What We're Learning About Learning: What Students Need Right Now
Season 2 Episode 1
What Students Need Right Now
In this episode we look back to learn more about what we can bring forward. We focus on what we’re learning about learning from the pandemic and racial reckoning, and, more specifically, on what students need as they transition back to in person learning in the fall. While a lot is unknown, we do know that, after all that’s happened—the pandemic, social unrest, and the persistent inequalities that plague our nation, we can’t return to business as usual. As award-winning author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor put it, “We will not go back to normal. Normal never was. Our pre-corona existence was not normal other than we normalized greed, inequity, exhaustion, depletion, extraction, disconnection, rage, hoarding, hate and lack. We should not long to return, my friends. We are being given the opportunity to stitch a new garment. One that fits all of humanity and nature.”
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Bios
Featured in the episode
- Javier Jimenez Westerman, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Programs at Georgetown College.
- Erika Cohen-Derr, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at Georgetown University
- Jim Wickman, Director of Catholic Life at Georgetown University
- Don Undeen, Maker Hub Manager
- Allyson Even, a history teacher at KIPP University Prep in San Antonio, Texas
- Antonio Gamboa, a science teacher at Garey High School in Pomona, California
- Anne Severson, an English teacher at Excel High School in Boston
Resources
- Sonya Renee Taylor’s website
- The Pivotal Network
- The Pivotal Network at Georgetown
- Teaching, Learning, & Innovation Summer Institute (TLISI)
- The Prospect blog
- Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS)
- Georgetown Maker Hub
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