IMPACT LEARNING
Storytelling Podcasts
Can learning transform your life? Welcome to Impact Learning with Maria Xenidou. On this shared journey, Maria reveals the future of learning and work through the stories of people who are disrupting how we learn, work, and live today and in the future. Together with her guests, she teaches you how to design your learning journey and create the life you want. The podcast puts full ownership of learning in the hands of students and professionals determined to build a better future for themselves and society. We can talk about learning, we can design it, or we can do both. This is Impact Learning!
Location:
United States
Genres:
Storytelling Podcasts
Description:
Can learning transform your life? Welcome to Impact Learning with Maria Xenidou. On this shared journey, Maria reveals the future of learning and work through the stories of people who are disrupting how we learn, work, and live today and in the future. Together with her guests, she teaches you how to design your learning journey and create the life you want. The podcast puts full ownership of learning in the hands of students and professionals determined to build a better future for themselves and society. We can talk about learning, we can design it, or we can do both. This is Impact Learning!
Language:
English
Episodes
Making an Impact through Accessible Online Education with Kristin Palmer
6/10/2021
Today, Maria talks with Kristin Palmer, Director of Online Learning Programs at the University of Virginia, where she manages their online site, which showcases diverse courses, certificates, and degrees across the University of Virginia (UVA).
Kristin oversees 52 courses and 7 specializations on Coursera, serving over 4 million students with net revenues of more than 12 million USD. She is also the administrator of LinkedIn Learning and Coursera courses for the professional development of...
Duration:01:03:49
Exploring Multiple Career Paths through Micro-Internships with Jeffrey Moss (Encore Episode)
6/3/2021
How can students explore multiple career paths before they decide on their first job out of college? How can hiring managers work with several interns before they decide who to hire?
Today, Maria talks with Jeffrey Moss, Founder and CEO of Parker Dewey, a mission-oriented organization that helps connect great talent with great companies. Parker Dewey has the largest network of highly motivated college students and recent graduates excited to complete short-term, professional assignments,...
Duration:00:43:44
Guiding Parents and Teachers to Create a Better New Normal with Robert Zeitlin
5/27/2021
How can parents and teachers use their experience with distance learning and working from home to create a better new normal?
Maria invited back her friend and positive psychologist, Robert Zeitlin, to share his experience guiding and supporting parents, teachers and families to get back on track amidst the pandemic.
Robert is the author of the books “Laugh More, Yell Less: A Guide to Raising Kick-Ass Kids” and “But I’m Not a Teacher! A Parent’s Guide to Learning Under Lockdown”. He has...
Duration:00:58:40
Choosing Flipped Learning for the Future of Teaching and Learning with Robert Talbert
5/20/2021
After reading the EdSurge article “Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic”, Maria was curious to learn more about flipped learning. So she invited the author, Robert Talbert, to join her on the podcast.
Robert has published the book Flipped Learning: A Guide for Higher EducationFaculty, to support other educators on their flipped learning journey and help them avoid the mistakes he made teaching with flipped learning since 2009. He also wanted to...
Duration:01:03:26
Giving Students Access to Opportunity and Better Choices with Yoon Choi
5/13/2021
This episode is for teachers, administrators, and parents who want to learn about a free and holistic approach that helps underrepresented students prepare for the SAT and ACT tests used for admission to US colleges. It discusses how to build confidence in underserved youth, especially those about to become first-generation college students. And, it offers three simple questions to help those exploring their career direction make better choices for their life and work.
Today, Maria talks...
Duration:00:56:32
Bringing Social and Emotional Learning into Live Virtual Experiences with Seth Fleischauer
5/6/2021
This episode is for students, parents and educators who want to learn how to design live virtual experiences for social and emotional learning.
Today, Maria talks with Seth Fleischauer, president and founder at Banyan Global Learning, an organization that since 2008 has been using video conferencing to connect daily with learners in classrooms in Asia.
Seth’s work is at the intersection of technology, language, culture and social and emotional learning. By connecting students to people,...
Duration:01:01:58
Learning through Life, Education & Stories: Sonia Tiwari interviews Maria Xenidou
4/29/2021
Today, Sonia Tiwari interviews Maria! Together, they unpack Maria’s learning journey, education and memorable life experiences in Greece.
Sonia facilitates an engaging conservation and provides wonderful insights as Maria talks about her childhood growing up in Athens and spending her summers in the Greek countryside.
Maria shares her accidental homeschooling experience, her interest in speaking local dialects and her curiosity to explore different cultural norms and lifestyles.
She talks...
Duration:00:51:26
Playing for Social, Emotional and Cognitive Learning with Brandi Heather (Encore Episode)
4/22/2021
Today, Maria talks with her friend Brandi Heather, Chief Knowledge Officer at AMPED2PLAY and author of the book Return To Play: Rebuilding Resilience, Risk and Reconnection.
Brandi is an award-winning Disability and Inclusion Educator and Therapeutic Play Specialist with over 25 years of experience. She began her career as a college and university professor in Kinesiology and Sport Studies specializing in Adapted Physical Education and has been building solutions that meet the physical,...
Duration:00:56:42
Interrogating "What Is School For" with Seth Godin and Anette Carlisle
4/15/2021
Today, Maria is a guest co-host on Anette on Education. Together they take the opportunity to unpack education with one of their teachers, Seth Godin. This episode is for teachers, principals, parents, and everyone who seeks to create change in education including those responsible for education policy.
Seth has been outspoken about Education in his manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams, his TED Talk. He also published a course on Udemy called Seth Godin on Learning and Education. He asks the BIG...
Duration:00:29:25
Leading the Sustainable Learning Projects with Trevor Soponis
4/8/2021
Today, Maria talks with Trevor Soponis, Founder and Chief Learning Officer at The Sustainable Learning Programs, an organization dedicated to transforming education for students, educators and the planet. His doctorate from New York University examined the impacts of innovative environmental education programs while proposing a unique system to better support the design and implementation of sustainable ecological learning in K-12 education.
This episode is for students, teachers, parents,...
Duration:00:54:12
Advising Students for Successful Online Learning with Julie Delich
4/1/2021
Today, Maria brings back Julie Delich, Vice President of Retention at Wiley Education Services, which partners with academic institutions and organizations to improve our world through education.
In this episode, they do a deep dive into the online learning advising model Julie, and her team developed using four principles: appreciative advising, proactive advising, cognitive behavioral theory and shame resilience theory. During this engaging conversation, they unpack how advisors guide and...
Duration:00:54:29
Co-Creating a More Equitable Future of Digital Education with Michael Gallagher
3/25/2021
For educators who feel that everything they love about teaching has been thrown away, this conversation offers insights to help navigate the current turmoil in higher education by learning how universities can co-design a more equitable future of digital education to continue to serve teachers, students, staff and the local community.
Our guest today is Michael Gallagher, lecturer in Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, co-programme director of the MSc in Digital Education and...
Duration:01:12:21
Designing a Transformative School Experience for All with Jethro Jones
3/18/2021
Today, Maria talks with Jethro Jones, founder of Transformative Principal and author of the book SchoolX. Since he launched his podcast Transformative Principal in 2013, Jethro has been interviewing thought leaders in education and business to learn how to transform schools. After helping other principals, he realized that he could have the impact he always desired if he coached many more principals to transform their own schools.
Jethro wanted all his students to know that he cared for...
Duration:01:00:48
Unschooling: Where Life is the Curriculum with Yonat Sharon
3/11/2021
Today, Maria talks with Yonat Sharon, a freelance iOS developer, writer, and speaker. Her learning journey, and that of her four children, is one of a kind and might change your mind about education as we know it.
Yonat learned to code at home at a very young age after her father bought a computer for her older brother. And for over twenty years, she has been unschooling her four children. When digital communities were not a thing, she built a virtual place for the unschooling community in...
Duration:00:58:18
Developing Skills in High School through Creative Curriculum (Curated Stories)
3/4/2021
Today, Maria shines the light on the change in education that often occurs unnoticed through initiatives teachers lead in their classrooms. She shares the stories of three high school teachers who teach different subjects from history to English, physics and chemistry but do have one thing in common: They want to help their students build skills that are rarely developed through the traditional curriculum, or they are developed in ways that students don’t find engaging. Under their...
Duration:00:23:18
Bringing Creative Design into Early Childhood Education with Sonia Tiwari
2/25/2021
Today, Maria talks with Sonia Tiwari, a learning scientist and PhD candidate in Learning, Design, and Technology at Penn State University. Through her research, Sonia explores how children learn in informal environments using educational media and maker activities. She uses these insights to inform the design of creative learning environments, be it a classroom, a summer camp or a maker workshop.
Trained in electronic media, design and animation, she worked as a visual, game & user...
Duration:00:58:10
Designing the Most Effective Way to Learn Mathematics with Aditya Nagrath
2/18/2021
In this episode, Maria talks with Aditya Nagrath, cofounder and chancellor of Elephant Learning. Aditya graduated with a dual major in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Denver, Colorado. While working full time as a software developer, he completed his PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science and founded Elephant Head Software.
In 2016, Aditya co-founded Elephant Learning to bring transformational change to America's education system. Elephant Learning is an automated...
Duration:00:52:43
Teaching Professionals to Become Better Designers, Instructors and Leaders with Florence Martin
2/11/2021
Today, Maria talks with Florence Martin, Professor in Learning, Design and Technology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Florence serves as the Program Coordinator of Ed.D. in Educational Leadership, Learning, Design and Technology concentration and Program Director of the Post-Master’s Certificate of University and College Teaching.
If you are interested in instructional design, educational technology and online learning facilitation, this episode is for you. You will learn...
Duration:00:51:38
Learning to Pause (Maria on Mic)
2/4/2021
When Maria strained her lower back in September of 2020, she developed a plan to rest, recover and get back with her life. Only, this time, things were different. Today, she talks about her decision to pause the podcast and what she learned from this experience. She also shares an update on how she is doing today and the plan forward. Tune in to learn how to use our mental strength to press pause so we can get back in the saddle when the time is right!
Production team:
Host & Producer:...
Duration:00:16:25
Transforming Middle School Students to Leaders through Game-based Learning with Christina Oliver
10/15/2020
Production team:
Host & Producer: Maria Xenidou
Introduction Voice: David Bourne
Contact us:
impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com
Music credits:
Like Lee performed by The Mini Vandals
Transition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks
Where to find more about Christine Oliver:
LinkedIn
Twitter
Mentioned in this episode:
Classroom, Inc
Read to Lead Games
Lewis W. Bernard
The Urban Assembly
Listen to this episode and explore:
Christina’s childhood: playing hide &...
Duration:01:00:33