Career Tech Talk

Interview with Kevin Faughnan, director of the IBM Academic Initiative. Faughnan explains the Academic Initiative, which provides postsecondary faculty with hardware, software and IT course materials to implement in IT classes and in other programs such as business and engineering. He also talks about the value employers place on interdisciplinary skills.

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Interview with Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel series “Dirty Jobs” and founder of the mikeroweWORKS campaign to celebrate the skilled trades. Rowe discusses mikeroweWORKS and its accompanying Web site, describes the need for skilled labor in the United States as well as this nation’s negative perception of the skilled trades, and candidly shares what he learned about education and hard work from his family. (This podcast was recorded prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election, so some of the news items discussed during the interview are no longer current.)

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For the start of your holiday season, ACTE presents a personal interview with Chef Rock Harper, season 3 winner of Hell’s Kitchen. Chef Rock talks about what he’s grateful for, including his high school culinary arts teacher and his time at Johnson & Wales University. He also discusses his future plans and the integration of math and reading skills into culinary classes.

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Interview with ACTE 2008 Convention speaker Daniel Pink, author of A Whole New Mind. Pink discusses how right-brain abilities are increasingly important for success in the 21st century workplace, and what this means for career and technical education students. In addition, he addresses how right-brain abilities can be measured in schools.

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This special episode in between regularly scheduled episodes features an interview with 2008 Convention speaker Neil Howe, an authority on generations in America, a founding partner of LifeCourse Associates, and author of several books (look for a book signing at ACTE’s Convention!). Howe discusses the nature of the Millennial Generation in school and in the workplace, the challenges of recruiting Millennial employees, the impact of “helicopter” parents, and Millennials and their relationship to CTE.

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Interview with ACTE 2008 Convention speaker Dr. Willard Daggett, president of the International Center for Leadership in Education. Dr. Daggett is a former teacher and administrator as well as an educational consultant and author. He discusses the skills gap between what is taught in schools and what is required on the job, the importance of real-world applications and academic-CTE integration, and the possible collapse of the American empire without education reform.

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This special episode published in between ACTE’s regularly scheduled podcasts features an interview with Judy Brown, ACTE 2008 Teacher of the Year and a Family and Consumer Sciences education professional. Brown discusses her experiences as Teacher of the Year and her involvement with ACTE, and shares how others can achieve as CTE professionals. She also talks about the future of Family and Consumer Sciences. Learn more about the ACTE Excellence Awards program at www.acteonline.org/about/awards.

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Interview with Barbara Morgan, astronaut and educator, and a crewmember on the Endeavour mission to the International Space Station in August 2007. Morgan talks about her responsibilities during the mission and about teaching from space, and she shares her thoughts on science and technology education in the U.S. To learn more about how educators can become astronauts, listen to the December 2007 episode of Career Tech Talk with NASA astronaut candidate selection and training manager Duane Ross.

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In the final episode of the summer series on Web 2.0 in education, ACTE interviews Dr. Kathleen P. King, a graduate professor of adult education and human resources development at Fordham University, co-author of Podcasting for Teachers, and a podcaster on the Teachers’ Podcast. Dr. King talks about how podcasting got started, explains the basics of producing a podcast and gives specific examples of teacher-produced and student-produced podcasting in the classroom. She also discusses podcasting for educator professional development and examines some uses for podcasting that aren’t as effective as others.

Other episodes in the series: Steve Hargadon on Web 2.0 basics and David Warlick on blogs and wikis in the classroom.

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As part of the summer series on Web 2.0 in education, an interview with David Warlick, an author, public speaker and consultant on 21st century teaching and learning, and a 30-year educator. Warlick discusses specific uses of blogs and wikis in the classroom, explains the wonder of RSS and how it can help educators with their professional development, and describes his own classroom blogging service, Class Blogmeister.

Other episodes in the series: Steve Hargadon on Web 2.0 basics and Dr. Kathleen P. King on podcasting.

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