Episodes

  • Episode 301: Chatting with ChatGPT
    Jun 17 2026

    In this episode, we answer questions that ChatGPT has generated based on our podcast.

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Advice for New Fauclty Members by Robert Boice
    Wrexham vs Sunderland

    Intro/Outro Music: Notice of Eviction by Legally Blind

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    39 mins
  • Episode 300: Simulacrum of Passing Gas
    Jun 10 2026

    This week we celebrate our 300th episode by looking back at how it all began, how our focus remains on how people learn and then going many places you would not expect (as usual).

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Summer Festival Season
    Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning by Karen Barad

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    45 mins
  • Episode 299: A More Perfect Union
    Jun 3 2026

    In this episode, we revisit the unionization efforts at Penn State University.

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Welcome to Wrexham
    Project Hail Mary

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    43 mins
  • Episode 298: Dewey Have to Joke?
    May 27 2026

    This week we talk about the surprisingly prescient article from John Dewey in Science Education from 1916. Why did we not listen to him?

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Season 1 of Doctor Who on Tubi
    All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall

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    46 mins
  • Episode 297: Commencing to Speak
    May 20 2026

    In this episode, we discuss what makes a good commencement speech.

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Reformer Pilates
    Wolf Hour by Jo Nesbo

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    44 mins
  • Episode 296: Flexible Fairness
    May 13 2026

    This week we talk about the tension between fairness and flexibility when deciding about what kind of work people do and how we count it.

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Noah Kahan Out of Body on Netflix and The Great Divide
    Glyph Word Game

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    46 mins
  • Episode 295: Centering Humans with Technology
    May 6 2026

    In this episode, we discuss an article that outlines a framework for examining human-centered technology.

    Article: Guest, O. (2026). What Does ‘Human-Centred AI’ Mean? Behavioral Sciences, 16(4), 583. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16040583

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Big Mistakes
    Day of the Jackal

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    40 mins
  • Episode 294: Badgeless in Seattle
    Apr 29 2026

    This week we talk about deficit framing that researchers and teachers often take when doing their work. Framing students in terms of what they don't know instead of what they do know.

    Things that bring us joy this week:
    Detective Hole on Netflix
    Altered Carbon on Netflix

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    42 mins