Randi Weingarten: Educating for Democracy

Carmelo Presicce joins Mitch Resnick to discuss the Learning Creative Learning (LCL) online course and community, where people from around the world come together to learn about creative learning as they engage in creative learning experiences. Carmelo focuses especially on his approach for creatin…

In the late 1980’s, the government of Costa Rica initiated a bold program to transform education by introducing computers to schools throughout the country. Eleonora Badilla Saxe, one of the leaders of the initiative, joins Mitchel Resnick to discuss the early success of the initiative -- and also …

Fueled by the book The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt, many people blame mobile phones and social media for the rise in teen anxiety. But Peter Gray, a leading authority on the role of play in children’s lives, has a different explanation. His research shows that reduced opportunities for sel…

What if classrooms were organized more like design studios, providing students with opportunities to create projects based on their interests -- and supporting their development as self-directed learners? Harvard professor Karen Brennan joins me to discuss ideas and stories from her new book: “Star…