Educator Innovator

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, "Brother Mike" Hawkins - YOUmedia Coordinator/Lead Mentor for Digital Youth Network - chats with us about the power of mentorship, and the importance of Arts in K-12 education. "If you can make the learning meaningful--where that's what gets a young person out of bed in the morning--that's the kind of redefinition of the learning experience that we want to push and amplify." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Carina Wong - Deputy Director for Education at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - chats with us about "the power of networks," and lessons learned from the Gates Foundation investment in education. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this May 23, 2014 episode, we chat with some of the folks behind L.A.'s 2014 'Summer of Learning' program. Check out the full recap at http://bit.ly/1lQhbx1, and visit http://summeroflearning.la for more info about Los Angeles's Summer of Learning initiative.

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Sam Dyson - director of the Hive Chicago Learning Network, a MacArthur-funded initiative operated by the Mozilla Foundation to enact connected learning through engaging teen programs - chats with us about what the future of equitable, interest-driven learning might look like. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Philipp Schmidt - open learning activist, and Executive Director of Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) - shares his insights on how peer-to-peer learning and open learning benefits "young learners of all ages." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Dominique James - a 19-year-old poet, performance artist, and self-published author - chats with us about her personal connected learning experiences in, and as a result of, her time in Chicago's YOUmedia programs. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Kris Gutiérrez - Principal Investigator within the Connected Learning Research Network, and Professor of Literacy & Learning Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder - chats with us about the notions of pursuing "horizontal expertise" and "learning as movement across environments." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Larissa Pahomov - an English Teacher at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy - chats with us about the challenges and rewards of an inquiry-driven, project-based classroom. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Akili Lee - Co-Founder of the Digital Youth Network (a hybrid digital literacy organization) - chats with us about helping students build on their personal interests and bridge between learning experiences outside of school and learning within school. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Joe Kahne - Chair of the Digital Media & Learning Research Hub's Youth & Participatory Politics (YPP) Research Network, and the John & Martha Davidson Professor of Education at Mills College - shares his thoughts on ensuring youth are prepared to be engaged citizens. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Jaleesa Trapp - a former alumni of, and now Program Coordinator for Intel's Computer Clubhouse Network - chats with us about making education more engaging and interactive. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Jennifer Woollven - a Professional Development specialist focusing on educational technology - chats with us about the links between project-based learning and Connected Learning, and how to move beyond a standardized testing mindset in schools. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, we chat with Buffy Hamilton - better known online as 'The Unquiet Librarian' - about how libraries are uniquely poised to be great environments for Connected Learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, David Theo Goldberg - head of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, and co-founder of the scholar network HASTAC - about the challenges higher education faces in engaging learners, as well as the spirit behind the Reclaim Open Learning initiative. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, we chat with EdSurge's Betsy Corcoran about the potential educational technology has for inspiring students to engage in deeper, interest-powered learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, we chat with Mark Surman - Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation - about how Connected Learning powers the Webmaker and Web Literacy work that Mozilla is leading. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Constance Steinkuehler - Associate Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Co-Director of the Games+Learning+Society center - explains how games can act as "trojan horses" for interest-driven learning. To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Make Learning Relevant" is a podcast series full of interviews with leading minds from the Connected Learning Alliance and the field of Digital Media and Learning. Subscribe to this Podcast using iTunes (https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/connected-learning/id869635683) or your favorite Feed Reader (http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:32859553/sounds.rss) In this episode, Katie Salen - Professor in the School of Computing & Digital Media at DePaul University, and Co-Founder of the Institute of Play - provides insight on why it's so important to provide learning environments that center around "play." To check out the full "Make Learning Relevant" campaign, visit http://clalliance.org

"Connected Learning TV" (http://connectedlearning.tv) is a webinar series with organizations, projects, and individuals who align with the Connected Learning vision. In this May 8, 2014 episode, we chat with some of the folks behind Chicago's 2013 'Summer of Learning' about why they're excited for Chicago's 2014 'City of Learning.' Check out the full recap at http://bit.ly/1irHxSQ, and visit http://explorechi.org for more info for Chicago's COL initiative.

In this episode, we spend an hour with Mike Rose, a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the author of many books. We invited Mike to talk with us about his newest work, Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.