Learning on Fire - Education from sharing wisdom not testing

Richard Anderson joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

Rich is a Visionary, Type-A, entrepreneur with a background in Accounting, Mergers/Acquisitions and Solution Development. He is also a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, a former mobile DJ, a husband and a father. When he's not working, you might find Rich on a nearby mountain bike trail - or hundreds of miles away, riding a motorcycle or driving the family motorhome.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

1. Who are you?

2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?

3. What was valuable about your school experience?

4. Which teachers do you remember and why?

5. Who did you admire when you were young?

6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?

7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?

8. What advice would you give your younger self?

9. What does your future look like?

10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

Jerry Dugan joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

Jerry Dugan is an Army veteran who served in Operation Iraqi Freedom as a combat medic in the 3rd Infantry Division. As a father of two, he realized that if he truly wanted to break the self-destructive cycles he saw in his own extended family he had to become a different person and live a different life.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

1. Who are you?

2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?

3. What was valuable about your school experience?

4. Which teachers do you remember and why?

5. Who did you admire when you were young?

6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?

7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?

8. What advice would you give your younger self?

9. What does your future look like?

10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

On todays show we have slight change of format as I chat with Janet Allison about teaching and raising boys.

After receiving her degree in Elementary Education from the University of Maine at Farmington (cum laude), Janet Allison began her teaching career in a Waldorf School with a class of 10 boys and 2 girls. She quickly realized she had NOT been prepared for the differences in the way boys learn and the way girls learn. Through trial and error, extensive reading and research, and sheer determination, Janet was at last able to understand those parts of her boys that were hard-wired (and therefore unchangeable) and the things that she could change – by making lessons more active and interactive and providing plenty of outside time and movement in the classroom. With her many years of classroom experience, she is able to ‘talk the talk’ with teachers in both public and private schools – including those following Waldorf and Montessori principles.

Shane & Jocelyn Sams join me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped their lives.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

1. Who are you?

2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?

3. What was valuable about your school experience?

4. Which teachers do you remember and why?

5. Who did you admire when you were young?

6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?

7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?

8. What advice would you give your younger self?

9. What does your future look like?

10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

Karin Bjerde joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped her life.

Karin Bjerde is Head of Strategic Growth at Kognity, and a true global citizen having lived abroad most of her life. She has been named one of the world's 75 future global leaders by Goldman Sachs and the Institute of International Education, and is now channeling this to challenge, rethink, and ultimately improve existing norms in education, firmly believing in the power of combining technology and pedagogy. Karin has a MSc in Economics, and worked at Morgan Stanley for 4 years before joining Kognity.

Bolaji Oyejide joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

Bolaji O is the creator of Brave Young Heroes - a series of 50 superhero books featuring diverse kids who find their inner strength. Despite differences like anxiety, autism, dyslexia, obesity, shyness, OCD, and more. 

As Doctor Hero, Bolaji helps kids to write themselves into a heroic story. 

He founded Superhero Academy: A reality role-playing adventure game that helps kids master character development by putting them right in the middle of an epic struggle for the future of childhood.

He also invented I, S.U.P.E.R. - a proprietary method for creating a confident, bully proof, growth mindset in children.

Bolaji has been featured on ABC, TEDx, the News & Observer, and school counselor conferences across the country.

On todays episode we take the question ‘What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?’ and hear the answers from guests 20-27.

For information about the guests start at LF020 and follow until LF027. If in doubt use the search bar in the menu tab.

Sit back and enjoy the wisdom that has literally changed the lives of the people you hear.

Full information at www.EducationOnFire.com

On todays episode we take the question ‘What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?’ and hear the answers from guests 10-19.

For information about the guests start at LF010 and follow until LF019. If in doubt use the search bar in the menu tab.

Paul Philbert RSNO Principal Timpanist. LF010

Sit back and enjoy the wisdom that has literally changed the lives of the people you hear.

Questions asked on the Learning on Fire Podcast Interview

1. Who are you?

2. What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?

3. What was valuable about your school experience?

4. Which teachers do you remember and why?

5. Who did you admire when you were young?

6. What was it about that person that had such an impact?

7. What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?

8. What advice would you give your younger self?

9. What does your future look like?

10. What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?

 

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National Association for Primary Education

Our aim is to achieve a higher priority for the education of children from birth to 13. High quality learning in the early years of life is vitally important to the creation of an educated society. Young children are not simply preparing for the future, they are living a never to be repeated time of life and the best way to learn is to live.

On todays episode we take the question 'What is the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?'  and hear the answers from our first 9 guests. 

Sit back and enjoy the wisdom that has literally changed the lives of the people you hear.

Jesse Lozano joins me on the Learning on Fire podcast and explores the most important learning and educational moments that shaped his life.

Jesse Lozano is CEO and co-founder of pi-top, the world’s leading creative learning company with a simple idea that a ‘maker-mindset’ is essential to developing the skills we all need to be future ready. 

Jesse launched the business in 2014 and has grown pi-top into a leading education innovation platform. pi-top stems from Jesse’s interest in affordable technology and how it can be utilised to democratise STEM based education across the world.