Podcast special: An interview with Greg Toppo

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Cane and Rinse

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🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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In this special edition of the Cane and Rinse podcast, Ryan Hamann interviews USA Today's top education writer, Greg Toppo. Greg was invited to speak about his new book, The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter. In his book, Toppo makes the argument for video games being used in schools, and he provides many inspiring examples of children who have benefitted greatly by using games to make their academic environment more engaging and rewarding. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_interview_with_greg_toppo.mp3 Music used in this podcast: Hello World by PROTODOME Edited by Ryan Hamann.

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The All right, hello and welcome to another special episode of Canaan Rince.
0:29.1	Today we have an interview with somebody that I think you'll find really interesting.
0:33.7	Here on the question block today, we have author Greg Toppo, USA Today's top education writer.
0:40.7	Prior to his journalism career, he was a teacher, giving him insight into the inner workings of the educational system
0:46.1	and the prerogative to write education-based stories when he worked for the Santa Fe, New Mexican newspaper.
0:52.1	He began writing for USA Today in 2002, where he's been a prominent figure
0:56.1	promoting educational reform, focusing more careful examination on the No Child Left Behind
1:02.9	Act, and being awarded the Spencer Fellowship. Today, he's here to talk a little bit about his
1:08.4	new book. The Game Believes in You, How Digital Play Can
1:12.2	Make Our Kids Smarter, which is available both in hardcover and on Kindle and other electronic
1:19.5	devices.
1:20.4	Hey, thanks for joining us.
1:22.4	Thanks for having me.
1:23.4	I guess I just wanted to start with the big, broad question.
1:27.3	When talking about education reform,
1:29.0	why focus on games specifically?
1:31.5	You know, I'm glad you asked that.
1:33.8	What I found covering education for about the past almost 15 years is that there was this
1:39.7	interesting divide that I kept seeing.
1:43.7	And it was this. On the one hand, you know, we had a lot of people who were
1:47.3	really focused on helping our kids compete academically with the rest of the world. This was a group
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