Sean is off to new adventures and has left full-time employment with ThriveDX. This episode is a synopsis of some of the most important takeaways from the whole podcast series: the ThriveDX Educational Principles.

Links and further reading:

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And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Wes Della Volla has a long history in media production and a bunch of awards for his work in VR and 360 video. He’s created some groundbreaking VR experiences and is now partnering with Meta’s immersive learning initiative. So when Wes talks about the metaverse and its utility in education, we definitely will learn something!

Links and further reading:

Earlier TFPE on immersive learning with VR and AR

https://anchor.fm/tfpe/episodes/Immersive-Learning-with-Ben-Murphy-es7mj3

Brookings Institute publication “A whole new world: Education meets the metaverse”

https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-whole-new-world-education-meets-the-metaverse/

Meridian Treehouse publications

https://www.meridiantreehouse.com/journal 

https://www.meridiantreehouse.com/metaverse-education-guide

VR experiences:

Immersive dives: 

https://thehydro.us/immerse-vr

https://thehydro.us/virtual-dives

https://vimeo.com/570715251

Moonwalk

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/smithsonian-and-meta-invite-visitors-walk-moon-exclusive-new-virtual-reality

Social media:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/meridiantreehouse

https://www.instagram.com/meridiantreehouse/

https://twitter.com/meridiantree

https://twitter.com/TheHydrous

https://twitter.com/DellaVolla

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Jenni Kephart is the founder of Unlocking Potential (https://www.unlockingpotentialspecialists.com/), an academic and test-prep support company on math problems, exams, essays, school projects, or other academic challenges. Jenni’s team works to “validate each student’s natural and intuitive way of thinking,” and she says they see the benefits of this extend far beyond the time the students leave her program. Come learn how she supports intuitive learning.

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

In this episode we learn from Shaunak Roy, the founder of Yellowdig, which is a startup that focuses on social and active learning and connection, building communities of learners in their existing learning management systems, and incentivizing engagement. Shaunak speaks about the importance of connection and motivation in learning, particularly in online scenarios, and shares how his company is trying to fill this gap. 

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Bart Butler creates experiences. Among other places, he’s worked at The Disney Company and European Wax Center, and if you’ve visited either of those you know just how fanatical they are about customer experience. He now heads the Experience Development team at ThriveDX, where he works on improving the experiences of our students, faculty, and staff. 

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Kaya Henderson has a long and fascinating career journey in education, including a 6-year stint as the Chancellor of the D.C. Public School system, and has now channeled her expertise into building reconstruction.us and driving its mission of “unapologetically Black education.” Come learn about Kaya’s thoughts on inclusive and representative education, and how she’s built a thriving education platform outside the standard educational system.

Links and further reading:

reconstruction.us and the NPR article on it

Kaya’s podcast, Pod Save the People

Kaya on LinkedIn

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great shows to learn from.

Daisy Christodoulou is an expert in learning theory who has focused her career on building and evangelizing research-based practice. In this episode, Sean and Daisy talk about educational myths in the areas of learning styles, teaching knowledge vs. skills, project-based learning, rubrics, studying techniques, and more. This is a long one but trust us: Daisy is worth it.

Links and further reading:

Sean’s review of Teachers vs. Tech.

Daisy’s website, which has all the details of her books as well as links to purchase them, and her Twitter profile.

The No More Marking website has many details about Comparative Judgement.

Anki spaced repetition software (with links to Win, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android versions) and Daisy's blog post about Anki.

Ebbinghaus' Forgetting Curve.

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Four of ThriveDX's amazing instructors (Ivan Suarez, Katie Embrey-Farquhar, Chris Mendoza, and Sean Klitzner) talk about what they’ve learned about teaching during Covid and share what works… and what doesn’t… in online teaching. It’s a great conversation with some incredible educators, and you'll definitely learn something from them.

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉 Check out their list for some other great people to learn from.

Note: this is part 2 of a 2-part episode. If you haven’t listened to part 1 yet, you may benefit from going back to hear how we define the terms of Blended Learning and related methodologies.

Sherrina Henderson, ThriveDX’s Assistant Director of Associate Director of Digital Program Strategy and Performance, has a wealth of knowledge about education from her two decades of work and study in the field. In this two-part episode, Sean and Sherrina speak about all things Blended Learning. This part examines ways to create effective Blended Learning experiences.

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: 🎉 TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts! 🎉

Note: this is part 1 of a 2-part episode.

Sherrina Henderson, ThriveDX’s Assistant Director of Associate Director of Digital Program Strategy and Performance, has a wealth of knowledge about education from her two decades of work and study in the field. In this two-part episode, Sean and Sherrina speak about all things Blended Learning. This part defines the terms of Blended Learning and related methodologies, and the next will examine ways to create effective Blended Learning experiences.

Have a great idea for a podcast topic? You can find Sean on Twitter, TikTok, Instagram, LinkedIn, or by e-mail at [email protected]. Reach out and share what matters to you.

And finally: TFPE was selected as one of FeedSpot's Top 50 educational podcasts!