Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchElliot Lichtman, "The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1106
In The Computer Always Wins: A Playful Introduction to Algorithms through Puzzles and Strategy Games (MIT Press, 2025), Elliot Lichtman will teach yo…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
Episode 1105
Children’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they ar…
1 year, 4 months ago
David Zweig, "An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions" (MIT Press, 2025)
Episode 1104
An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions (MIT Press, 2025) is a devastating account of the decision-making …
1 year, 4 months ago
Jean J. Ryoo and Jane Margolis, "Power On!" (MIT Press, 2022)
Episode 1103
An interview with Jean Ryoo and Jane Margolis about Power On!
A diverse group of teenage friends learn how computing can be personally and politicall…
1 year, 4 months ago
Harrison Browne and Rachel Browne, "Let Us Play: Winning the Battle for Gender Diverse Athletes" (Beacon Press, 2025)
Episode 1102
The debate over the inclusion of gender diverse people in sport has become the latest battleground in the fight for basic human rights and equality. …
1 year, 4 months ago
Daniel Karpowitz, "College in Prison: Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration" (Rutgers UP, 2017)
Episode 1101
Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these out…
1 year, 5 months ago
Catriona M.M. MacDonald, "The Caledoniad: The Making of Scottish History" (John Donald, 2024)
Episode 1100
Why did Scots in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries know so little about their past and even less about those who controlled their history? Is th…
1 year, 5 months ago
Mitchell Thomashow, "To Know the World: A New Vision for Environmental Learning" (MIT Press, 2020)
Episode 1099
Why we must rethink our residency on the planet to understand the connected challenges of tribalism, inequity, climate justice, and democracy. How ca…
1 year, 5 months ago
Jon Shelton, "The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy" (Cornell UP, 2023)
Episode 253
The Education Myth: How Human Capital Trumped Social Democracy (Cornell UP, 2023) questions the idea that education represents the best, if not the o…
1 year, 5 months ago
Sara E. Wolf, "Teaching Copyright: Practical Lesson Ideas and Instructional Resources" (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Episode 91
The teaching of copyright and related concepts can easily be overwhelming to instructors who are experts in their field but may have little to no det…
1 year, 5 months ago