Episode 5 || A Chat on Education

From the Front Porch

The Bookshelf Thomasville

Fiction, Society & Culture, Books, Arts:books, Arts

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The podcast is back this month after a brief summer hiatus, and Annie and Katie are talking about their favorite books on education. They're covering Montessori schools and the importance of playing outside, plus how big a role technology plays in today's classrooms. And, this month, Annie's introducing shownotes -- a rundown of everything discussed in this episode. Books on education you need to add to your list: - Creating Innovators by Tony Wagner - Whatever It Takes by Paul Tough - The Well-Trained Mind by Susan Wise Bauer - How Children Succeed by Paul Tough - The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley What you need to watch: The Up Series, a BBC documentary that follows a group of children from the age of seven until present day. "Give me a child when he is seven, and I will show you the man." Katie's intrigued by Bill Gates' Big History Project, which aims to give students of all ages an over-arching picture of our world's history. Check it out here. Turns out intellect is only a small part of how we learn and succeed. David Brooks talks about the "mental virtues" in this article in the New York Times. Let's lighten up with a look at how our vocabulary is shaped and what words make up your fingerprint.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Annie Jones, and you're listening to From the Front Porch.
0:12.2	Today is episode 5 5 and Katie and I will be talking about our favorite books on education
0:18.0	since it's that back to school time again.
0:21.0	And we'll also be talking about what words make up our very own fingerprints.
0:25.6	Stay tuned. Well, hello Katie. It has been a long time since we have chatted, but school is back in session and you and I talked a few
0:45.0	weeks ago at the store about our favorite books that have to do with education and that's
0:50.0	kind of your background so why don't you tell me about some of your favorite
0:53.8	educational books? Well this has definitely been on my mind a lot as we have a
0:59.9	child we're preparing to send off to school and I'm going back into the teaching
1:03.6	field and there are so many I love reading education books and just in the past
1:09.3	few months several I've really enjoyed so one I saw a bunch of copies at the bookstore
1:15.8	behind the counter and was curious
1:17.6	why everybody was reading this book
1:19.0	called Creating Innovators.
1:20.6	That's right.
1:21.3	Brookwood, I think, read that this year. Brookwood is one of our schools here in town.
1:25.0	And they have a new headmaster who's requiring all the teachers to read it, which I thought was fascinating.
1:30.0	I'm a huge public school advocate, but just the idea that he's wanting to bring so much
1:35.9	innovation and it seems like he's already putting in a bunch of innovative policies I think
1:39.5	is really great.
1:40.7	But that is an overall education book I thought was phenomenal and not just for
1:45.8	educators but for parents for employers for maintaining a creative business for
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