, a global leader in making world-class professional education affordable and accessible. She joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about recent trends in online professional education based on her experience with Emeritus in recent years.

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