2015-07-24

S:1 E:24 Heart, Head, Hands Assuming something is "wrong" with schools, how might they be fixed? Analyze how the larger forces of imposition, invitation, and...

S:1 E:16 Surprises of the Small and Speedy Investigate the paradoxes of near-light-speed travel according to Einstein's special theory of relativity. Separated twins age at...

S:1 E:9 Impossible Sets Delve into Bertrand Russell's profoundly simple paradox that undermined Cantor's theory of sets. Then follow the scramble to fix set theory...

S:1 E:15 Enigmas of Everyday Objects Classical mechanics is full of paradoxical phenomena, which Professor Kung demonstrates using springs, a slinky, a spool, and oobleck...

S:1 E:15 Horticulture and Cell Upgrades This episode was first published on YouTube on 25 Jul 2015 - In this series, I play the Prison...

S:1 E:5 What Should We Compare about Education? Do the achievement rankings paint an accurate picture of what's happening in schools, or is the crisis...

S:1 E:17 All and Nothing Most educational systems around the world have four general goals. Explore each of them here as you get a framework...

S:1 E:9 Borrowing Foreign School Cultures Why are educational comparisons so popular? Should educational reform be driven by economic competition? Think critically about these questions...

S:1 E:6 The World Learns from Horace Mann Trace how the ideologies of mass education emerged in the U.S. and became central tenets of education...

S:1 E:1 The Global Challenge to Educate Borrowing or benchmarking one national education system against another is not necessarily a remedy or the most useful...