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Power, Prestige and the World's Most Famous Scholarship. Bootstraps, Ep. 6
The Rhodes Scholarship was designed to forge a network of people who would go on to rule the world. So who gets this opportunity? And how is the olde…
4 years, 3 months ago
Is Autocorrect Enhancing Our Brains or Eroding Our Humanity?
Philosopher and historian of technology Justin E. H. Smith has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from. A…
4 years, 3 months ago
Educators Have Pointed Advice For Tech Companies Building the Metaverse
Even though the metaverse is not really here yet, some educators are already trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of educati…
4 years, 3 months ago
Who Will Pay for ‘Inclusive Excellence’ at Universities?
There are universities aiming to do top-notch research and serve large numbers of students of color and low-income students. This goal—what some camp…
4 years, 3 months ago
Clay Shirky Wants to Reframe the Conversation About How Colleges Are Changing
Clay Shirky has long been an influential voice on how technology is impacting society. These days the NYU professor has been weighing in on where hig…
4 years, 4 months ago
Remote School Meltdowns? A Closer Look at Student Well-Being During the Pandemic
A group of researchers at Harvard have a unique window into student well-being during the pandemic, following a group of a couple thousand families w…
4 years, 4 months ago
How Will COVID-19 Impact School Reform Movements?
A polio outbreak in 1937 may have been the first time tech made emergency remote learning possible. There was no Internet, of course, so schools used…
4 years, 4 months ago
A New Perspective on 'Supercharging' the Brain
An evolutionary biologist who studies the physiology of aging has some surprising advice about brain health. And it has implications for schools and …
4 years, 4 months ago
Scenes From Campus Life During the 'Delta Semester'
Last semester has been described as a kind of limbo—with fewer COVID health restrictions and more in-person classes and activities, but still under t…
4 years, 4 months ago
Encore: The Strange Past and Messy Future of 'Gifted and Talented.'
Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted. Where did this idea come from? The answer goes back more th…
4 years, 5 months ago