AfterEd Jason Vest

  Tricia Pettis & Michaela Loo


Personalized Learning Coaches at South View Middle School, just outside of Minneapolis
You can find them both on Twitter @triciapettis10 and @MichaelaMLoo

In this episode:


 The 30,000 foot perspective of personalized learning
 Misconceptions about personalized learning
 Example of personalized learning at it’s finest
How do students initially respond to this pedagogical shift? How have they evolved?
This is a big mindset shift for many teachers. What are some of the mental obstacles you think teacher’s face? How do we get over them? 
 Strategies to “go personalized” 
 Big picture/philosophical advice for teachers/administrators to implement personalized learning? 


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 Arthur Chadwick 

Double Major at VCU, Mechanical Engineering & Disruptive Innovation 

Founder & President of Hyperloop VCU



Where to Find Arthur and His Work:

LinkedIn - Arthur Chadwick

www.hyperloopatvcu.com



In This Episode:

Hyperloop technology and the future implications for travel

Past educational influences and experiences

Hyperloop at VCU and Elon Musk

Learning from failures and successes

What do you do with a disruptive innovation major?

How do you balance it all?


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Ted Dintersmith

Author, Speaker, Producer, Advocate



Find anything and everything about Ted at www.teddintersmith.com and on Twitter @dintersmith




What’s the disconnect between our personal passions for education and kids coming out great and what is stated about education in polls? Is it sign of our hopelessness rather than our not caring? Or is there something else going on entirely?




You’re a Virginia guy...a lot of times I hear people say “we can’t do that here.” So, let’s debunk some things what’s possible in the Commonwealth as far as innovation is concerned?




When you look at modern organizations that are truly thriving, a lot of the decision making is decentralized. I think of a few different things and maybe you can draw a connection with all of these, but I think of Toyota, Clayton Christensen’s work, lean startup principles from Eric Ries, and design thinking at IDEO. And yet, in education, if I have a great idea, I can’t implement without approval from 10 different people. I’m not flexible enough or agile. Why is that and what are the intended & unintended consequences? 




You were recently in the Richmond Metro area helping to launch the Virginia is for Learners Innovation Network. Would you talk a little about what the network is hoping to achieve and why?




Final question Ted. I want to be a voice for students for a minute. At some point in their school career, they will begin to hate school. What should students say and/or do about that? Or should they just sit down and do what they’re told?


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 Todd Nuckols 

Executive Director, Lighthouse Labs

Somiah Lattimore

Managing Director, Lighthouse U

Director of Experiential Learning, VCU da Vinci Center



www.lighthouselabsrva.com




Self-introductions

What is Lighthouse Labs?

What is Lighthouse U?

Why the focus on colleges and universities?

What are the principles behind Lean startup?

How does someone think like an entrepreneur?

Can the status quo and entrepreneurship co-exist?

What do you hope the long-term outcome is from our upcoming panel, ReimagineRVA, on innovation, entrepreneurship, and reimagining the purpose of school?


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Julia Freeland Fisher

Author, Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students' Networks

Director of Education Research, Clayton Christensen Institute



HOW TO FIND HER WORK:

https://www.christenseninstitute.org/

Twitter @juliaffreeland



WHAT’S IN THIS EPISODE?

Disruptive innovation


What is it?
Why should folks in education care?



You wrote a blog post at the beginning of the year titled: A Look Back At What We Learned in 2018. People can read the article, but I’d like to combine a couple of those questions into one:


What does the future of K12 and Higher Education look like?



Her book


How can social capital unlock student potential, what can we do to get it for students, and whose responsibility is it?



Innovation & ESSA( Every Student Succeeds Act)


What can & can’t be done in schools?
See the report HERE



Final Question


What conversations do we need to have in our own neck of the woods to move the needle in the right direction in education?


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An end of the semester conversation with my 7th grade Inventions & Innovations class. We talked about some of their favorite projects, the purpose of school, and reimagining education. None of them are experts in the field, but they get the big picture. Tune in!

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