Digest #177: Podcast Episodes for Parents and Educators
I have been following Brown University Professor and Economist Emily Oster for a number of years, basically ever since I started my journey of becoming a parent. Now, I listen to her podcast and read her newsletters (and the newsletters from the endocrinologist on her team, called “Hot Flash”) to hear from Emily and experts on data-driven parenting. I also love listening to Emily talk about evidence-based decision making in a world where we don’t have all of the data we would want to make a “perfect” choice for our families. She also talks a lot about using data to inform your decision making, but that each individual or family may not make the same choice, and yet still can be making the best choice for them.
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As you can see, I’m a big fan of Emily Oster, and the ParentData brand. And so, this week, I bring you a list of high-quality ParentData podcast episodes related to learning and/or kids in schools. I think that parents and teachers will find something to love from this list.
A couple notes about the links I’m providing. You can access the podcast on Emily’s website, ParentData, and I’m providing those links. However, each person only gets so many free reads (and accessing the podcast episodes on her website counts as a “read” because there is a full transcript available). So, I’m also providing the Apple Podcast links as well. You can also get these podcasts wherever you get your podcasts, without a subscription. For example, I listen on Overcast, a free podcasting app. I’m including publishing dates to make searching a little easier on apps like these. Happy listening!
1. Why Kids Can’t Read: How We Missed the Mark on Literacy Education, with Emily Hanford, senior producer and correspondent, APM Reports.
If you only indulge me and listen to one episode on this list, listen to this one. They talk about cognitive psychology and basic research feeding into classroom research in a way that I LOVE.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released June 6, 2024
2. Every Kid is a Math Kid: Debunking the Myths Around Learning Math, with expert Shalinee Sharma.
Shalinee runs the free math platform Zearn, which is a wonderful resource, and is the author of Math Mind.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released August 1, 2024
3. There have been four episodes recently (in the last year or so) on phones, social media, and kids. Each one of them feels a little bit different to me, with different experts and a different lens and with different background expertise. In all cases, it seems like a main message is “it would be better if kids didn’t have phones in schools”. Still, they’re all worth a listen in my opinion!
Phones and the Importance of Play: Are Phones Really to Blame for the Decline in Kids’ Mental Health? with expert Jon Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released September 12, 2024
Kids, Screens, and Schools: How Worried Should We Be? (Part One), with expert Jessica Grose, New York Times reporter.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released August 15, 2024
Kids, Screens, and Schools : How Worried Should We Be? (Part Two), with expert Michael Rich, a pediatrician, child health researcher, and children’s media specialist.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released August 29, 2024
How to Weigh the Risks of Social Media: A Conversation with the Surgeon General.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released November 16, 2023
4. Representation in Children’s Books, with expert Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman. Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman is a National Science Foundation Doctoral Fellow and a Doctoral Candidate at Harvard Kennedy School studying public policy and economics. She’s also an award winning writer! You can also check out her book The Black Agenda: Bold Solutions for a Broken System.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released June 11, 2023
5. High Achieving Kids, with expert Jennifer Breheny Wallace, journalist and author of Never Enough.
Listen on ParentData | Listen on ApplePodcasts | Released September 21, 2023
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