Podcast15: Education That Matters

This podcast includes 3 websightings and an editorial entitled "Education That Matters." Learn about how students can balance the US federal budget online (at least experiment with different approaches to accomplishing that goal) and gain insights about string theory through NOVA's fantastic website and video series, "The Elegant Universe." The editorial, "Education That Matters" focuses on the importance of teachers analyzing the long term impact of the assignments and lessons they give to students. Featured stories include my experiences with a Nazi concentration camp survivor and liberator last week, and discussions with a young student about science, writing, and the implications of that dialog for teachers providing choice in student literacy activities. Challenges for this week include checking out my photos of Vancouver in the week to come, and providing positive, specific feedback for Room 208 elementary student blog publishers.

This podcast includes 3 websightings and an editorial entitled “Education That Matters.” Learn about how students can balance the US federal budget online (at least experiment with different approaches to accomplishing that goal) and gain insights about string theory through NOVA’s fantastic website and video series, “The Elegant Universe.” The editorial, “Education That Matters” focuses on the importance of teachers analyzing the long term impact of the assignments and lessons they give to students. Featured stories include my experiences with a Nazi concentration camp survivor and liberator last week, and discussions with a young student about science, writing, and the implications of that dialog for teachers providing choice in student literacy activities. Challenges for this week include checking out my photos of Vancouver in the week to come, and providing positive, specific feedback for Room 208 elementary student blog publishers.

Show notes for this podcast include:

National Budget Simulation
LoTi Schools bookmarks
NOVA’s “The Elegant Universe”
Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen podcast (this original podcast audio link is broken – media from the TTU College of Education was taken down)
Added 7/25/2019: Video of “Surviving Dachau, Liberating Mauthausen” from October 18, 2005 at Texas Tech University (1.5 hours)
Information about K-12 Outreach and Distance Learning Programs of the Texas Tech International Cultural Center
IMPORTANT ADDITION 20 JAN 2020: (The ‘learning pyramid’ referenced in this podcast is NOT valid educational research. See “Excavating the origins of the learning pyramid myths” for more on this.
Graph on student retention from National Training Center (link now broken)
Tim Fredrick’s ELA Teaching Blog: Blog post on writing and student choice
My Vancouver Flickr photos
Room208 Class Blog
(added 7/25/2019: Original link is broken – Here’s the archived link to Bob Sprankle’s Room208 blog from fall 2004 and 2005.)

I have never updated The Elegant Universe, but am thinking I might do so for the — gulip — 25th anniversary edition, which would come out in 2024. https://t.co/VziIY66cSU

— Brian Greene (@bgreene) May 27, 2019

Program Length: 20 min, 48 sec
File size: 4.8 MB

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