EdSurge Podcast

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EdSurge Podcast

A weekly podcast about the future of learning. Join host Jeff Young and other EdSurge reporters as they sit down with educators, innovators and scholars for frank and in-depth conversations.

  1. Want To Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-Year Colleges? Look At Transfer Students.

    19 NOV

    Want To Find Highly-Engaged Students at 4-Year Colleges? Look At Transfer Students.

    When students transfer from community colleges to four-year universities, there’s often culture shock. But those transfers are often more motivated and engaged in the classroom than students who arrive straight from high school, experts say. Hear firsthand from a student in his 30s who recently transferred from a two-year college to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

    35 min
  2. Should Students Chat With AI Versions of Historical Figures?

    8 NOV

    Should Students Chat With AI Versions of Historical Figures?

    A new documentary project about Sacagawea, the young woman from the Shoshone tribe who helped guide the Lewis and Clark Expedition back in 1804, lets students chat with an animated chatbot of her. Some educators worry about how faithfully such chatbots can represent history, or whether they might keep students from digging into documents to form their own analysis.

    1 hr
  3. The Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

    4 NOV

    The Effects of Smartwatches on Kids, Schools and Families

    Should kids wear smartwatches? Companies market the wearable devices to kids as young as 4 years old, while digital media experts and educators worry about potential downsides of what some see as an “electronic umbilical cord.” On the EdSurge Podcast this week, we talk with our reporter who spent months researching the issue, Emily Tate Sullivan, and hear her read the full story.

    48 min
  4. What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

    27 OCT

    What Can AI Chatbots Teach Us About How Humans Learn?

    ChatGPT and other chatbots are modeled after how the human brain works. And one of the pioneers of the technology, Terrence Sejnowski, says that what AI has made clear is that we don’t really understand what it means for the human brain to “understand” something.

    58 min
  5. How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?

    21 OCT

    How Are School Smartphone Bans Going?

    Many school districts and states have enacted new restrictions on smartphones in classrooms during instructional time, in the name of increasing student engagement and counteracting the negative effects that social media has on youth mental health. We checked in with two teachers and an administrator to hear how the new rules are playing out.

    38 min
  6. How the Job Market Has Changed for College Grads

    13 OCT

    How the Job Market Has Changed for College Grads

    College grads are facing a tough job market these days, with experts saying the college degree holds less of a premium in getting hired than in the past. And as it gets easier to apply to jobs online, applicants say they are getting ghosted by employers or applying to hundreds of jobs with little return. How can colleges respond?

    33 min
  7. Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses

    6 OCT

    Looking Back on the Long, Bumpy Rise of Online College Courses

    When the web was new back in the late 1990s, Robert Ubell was among those pushing for its adoption to help students who couldn’t get to a campus — over the objections of professors who thought it would always be sub-par. The online learning pioneer says the history of online’s growth offers lessons for those trying teaching innovations today.

    44 min
  8. Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials

    29 SEPT

    Inside an Effort to Build an AI Assistant for Designing Course Materials

    Over the past few months, a group of educators has been designing and testing a system that uses ChatGPT to serve as an assistant to instructors as they build courses for students. One key point of the series of design workshops is to learn how educators can make the most effective uses of AI, and where it’s less helpful.

    1h 4m
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A weekly podcast about the future of learning. Join host Jeff Young and other EdSurge reporters as they sit down with educators, innovators and scholars for frank and in-depth conversations.

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  • Creator
    EdSurge Podcast
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    500
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