Conversations about education, technology, and culture.
Matt’s Notes Gabba-Gabba-Hey, my dudes! It’s that time of year again! The fall of times, that is! And the EnT is back like a heart attack! To wit: we are pulling up awkwardly but undeterredly with this here dissemination [sic] on starting points for a new school year! So pitter-patter, let’s get at ‘er! For…
One day and one month ago I had the immense privilege of conversing with San Diego, California writer Jim Ruland… AKA… LA Times Bestselling Author, journalist, and a writer across multiple formats, platforms, and genres! His latest book Make it Stop is a work of dystopian wildness which interrogates American healthcare… and is required (summer)…
Colleagues, friends, and passerby… The level of this here humble (meek!) podcasting endeavour has just gone up! Significantly! The reason for this is, be assured, this absolutely first-rate convo between myself and Dr. Moeketsi Letseka, UNESCO Chair on Open Distance Learning (ODL), and Professor of Philosophy of Education and African Philosophy at the University of…
Matt’s Notes Hey there! We’re pleased you’ve joined us for a positively Foucaultian dive into leveraging structures of education… regardless of whether you identify as structuralist, post-structuralist, or “other” for sure you should check the video and/or audio! We’re the beagles of death metal… er… overlords of #ednontech… uh… But Seriously It’s been a week…
Earlier this week, Doug and I had the chance to speak with Dr. Norm Vaughan, Professor with the Education and Schooling Faculty at Mount Royal University in Calgary. Norm has had an rich and varied career across a wide range of settings, contexts, and locations! He is the author of numerous articles, presentations, books, and…
Everyone, I am utterly pleased to share our recent EnT convo with Dr. Rob Power, Assistant Professor of Education at Cape Breton University! Besides being an accomplished and prolific researcher, teacher, and practitioner in many diverse areas of the educational endeavor writ large… Rob and I also go back many years professionally… and this is…
Folks, I was expecting to enjoy my chat with Dr. Jon Dron, Associate Dean, Learning and Assessment in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Athabasca University… I was not expecting to have as much fun as I did! While we were talking about his latest book How Education Works, we ended up going many…
Hey, y’all! And howdy! And salutations… In a month that’s had far more high-profile guests than I ever could have hoped to speak to… they don’t come much more high-profile, for my literary and academic dollar, than AJ Hartley, award winning and bestselling writer of more than twenty-five mystery/thriller, fantasy, historical fiction, and young adult…
Tape’s rolling… er… Friends, pals, colleagues, university Education students and/or profs and/or any single individual checking this out from any vantage point whatsoever… Bob Mehr is, among many (many!) things, a 2 x Grammy Award winning writer, producer, and NYT bestselling author of one of the most definitive rock bios ever written about any band……
It was my great privilege late last week to speak with Stephen Downes, a long-time researcher with the National Research Council Canada’s Digital Technologies Research Centre in Ottawa! Stephen is a substantive thinker and prolific writer on nearly any or all aspects of e-learning one can conceive of! He is among the preeminent philosophers of…
