The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University . Executive Producers are Dr. Sean Leahy and Claire Gilbert. The show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar. Audio production provided by Claire Gilbert.
This Bonus episode hosted by Dr. Sean Leahy explores the creative project Turn it Around - Flashcards for Education Futures with the innovative team from ASU including Dr. Iveta Silova, Adriene Jenik, Belen Sanchez, and Saiarchana Darira. From the projects website https://www.turnitaroundcards.org/ “ Calling Young Artists, Thinkers, and Leaders - We invite you to reimagine our approach to education, our relationship with nature and our connection to the living world during this time of crisis. H...
Ronald Beghetto and Joel Westheimer have a conversation about what we currently value as a society and how those values are showing up in how we approach teaching and learning. Westheimer mentions how schooling focuses too much on standardized testing and explains that these tests do not tell us what is going on in a school. He further discusses that standards cannot always be achieved the same way by all students, and asks that we see the value in difference and uncertainty. Westheimer invites ...
Ronald Beghetto discusses play and technology, as well as creativity with Elisabeth McClure and Stuart MacAlpine from LEGO Foundation. McClure and MacAlpine explain how learning through play includes cognitive and social emotional learning, and that learning experiences which include play lead to deeper learning for everyone; from babies and toddlers through adulthood. McClure and MacAlpine imagine a future where children and adults feel empowered to make and produce technology rather than just ...
Dr. Ronald Beghetto talks with Yutaka Tamura about his non-profit organization nXu and the work they do towards helping students and educators engage in purpose based learning experiences. Tamura reflects on his personal struggles towards finding his true purpose and how that led him in the direction of creating a research based methodology that helps students along their own journey, training and coaching educators on purpose development. Tamura imagines a future where students and teachers wor...
Drs. Ronald Beghetto and David Garcia have a conversation about the disconnect between research and policy that Garcia has observed throughout his career in politics and academia. Garcia explains how politicians are often novices in many of the issues they will have to tackle during their time in office, and how researchers can help by providing the practical issues and information necessary to make the best decisions. Garcia imagines a future where academics and politicians work together, combi...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Elyse Burden about Real World Scholars and how she co-created an organization that focuses on giving students the opportunity to become real entrepreneurs and create Ecommerce businesses. Burden explains how entrepreneurship can be used to bring any passion to life, makie students excited about the learning process, and allow both teachers and students to move beyond the usual confines of a classroom. Burden tells listeners how important it is to disrupt the assumption...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Dr. Sarah Dryden-Peterson about REACH, a program she leads to create and facilitate welcoming and inclusive education to refugees in different parts of the world. She shares how educators can help refugee students make navigational decisions between what exists and what could be, and realize that their malleable histories and identities are what makes them part of communities. Dryden-Peterson explains how refugees, surrounded by uncertainty and disruption, provide an e...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Ariel Anbar about his work with science teaching and learning, and if done right, how this can empower nonscientists for their whole life in how they access and understand information. They discuss the recent “bad rep” that science has received during the COVID-era, and Anbar explains how the real process of science is an ongoing set of observations and interpretations which leads to continuous tests and iterations, as recommendations improve with greater knowledge. An...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Laura McBain about how her experience as a middle and high school substitute teacher led her to thinking about design in education. She began thinking about what we could create in education to create more equitable futures--how can students and teachers help design better futures by reshaping education so it’s able to serve more students with distinct needs, as well as connect with the community? McBain mentions the importance of letting go of the idea that as educato...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Adam Carberry about engineering education and the need to develop talent rather than search for talent among students. The goal should be for students to learn from and improve upon prior work, moving away from standards of sameness in both assignments and assessments. Carberry invites teachers to think about how they can guide students towards generating excitement towards this discipline by having them work on something they are passionate about. He has been working ...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Megan Workmon Larsen about how studying psychology and opera led her down a path towards robotics, design, and researching how students view their education journey. Focusing on higher education, Workmon Larsen explains how it is imperative that instructors and institutions allow students to become co-creators of their own learning. When we give students the opportunity to create their own paths, wonderful things happen. The challenge is that we cannot create uncertain...
The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University . . Executive Producers are Dr. Sean Leahy and Claire Gilbert. The show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar. Audio production provided by Claire Gilbert.
Ronald Beghetto and Justin Reich have a conversation about how to implement education technology in a principled way, which starts with a learning need identified by educators, a shared language around instruction to address the need, and then considerations for how technology might leverage that. Reich’s work at the MIT Learning Lab and research for his new book “Failure to Disrupt,” has shown him that technologies have power to help students reclaim ownership of their learning, but technologie...
Ronald Beghetto and Bryan Henderson have a conversation about how the “Brain Candy” technology tool came to life as a result of the experiences Henderson had in his school years, and the lack of interaction in classrooms he witnessed--particularly in science courses. Henderson explains how learning science should include critiques and understanding why things are incorrect, rather than only focusing on what is right. This discourse allows students to practice evidence-based argumentation, which ...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Jo Boaler about how she believes we are at the tipping point in math education with a data science movement. She explains that the math system is perpetuated from content and curriculum developed in the 1800s that is still present in standards, testing, textbooks, and teaching methods of today. Boaler knows math is a creative vehicle for thinking about the world and problem solving, if we just change the way it is taught. Boaler’s 8 books and youcubed.org contain resou...
Ronald Beghetto and Leigh Wolf chat about the way the current pandemic has brought online learning to the forefront of education. While some good has come from this, with regard to creatively designing curriculum, broader understanding that technology alone does not enhance learning experiences, and rethinking standardized testing, there are significant challenges and weaknesses. Wolf talks about the need to implement open communities for parents and teachers that enhance their online practices ...
Ronald Beghetto and Punya Mishra talk about transforming education, and what teaching and learning could and should be. Mishra explains that design can take the existing binaries of learning modalities, between research and practice, and silos among disciplines, and blend and mix them up to optimize learning experiences. They discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for designing new ways of learning, but also highlights the challenges and inequities in our society and educati...
Ronald Beghetto chats with Brent Maddin about how teaching has become increasingly difficult for the new generations. Maddin introduces the Next Education Workforce initiative at Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and how the one teacher, one classroom model is not sustainable. Distributed expertise and combining teams of educators with groups of students leverages strengths of adults, and maximizes learning opportunities for students. He also discusses how important it is to prepare novice teach...
Ronald Beghetto and Katherine Rodela speak about equity and justice in school leadership, especially focusing on Rodela's work with minority families who are primarily Latinx. She guides us through her work with these communities, including how much she has learned about giving voices to those who do not have them, especially when it comes to school leadership and decision making. In looking to the future of education leadership, Rodela envisions a more holistic approach which recognizes how stu...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Mildred Boveda about her educational journey, coming from an immigrant family who had few formal educational opportunities in the Dominican Republic, compared to Boveda’s ethnically diverse education experience in Miami with many teachers who believed in and encouraged her. Boveda discusses how she noticed the higher her educational attainment, the whiter the learning spaces became. She became drawn to education, wanting to support minoritized and marginalized students...
Ronald Beghetto talks with Emma K. Adam about her research on sleep and stress focused mostly on adolescents. She explains how the different stressors we are faced with daily affect our bodies and how those stressors can vary depending on race and gender. She also discusses trends over time, and the impact of COVID-19 on adolescent stress. Dr. Adam addresses important questions such as: What are major stressors for adolescents? What role does sleep play in stress biology? What are some effective...
Ronald Beghetto and David Berliner have a conversation about the constant disrespect teachers have suffered in US public schools, the enormous social challenges they are up against, the low pay, and how they have still risen above the challenges to make a difference, even in the current pandemic. Recently, it appears communities are appropriately recognizing the value and significance of teachers, and the efforts they are going to in order to connect with children during this uncertain time. Ber...
What if education systems were doing more and thinking differently about preparing learners to thrive in the future? Join Professor Ronald A. Beghetto of Arizona State University's Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College for conversations on improving education and the future of learning. Each episode presents colleagues, researchers, education leaders and other guests who share how they're thinking about and addressing the most pressing challenges in education. Season 1 coming soon!
