Digical Education

Writer, speaker and podcast host Christina Crook has been studying the relationship between joy and technology for over a decade. Whether you’re seeking presence, peace, focus or productivity, Christina has shaped tools and teachings to reconnect your habits with your happiness. 

With all of the conversations of happiness, well-being, and current mental health issues this was a fun conversation for me to have as Christina is an expert in being mindful about our lives as well as being intentional about the use of technology. Enjoy the conversation, but also check out more JOMO resources at her website.

This is a continuation of a conversation with Thomas Arnett from earlier this fall that talks about educational innovation and the necessity to create new value networks.

Take a read of the report he wrote.

Namita Prasad is a Confidence Educator and in this podcast with my friend Mitch Weathers of Organized Binder we talk with her about her work and her book "The Power of Why Not." 

Happy 2023, and I think this is a great conversation to kick-off the New Year and 2nd Semester of school. Dr. Erik Demeulenaere of Clark University wrote a journal article that intrigued me called Disrupting School Rituals based on a class he co-taught with two other local teachers in Worcester, MA. 

I hope this encourages you as you think about this in your classroom and schools and how it might help you reimagine the good (but messy) work that can happen in those spaces.

Ben Bajarin is a great friend, a parent, and a great chef who introduced me to ChatGPT a couple weeks ago. In this conversation I wanted Ben's thoughts on this transformative technology and how we might reframe our thinking about how to best use and steward this technology.

Ben has been with Creative Strategies, inc since 2000. He covers consumer technology, personal computing devices, semiconductors, investments, and business strategy. His research has focused on the relationship between humans and technology, seeking to understand what drives their behavior with products and services. He joined Creative Strategies after spending time at Cypress Semiconductor and then founding two startups in the late ’90s.

He serves on several Industry Analyst advisory councils for leading technology companies. He maintains active engagement with Silicon Valley venture capitalists and startups. He has also given lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Berkley’s Haas School of Business, and Harvard Business School. He actively advises investment banks like UBS, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley on core industry topics, investment thesis on all the large-cap tech companies.

His industry expertise has been referenced in the media by sites like Reuters, Financial Times, NYTimes, Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, and more. He has published columns for Fast Company, Techcrunch, TIME, and MIT Technology Review.

This Future Ready conversation is with Dean Nicholas who is Head of School at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.

Stephen Carter is Director of Entrepreneurship at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy in Ohio that was part of the Future Ready book/research.

Bill Sterrett serves as Department Chair and Professor of Educational Leadership in Baylor University’s School of Education. Before joining Baylor in 2022, Sterrett served as Associate Dean and Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Prior to Sterrett’s 12-year tenure at UNCW, he was a principal and teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Some resources mentioned in the podcast:

Bill Sterrett's Baylor Faculty page (with additional resources and links): https://soefaculty.baylor.edu/william_sterrett/ 

Sterrett et al (2022): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1349031.pdf 

Sterrett & Imig (2015): http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Sterrett-Imig-JSE-Nov-2015-Hope-Issue-PDF.pdf 

Sterrett, Imig, & Moore (2014): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah-Moore-3/publication/281834859_US_Department_of_Education_Green_Ribbon_Schools_Leadership_Insights_and_Implications/links/55fa6f1d08aeba1d9f322eb6/US-Department-of-Education-Green-Ribbon-Schools-Leadership-Insights-and-Implications.pdf 

Kathleen Peercy shares her story of moving from the classroom, to a specialist role, and now to an instructional coach and how it has shaped her love for students, colleagues, and our profession.

Joel Gaines is the Head of School at The City School in Philadelphia.