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This Week with EdSurge is the essential weekly podcast that takes you past the headlines and deep into the fascinating, fast-evolving world of education. Hosted by Ira Apfel alongside our talented tea... more
FAQs about This Week with EdSurge:How many episodes does This Week with EdSurge have?The podcast currently has 582 episodes available.
March 08, 2022What Role Should AI Play in Education? A Venture Capitalist and an EdTech Critic Face OffWhat happens when a venture capitalist who funds edtech companies faces off with an edtech critic about what role AI should play in education? We found out, in this discussion between professor Neil Selwyn and venture-fund founder Ryan Craig....more42minPlay
March 01, 2022Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6The Rhodes Scholarship was designed to forge a network of people who would go on to rule the world. So who gets this opportunity? And how is the oldest and best-known graduate scholarship dealing with the legacy of its founder, who used ruthless and racist practices to build the diamond empire that funded the effort?...more45minPlay
February 22, 2022Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?Philosopher and historian of technology Justin E. H. Smith has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from. And he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years — and what tech might be doing to us as learners and thinkers. Understanding that past, he argues, can help make a course correction....more39minPlay
February 16, 2022Educators Have Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the MetaverseEven though the metaverse is not really here yet, some educators are already trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in this new, more-immersive internet....more33minPlay
February 08, 2022Who Will Pay for ‘Inclusive Excellence’ at Universities?There are universities aiming to do top-notch research and serve large numbers of students of color and low-income students. This goal—what some campus leaders call ‘inclusive excellence’—challenges common assumptions about prestige in education. And according to the authors of the book “Broke,” it’s hard to accomplish in a time of reduced state support for public colleges....more41minPlay
February 02, 2022Clay Shirky Wants to Reframe the Conversation About How Colleges Are ChangingClay Shirky has long been an influential voice on how technology is impacting society. These days the NYU professor has been weighing in on where higher ed is headed, with a newsletter called "The (Continual) Transformation of Higher Education."...more37minPlay
January 25, 2022Remote School Meltdowns? A Closer Look at Student Well-Being During the PandemicA group of researchers at Harvard have a unique window into student well-being during the pandemic, following a group of a couple thousand families with young children in Massachusetts. They're seeing more behavior issues in kids during remote learning, and they have advice for educators on how to manage shifts back and forth between online and in-person teaching....more34minPlay
January 18, 2022How Will COVID-19 Impact School Reform Movements?A polio outbreak in 1937 may have been the first time tech made emergency remote learning possible. There was no Internet, of course, so schools used the big medium of the day: radio. But did that leave any lasting impact on schooling? That's one question explored by education historian Larry Cuban in his new book, Confessions of a School Reformer....more25minPlay
January 11, 2022A New Perspective on 'Supercharging' the BrainAn evolutionary biologist who studies the physiology of aging has some surprising advice about brain health. And it has implications for schools and colleges—and anyone interested in learning....more31minPlay
January 05, 2022Scenes From Campus Life During the 'Delta Semester'Last semester has been described as a kind of limbo—with fewer COVID health restrictions and more in-person classes and activities, but still under the cloud of a stubborn pandemic. We asked students on five campuses around the country to share moments that epitomized this unusual time on college campuses....more28minPlay
FAQs about This Week with EdSurge:How many episodes does This Week with EdSurge have?The podcast currently has 582 episodes available.