16:1 - Education, Teaching, & Learning

• The United States’ Office of Educational Technology has released a new policy report entitled Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning: Insights and Recommendations. The report offers high-level definitions and recommendations aimed at educators and administrators.
• Florida’s public university system has approved the use of a new and controversial college entrance exam known as the Classic Learning Test (CLT).

The study of the past is an essential component of a well-rounded education and a gateway to meaningful civic participation. Why, then, do 85% of eighth-graders score below proficient in U.S. history? Amid shifting sentiments on research, misinformation, and the impact of mass media on the historical record, we're tackling the subject of how history is taught at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels. We discuss the role that textbooks play in the modern history classroom and the difficulties that come with developing age-appropriate curricula covering difficult or sensitive subject matters. Bonus content: we review a few of the lessons we were taught as kids that haven't stood the test of time, featuring George Washington's teeth, indisputable rules of grammar, and the Industrial Revolution.

Sources & Resources:

Eleven Warriors: "BIG Ten Officials Tell Ryan Day..."

YouTube - H.E. Keiko Nagaoka from Arctic Circle

Office of Education Technology - Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning

MEXT - Chronology of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology(MEXT)

The New York Times - Florida Expected to Approve Classical Exam as a Competitor to the SAT by Dana Goldstein

CLT Tests - Mission

NPR - What to know about Florida's 'classic' alternative to the SAT by Juliana Kim

EducationWeek - Sure, We Teach History. But Do We Know Why It’s Important? by Andrew Ujifusa

Forbes - Why We Need To Start Teaching History In Kindergarten by Natalie Wexler

Perspectives on History - Teaching Content, Teaching Skills by Katharina Matro

Libro.fm - Meet You in Hell by Les Standiford

Smithsonian Magazine - Even Though He Is Revered Today, MLK Was Widely Disliked by the American Public When He Was Killed by James C. Cobb

Library of Congress - Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 2. General Correspondence. 1858-1864: Abraham Lincoln to Horace Greeley, Friday, August 22, 1862 (Clipping from Aug. 23, 1862 Daily National Intelligencer, Washington, D.C.)

It’s been a busy week in education news as students and educators in the U.S. head back to school following summer break. Here are the headlines in this week’s edu news roundup:

• The Biden administration is once again attempting to follow through on campaign promises to alleviate student debt. Details of the SAVE program are discussed.
• The Boys & Girls Club of America has released a new study revealing troubling trends in levels of bullying and cyberbulling in American schools.
• The College Board is in hot water over revelations that it sends student SAT scores and GPAs to Facebook and TikTok through tracking pixels (advertising technology).
• The Columbia County Library in Dayton, Washington, is facing a possible dissolution vote on November 7th after a series of book challenges.
• Governor Maura Healey of Massachusetts announced a new program that would make community college tuition-free for residents without a prior post-secondary degree.

Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history. Maintained by a large cohort of volunteer editors, the free, online encyclopedia aims to make “the sum of all human knowledge” available to the world. The project of Wikipedia sparks a number of questions of interest to the modern educator, such as: What is expertise? What events, locations, objects, people, artworks, and inventions etc. are noteworthy? What exactly is a neutral point of view? How does living contemporaneously to events of historical significance impact our ability to evaluate them accurately?

Wikipedia is a living document, an undulating sea of interconnected articles, references, policies, and end users. Though neutrality is a guiding Wikipedian philosophy, vandalism does sometimes occur, and mistakes are sometimes made. (Studies have shown, however, that Wikipedia is nearly as accurate as traditional print reference resources, such as Encyclopedia Britannica.) We’ll investigate the epistemological challenges inherent to a collaborative and ever-evolving repository of knowledge. We’ll also uncover some startling demographic statistics about Wikipedia’s editors, who aren’t as representative of the average world citizen as you might think.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is having a major impact on Wikipedia. AI can be used to generate content, summarize articles, and identify vandalism. However, AI also poses a threat to the integrity of the content of Wikipedia, as it often introduces inaccuracies, fabrications, and “hallucinations,” some of which can be extremely difficult to detect. Other modern Internet forces, such as deepfakes and misinformation, are also disrupting Wikipedia’s vast knowledge experiment.

Join us as we investigate the history and impact of one of the world’s top 10 websites.

TED Talk - The Birth of Wikipedia

The Independent - Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia by Mayank Aggarwal

YouTube - The White House: President Biden Announces the SAVE Plan for Student Loan Borrowers

NPR - Borrowers can now apply for new, income-based student loan repayment by Sequoia Carrillo and Cory Turner

Boys & Girls Clubs of America - Youth Right Now

Axios - Students face new school year with jump in bullying by April Rubin

Gizmodo - The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook GPAs and Details About SAT Scores by Thomas Germain

WBUR - Community college is now free for Mass. residents 25 and older. Millions qualify by Max Larkin

KNKX NPR - Rural Washington library could be nation’s first to dissolve after book challenges by Courtney Flatt

The Book Loft - The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood by James Gleick

Wikipedia - Wikipedia

Wikipedia - Help: Introduction to Policies and Guidelines

Wikipedia - What Wikipedia is Not

Technology Review - The Decline of Wikipedia by Tom Simonite

Duke University Press - Wikipedia's Race and Ethnicity Gap and the Unverifiability of Whiteness by Michael Mandiberg

Aljazeera - How are Wikipedians fighting gender bias online? 

HBR - Why Do So Few Women Edit Wikipedia? by Nicole Torres

Vice - AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart by Claire Woodcock

The Next Web - UK plan to police internet may be unlawful, force Wikipedia shutdown by Thomas Macaulay

UK Parliament - Online Safety Bill

The Economic Times - How accurate is Wikipedia's content? 

Governance, Organization, and Democracy on the Internet: The Iron Law and the Evolution of Wikipedia by Piotr Konieczny

This headline roundup this week covers West Virginia University's plan to make deep cuts to academic programming, Arkansas's moves regarding the College Board's AP African American Studies course, the Biden admin's new K-12 Cybersecurity efforts, and everything you need to know about KKR's acquisition of Simon & Schuster. 

Children's and young adult literature (YAL) is a thriving industry, with thousands of new titles being published each year. In this episode, we take a look at the history of the industry from the time of its earliest architects (such as Enlightenment philosopher John Locke, if you can believe it) to the present day. We'll also explore the ways in which modern readers are changing the publishing landscape, including with e-books, audiobooks, graphic novels, manga, and more. Bonus content: learn about the Guggenheim family's connection to Jackson Pollock and why those web CAPTCHAs are so annoying.

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WVU - WVU announces preliminary recommendations, Academic Transformation next steps

Wordsrated - Young Adult Book Sales Statistics by Dimitrije Curcic

The New Yorker - S. E. Hinton and the Y.A. Debate by Jon Michaud

National Women's History Museum - Louisa May Alcott by Arlisha R. Norwood, NWHM Fellow | 2017

Artnet News - Jackson Pollock Moonlit as the Guggenheim’s Maintenance Man—and 4 Other Unlikely Side Jobs Famous Artists Once Held at New York Museums by Annikka Olsen

Publishers Weekly - A Brief History of Picture Books by Leonard S. Marcus

ABC News - AP African American studies canceled by Arkansas officials just before school begins by Kiara Alfonseca

The New York Times - Judge Blocks a Merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster by Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris

British Library - A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

Britannica - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland novel by Carroll by Cathy Lowne and Pat Bauer

Smithsonian Magazine - Why Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Little Women’ Endures by Alice George

The Atlantic - The Magazine That Helped 1920s Kids Navigate Racism by Anna Holmes

History.com - First Newbery Medal for children’s literature awarded to Hendrik Willem van Loon

The White House - Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches New Efforts to Strengthen America’s K-12 Schools’ Cybersecurity

The Register - So much for CAPTCHA then – bots can complete them quicker than humans by Richard Currie

In this week’s education headline roundup, we’ll take a look at Houston ISD’s new superintendent and his controversial decision to convert school libraries into discipline centers, the California Department of Education’s effort to suppress the publication of a study using the state’s education data, and a new educational offering from NASA.

Our episode this week delves deep into the future of education. We’ll discuss how artificial intelligence may continue to creep into classrooms, how climate change and green technologies will be making a bigger impact, and how COVID will continue to haunt our classrooms (and maybe our brains). We’ll wonder what might replace standardized testing, whether VR might be able to transport our students into historical events, and whether public education in the U.S. can find a new funding model. Join us for this look 50 years into the future!

Sources & Resources:

The Guardian - Houston school district to turn libraries into disciplinary centers by Erum Salam

CHRON - 'You should be happy': HISD leader defends controversial teacher pay scale by Kennedy Sessions

Substack - The Coming Enshittification of Public Libraries by Karawynn Long

EdSource - California moves to silence Stanford researchers who got state data to study education issues by John Fensterwald

NASA - NASA Launches Beta Site; On-Demand Streaming, App Update Coming Soon

Scientific American - Here Are the Stunning Heat Records Set So Far This Summer by Andrea Thompson 

BBC Science Focus - What could the school of 2050 look like? by Holly Spanner

The Guardian - Facebook disputes its own research showing harmful effects of Instagram on teens’ mental health by Dan Milmo and Kari Paul

Pluralistic: Autoenshittification

Welcome back, listeners! This week in our education headline roundup, we revisit the Biden administration's debt relief initiatives, tackle Harvard University's trailblazing policy decisions concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence in the classroom, and contemplate whether Elizabeth Holmes might have a new cell mate. Then on to our headliner: John Dewey, father of functional psychology and trailblazing progressive education reformer. Hoping to undo the negative effects of his own educational experiences, Dewey spent decades refining scholarship and research on student-centered learning focused on real-world problems. Dewey's ideas had a profound impact on education around the world, and his work continues to be influential today. In "What We Learned," Chelsea discusses the University in Exile, a refuge for scholars fleeing persecution during WWII, while Kate covers the new dress code that's making waves at Wimbledon.

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CBS News - How Biden's latest student loan forgiveness differs from debt relief blocked by Supreme Court By Melissa Quinn

Associated Press - Founder of student aid startup Frank shakes head as prosecutor describes case against her by Larry Neumeister

ResearchGate - The University as Prophet, Science as its Messenger, and Democracy as its Revelation: John Dewey, University of Chicago President William Rainey Harper, and Colonel Francis Parker by Thomas S. Popkewitz

Wikipedia - John Dewey

National Endowment for the Humanities - John Dewey: Portrait of a Progressive Thinker by Peter Gibbon

Brittannica - John Dewey

U.S. Department of Education - Biden-Harris Administration to Provide 804,000 Borrowers with $39 Billion in Automatic Loan Forgiveness as a Result of Fixes to Income Driven Repayment Plans

The Crimson - Harvard Releases First Guidelines for ‘Responsible Experimentation with Generative AI Tools’ by Rahem D. Hamid and Claire Yuan

BBC - For the first time in its history, Wimbledon has relaxed its dress code rules. Why are they so strict? Ellie Violet Bramley takes a look by Ellie Violet Bramley 

Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - John Dewey

JSTOR - Common Ground With A Common Faith: Dewey's Idea of the “Religious” by Bradley Baurain

Last week saw historic rulings from the Supreme Court on President Biden's student debt relief plan and affirmative action in college admissions. SCOTUS' rulings on these two issues have far-reaching implications. Critics of the affirmative action decision say it could make it more difficult for minority students to gain admission to selective colleges and universities, while the ruling on Biden's student debt relief program could prevent millions of borrowers from receiving relief in the wake of the economic impact of COVID-19 on loan holders.

Having been inspired by season 2 of The Bear, a critically-acclaimed TV dramedy series about a young chef who returns home to Chicago to run his family's sandwich shop after his brother's suicide, Chelsea and Katie are tackling culinary training this week on 16:1. From technical training, apprenticeships, and schools like the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Blue (founded in Paris in 1895 and considered to be one of the most prestigious culinary schools in the world), we cover the entry points into some of the most demanding yet rewarding careers in food and drink. Learn how restaurants earn coveted Michelin stars, find out where your favorite celebrity chefs went to school, and what to expect if you want to succeed in the business of operating a restaurant. 

Sources & Resources:

Wikipedia - Culinary Institute of America Alumni

Wikipedia - Le Cordon Bleu Alumni

The Culinary Institute of America

Le Cordon Bleu

Outkick - Taylor Swift Proves... by Mike Gunzelman

Elie Traveler - How the Prestigious Michelin Star System Really Works by Kim Ayling

Wikipedia - Michelin Guide

Michelin Restaurants

Wikipedia - Gastronomy

InsideHigherEd - HEROES Act at Center of Debt-Relief Legal Fight by Katherine Knott

NBC News - Supreme Court kills Biden student loan relief plan by Lawrence Hurley 

Cornell Law School - 20 U.S. Code § 1098bb - Waiver authority for response to military contingencies and national emergencies

Wikipedia - The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein

Join us as we reconnect with some of our favorite stories and learning opportunities that unfolded over the past school year. The education headline roundup will cover Biden's student debt relief challenge in the Supreme Court, a look at the College Board's response to new, restrictive content guidelines coming out of state legislatures in Florida, Texas, Ohio, and elsewhere, and information about the U.K.'s latest bid to curb immigration by restricting study visas to institutions in Great Britain. 

Sources & Resources:

CNBC - Here are key things to know as Supreme Court nears decision on Biden’s student loan forgiveness by Annie Nova

Wikipedia - The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Wikipedia - The Idea Factory

CollegeBoard - Our Commitment to AP Students, Families, and Educators

Wikipedia - College World Series

Twitter - History Vids

Noble Blood Podcast

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland

Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation (Surgeon General's Report)

Welcome, aviation enthusiasts! Today, we soar and explore the lifelong pursuit of learning known as piloting. Join us as we unravel the intricate process of obtaining a private pilot's license, from the first exhilarating moments of taking control of a small aircraft to the meticulous training required to navigate the skies with confidence as a commercial airline pilot. Tune in for a special guest appearance from a seasoned aviator who has spent more than 40 years in the cockpit. 

Don't miss our roundup of the latest education news headlines, "Fill in the Blank" trivia segment, and discussion of a special resource on literacy instruction for K-12 public schools in America.

"I truly feel that if I did not have these people supporting me as a teacher, I couldn't keep moving." - Katie, on her coworkers

In school, collaboration is key. This week, we're discussing the importance of carving out time for teachers to work together to solve tough problems and share inspiration. (We'll also talk about why staff meetings don't always count as collaborative time!) From veteran teachers and those who are just starting their careers, we've gathered reflections on how collegiality bolsters student achievement, reduces turnover in the profession, and fosters strong community. We'll also bring you the latest headlines in education news from around the country: S.B. 83 looms over higher education institutions in Ohio, sex ed. faces a setback in Gwinnett County, GA, and MOOSE are on the loose in Maine. (You'll just have to listen.) 

Don't forget to sign up for our email newsletter, launching soon! Stay up to date on the latest education news headlines, teacher resources, professional development opportunities, and more! Visit our website for more info.

Sources & Resources:

Wikipedia - List of inventors killed by their own invention

Vox - Men have fewer friends than ever, and it’s harming their health By Aubrey Hirsch

The Columbus Dispatch - Ohio Senate passes SB 83, controversial higher education bill. What would it do? by Anna Staver

Ohio Bill - SB 83

The Ohio Legislature - Senate Bill 83

Edutopia - Keeping the Door Open to Collaboration By Emelina Minero

District Administration - The benefits of teacher collaboration By Carla Thomas McClure

News Center Maine - Online Holocaust modules available for students for free By Hannah Yechivi

Maine - MOOSE History of Genocide & the Holocaust Learning Progression

If you're a classroom educator, you know firsthand how challenging and demanding your job can be. Between juggling lesson planning, student assessments, grading, parent communications, administrative duties, and extracurricular demands, it's unsurprising that teacher burnout is a prevalent issue in today's education system. Consider this: in a recent survey conducted by the National Education Association, more than half of members said they were planning to retire or leave teaching sooner than planned. Stress and burnout are key factors driving an exodus from the profession and contributing to an ongoing and global teacher shortage (and a global pandemic only made these issues more acute). In this episode, we'll be discussing some of the causes of burnout and the signs and symptoms that teachers might experience as a result of workplace stress. We'll also be diving into a variety of strategies that can be used to combat burnout, cultivate resilience, and prioritize your mental health.

A key takeaway from our conversation is the importance of your relationships with colleagues and trusted administrators in reducing teacher stress and burnout. Building relationships and getting involved (to the extent possible) in leadership positions within your school or district might be one way to make a big difference. Your voice is crucial! By becoming an advocate for change and having a say in important decisions, educators can begin to shift attitudes that lead to a culture of stress and burnout.

From mindfulness and self-care practices to boundary-setting and time-management strategies, we'll be sharing a wide range of tools and techniques that can help educators to reduce stress and cultivate a more sustainable work-life balance. Whether you're a seasoned educator or an aspiring teacher just starting out, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical advice that can help you to minimize the risk and effects of burnout in your own career. Tune in and join the conversation!

Sources and Resources:

Teach.com - 50 Resources to Support the Mental Health of Teachers and School Staff

Edutopia - How Burned Out Are You? A Scale For Teachers By Kevin Leichtman

The New York Times - Teachers, Facing Increasing Levels of Stress, Are Burned Out By Sejla Rizvic

Positive Psychology - Teacher Burnout: 4 Warning Signs & How to Prevent It by Tiffany Sauber Millacci, Ph.D.

NEA - Poll Results: Stress And Burnout Pose Threat Of Educator Shortages

IFRC - Emblems and Logos

American Red Cross - The red crescent and red crystal

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success By Carol S. - The Book Loft - German Village- Columbus, Ohio. 

Podcast - You're Wrong About