The Conversation
A weekly podcast hosted by Aaron Hung, Clara Bauler and Matt Curinga on technology and instructional design.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2020
Episode 29: Remote Teaching and Learning in Japan
In this season's finale, I talk to Jonathan (@jonathandehaan) and James (@cheapshot), who are professors in Japan teaching English language. Confronted with the challenge of remote teaching without a…
Episode 28: Remote/Online Learning for International Students
Clara and Aaron talk to two international students, Grace and Yan, about their experiences with remote/online learning. Both of them are taking courses that have had to make a sudden pivot to remote …
Episode 27: Protips for New Online Instructors
In this episode, we chat with Nafiza, alumni of our Educational Technology program, and now working as Educational Technology Specialist at Teachers College, Columbia University. Together, we discuss…
Episode 26: Taking Advantage of the Learning and Writing Centers
Our guest this week is Brandon Dove, the Coordinator of Virtual Campus and Online Services at the Learning and Writing Centers. Brandon discusses what these centers are, and how students can take adv…
Episode 25: Peers and Community in Remote Learning
Our guests are Professor Matthew Wright, chair and professor of Adelphi's physics department, and two of his students, Carissa and Ravyn. We focus on the importance of getting support from our peers,…
Episode 24: Going Rogue with Social-Emotional Learning
Aaron and Clara are joined by Adelphi University professors Devin Thornburg, Ionas Sapountzis and Lisa Minicozzi on the topic of social-emotional learning (SEL) in this time of remote teaching. Our g…
Episode 23: Clara Responds: Designing Online Interactions
After listening to all the case study analyses from the students in my Technology and Instructional Design class, Professor Clara Bauler returns to share her thoughts on their ideas. We discuss the h…
Episode 22: How Has Your Life Changed as a Result of Remote Learning?
In this episode, Clara and Aaron talk to Ming, a professor at Adelphi University, Paige, a student at Adelphi and a teacher, and Diego, an eighth grade student. Clara, Ming, and Paige also share thei…
Episode 21: Students Respond to Clara's Case Study
In last week's episode, Professor Clara Bauler presented a case study for my students to respond to. This week, the students have listened to the episode and provided their own recommendations. Will …
Episode 20: An Audio Case Study With Clara Bauler
Our first episode of Season Three is a conversation between Aaron and one of the new co-hosts, Professor Clara Bauler. In this discussion, we talk about how we think of technology use in teaching and…
Episode 19: Rubrics, Social Media and the Future of the Conversation
In our season finale, Brooke and Krissy join the podcast to discuss rubric, feedback, and using social media for teaching. Our readings were Chapter 8 from Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Desi…
Episode 18: Successful Failure
This week, Jeanell and Shannon join me to talk about productive failure, a topic that has recurred in our in-class discussions on embracing failure. We picked articles from a Special Issue on failure…
Episode 17: The Uber Question (as in "overarching")
For this episode, Christine and I started with a chapter from Warren Berger's A More Beautiful Question. The chapter was "Why We Stop Questioning." After that we discussed how to start instructional …
Bonus Episode: Kill Your Darlings (with Ryan Sobeck)
In this bonus episode, I talk to Ryan Sobeck, an alumni of the educational technology program at Adelphi University and currently an instructional design at the Faculty Center of Professional Excelle…
Episode 16: Understanding Understanding
Yi-Hsin (Novia) and Shannon join the Conversation to talk about what it means to understanding something. Chapters 2 and 4 from Wiggins and McTighe's Understanding by Design.
Episode 15: When Kids Ask "Why?"
In this episode, I talk to Brandon, who is a musician, about how experts and novices learn, and what constitutes being an expert, especially in the field of music. Our readings are Chapter 2 of Brans…
Episode 14: Learning in the Brain
In this episode, I talk to Tanja, back again from the first episode, and Xingyue, an international student from China. We discuss what happens to the brain when learning occurs. Our readings are: Cha…
Episode 13: No Such Thing As Learning Styles
Our readings are: Kirschner and van Merriënboer (2013) Do learners really know best? and Dembo and Howard (2006) Advice about the use of learning style, and the 2015 TED Talk by Tesia Marshik titled …
Season 2 Announcement: We're back!
New episode of The Conversation comes out on Wednesday, September 4th, with Tanja as my guest. A special thanks to Brandon Dove for composing the music!