Design Cast

On this episode of Design Cast I had the opportunity to speak to Justin Bedard of the Jump! Foundation.  Justin spent his childhood playing in the islands of Indonesia and his formative years exploring and learning in China. He has a strong passion for educational innovation, and he is recognized for his commitment to youth programs around the world. He has filled his life with organizational consulting, leadership facilitation, community development, and time playing in the wilderness.

The JUMP! Foundation’s vision is to Inspire individuals through transformational experiences. Empower individuals with skills and resources to create positive impact.  Engage individuals with local and global communities.  Justin talks about this throughout the discussion and we even get into chatting about the current state of education and how innovation will hopefully have a lasting impact on education moving into the unknown future!  I am confident that you will enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed chatting!

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On this episode of Design Cast I had the awesome opportunity to chat with James Bleach.  James is the Head of Design and Technology at Tanglin Trust School in Singapore.  Many listeners will be familiar with him through his creation of classroom resources that are featured on this website and Facebook group known as JambleD&T.  We talk about our shared love of all things D&T and what inspires us to share our experiences.  I am confident that you will enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed chatting!

Please subscribe, rate, and share this podcast.  I appreciate all of the kind words and support that have been rolling in so far!  If you have ideas for future episodes or would like to be a guest, please reach out through my website www.jasonreagin.ga as there is a contact form on the website.  I see that folks have reached out to me there lately but for some reason I did not get the notification.  I have fixed this now and if you left a comment for me there I will be reaching out very soon!

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In this episode of Design Cast I sit down with Mr. Ashton Simmonds.  He is Australian and currently works as an MYP Design teacher in Japan.  Designer by trade, Ashton later discovered that he enjoyed teaching.  Like so many of my guests, he started down one path and somewhere along the way switched over to teaching Design.  We talk about his school, students and projects he is working on.  Two points of interest to look out for are the way he is able to try out high-end 3D printers and the project he is wanting to do with bicycles! So be on the lookout for that!

As always, if you are enjoying this podcast, please rate it, leave a comment or review and subscribe!  Also, please share this podcast with colleagues and others in your professional network that might like to hear it.  Finally, reach out on all the major social media platforms to me if you have an episode idea or if you would like to appear as a guest!

Now, time for my chat with Ashton Simmonds!

Connect with Ashton on LinkedIn and Facebook!

Links from the chat:

Figma - UX Design

Mural - Canvas multi-user

On this episode of Design Cast I had the pleasure of speaking to Mr. Jon Halligan.  He has held multiple roles from teacher to school leadership. Jon worked in multiple education institutions from primary to tertiary, state and private, from the UK to the UAE. For the last 5 years, Jon worked as the Head of Development & Recognition for the IBO in The Hague.  Jon has several startup projects that he is currently working on and we talk about those in this episode.

A lot of what we talked about dealt with the IB Career-related Programme or CP.  We have a lively discussion around the components of the CP and how schools can get started implementing the programme.  Jon also talks about his new start-up projects and they are VIE education which is the company that is setting up two different international schools in Switzerland which are going to be CP only schools!

I am currently the CP coordinator at my school and I see tremendous opportunities with ‘Personal Design Pathways’ for schools all over the world.  This conversation with Jon only confirmed my philosophy further!  I hope that you can see the possibilities for the design programs in your schools!!!

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Now, please enjoy this chat Jon!

You can connect with Jon on LinkedIn and Twitter!

@jon_halligan @Montreuxis on twitter & “VIE education” on LinkedIn

Links to Jon’s newest projects:

Company website is www.vie-education.com and new school, www.montreuxis.ch (Both launching soon!)

Books:

Rebel Ideas

Innovation Stack

On this episode of Design Cast I had the honor of speaking with Mr. Andy Richardson.  I connected with Andy via social media and through mutual colleagues.  He is an Industrial Arts and Design Technology Teacher at Northfield Public Schools District # 659 in St Paul, Minnesota.  Andy just completed a six year stent at the Lincoln Community School in Ghana, West Africa where he was the Head of Design.  During this time in Ghana, Andy successfully planned and implemented several maker faires in the school community.  We had an awesome time chatting about the struggles and successes of pulling off such an event!  I am sure that you will enjoy our conversation!

I would like to ask everyone who enjoys this podcast to review it wherever you listen to it!  Please subscribe and share with your professional network.  Also, please check out my other podcast guest appearances where I talk about loads of topics with other content creators from around the world.  You can see the list of my appearances at my website www.jasonreagin.ga.

If you listened to the episode with Evo Hannan in Season 2 of this podcast you will hopefully remember that he and I have been working on a Design Network Alliance.  The link to sign up is: http://gg.gg/DesignNetworkAlliance and we look forward to hearing from you!

Now, sit back and enjoy this chat Andy!

You can connect with Andy on LinkedIn.

On this episode of Design Cast I had the pleasure of speaking with Linda Keane.  I connected with Linda after reading a few of her published articles on the subject of ‘Design Education’.  She is Professor of Architecture & Environmental Design At The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an eLearning Entrepreneur with the NEXT.cc. She promotes environmental education awareness within the context of a STEAM curricular framework.  This episode is really different as when we spoke, she shared her screen with me and had an entire presentation that illustrates the situations and concepts that she was discussing.  The video of this episode is available on my YouTube channel which is linked in the show notes.  

If you would like to connect with Linda or check out the work that we talk about, head over to her website https://www.next.cc/ where the resources, tools, articles, and so on that you will hear about are located!  Again, the show notes for this episode will have links to many of the items that we discuss.

I would like to ask everyone who enjoys this podcast to review it wherever you listen to it!  Please subscribe and share with your professional network.  Also, please check out my other podcast guest appearances where I talk about loads of topics with other content creators from around the world.  You can see the list of my appearances at my website www.jasonreagin.ga.

Finally, I want to also share with you all an exciting resource that my friend Evo Hannah has been working on for the past 8-9 months.  Evo hosts a fortnightly livestream on YouTube called EdTalks Live:

Ed Talks is a live talk show for teachers and parents to bring insights, thoughts and ideas from a local and global perspective, to help with remote learning and homeschooling needs. The next live show will premiere on Sept 6th at 7pm Gulf Standard Time.  If you have time please check it out, it is a lot of fun!

Also, if you listened to the episode in Season 2 of this podcast when I spoke to Evo you will hopefully remember that he and I have been working on a Design Network Alliance.  The link to sign up is: http://gg.gg/DesignNetworkAlliance and we look forward to hearing from you!

Now, sit back and enjoy this chat Linda Keane!

Connect with Linda:

www.saic.edu 

(https://www.saic.edu/news/linda-keane-professor)

https://www.NEXT.cc/ 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/next_cc/albums 

https://www.instagram.com/next.cc/?hl=en 

https://www.youtube.com/user/NEXTcc/videos 

www.STUDIO1032.com 

What book would you recommend that everyone read right now? 

Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Adrienne Maree Brown 

National Geographics Double issue of How We Lost the World: A Pessimist’s Guide to Life in 2070  vs. an How we Saved the Planet: An Optimist’s Guide to Life in 2070 04.2020 

Who do we need to follow on Twitter at the moment? 

@MelSilk, @philiplbell, @CareerInSTEM, @STEMTeachTools, @girlsinSTEMkit, 

@globalgreen, @girlsinSTEMkit, @stemefg, @ngcproject, @OfficialNGSS, many more

Best YouTube channel for educators?

https://ed.ted.com/,https://www.khanacademy.org/, https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/by-level, 

YOUTUBE FOR KIDS, 

National Geographic Kids, 

MiaAcademy Learning Channel , 

SafeshareTv, 

NAT Geo, 

NOAA, 

NASA, 

EARTH, 

Urban Observatory 

Just look at NEXT.cc’s Explore links and all of the videos connected!!!

On this episode of Design Cast I had the honor of speaking with Mr. Craig Frehlich.  I have known Craig for a while; however, we have collaborated together on several podcast and livestream events in the last 6 months.  His work with VR is commendable and trendsetting.  I very much enjoyed our conversation that centered mostly around the uses of VR in schools, but we touch on several other topics.  His book is available for pre-order now!

If you would like to get in touch with Craig you can check out the links to his online presence in the show notes as well as a link to preorder his new book!

I would like to ask everyone who enjoys this podcast to review it wherever you listen to it!  Please subscribe and share with your professional network.  Also, please check out my other podcast guest appearances where I talk about loads of topics with other content creators from around the world.  You can see the list of my appearances at my website www.jasonreagin.ga.

I would love to hear how you and your school are preparing to teach students this year!  I know that everyone is at different places in their journey whether it be face to face or completely online or somewhere in between.  Please share your experience with me!  Head over to Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, or Anchor to connect with me about this topic.  I hope to put some of these thoughts into a future episode!  Again, thank you all to the overwhelming positive response to this podcast!  I will keep going as long as I can and there is a need for this sort of information!!!

On a final note, I’ll be leading a discussion on August 26th about the World Economic Forum and how it can be used to produce robust units and classroom activities for #IB_C_P/ IB_DP! Don’t miss the opportunity to register for this PD workshop!  The link for registration is listed in the show notes and I will be blasting it out on all of my online PLNs in the coming days!

Now, sit back and enjoy this chat between myself and Craig!

Connect with Craig!

Twitter: @cfrehlichteach

Website https://cfrehlich.wixsite.com/vrhelp

Podcast: https://cfrehlich.podbean.com/

Book: Immersive Learning: A Practical Guide to Harnessing Virtual Reality’s Superpowers in Education,  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1475857942/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0

IB Webinar Registration Link

In this episode of Design Cast I had the pleasure of speaking with Mr. Suhail Khan.  Mr. Khan is a relatively new teacher to the profession, but has lots of experience beyond time in the classroom.  We talk about a range of topics, but what was most interesting about our chat was the time spent talking about how he has used Food Design as a service activity in Pune, India.  I am sure that you will all enjoy listening to it as much as did speaking with him about it.

I would like to ask everyone who enjoys this podcast to review it wherever you listen to it!  Please subscribe and share with your professional network.  Also, please check out my other podcast guest appearances where I talk about loads of topics with other content creators from around the world.  You can see the list of my appearances at my website www.jasonreagin.ga.

I would love to hear how you and your school are preparing to teach students this year!  I know that everyone is at different places in their journey whether it be face to face or completely online or somewhere in between.  Please share your experience with me!  Head over to Twitter, Linkedin, Facebook, or Anchor to connect with me about this topic.  I hope to put some of these thoughts into a future episode!  Again, thank you all to the overwhelming positive response to this podcast!  I will keep going as long as I can and there is a need for this sort of information!!!

On a final note, I’ll be leading a discussion on August 26th about the World Economic Forum and how it can be used to produce robust units and classroom activities for #IB_C_P/ IB_DP! Don’t miss the opportunity to register for this PD workshop!  The link for registration will be listed on my LinkedIn and Twitter feeds starting August 24th, so be on the lookout for that!!!

Now, sit back and enjoy this chat between myself and Mr. Khan!

On this episode of Design Cast, I chat with my long time colleague and friend, David Ardley.  Dave and I met in the summer of 2006 when he was the workshop leader of a DP Design Technology course that I participated in.  The training was amazing and we have kept in touch and collaborated ever since!  Our friendship is another reason why the ‘design’ education field globally is such an awesome opportunity to be active.

In this chat, Dave and I discuss a whole range of topics, but as the discussion moves on the theme of ‘value added education’ emerges.  This is a very valuable concept for school to consider and to take into account when planning for short and long term goals.  We would love to hear from you on this topic!  Please reach out in either the comment section of Anchor or through my website www.jasonreagin.ga

Dave shared several books with me during our chat.  They are:

Creating Cultures of Thinking - How to transform our schools by Ron Ritchhart;

Turn The Ship Around (turning followers into Leaders) by David Marquet

You can follow David on the following:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/V2education

Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/dave.ardley/

Website or Blog: www.ardles.com

Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.ch/DesEdSwiss/  https://www.pinterest.ch/Ardles2/

PaperLi (Journal): https://paper.li/V2education/1376813588#/

I want to also share with you all an exciting resource that my friend Evo Hannan has been working on for the past 8-9 months.  Evo hosts a fortnightly livestream on YouTube called EdTalks Live:

Ed Talks is a live talk show for teachers and parents to bring insights, thoughts and ideas from a local and global perspective, to help with remote learning and homeschooling needs.

The next live show will premiere on Sept 6th at 7pm Gulf Standard Time.  If you have time please check it out, it is a lot of fun!

Also, if you listened to the episode in Season 2 of this podcast when I spoke to Evo you will hopefully remember that he and I have been working on a sort of Global Design Alliance.  We will be sending out a form to those who are interested in joining in our alliance in the coming weeks, so please keep an eye out on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and so on!  You can find out more about Evo's show at www.evohannan.com 

Now, on to the chat with David Ardley!

On this episode of Design Cast, I speak to Jarrett Dunbar.  Jarrett started his career as an industrial designer and moved into teaching later.  I worked with Jarrett over the past 2 years and enjoyed his spirit of collaboration and life-long learning!  He is now headed to the American School in Rio.  We talk about all kinds of topics, but find focus in talking about Biomimicry.  This is a field that has been gaining more traction in the last few years as a way to find inspiration in nature and the natural world around us.  Have a listen to this awesome conversation!

You can follow Jarrett on:

Biomimicry Institute https://biomimicry.org/

Biomimicry 3.8 https://biomimicry.net/

designboom https://www.designboom.com/

Jarrett follows these folks on Instagram: