Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts

Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts

By Carrie BirminghamEducationFiction
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  • Harry Potter Plays Sports
    If this podcast series were called “Harry Potter Plays Sports” instead of
    “Harry Potter Goes to School,” I’d have a lot more to say about Quidditch.
    But I do have something to say about Harry’s first impression of Marcus
    Flint, captain of Slytherin’s Quidditch team.
    26 min
  • Chips & Snips
    For the most part, these are really small pieces of leftovers, smaller than
    what I call Bits & Bobs, so I'm calling this episode Chips & Snips. Bits &
    Bobs really is a British English idiom, but as far as I know, I have
    invented the idiom Chips & Snips. You're welcome. I also considered calling
    this episode The Speed Round. You'll see why.
    17 min
  • Bits & Bobs, Collection 2
    So many bits and bobs are left over in these chapters, things I didn’t talk
    about in previous episodes because there were other things to talk about.
    So I’ll talk about them now, and see if I can exhaust the possibilities for
    education-relevant ideas here before I exhaust myself and you too, kind
    listener. Harry's broom, Neville's trauma, Snape's assessment plan, and
    Peeves's linguistic brain teaser are all here.
    25 min
  • Hermione’s Big Change
    I used to think that Hermione’s big change happened in the moment between
    her rescue from the troll and her lie to Professor McGonagall about why
    she, Harry, Ron, and a troll were in the girls’ bathroom together. But now
    I think that Hermione’s big change happened gradually over the two months
    she was at Hogwarts. Clever as she is, she must have noticed that her
    social approach wasn’t working very well.
    21 min
  • Or Worse, Expelled
    Maybe I didn’t go to the right kind of school, or maybe I didn’t run with
    the wrong kind of kids, but I never, never thought I was about to be
    expelled from school. I can’t even remember thinking that anyone I knew was
    at risk of being expelled from school. Whether it be expulsion, detention,
    losing house points, or just getting caught breaking rules and whatever
    comes from that, Gryffindor first years seem to think about avoiding
    punishment a lot.
    22 min
  • Hidden Talents, Hidden Perspectives
    Harry’s hidden talent is flying, and he, Draco, Minerva, and Oliver are
    about to discover it. Neville, Ron, and Pavarti Patil have a little bit of
    the spotlight in this chapter too, but their hidden talents or non-talents
    stay kind of hidden.
    22 min
  • First Year Orientation
    Welcome to Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts, a
    podcast for students, teachers, professors, parents, and anyone else
    interested in what a Hogwarts education has to offer. Please join us in the
    Great Hall for a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the Harry Potter series and
    all things education. What would the first day of school be like without
    announcements? Now then, let’s get right to it.
    22 min
  • Top Ten Bits & Bobs
    Since Harry is just entering Hogwarts, everything is new to him, and it’s
    new to us too. And since Hogwarts is a school, there is a lot of
    school-relevant material in these chapters. This episode is dedicated to
    the odds and ends, bits and bobs of more and less school-relevant ideas,
    the items that don’t fit into big themes but are interesting nevertheless.
    17 min
  • The Sorting is Real
    Many teachers I know are especially keen to create an atmosphere that is
    welcoming, warm, and safe, especially on the first days of school. This is
    not the case at Hogwarts.
    21 min
  • So Much to Fear
    We have double fear in this chapter. First, in a
    magical-mystery-adventure-type book series, we anticipate a good amount of
    tension and fear—because we have experience reading or knowing about
    magical-mystery-adventure-type stories. Second, as Harry prepares for his
    first day of school at Hogwarts, we anticipate a good amount of tension and
    fear—because we have been to school.
    19 min

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Welcome to Harry Potter Goes to School: Learning In and Out of Hogwarts, a podcast for students, teachers, professors, parents, and anyone else interested in what a Hogwarts education has to offer. Please join us in the Great Hall for a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the Harry Potter series and all things education.