16:1 - Education, Teaching, & Learning

Welcome to Episode 53 - Go with the FLOW. Join Katie and Chelsea on a deep dive into the state of consciousness known as flow, a concept pioneered by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Have you ever been so consumed by a project or task that you lost all track of time? You might have been in a state of flow. Chelsea discusses her experiences with flow during coding and composing music, and Katie laments the fact that her career as a classroom educator means she doesn't have as many opportunities to enter a flow state as she might like.

Sources: 

Wikipedia - Flow (psychology)

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

flow- The Psychology of Optimal Experience - by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Medium.com - Finding the Flow; Why Hyperfocus is not the “superpower” of ADHD and Flow is something we should all aim for. by Mirte P. van der Lugt

The Cut - When Adult ADHD Looks Something Like ‘Flow’ By Jenara Nerenberg

Ukraine Support - Together Rising

NBC News- Russia criticized after Ukraine says Kyiv airstrike hits near Holocaust memorial site By Alexander Smith

This week, Katie takes the lead in a discussion of one of her passions-- Holocaust education. As with many difficult historical topics, there are dos and don'ts to keep in mind, and your hosts will help you navigate these discussions with your students and peers. Katie's focus on Holocaust education has given her the chance to discover a multitude of high-quality classroom teaching resources, and she also outlines a few of the best professional development opportunities for educators who wish to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust and related world events. Thanks for listening!

The Olga Lengyel Institute For Holocaust Studies And Human Rights

Five Chimneys: The Story of Auschwitz (Paperback) By Olga Lengyel

CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Surviving the Angel of Death: The True Story of a Mengele Twin in Auschwitz (Paperback) By Eva Mozes Kor and Lisa Rojany Buccieri

The Story of Eva Mozes Kor

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum YouTube Channel

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Professional Development Opportunities

Yad Vashem The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Memorial de la Shoah - What is the Shoah?

USC Shoah Foundation - Virtual History Archive Online

USC Shoah Foundation - IWitness

Echoes and Reflections

Irena Sendler

Night by Elie Wiesel

Unpacking (Steam)

Medium - "The Original Big Short Squeeze" by Grace Huang

No Child Left Behind was the dominant topic in educational policy circles for much of the early and mid 2000s. The legislation, enacted by Congress under the G.W. Bush administration, created a chaotic tangle of testing, accountability, credentialing, and training for public school educators in the United States. Join Kate and Chelsea as they discuss the lasting legacy of NCLB.

Sources:

AP News - "Holocaust novel ‘Maus’ banned in Tennessee school district" 

NBC News - "Banned: Books on race and sexuality are disappearing from Texas schools in record numbers" By Mike Hixenbaugh

Wikipedia - No Child Left Behind

Wikipedia - Every Student Succeeds Act

NPR - "No Child Left Behind: What Worked, What Didn't" by Cory Turner

Understood - "What is No Child Left Behind (NCLB)?" by By Andrew M.I. Lee, JD

Vox - "The scariest lesson of No Child Left Behind" by Libby Nelson

The Washington Post - "‘No Child Left Behind’ has failed" by Lily Eskelsen García and Otha Thornton

The Washington Post - "Are states really trying to overcome the harmful legacy of No Child Left Behind?" by Valerie Strauss

Welcome to Episode 50! Thanks for joining us for a milestone episode. We are celebrating our big 5-0 by bringing on our very first guest, Risha Allen, who is something of an expert in banned books. When we dreamed up the list of possible show topics for 16:1 several years ago, banned books was one of the first things we discussed, and we are happy that we saved it for this special guest! If you don't know Risha Allen, you can find her on Instagram at @rishaallen and as Tiktok's Music Teacher at @rishdishfish. Risha is a National Board Certified educator who is spending her 15th year of teaching doing something she's never done before: teaching music! Prior to teaching music at the elementary level, Risha developed her mastery teaching high school English in three different states (Kentucky, Ohio, and North Dakota). Her relationship to banned books? Well... it involves young adult literature, a bit of witchcraft, and a LOT of committees. Listen to find out why Risha is southeastern Kentucky's most notorious leader of literature circles! Join Katie and Chelsea as they get to hear Risha's never-before-told story of censorship, the power of social media, and the lasting gifts of falling in love with reading.

Content note: discussions of sexual assault and other adult content are included in this episode.

Authors Mentioned:

Laurie Halse Anderson

Chris Crutcher

Jo Knowles

Irving Roth

Sheri Reynolds

Nikki Giovanni

Sources:

Banned Books Week

American Library Association - List of America's Libraries 2021 Special Report: Covid - 19

NBC News - "Book bans in schools are catching fire. Black authors say uproar isn’t about students." by Tat Bellamy-Walker

PEN America - The Freedom to Write

20 Thousand Hertz - Aural Exam

The Book Loft - "Eleanor and Hick: The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady" by Susan Quinn

Reading Partners - "The little-known history of banned books in the United States" By Ally Bush

The New York Times - "Where Are the Hardest Places to Live in the U.S.?" by Alan Flippen

Tiktok - @mndiaye_97

Welcome to the first episode of 2022! This week everyone gets to learn a new word: autodidacticism! Episode 49 discusses being your own teacher and methods for teaching yourself. In Chelsea's case, most of her career exists thanks to self-teaching. Meanwhile, Katie struggled to figure out what she has ever taught herself (if anything). Your hosts break the big news about our 50th episode and the very first guest we will ever have on our show, Risha Allen! As always, please remember to rate, review, and subscribe on whatever platform you use to listen!

Learning From Autodidacts by Pat Galagan

99% Invisible - Built on Sand

Annapolis Makerspace

Welcome and thanks for listening to episode 48, The Disappearing Internet! This episode deals with the ephemeral nature of the internet and the lasting impacts of losing websites, software, and other pieces of technology (and the content that is associated with them) over time. While it may seem natural for the internet to grow and evolve, we seldom contemplate the lost of our social, political, cultural, and creative history on the web. How does the internet disappear, and who is doing the work to archive and preserve all of the ridiculous Tweets and blog posts we create? From the demise of Yahoo Answers and Xanga to preservation efforts headed up by The Internet Archive and the Library of Congress, Katie and Chelsea discuss the vanishing content that you don't miss until it's gone forever. Friendly reminder, we are taking the next episode off for Christmas and family time. Please take some time this Holiday season to take care of yourself! We will see you in January!

The Million Dollar Homepage

The Internet Archive

NPR - "Library Of Congress Will No Longer Archive Every Tweet" by Laurel Wamsley

BBC - "Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9m" By Justin Harper

Fast Company - "Parts of the web are disappearing every day. Here’s how to save Internet history" By Kayla Harris AND Christina Beis AND Stephanie Shreffler

The New York Times - "Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down" By Daniel Victor

Video Game History Foundation

Wikipedia - Discord

Polygon - "Video game archivists celebrate new victory in preservation of abandoned games (update)" By Allergra Frank

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Internet Archive - Software Library

BBC - "Why there’s so little left of the early internet" By Stephen Dowling

The Verge - "Myspace deleted 12 years’ worth of music in a botched server migration" By Jon Porter

how is prangent formed - YouTube/Yahoo Answers meme video

Creative Bloq - The Evolution of Twitter's Logo

Ina Garten's Real Margarita Recipe

This week's episode delves deep into the field of educational psychology. Behaviorism, neuroscience, information processing-- we're serving as your guides as we walk through the textbook highlights. Katie learns about the family trees of President George Washington and Queen Elizabeth II, and Chelsea shares about having fun with Unity.

Psychology Discussion Net - Gestalt Theory of Learning (With Objections)

Wikipedia - Psychology of Learning

Wikipedia - Jean Piaget

Wikipedia - B. F. Skinner

Frontiers in Psychology - Why Educational Neuroscience Needs Educational and School Psychology to Effectively Translate Neuroscience to Educational Practice by Gabrielle Wilcox

Marian University Indianapolis - The Three Disciplines of Educational Neuroscience

The Social Cognitive Theory - Boston University School of Public Health - Wayne W. LaMorte, MD, PhD, MPH

Episode 46! This week the hosts discuss popular science and science literacy. Chelsea tackles the history of popular science, the conduit through which the general public receives information about scientific advancements. Katie covers a few pop sci figures of the 1990s and declares her love and admiration of Lily Tomlin as Miss Frizzle. Your hosts cover the challenges faced by journalists who cover topics of popular science, the impact of digital media on skepticism and relativism in narratives involving science, and the ways that science fiction can encourage science literacy. Chelsea and Katie bring it home for Fill in the Blank, when Katie reveals answers about her favorite Grand Teton animal, Grizzly Bear 399!

Wikipedia - Popular Science

Wikipedia - Bill Nye

Wikipedia - The Magic School Bus

Wikipedia - Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - "(Mis)informed about what? What it means to be a science-literate citizen in a digital world"

The Crazy True Story of the Zanesville Zoo Escape

This week on 16:1, the hosts follow the money in an in-depth analysis of the sources of (and strings attached to) public school funding in the United States. Learn about the competing funding formulas that are occasionally unconstitutional, the levies that might greet you at the ballot box, and the struggles that state departments of education face to balance budgets. Since last episode, Chelsea has spent some time learning about arts and crafts, and Kate has become familiar with an unusual bear.

Sources:

Understanding Levies, Ohio School Boards Association

The Next 400: School funding system ruled unconstitutional 4 times, failing students in poor rural, urban areas

Ohio Budget Bill - Fordham Institute

The Cutest Bear

Another week, another episode of 16:1! This episode is all about Assistive Technology and what that can look like in a classroom. Your hosts discuss the myths and misconceptions surrounding assistive technology. Katie talks about what assistive technology looks like in her classroom and the ways that is sometimes appears without even intentionally preparing for it. Chelsea and Katie share about what they have learned over the past two weeks, including how to mod a video game and the realities of the justice system.

IRIS Center - Assistive Technology

EdTech - "Using Assistive Technology to Empower Students with Disabilities" by Micah Castelo

Wired - "The Internet Is for Everyone, Right? Not With a Screen Reader" by Arielle Pardes

Wikipedia - Perkins School for the Blind