Visions of Education

In Episode 127, Dan and Michael chat with Dr. John Wills about his new article in Theory & Research in Social Education titled, “‘Daniel was racist’: Individualizing racism when teaching about the Civil Rights Movement.”

In Episode 126, Dan and Michael have a wide ranging chat about lessons, metaphors, and planning with Daniel Diaz, Amparo Chavez-Gonzalez, Miguel Covarrubias, and Chris Lewis of the UCLA History-Geography Project.

In Episode 125 Dan and Michael talk with Jada Kohlmeier about her new article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Examining the relationship between teachers’ discussion facilitation and their students’ reasoning.”

In Episode 122 Dan and Michael talk with Drs. Carolyn Weber and Sarah Montgomery about their new article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “The emergence of elementary citizenship education: Insights from Iowa’s rural schools, 1910–1935.” It is kind of like that West Wing episode where everyone is talking about that book about what life was like 100 years ago - except set in rura...

In Episode 123, Dan and Michael talk with Dr. Judy Pace about her new article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Contained risk-taking: Preparing preservice teachers to teach controversial issues in three countries.”

In Episode 122, Dan and Michael offer condolences to the recent victims of mass shootings and talk with Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok about their new article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “The case of #NeverAgainMSD: When proceduralist civics becomes public work by way of political emotion.”

In Episode 121, Dan and Michael talk with Delandrea Hall about Hamilton: An American Musical and discuss considerations and ways to use aspects of it in the classroom! Collectively, they have seen the show 8 times!

In Episode 120, Dan and Michael talk with Christine Baron and Sherri Sklarwitz about their new publication in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Understanding what teachers gain from professional development at historic sites.”

In Episode 119, Michael and Dan talk with Dr. Kevin Magill about his research on critical teachers, power relations and intellectual solidarity.

In episode 118, Dan talks with planners and presenters at the first annual Elementary Social Studies Education Summit (ESSES)that took place in Wilmington, North Carolina on June 6th and 7th, 2019.

In Episode 117, Michael and Dan talk with Dr. Lance Mason about how educators might teach media literacy through media ecology.

In Episode 116, Dan and Michael chat with Harper Keenan about his new article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, “Visiting Chutchui: The making of a colonial counterstory on an elementary school field trip.”

In a free-wheeling discussion with Nate Bowling (which, to be honest, happens when this crew gets together), we explore his decision to leave his school and move to teach in an international school in Abu Dhabi. Nate also discusses what he sees as a way to retain teachers by bringing them into leadership roles (and keeping them in the classroom).

In episode 114, Dan and Michael talk with Wayne Journell about his new edited book, Unpacking Fake News: An Educator's Guide to Navigating the Media with Students.

In Episode 113, Michael and Dan talk with Dr. Lilliana Saldaña and Vanessa Sandoval about their (and the larger efforts) to create a Mexican American Studies course approved by the Texas State Board of Education.

In this episode, Dan and Michael chat with Selena Van Horn and Andrea Hawkman about their new Social Studies and the Young Learner article, First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage (Equality): Welcoming Diverse Families in the Elementary Classroom.

In this episode, Dan and Michael chat with Cory Wright-Maley of St. Mary’s University in Calgary, Canada about teaching simulations in the social studies.

In this Women’s History Month episode, Dan and Michael chat with Tina Ellsworth, Janelle Stigall, and Amy Walker of Kansas about their new Social Studies and the Young Learner article, “Remembering the Ladies: Connect to Local Women’s History using Storytelling.”

In the final if our four #SocialMediaEd episodes, Dan and Michael chat with Luci Pangrazio of Deakin University in Australia about her research on how youth make sense of the social media data they create and which is extracted from them.

For our third #SocialMediaEd SITE episode, Dan and Michael chat with Enilda Romero-Hall of the University of Tampa about social media in higher education.

In this episode, Michael and Dan chat with Carly Muetterties of C3Teachers.org about dimension four of the C3 Inquiry Arc: Taking informed action. We played around with some other titles like, "Beyond the Letters to the Editor" and the Sondheim-inspired, "Finishing the Arc,' however, we landed here to be more descriptive.

In this episode, Dan and Michael chat with Wayne Journell, Adam Friedman, & Emma Thacker about their teaching, research, and recent publication in Social Education titled, “Getting Inquiry Design Just Right.”

In this wide ranging episode, Dan and Michael chat with Antero Garcia about gaming, media, education, and really mainly emails.

In this episode, Dan and Michael chat with Ellen Middaugh, Ph. D. about her work on digital media and youth civic engagement. Specifically, we are discussing her recently published article with Chris Evans "Did You Know?!...Cultivating Online Public Voice in Youth" from Theory & Research in Social Education!

In this episode, Dan and Michael chat with Tonia Dousay, co-chair of the SITE Social Media SIG, about teaching digital footprints.