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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.

EdSurge Podcast EdSurge Podcast

    • Education
    • 4.8 • 87 Ratings

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.

    How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)

    How Is the ‘College Is a Scam’ Narrative Influencing Who Goes to Campus? (Doubting College, Ep. 3)

    There’s growing skepticism of higher education, complete with popular memes on social media that “college is a scam.” Experts in policy and marketing have some suggestions on how to counter that narrative.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

    An Educator’s Podcast Aims to Be an Antidote to School Culture Wars

    A longtime educator worries that the raging culture wars in education create toxic environments that hurt academic learning. He’s started a podcast that brings together people with deeply different views on issues that are most dividing school communities these days and uses depolarizing techniques to try to model repairing such breaches.

    • 57 min
    Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?

    Can VR Help Preserve and Teach Indigenous Culture?

    Could virtual reality be the key to teaching indigenous ways of knowing to a broad population of students? Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education, is trying to record and teach some key practices of his tribal elders using VR video.

    • 38 min
    How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)

    How Growing Skepticism of College Is Making Students Savvier Edu Shoppers (Doubting College, Ep. 2)

    In part two of our podcast series Doubting College, which explores the growing skepticism of higher ed, we talk to students and counselors at a public high school about how students are thinking through their choices after graduation.

    • 34 min
    AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?

    AI Is Disrupting Professions That Require College Degrees. How Should Higher Ed Respond?

    A recent study ranked the top professions that are likely to be disrupted by ChatGPT and other new AI technologies, and most of them require college degrees. How does higher ed need to change what it teaches to respond?

    • 45 min
    What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

    What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

    Did the education theories that drive today’s schools and teaching practices get off track and do they need a reset — one that gets back to earlier days of oral storytelling? That was the argument of philosopher Kieran Egan, whose educational writings have recently gotten attention.

    • 48 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
87 Ratings

87 Ratings

glooch22 ,

Super solid listen!

Jeff and other EdSurge editors are clearly putting in a lot of effort when it comes to their topics and experts. A great listen for leaders in the education space!

Amy DLC ,

One of the best!

I listen to this podcast on my way to work. I love it! As an instructional coach for digital learning, it is like free PD to keep up to date with the latest in technology in the classroom!

DJCurrySpice ,

Among the best education coverage

Impressive breadth and depth; matter-of-fact viewpoints; impressive ability to spot current trends while maintaining historical references. A podcast that helps you connect the myriad of issues at play across an education system that balances needs across students, families, and educators.

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