virtual education

After 18 years in the classroom Patty Blanchard decided to pursue a role in educational technology, believing the experience offered students unique benefits. She now is an Academic Coach for Edmentum's EdOptions Academy. In this episode, David and Patty work to uncover ways distance education reframes challenges faced in traditional schooling.

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Just as the specialty  is innovative, we foster a culture where we want to be innovative. And we want to be nimble, just as our members are nimble. And so when we look at the DNA of how we operate,  we kind of say, "This is how you practice ... This is the way that we want to operate, as well."   —Keith Hume, SIR Executive Director

In a special year-end review, Warren Krackov, MD, FSIR, speaks with SIR Executive Director Keith Hume and SIR Direction of Publications Brian Haefs about the top stories impacting interventional radiology in 2021 and what 2022 may bring. Plus, we share excerpts from the three most downloaded IR Quarterly articles of the year: 

• TACE and immunotherapy for intermediate-stage HCC
• The macro effects of microaggressions
• Genicular artery embolization: The future standard of care for inflammatory conditions

Note: This episode was recorded on Jan. 13, 2022.

Contact us with your ideas and questions, or read more about about interventional radiology in IR Quarterly magazine or SIR's Patient Center.

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Formal education became widespread only as recently as the end of the 19th century, as a way to train people for jobs created by the boom in industrialization. Today, with most of those jobs phasing out, world politics radically changing at both the individual and macro levels, diverse cultures and disciplines increasingly coming together as communities, and the pandemic catalyzing a global move to predominantly e-learning, it may be time for us to rethink formal education. 

In this podcast, Dr. Rosemary Sage and Dr. Riccarda Matteucci discuss their book How World Events are Changing Education and talk about education in their day, what it has become for Gen Z, and lessons from pockets of the world where robots, online learning, and the science of human interest have been accounted for in education programs.

Guests: Dr. Rosemary Sage and Dr. Riccarda Matteucci
Host: Leigh Giangreco

Over the past few years and especially now— with COVID-19-related lockdowns necessitating that families stay at home—an increasing number of parents have chosen to home-school their children. This choice stems from several reasons: political views and distrust in the education system; anxiety about their children’s safety; or simply as an expression of their right to freedom.

In the newest episode of our podcast, Quality Education, Dr. Jameson Brewer, Assistant Professor of Social Foundations of Education at the University of North Georgia and author of ‘Homeschooling: A Guidebook of Practices, Claims, Issues, and Implications’, published by Brill, talks in detail about the changing trends in home-schooling practices. His compelling evidence makes us rethink our perception of formal education and lays bare the reality of educating a child without the support of experts or an educational system.

We discuss how COVID-19, and socioeconomic, political, and racial status (among other factors), influence a parent’s decision of choosing a school for their child.

Guests: Dr. Jameson Brewer
Host: Leigh Giangreco 

There are many reasons to create academic programs that can reach students who are unable to travel to campus. Maybe you'd like to expand the audience for an existing in-person degree, or create an entirely new online offering.  But before you begin this journey there's something you need to know — when geography is no longer a barrier to access it changes the map.

So how does an program director chart a course from in-person to online?  In this episode, Dan and Kieran discuss what needs to be on the packing list before you set sail.  Mixing our travel metaphors, we kept the altitude of this conversation at about 10,000 feet, soaring over 5 broad topics — goals, audience, faculty, marketing, and institutional support. But if you'd like to hear an in-depth exploration of any of these topics, please let us know so we can plan future episodes!

Even better, if you have an online learning project you'd like to workshop with us on air, we would love to have you on Wired Ivy.  Leave a voice message at speakpipe.com/wiredivyor by sending an email to wiredivypodcast@gmail.com.

The pandemic has given a lot of people across different industries the freedom of time that they can spend developing their skills, and hairdressers are no exception. Answering the call for quality education that can be accessed anywhere, hairdressing icon Stephen Moody launched Virtual Cut Craft, a virtual online cutting course with certification sponsored by Wella, where Stephen currently serves as the North American Education Director. He has also been the Global Education Director of Vidal Sassoon Education. In this conversation with Ryan Weeden, Stephen explains why hairdressers should invest in developing their skills. He also shares his thoughts and predictions about the recent and upcoming trends in hair and how hairdressers need to be ready to ride the front of the new wave when it comes.

Be Bold, Be Brave, Be YOU.

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Debbie Weil chats with her niece, Phoebe Weil, about her experience living through COVID. While the audience for this podcast is those in midlife and older (50-plus), there is a lot to be learned from someone younger about what it’s like to handle the disappointments of the pandemic. Someone who’s been missing out on some of life’s most memorable milestones.

Debbie knew just the person to tell  this story: her 18-year-old niece. Phoebe missed senior spring of high school, she missed her high school graduation, and now she’s started college where she’s been in lockdown on her campus all fall.

But she remains so very optimistic. Inspired by Anne Frank, she’s been keeping a journal that she hopes to share, one day, with her children. She’s hitting the books to study organic chemistry (she tells us about the advantage of attending an all women’s college as a science major). And she’s keeping up her YouTube channel, which has over 5,000 subscribers. 

Phoebe notes that it was Anne Frank's impulse to record history while living through it that inspired her to start writing a journal.  She clarified in an email: "One doesn’t know how powerful an accounting of a historic moment can be while they’re living in it. I wanted to document my day-to-day life so that in the future I could read how I was feeling during the pandemic we live in now. In no way am I equating my experience living in COVID-19 to Anne Frank’s experience in the Holocaust."

Finally, what’s Phoebe's NEW BEST THING to come out of the pandemic? Writing letters, snail mail letters. And she’s prolific. Her Aunt Debbie and Uncle Sam have received a bunch.

We can all get a lift from Phoebe’s steady and refreshingly positive attitude.

Mentioned in this episode or useful:

• Phoebe Weil’s YouTube Channel with over 5,000 subscribers
• A week in the life of boarding school (Phoebe’s video blog that has almost 150,000 views)
• STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
• Historical women’s colleges in the U.S. (Phoebe attends Wellesley College, from which Hillary Clinton graduated)

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GUESTS: KELVIN BENTLEY, LEARNING STRATEGIST AND NIKKI NAVTA, ENTREPRENEUR. Between social media and gaming, Gen Z learners are always one click away from distraction. In an era of remote learning, how can educators and ed tech product developers engage this generation of students? Join Amy as she talks with ed tech entrepreneur Nikki Navta and learning strategist Dr. Kelvin Bentley about the pedagogical trends and technologies that focus on maximizing engagement. 

Grant Sanderson is best known for his YouTube channel 3blue1brown which has nearly 3 million subscribers. Grant makes visually captivating videos explaining math concepts and entertaining puzzles. 

In this episode, I talk with Grant about what makes his content engaging, his experiences conducting live lectures online, building tools for online education, the value proposition of an online education, and more. To learn more about Grant, visit youtube.com/3blue1brown.

The Middle Room podcast is brought to you by HackIllinois. HackIllinois is the nation's premier open source hackathon. HackIllinois is hosting HackThis, a fully virtual, education-focused hackathon from August 7th - 15th with the vision of helping build new and innovative tools to be developed to aid students, teachers, and educational organizations. To learn more, visit hackthis.hackillinois.org.

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Host: Sathwik Reddy (twitter: @sathwikreddyp)
Producer: Shivam Sehgal
Cover Art: Ali Nitti

Intro Music: First Night in Space (Composed by onemansymphony.bandcamp.com)
Outro Music: $50 bills flying out of the trunk of my car as I'm leaving town after a bank robbery (Composed by onemansymphony.bandcamp.com)