Headagogy, with Steve Pearlman
Education Podcasts
Brought to you by The Critical Thinking Institute (theCTInstitute.com), Headagogy disrupts the soft-spoken, NPR-mold for education discussion and does justice to the vibrant, challenging, meaningful, frustrating, empowering, complicated, fulfilling thing that is education, as well as the hardworking, dedicated, heartfelt, and (too often) pissed-off people who are educators. Ferociously serious, chronically sardonic, intolerant of anti-intellectualism, and fed up with disrespect for education and educators, Headagogy is hosted by Steve Pearlman, Ph.D., founder of The Critical Thinking Institute, author of America’s Critical Thinking Crisis, and educator of 30+ years.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Brought to you by The Critical Thinking Institute (theCTInstitute.com), Headagogy disrupts the soft-spoken, NPR-mold for education discussion and does justice to the vibrant, challenging, meaningful, frustrating, empowering, complicated, fulfilling thing that is education, as well as the hardworking, dedicated, heartfelt, and (too often) pissed-off people who are educators. Ferociously serious, chronically sardonic, intolerant of anti-intellectualism, and fed up with disrespect for education and educators, Headagogy is hosted by Steve Pearlman, Ph.D., founder of The Critical Thinking Institute, author of America’s Critical Thinking Crisis, and educator of 30+ years.
Language:
English
Episodes
Headagogy Update!
2/9/2024
More Headagogy coming soon! Also, check out The Critical Thinking Institute pdocast, with me!!!
Duration:00:01:31
Thinking Critically in College with Louis Newman
11/28/2023
Steve interviews Louis E. Newman, author of Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success.
What's the relationship between thinking and studentship? How can we -- and why should we -- move students to think about disciplinarity? Are colleges promoting the thinking of which Newman advises students? And how can they benefit from his ideas regardless?
Duration:00:33:37
ChatGPT - A Loaded Blessing In Disguise?
3/21/2023
Is ChatGPT friend or foe? Should the whole world, as Australia has done, relegate essay writing to inside classrooms? Is "the academic essay dead"? Or is ChatGPT, as some have contended, a tool for critical thinking that we should embrace as a new ally in teaching students?
As Steve discusses, ChatGPT certainly is a revelation, but no one is really talking about why, and it might not be what you expect.
Duration:00:39:04
Rubric Nation: Are We Rubricizing Our Humanity (Part 2)
12/14/2022
Continuing their discussion of the pedagogical, institutional, and societal implications of rubrics and rubricizing, Joe, Michelle, and Steve get into rubrics and questions of ...
and so much more.
Duration:00:36:16
Rubric Nation: Are we Rubricizing our Humanity?
12/7/2022
Steve and the authors of Rubric Nation -- Michelle Tenam-Zemach and Joseph E. Flynn, Jr. -- get into it about all things rubrics and rubricization, as well as whatever it is that we are doing, good and bad, as an educational system regarding teaching, learning, democracy, assessment, studentship, dialogue, politics, critical thinking, teacher training, privilege, race, class, and our greater (and lesser?) humanity.
Spoiler alert: it's "a mess." But that's what makes this discussion particularly deep and interesting.
Duration:00:44:50
Frances Valintine: Progressive Teaching; Institutional Shifting
11/29/2022
Steve welcomes futurist Frances Valintine: Founder of MindLab--the Best Start-up in Asia Pacific as judged by Steve Wozniak and Sir Richard Branson in 2014. Frances is a member of the New Zealand Hall of Fame for Women Entrepreneurs (2022), and named one of the top 50 EdTech Educators in the World by EdTech International (2016). They discuss progressive teaching practices and the wide-scale implementation of change across New Zealand, and its implications for our conception of educational institutions worldwide.
Duration:00:53:46
Academic Rigor-mortis: A possible cure?
11/15/2022
Listen for an in-depth discussion of the rigamarole around academic rigor, including what might be a very surprising--though nonetheless perfectly sensible--root of its challenges.
Student vs. faculty conceptions of rigor
G.I. infections
"Summer School"
Duration:00:47:47
NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 2)
11/1/2022
Part 2 on Jones's firing, including a cranky look at curious statements by NYU, and an uncomfortable look at time traveling through the academy.
Duration:00:27:22
NYU's Firing of Dr. Maitland Jones (pt. 1)
10/25/2022
Steve takes an in-depth look at NYU's expedited decision to fire distinguished Organic Chemistry professor, Dr. Maitland Jones, after receiving a petition from students complaining about his course. What's really at the heart of NYU's actions? What role did the petition play? What role should rigor play in education? And what in the world does the movie, Demolition Man, have to do with any of this?
Duration:00:24:10
Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 2)
6/7/2022
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time.
really Excalibur Learn the answers to all that and more!
Duration:00:30:07
Ungrading through Peer Assessment - A Case Study (Part 1)
5/31/2022
Steve welcomes the University of Wyoming's own TK Stoudt and his students, Amy Bezzant, Maddy Davis, and James Roberts. Hear about the triumph (and trials!) of peer assessment from an educator who's newer to implementing it, and from students who encountered it for the first time.
really Excalibur Learn the answers to all that and more!
Duration:00:28:55
Supercourses, with Ken Bain
4/26/2022
Ken Bain, author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do, joins Headagogy to discuss his latest book, Super Courses: The Future of Teaching and Learning. The discussion with Bain not only delves into examples of these courses and their relationship with problem based learning, but also into critical ideas for teaching and learning, such as why "expectation failure" is so absolutely critical. Learn the steps you need to take to start your own "super course."
Duration:00:49:05
Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 3)
4/19/2022
In this concluding episode on peer assessment, Steve conveys the research on peer assessment, learning outcomes, and soft skills. There should be no doubts about its value, especially, in the words of Walter Lippman, "It takes wisdom to understand wisdom. The music means nothing if the audience is deaf."
Duration:00:26:15
Ungrading through Peer Assessment (Part 2)
4/12/2022
Continuing his assessment into peer assessment as an important method of ungrading, Steve not only talks about how he implements it, but several other important issues, such as how peer assessment:
Duration:00:46:26
Ungrading Through Peer Assessment (Part 1)
4/5/2022
In this first episode of a three part series, Steve delves into the hot topic of "ungrading" with a focus on the particular and unique value that involving students in assessment brings to the greater ungrading discussion. Learn more about grades as the locus of power in academia, the unconscious forces behind grades, students' literal capacity (or lack thereof) to understand grades, the relationship between grades and social constructionism, and, most importantly, the movie, Excalibur.
Duration:00:53:22
The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 2)
3/8/2022
The continuation of the interview with Kieran O'Mahony.
Duration:00:41:28
The Brain Based Classroom with Kieran O'Mahony (part 1)
3/1/2022
This interview with Kieran delves into fascinating neuroscience about learning that can help transform what we do in our classrooms through understanding things like the Reticular Activating System, working memory, and neurotransmitters. Kieran offers concrete things every educator can immediately adapt in order to improve their learning outcomes and their students' enjoyment of education. At the same time, the interview delves into the remarkable ways our educational system, including practices still in place today, dis-formed itself around misunderstandings of scientific findings by the likes of B.F. Skinner, E.L. Thorndike, and Marion Diamond (to name a few).
Duration:00:36:40
A Time Machine out of a DeLorean? STEM, Creativity, and Critical Thinking
2/15/2022
What is the relationship between STEM and creativity? Or, at least, what's the perceived relationship? And what happens when we invest millions of dollars and years of effort to improving STEM educational practices? What happens cognitively when we do it well for just a few months? All that and more, including a shoutout to Louisiana.
Duration:00:38:50
Dr. Cornelius Grove & "A Mirror for Americans"
2/1/2022
Steve interviews Dr. Cornelius N. Grove about his most recent book, A Mirror for Americans, which delves into the research as to why students in East Asia invariably outperform American students on international tests. The discussion explores myths about education in East Asia, such as the misconception about drilling, and delves into educational and cultural differences that make students in East Asia so successful. This podcast provides a wonderful mirror for American educators by establishing East Asian practices as a point of contrast and thus elucidating tacit assumptions we hold about education, assumptions we might otherwise overlook.
Duration:00:52:06
Thinking Critically about Critical Race Theory
1/26/2022
Steve tackles some of the controversy around Critical Race Theory (CRT), in part by examining its lineage back to critical theory and critical pedagogy. In doing so, he delves into broader question of how power is wielded in the academy, and what the academy is as a power structure. Curiously, also, Ferris Bueller.
Duration:00:44:23