AfterEd

Jason Vest

Conversations with individuals around the world challenging the status quo in education

  1. Season 2, Episode 4 - Tricia Pettis & Michaela Loo

    07/25/2019

    Season 2, Episode 4 - Tricia Pettis & Michaela Loo

    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?

    32 min
  2. Season 2, Episode 3 - Arthur Chadwick

    05/24/2019

    Season 2, Episode 3 - Arthur Chadwick

    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?

    33 min
  3. Season 2, Episode 2 - Ted Dintersmith

    04/10/2019

    Season 2, Episode 2 - Ted Dintersmith

    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?

    38 min
  4. Season 2, Episode 1 - Somiah Lattimore & Todd Nuckols

    04/05/2019

    Season 2, Episode 1 - Somiah Lattimore & Todd Nuckols

    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?

    28 min

  5. 02/11/2019

    Episode 30 - Julia Freeland Fisher

    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?

    35 min

  6. 01/31/2019

    Episode 29 - 7th Grade Inventions & Innovations Class (Raw & Uncut)

    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!

    28 min

  7. 01/03/2019

    Episode 28 - Tom Vander Ark

    Tom Vander Ark  -CEO, Getting Smart -First Executive Director of Education for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation -Former Superintendent Where to connect with Tom: -Getting Smart -On Twitter @tvanderark In this episode: -Profile of a Virginia Graduate, Henrico Learner Profile, and how to use it -Tom’s recent article titled “What Game Are You Playing: Improvement or Innovation? -Relationship between innovation and equity -Future of work and its implications -The value of an entrepreneurial mindset -”Advanced” degrees and higher education -The “Guidance Gap”

    33 min
  8. Episode 27 - Kelly Young

    11/30/2018

    Episode 27 - Kelly Young

    Kelly Young Executive Director of Education Reimagined In this episode... From Anthropology to Law to Education…? Education: How we’ve ended up here Is learner-centered education “just another thing”? Why is the status quo so committed to standardized testing? Better alternatives? Examples of what education should look like in 2018? Final question: what would you tell a district that is considering creating a space for disruptive innovation? Find Kelly and her work at: www.educationreimagined.org @EdReimagined Make sure to check out Pioneering Magazine too at: https://education-reimagined.org/articles/

    31 min
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Conversations with individuals around the world challenging the status quo in education

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  • Creator
    Jason Vest
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2019
  • Episodes
    41
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