On today’s episode: education scholar and author, Yong Zhao

Zhao is an education professor at the University of Kansas and at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education in Australia. His work focuses on technology and globalization’s impact on education. His latest book, co-authored with fellow KU professor Rick Ginsberg, is Duck and Cover which explores the outdated and ill-informed ideas that plague our school system and how we can rethink them.

Topics:

• 02:30 How ‘chance’ can become opportunity
• 08:38 The problem with education reforms in the U.S.
• 12:03 How the concept of the ‘achievement gap’ hurts students
• 15:30 Entrepreneurial thinking in the classroom
• 19:45 Giving teachers agency in reform efforts
• 21:30 How Chat GPT can help students