Introducing my new podcast, Steal Like a Teacher!
One of the larger projects for this semester’s EDTE 650 course is to create a watershed podcast / interactive presentation focusing on an important issue within educational technology and teacher education.
Inspired by the works of Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist, I have titled this podcast Steal Like a Teacher. The premise of Kleon’s idea is that there aren’t any original creative ideas. Artists are inspired by the world and the works of others.
Similarly, not many ideas in education are original but rather are inspired by other ideas and experiences, shared and shape shifted as they pass through time and the minds and experiences of others.
Larry Cuban reiterates this thinking in The Enduring Classroom. Teachers learn from trial and error, what they learned in universities, adapting researching findings, and what they picked up from other teachers.
Students, parents, educators, administrators, and anyone else who works in education has their own unique experiences. Garnering insights from others only establish well rounded view.
That is exactly what this podcast is intended to do. This semester, I will take reading assignments from class, consider them through my own person lens, and get ideas from elsewhere in order to extend my thinking on various topics.
With that intention, I will be recording a couple of podcast episodes to help support some assignments in this course.
Look forward for the first and second coming out soon!
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