Ed Influencers
The term “influencer” is often applied to brands and social media mavens, but it’s also a word that pertains to visionary edtech leaders. “Ed Influencers,” the new podcast from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), digs into the motivations and aspirations of today’s most prominent education innovators. In each episode, ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with an edtech leader who’s helping to transform teaching and learning. From impacting education practice to influencing nonprofits, education policy and the edtech industry, South finds out what makes these influencers tick, and what’s next for them.
Episodes
21 episodes
Kumar Garg of Schmidt Futures discusses strengthening STEM career pathways, learning engineering and educator researchers.
Kumar Garg, managing director and head of partnerships at Schmidt Futures and the former leader of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, discusses a host of initiatives designed to strengthen STEM career pathways. He also bre...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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40:49
Christina Gardner-McCune, Ph.D., unpacks the vision for AI learning in K-12 classrooms
Christina Gardner-McCune, Ph.D., director of the University of Florida's Engaging Learning Lab and co-chair of the AI4K12 Initiative, a national initiative to strategically integrate artificial intelligence (AI) education into K-12 learning, sh...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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38:09
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., Shares How the Learning Sciences Can Help Us Support Students Post-Pandemic and Into Their Futures
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Ed.D., a psychology and neuroscience professor at the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education, studies the psychological and neurobiological bases of social emotion, self-awareness and culture,...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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37:28
Temple Lovelace, Ph.D., Explains the Impact of COVID-19 On Special Needs Students of Color
Temple Lovelace, Ph.D., professor of special education and program director of special education Programs at Duquesne University, explains the impact of COVID-19 on special needs students of color with disabilities, and describes the work neede...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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38:48
Carissa Moffat Miller, Ph.D., CEO of CCSSO, Discusses Top 3 Challenges for State Leaders During, Beyond the Pandemic
Carrisa Moffat Miller, Ph.D., CEO of the Council of Chief State School Officers, shares her organization's key learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic, the remaining challenges ahead for state education leaders and the different ways exemplary lea...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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39:25
Chiefs for Change CEO Mike Magee shares how education policymakers can strategically develop plans for a post-COVID era
So far in this season of EdInfluencers, we’ve focused on how schools have responded to closures and online learning. But how should we be thinking about the return to classrooms? What must be different in the future to ensure equitable le...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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32:59
Dr. Luis Perez discusses the importance of equitable learning instructional design during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
The public health crisis surrounding COVID-19 has led to school closures across the country, creating a need to transition to online learning. In this special season of Ed Influencers, we will talk to experts who are actively helping schools pl...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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24:13
Leaders from large urban districts show how they are coordinating remote learning for thousands of students and educators.
When the coronavirus pandemic closed schools across the country in March, transitioning to online learning was a challenge for all districts. Large, urban districts faced especially big challenges in getting devices in the hands of hundreds of ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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35:31
Superintendents from Ohio and New York show how they are navigating the transition to online learning
When the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools in March, districts around the country were faced with quickly doing something they’d never done – delivering learning to students remotely. In a matter of days, districts had to overcome many bar...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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35:15
Turnaround for Children founder, Dr. Pam Cantor, shares how school closures and trauma impact student learning.
Dr. Pam Cantor is an expert on how trauma affects learning in children. A child psychiatrist, she co-authored a study on the effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on children in New York City schools. Cantor says that the stress brought on ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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28:08
Sophia Mendoza, director of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Initiative: How L.A. Unified successfully implements classroom technology
Sophia Mendoza, the director of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s Instructional Technology Initiative, has led the implementation of digital learning tools in over 400 schools. In doing so, she has implemented several innovative profess...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:05
How to make students creative problem-solvers with Tacy Trowbridge, head of Adobe’s global education programs.
As head of Adobe’s global education programs, Tacy Trowbridge manages the company’s Education Exchange, an online community where more than 700,000 educators share ideas and resources and get training on digital media tools. But for all the coo...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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34:53
Paraguay Educa founder Cecilia Rodríguez Alcalá shares how edtech improved education access and quality in one city.
Cecilia Rodríguez Alcalá, an ISTE board member and founder of Paraguay Educa, faced many challenges in helping to bring technology to the students of Paraguay. The country’s public education system is short on resources and its list of challeng...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:38
National Teacher of the Year Mandy Manning shares how she meets the needs of immigrant students
This time on Ed Influencers, ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with Mandy Manning, the 2018 National Teacher of the Year, to learn about her experiences teaching and supporting immigrant students. Along the way, she shares her ...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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31:28
Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera discusses equity in urban ed
This time on “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Pedro A. Rivera who shares how his early education experiences in Philadelphia influenced his career path, his return to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:33
Media entrepreneur Manoush Zomorodi shares how to make engaging with tech positive
In this episode of “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with media entrepreneur and author Manoush Zomorodi to discuss where technology is taking us and how we can make it a positive experience. She delves into t...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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27:27
ISTE CEO Richard Culatta tackles the 10 most critical topics in education today
Detailed description: This time on “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with ISTE CEO Richard Culatta to discuss some of the most critical topics in education today, including digital citizenship, media literacy,...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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34:54
Masie Center CEO Elliott Masie shares insights on workplace and lifelong learning
This time on “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with Elliott Masie, leader of The Masie Center, to discuss how learning happens in the workplace, what lifelong learning looks like and how technology plays into ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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29:51
LAUSD’s Frances Gipson shares the district’s transformation with tech and ISTE Standards
In this episode of “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with Frances Gipson, Ph.D., chief academic officer for the Los Angeles Unified School District, to discuss her career path in the nation’s second largest sc...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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30:53
IDEO’s Sandy Speicher explains how human-centered design and design thinking can transform how we do school
In this episode of “Ed Influencers,” ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South interviews Sandy Speicher, global managing director for IDEO, about her early work teaching graphic design to elementary students, the definition of human-centered de...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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34:20
What’s behind Justina Nixon-Saintil’s commitment to tech-enabled learning, STEM for all
In the first episode of “Ed Influencers, ISTE Chief Learning Officer Joseph South sits down with Justina Nixon-Saintil, director for corporate social responsibility programs at the Verizon Foundation, to discuss her commitment to ensuring under...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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29:24