This episode will air on August 27, at 8:30 AM Eastern What is the future of education? What should it be? What can it be? How are policy makers in top PISA performing education systems thinking about the future of education? That is the focus of this episode of...
Posts about: Yong Zhao
Episode 115 | Rethinking Creativity: Race, Culture, and Education
Creativity has grown to become one of the most important concepts in education in the 21st Century. However, much research and thinking about creativity remain in the traditional framework developed in the 1950s. Creativity and entrepreneurship education has also been...
Episode 113 | Addressing the Digital Divide: The Story of Oakland
When COVID-19 forced schools to offer remote learning, access to computing devices and the Internet became a significant issue for many children. Although digital divide had been talked about before the pandemic, remote learning made it a paramount issue for schools,...
Episode 111 | K-12 Expansion into Higher Education
The episode will air on June 25, 2022 at 5:30 PM Eastern. K-12 schools, especially those known for their own unique educational philosophies and pedagogies, have been working on preparing their own teachers and spreading their philosophies and pedagogies through their...
Episode 96 | Transforming Schools to Personalize Education
Personalization of learning has become a major goal of educational transformation. But very few schools have actually achieved true personalization, which Yong Zhao calls personalizable education in his book Reach for Greatness: Personalizable Education for All...
Episode 94 | Responding to the pandemic: The view from the superintendent’s desk
Over the past two years, schools have been battling with the pandemic in many different ways in order to provide high quality education to all children. They have responded creatively to the many disruptions COVID-19 has posted to schooling. In this episode, we...
Episode 91 | Innovations during the COVID‑19 Pandemic around the World
This is a study of educational innovations which emerged during the pandemic, examined through the framework of educational change proposed in the recent UNESCO report on the Futures of Education https://en.unesco.org/futuresofeducation/ The book includes 31 case...
Episode 77 | The Education We Need: A Conversation with Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith
5:30-6:30pm EDT, Saturday Oct 2nd, 2021 We all want to make changes to education because we all want to have a better education for our children. We all also believe that a better education is not only necessary but also possible. We have different ideas of what the...
Episode 57 | Technology in Special Education and the National Center for Innovation, Design, and Digital Learning
Technology has played a significant role in special education and has a lot more potential. In this episode we invite the top professors in technology and special education to discuss the past, present, and future of technology in special education. They are also...
Episode 46 | Embracing a New Paradigm with Dr. Stephen Harris
February 13, 2021