Podcast appearances and mentions of greg toppo

In this episode, we speak to Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century from MIT Press, available at Amazon, Bookshop or wherever you get your books! Greg Toppo is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience, most of it covering education. He spent 15 years as the national education reporter for USA Today and was most recently a senior editor for Inside Higher Ed. From 2017 to 2021, he was president of the Education Writers Association.  Jim Tracy is Senior Advisor at Jobs for the Future (JFF) and Senior Scholar of the Center for Character and Social Responsibility at Boston University's Wheelock School of Education. He has been head of several independent schools, as well as a college president.Recommended Resources:Teaching Machines by Audrey Watters The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Makes Kids Smarter by Greg Toppo

This episode is sponsored by our upcoming Smart Sprint. Find out more here.  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of the new book, Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century. Greg Toppo is a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years. He is also the author of The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter. This is Jim's second time on the podcast. Jim is a Stanford trained historian, and  a Senior Advisor at JFF who has been head of several independent schools.  Let's listen in as they discuss education in the year 2040, AI and much more.

From basketball to band, debate club to dance teams, the coronavirus pandemic has curtailed extracurricular activities for many of the nation’s K-12 students. That could have a long-term impact on student enthusiasm for school overall, experts warn. Longtime education journalist Greg Toppo, writing for The 74, looks at how educators are working to keep kids connected to school, and the research showing a strong link between extracurricular participation and academic achievement. While COVID-19's disruption of school sports gets a lot of attention, Toppo said finding ways to continue fine arts programs is also of particular concern to parents as well as students. Also, Toppo discusses ways education journalists can avoid burnout on the daily grind of what’s become a pandemic-heavy beat. He also shares story ideas on what's ahead for education policy with President-elect Joe Biden preparing for office.

Greg Toppo, an education journalist and author of The Game Believes in You, joins EdNext Editor-in-chief Marty West to discuss the continuing calls for making the SAT untimed for everyone. Toppo explored this topic in a recent article for Education Next, "Support Builds For Making the SAT Untimed For Everyone: A possible solution to the "Gaming the System" problem." https://www.educationnext.org/support-builds-making-sat-untimed-for-everyone-possible-solution-gaming-the-system/

Matthew Farber, Ed.D. is an Assistant Professor of Technology, Innovation, and Pedagogy at the University of Northern Colorado. His research is at the intersection of teacher education, learning technologies, and game-based learning. Dr. Farber has been invited to the White House, to twice keynote for UNESCO, and he has been interviewed about games and learning by NPR, Fox News Radio, The Denver Post, USA TODAY and The Wall Street Journal. He is an Edutopia blogger, a Certified BrainPOP Educator, and he is in the iCivics Educator Network. With Karen Schrier, Ed.D., he co-authored the UNESCO MGIEP working paper, The Limits and Strengths of Using Digital Games as “Empathy Machines”. Dr. Farber’s book, Gamify Your Classroom: A Field Guide to Game-Based Learning — Revised Edition (Peter Lang, 2017) features a foreword from Greg Toppo. He is the also co-editor of Game Jam Guide (Carnegie Mellon University: ETC Press, 2017). His latest book, Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games (Peter Lang, 2018), has a foreword from James Paul Gee.

Greg Toppo is a senior editor for Inside Higher Ed. Before that, he spent 15 years as the national education reporter for USA Today. A graduate of St. John’s College in Santa Fe, N.M., he taught in both public and private schools for eight years before moving into journalism. His first job was with the Santa Fe New Mexican, a 50,000-circulation daily. He worked for four years as a wire service reporter with the Associated Press, first in Baltimore and then in Washington, D.C., where he became the AP’s national K-12 education writer. Toppo also co-led the USA Today team that in 2011 looked at educator-led cheating on standardized tests. The paper’s series prompted the Washington, D.C., inspector general to investigate high erasure rates in D.C. schools. Toppo was a 2010 Spencer fellow at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and a 2016 Yale University Poynter Fellow. He is the author of the book The Game Believes In You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter (April 2015). In 2017, he became president of the Education Writers Association.

This week we look at a story that calls into question just how successful the Civil Rights Movement really was. It’s the iconic story of the Little Rock Nine, the courageous African American students who began the process of desegregating Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. They faced a hostile state governor, Orville Faubus, who called out the state’s National Guard to prevent the federally-mandated desegregation order. Then, after the Eisenhower administration sent in troops from the 101st Airborne to take control of the situation and enforce the order, the students were confronted by raging mobs calling out racial slurs and threatening violence. And all of this was captured on camera. We’ve all seen the images. But there’s a lot more to the story of Little Rock in 1957 and that’s our focus today. This topic is important because racial segregation in the nation’s public schools is still a huge problem – and it’s getting worse. And the problem isn’t just segregation, because data shows that segregated schools offer fewer college prep courses, and fewer courses and programs in the arts, compared to white majority schools. Segregated schools also have lower graduation rates and higher rates of suspensions and expulsions for discipline problems. In other words, students in these schools in 2017 are being offered an education that is, separate and unequal. How is this possible? How did we get here? Well, part of the reason is that many Americans – remembering uplifting moments like the Little Rock Nine desegregating Central High School 60 years ago this month – believe the problem of segregation in public schools was solved decades ago. It’s in the past. It turns out, that happy memory of a Civil Rights victory in 1957 is actually one of the things that stands in the way of our confronting and resolving the scourge of segregation. To help us understand the long and complicated history of Little Rock and desegregation efforts, I speak with historian Erin Krutko Devlin, author of the new book, Remember Little Rock (Univ. of Massachusetts Press, 2017). Among the many things discussed in this episode:  How the Little Rock crisis of 1957 is part of a problematic triumphant narrative of racial progress. Why celebrating iconic civil rights victories can bolster a misperception that racism is a thing of the past. Why 60 years after Little Rock, many public schools in the US remain segregated and unequal. How opponents of integration in Little Rock and elsewhere turned from Massive Resistance to Passive Resistance to stymie desegregation efforts. How public officials in Little Rock, Arkansas successfully conspired to thwart meaningful school integration after 1957. How conservative judges after 1980 began to roll back desegregation programs imposed by lower courts. What Little Rock in 1957 can tell us about Charlottesville in 2017. Little Rock and the emergence of Civil Rights tourism. How Little Rock and the National Park Service site and museum commemorate the #PublicHistory of the Civil Rights movement. About Erin Krutko Devlin – website Further Reading Erin Krutko Devlin, Remember Little Rock (University of Massachusetts Press, 2017) Karen Anderson, Little Rock: Race and Resistance at Central High School (2010) Derrick Bell, Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform (2004) Elizabeth Huckaby, Crisis at Central High, Little Rock, 1957-58 (1980) Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools (2012) Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005). Carlotta Walls Lanier, A Mighty Long Way: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School (2010). Greg Toppo, “GAO study: Segregation worsening in U.S. schools,” USA Today, May 17, 2016 Music for This Episode Jay Graham, ITPL Intro (JayGMusic.com) Kevin McCleod, “Impact Moderato” (Free Music Archive) Jason Shaw, “Acoustic Meditation” Hefferman, “Winter’s Trek” (Free Music Archive) The Bell, “I Am History” (Free Music Archive) Production Credits Executive Producer: Lulu Spencer Technical Advisors: Holly Hunt and Jesse Anderson Podcasting Consultant: Darrell Darnell of Pro Podcast Solutions Photographer: John Buckingham Graphic Designer: Maggie Cellucci Website by: ERI Design Legal services: Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Social Media management: The Pony Express Risk Assessment: Little Big Horn Associates Growth strategies: 54 40 or Fight © Snoring Beagle International, 2017  

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This week we welcome USA Today K12 education writer Greg Toppo into the studio to discuss the differences between education and learning, along with his book - The Game Believes in You. We also dive into the stigma around games being "addictive" and try out some new Filament Games marketing slogans.

Marty West of EdNext talks with Greg Toppo about academic games and James Coleman's idea that they could be used to increase motivation and academic performance among teens.

If you are a gamer, you realize the power of video games to inspire, excite, and even teach life lessons. This special episode is dedicate to all the gamers who realize the amazing potential for good within one of our favorite hobbies. Featuring some of the best thoughts of influential experts from my interviews over the past year, this episode is packed with thought provoking commentary on life lessons from video games. Please enjoy and share with others. Links to full interviews: Dr. James Rosser David Hayter (https://twitter.com/davidbhayter) Danny Pena (GamerTag Radio – http://www.gamertagradio.com/) Rika Muranaka (https://twitter.com/unjazzmusic) John G. Miller (http://qbq.com/) Simon Sinek (https://www.startwithwhy.com/) Patrick Scott Patterson (http://www.patrickscottpatterson.com/) Patrick Stafford (http://www.staffordcontent.com/) Brentalfloss a.k.a. Brent Black (http://www.brentalfloss.com/) Edwin McRae (http://www.edmcrae.com/) Greg Toppo (http://www.gamebelieves.com/) Hans Van Vliet (7Bit Hero) (http://7bithero.com/) Chris Barton (http://www.chrisbarton.info/) Kellee Santiago (https://twitter.com/kelleesan) Curtis Fletcher (http://curtisofletcher.com/) Music: EarthBound ‘Dialima tu Kafé‘ by Diggi Dis, Zeratul Metal Gear Solid ‘Legend of the Snake 2: Snake versus Dragon‘ by Reuben Kee Metal Gear Solid ‘The Price of Freedom‘ by Evan Arnett, Janna McKinley, Jonathan Mills Secret of Mana ‘Curious‘ by Melodious Punk Streets of Rage 2 ‘Slow Moon Groove‘ by Avien Final Fantasy VII ‘Beyond Midgar‘ by BogusRed Final Fantasy IV New Orleans Remix by Brentalfloss The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker ‘Forever Yours‘ by Tim Sheehy

Greg Toppo, the education writer for USA Today, joins us to talk about his awesome book, The Game Believes in You. The book basically covers all the efforts being made by teachers today to include games in the classroom.  Here is Greg's page on USA Today. Here's this week's news: Yo-Kai Watch Could Be The Next PokemonBig Spenders in Mobile Games are Mostly Young MenThe next Hour of Code is Minecraft-themedIs Linkle Girl Link, and is she going to be in a Zelda game?NBA 2K16 is FREE this weekend for Xbox Live Gold members on Xbox One.

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 […] The post Podcast special: An interview with Greg Toppo appeared first on Cane and Rinse.

A lot of parents worry about whether their kids' video game habits are harmful - especially when gaming gets in the way of homework or reading. But writer Greg Toppo says gaming can be a great way to learn.

Mike Petrilli interviews Greg Toppo about his new book.

Mike Petrilli interviews Greg Toppo about his new book.