Season 2, Episode 6 - Math Histories by MASCLab

The "Craftivism" episode features an interview with Dr. Sandra Markus about her dissertation research on craftivist subcultures, both on and offline. The 2017 Women's March features prominently in the discussion as does the British Suffragette movement as a historical precedent. As mentioned in this episode, you can see Janie Terrero's work here: https://www.museumoflondonprints.com/image/218153/janie-terrero-embroidery-by-janie-terrero-made-in-holloway-prison-1912 and learn more about the Suffragette's imprisonment at Holloway Prison here: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/suffragettes-holloway-prison. Stay tuned, as there is a craftivism follow up episode in the works! Interviewer and narrator: Elyse Blake. The Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 2.0): http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

On October 29, 2018, Steve Goodman, founding director of the Educational Video Center, came to Teachers College to discuss his new book “It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching.”

The Educational Video Center is a social justice youth arts organization that builds the capacity of young people in transfer schools and international schools to create documentary films and to think and engage deeply with social justice.

On this episode of the Media and Social Change Podcast, we will hear from Steve Goodman about what grit is, from his lens, and its relation with urban youth and education.

You can buy It’s Not About Grit by Steve Goodman where books are sold, and you can check out films by Educational Video Center participants at evc.org.

The Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 2.0): http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

This is the first "crossover" episode in which we're featuring MASCLab member Kyle Oliver's ethnographic research on digital storytelling in faith and faith-adjacent settings.

Learn more about digital storytelling at storycenter.org.

References and further reading:

Ackermann E. K. (2007) Experiences of artifacts: People’s appropriations / objects’ “affordances”. In: Glasersfeld E. (Ed.) Key works in radical constructivism (pp. 249–259). Rotterdam, The Netherlands: Sense Publishers.

Hess, M. E. (2012). Mirror neurons, the development of empathy, and digital story telling. Religious Education, 107, 401–414.

Lambert, J. (2012). Digital storytelling: Capturing lives, creating community. New York, NY: Routledge.

As always, the Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 2.0): http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

Join us Friday, May 3, 5-8 pm in the Smith Learning Theater at Teachers College for Podfest 2019: A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Making.

Our music in this trailer is Mai Tai Beach by Little Glass Men (CC BY 4.0 via FreeMusicArchive.org).

You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at masclab.org/podfest

A wide-ranging conversation on the phenomenon of firearm use and gun reform legislation, recommendations on policy and areas in need of further research with MASCLab Director and Professor of Technology and Education, Lalitha Vasudevan, Louis Klarevas - an expert on the study of mass shootings and homeland security, and author of the recently published book Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings and Sonali Rajan, Assistant Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia, and an expert on adolescent risk behaviors who studies school climate, aggression and violence prevention in schools, and socio-emotional wellbeing among adolescents.

Teachers College, the first and largest graduate school of education in the U.S., serves students in the interrelated fields of education, health, and psychology. It does so through a number of degree programs, centers, labs, and institutes spread out across a large, city-block campus in New York City. Its partnerships have national and global reach.

MASCLab sat down with TC’s Tom Bailey just ahead of his inauguration as the school’s 11th President. We wanted to hear his thoughts on taking the helm of our longstanding institution at this time in our nation’s history. We spoke with President Bailey about—among other things—his vision for the college, the state of higher education, and his love of Chopin.

More about MASCLab:

https://masclab.org/

More about inauguration events:

https://www.tc.columbia.edu/inauguration/

More about the Community College Research Center:

https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

We talk with Matthew Camp, Director of Government Relations and a PhD student at Teachers College, Columbia University, about the college's #TakeActionTuesday initiative and related civic engagement activities going on across campus. We recorded this conversation on November 5, 2018, one day before the closely watched 2018 midterm elections. Matt's message is clear: Vote, AND...

Voting is a good step, an important step, but as he and others at the college urge, civic action must be, as Matt puts it, quotidian and not merely episodic.

So give it a listen and get inspired to VOTE, and... contact your representative, take part in local activities, use social media for public good, and build coalitions to have your voice - verbal and otherwise - find audiences across platforms.

Our theme music is "Kelp Grooves" by Little Glass Men, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

MASCLab's Joe Riina-Ferrie interviews our colleague Janell Drone about her research into African American one-room school facilities and her experience of school desegregation in rural West Texas. A transcript of this episode is coming soon.

This video includes photos from Dr. Drone's archival research:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6Kf9HFfqc

Our theme music is "Kelp Grooves" by Little Glass Men, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org.

MASCLab's Kyle Oliver interviews Sarah Lefton, Jewish educator and founder of BimBam, about the art and science of teaching old wisdom on new media.

Sarah and Kyle talk about Christian readings of Hebrew texts:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oktwIkRLZQ

Rough edit of Sarah and Kyle's full conversation:

https://soundcloud.com/kylematthewoliver/sarah-lefton-full-interview

You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep3-script

Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org