KYLE WAGNER and STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING

🔥 What is one mindset shift I need to make as a teacher in 2024?
🔥 Why do student-centered approaches matter now more than ever?
🔥 How can generative AI support project-based learning in the classroom?
Join me for this conversation with Hong Kong educator KYLE WAGNER as he shares his insights on these and other questions.
About This Guest: Kyle is the founder and lead PBL/Learning Design Coach for Transform Educational Consulting, an organization that empowers forward thinking schools and educators to create more globally, socially and emotionally aware citizens through project-based experiences and student-centered environments.
Kyle is also the former Coordinator of Futures Academy at the International School of Beijing, has 12 years classroom teaching experience, and worked as a Humanities Teacher at world-renowned High Tech High. He has authored The Power of SIMPLE and Where is the Teacher, hosts a popular podcast, and holds an M.Ed. in Teacher Leadership.
Connect with Kyle
on Linkedin,
on X @kwagssd3,
on Instagram @kylewagner3,
on YouTube at @transformschool,
and at his website, www.transformschool.com, and
on Facebook at www.facebook.com/transformyourschool.
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In This Conversation:
0:28 - Who is Kyle Wagner?
1:58 - Kyle tells a story of losing his job in his second year of teaching
4:22 - In the age of AI, why do student-centered approaches matter now more than ever?
6:52 - Kyle explains what he means in the title of his book: Where is the Teacher?
9:09 - Shift: Moving student learning from content-driven to inquiry-driven
10:58 - Shift: Moving motivation from grades to problem-solving (deeper purpose)
13:36 - How can Chat GPT power deeper project-based learning experiences?
17:09 - "Simple designs beget complex behaviours"
21:33 - Kyle's work at the Transformative Learning Experiences Podcast
22:43 - Kyle's plans for his YouTube channel, ‪@transformschool‬ 
24:34 - A passion outside of education: song-writing
26:08 - A productivity habit: reflecting in his journal every morning
26:58 - Kyle's morning routine
28:38 - Favorite tech tools: Chat GPT and Canva
29:35 - A book recommendation: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay 
30:59 - An educator to follow on LinkedIn: Benjamin Freud and Loni Bergqvist on LinkedIn
32:06 - What Kyle's streaming: Big Bang Theory
33:03 - How to connect with Kyle Wagner and follow him online
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Song Track Credit
Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
GO! by Neffex
*All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

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