Learn and Unlearn

Laura White has been a teacher for over 20 years and loves teaching teenagers in a self-organized, transparent, and collaborative learning environment.

Jessica Cavallaro is the co-founder of The Agile Mind, which interweaves Agile methodologies into K-12 education. She has written extensively about her journey into the world of Agile and Scrum in a hybrid setting in her blog AgileMindsintheMaking.com. She is a champion of project-based learning and creating purposeful education. 

Jessica has delved into using Agile and Scrum to keep students connected, collaborating, and creating while teaching in a hybrid setting. She is passionate about developing better systems that put students first in education.

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Roslynn Jackson is an educator and the co-founder of The Agile Mind, which strives to help teachers learn to use an Agile mindset to help students acquire the skills they need to solve real-world problems while learning educational concepts. She is passionate about making education engaging and meaningful for teachers and their students. She believes the best strategies for doing so involve “organized chaos” and getting your hands dirty - this means using systems that provide opportunities for authentic hands-on learning.

Roslynn believes that using Agile skills with students, and helping other educators to do the same, is the way to transform our education framework into one that truly prepares our learners for the real-world challenges ahead of them, and gives them the tools to do it.

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Beau McCoy is the Founder and CEO of SOLcademy, which stands for Simple Online Learning Academy. It is a platform for sharing short-form educational content. Join us as he talks about Decentralized Education by directly connecting the learner to the knowledge.

He is on a mission to improve the quality and availability of learning. He went to Dartmouth College and worked as a software engineer before discovering his true passion for education. He was the first sales leader of GoGuardian, a very successful EdTech startup. He is evangelizing personalized and adaptive learning to achieve his goal of Equity for ALL scholars. He is an avid traveler and spent 2 years backpacking through Africa and Latin America.

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Jeff Burstein is the founder of a new scaling Agile framework called Learning - Educational Agile Framework (L-EAF), which is an emerging open source Agile framework designed around the complexities of Education and the Education sector.

He is an innovator, founder, consultant, speaker, and Enterprise Agile Coach with over 20 years of experience in helping companies and government agencies discover a better way of working.

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Shraddha Nilesh Gosavi is the founder of AmrutBhasha, an initiative to help people learn the Sanskrit language, so as to empower them to decode ancient scriptures.

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Mr. Kollegala Sharma is the producer and podcaster of Jana Suddhi (Jaana - Smart, Suddhi - News), a daily science podcast in Kannada. He was a Chief Scientist at CFTRI, Mysuru. He also has vast experience as a columnist and science writer, coordinator for several science programs on All India Radio, as well as a trainer in various science workshops. He is an author and has contributed to several articles on science. He is also a mentor for teachers and Ph. D students.

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If Holistic education, Child-centric and Experiential learning interest you, you will find very useful insights in my conversation with Preethi Vickram, the founder of Tapas Progressive Learning and Leadership Initiatives for Educators (LIFE). 

Preethi is a committed educator, play exponent, passionate parenting coach, leadership mentor, and a brand champion. She is also the master franchisee of Podar Jumbo Kids in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

Join us as we discuss:

1. The journey behind Tapas Progressive Learning.
2. The process of learning at Tapas.
3. Facilitators instead of Teachers at Tapas.
4. H.A.P.P.Y parenting.
5. Future plans of Tapas.

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Prof. Shankar Bellur is a Career Mentor, Corporate Trainer, and Author of the book: "At The Crossroads - How to make the right choice for a successful career". This book became the Amazon #1 Best Seller book in the career choices category. This book has also made it to the list of all-time best books under the career choices category by BookAuthority, a California-based world's leading portal for recommendations on nonfiction books.

Prof. Shankar Bellur is also a certified Global Career Counsellor from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Join us as he talks about these topics:

1. The vision behind launching his YouTube channel.
2. Role of parents and teachers in providing a nourishing environment for children.
3. Encouraging children to explore and identify their passion.
4. The challenges with Rote learning.
5. Holistic education and the ancient Gurukula model.
6. Importance of personal attention.
7. Imperative life skills that need to be taught to children (Resilience, Grit, Determination, Perseverance, Patience, Goal Setting, Habit Formation).
8. Mental health in students.
9. Emerging career options.
10. Preparing for a VUCA world.
11. Career Lab and Future Plans.

Connect with Prof. Shankar Bellur:

Teena Paul is the Founder Director of Giftolexia, a startup that is helping children with learning difficulties realize their true potential.

Join us as Teena talks about:

1. Signs of learning difficulties in children.
2. Early Identification: Through a state-of-the-art screening tool based on Gaze pattern analysis, using Machine Learning algorithms and Predictive Modeling.
3. Role of parents and teachers in dealing with such children.
4. Future Plans

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I am in a conversation with Harpreet Singh Grover, the Co-Founder, and Ex-CEO of CoCubes, an online assessment platform. He is the co-author of the book: Let's build a company (https://letsbuildacompany.com/). He is also an entrepreneur and an angel investor.
Apart from work, he is a mountaineer and ultrarunner. He is passionate about careers and parenting!

Topics:

• Overview of CoCubes.
• Common areas of improvement observed as part of the online assessments.
• Average mindset.
• Gaps in the education system.
• The role of parents and teachers.
• Definition of 'Job Ready'.
• Advice to the youth.
• Insights from one of the chapters from his book - 'We do many things in life just because we can.'

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Kian Godhwani is the Founder of HappyInc, a free online peer counseling service for teenagers. In this episode, Kian talks about the following topics:
1. The vision behind launching HappyInc.
2. Common reasons why teenagers call HappyInc.
3. Role of parents and teachers in addressing/preventing such issues.
4. Gaps in the current formal education system.
5. Expansion/Diversification plans for the future.

Connect with HappyInc:

• Website: https://happyinc.in/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HappyInc-104483664710951/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/happyinc_in
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happyinc.in/

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In this episode, I talk to Mahesh Kathiravan, Financial Freedom Mentor. Mahesh is on a mission to help 1 lakh (100,000) people to be financially literate and achieve financial freedom.

Mahesh talks about:

1. His journey to financial freedom.
2. The importance of financial literacy in children and youth.
3. The role of parents and teachers.
4. Gaps in the education system.
5. His recommendation of financial self-help books.
   Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert T Kiyosaki
   Financial Freedom: A Proven Path to All the Money You Will Ever Need - Grant Sabatier
   

Connect with Mahesh:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahesh-kathiravan-46b80920/
• Website: https://maheshkathiravan.in/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCytP2S8sMlaHQKVWBlhSZYQ
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/MaheshKathirava
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maheshkathiravan/

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In this episode, I talk to Muralidhar Koteshwar, the Founder and CEO of Usability Consulting India, as well as the Managing Director of Mentor Cloud and Onya Digital. He is a visiting faculty at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore.

He has been a member of the board of trustees of The Art of Living's Educational Trust and is currently on the Board of Connecting The Dots and The Banyan Tree School USA.

The focus of this episode would be on the Connecting The Dots initiative.

Muralidhar talks about the below topics:

1. His journey from working on PARAM, India's first supercomputer, to being part of the Connecting The Dots initiative.
2. The process and methodology followed in Connecting The Dots.
3. Challenges reaching out to rural areas or areas with poor internet connectivity.
4. The path ahead.
5. Discovering passion at an early age.

Connect with Muralidhar Koteshwar:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mkoteshwar
Connecting The Dots: https://ctdedu.com/
Mentor Cloud: https://www.mentorcloud.com/
Usability Consulting India: https://www.usable.in/
Onya Digital: http://www.onyadigital.com/

This is the introductory episode (Episode Zero) of the Learn and Unlearn podcast. I am Gautam, the host for this show, and I welcome you on a journey of continuous learning and unlearning. In this episode, I talk about why I started this podcast, as well as my vision.

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