In this episode, Mind Rocket media Group interviews Dr. Scott McLeod, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Colorado-Denver, as well as Ben Kelly, the Department Head of Innovative Design in New Brunswick, Canada's Anglophone East School District.
The first interview (0:30) is with McLeod, who is using his blog to conduct a series of interviews, called the Coronavirus Chronicles, in which he's speaking with education leaders from across the globe about how they're managing the current crisis. Scott talks about some of the most common, as well as some of the most effective, practices that schools are using to manage learning and other student needs during a time of school closures caused by COVID-19. He also describes some of the most urgent and persistent challenges schools are facing, including deeper issues affecting kids' well-being during stay-at-home periods, and how leaders can do their best to identify, assess, and take actions to counter some of these challenges. Catch up with the Coronavirus Chronicles on McLeod's website, Dangerously Irrelevant: http://dangerouslyirrelevant.org/
In this episode's Learning Counsel Data Insight (8:39), you'll hear about the billions of dollars schools and consumers have spent on digital curriculum, even before COVID-19.
The episode continues with Ben Kelly (16:15), who talks about the power of podcasting in the classroom and how he's merging his love of radio with his passion for teaching. Kelly discusses Talk and Roll, an empathy project that combines podcasting with music-making and allows students to get to know one another better. The students interview each other and then make a song for one another based on what they've learned. Kelly describes the concept of "STEMpathy" he promotes in the classroom to help students develop social-emotional competencies, specifically empathy, along with their academic skills.
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