"How's School?"
The question adults reflexively ask, and kids hate to answer.
Issues that impact young people, for the people who care about them.
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The truth is, we care about our young people, dare we say, even worry about them. But staying connected to their world and all the complexity they navigate can be a real challenge. The issues we look at include education, health, and psychology, but at the core is their well-being. And our ability to face things that impact them without losing heart.
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Trailer Transcript
[upbeat music plays in the background]
Jen Lee: Hey everyone, we鈥檙e announcing 鈥淗ow鈥檚 School?鈥�, a new podcast coming this fall. It鈥檚 about things that impact young people, for the people who worry about them.
We鈥檙e your hosts - Jen Lee,
Joe Riina-Ferrie: and Joe Riina-Ferrie, and we鈥檙e part of the Digital Futures Institute at Teachers College. I鈥檓 a researcher, and I use audio and video to try to bring ideas beyond academic circles. I like to use tools like podcasting to ask questions in a way that all of us can understand, so that we can all be part of the conversation.
Jen: I started recording audio stories online 13 years ago, and I鈥檝e told stories lots of other ways since then. On stage, and in films鈥揵ut podcasts are still the place I go when I want to understand something or learn more, or just when I want good company in a quiet moment of the day.
Joe: We think you might be like us. Sometimes we have to read the news through the cracks between our fingers. We want to know, and we also don鈥檛 want to know - not because we don鈥檛 care 鈥� we care so much about the things that impact not just us, but the young people in our world, that it can make us feel overwhelmed, frozen.
Jen: 鈥淗ow鈥檚 School?鈥� is a question that adults automatically ask kids, even though it鈥檚 generally the last thing they want to talk about. But it鈥檚 really a placeholder, because we don鈥檛 know how else to say, 鈥淚 care about what鈥檚 happening in your world, and I want to know you.鈥� We don鈥檛 know how else to say: We care.
Joe: This podcast will be a place where it鈥檚 safe to care, a place where we can face issues that matter. We鈥檒l talk to people who study these things, and ask them to break it down for us in plain language. We鈥檒l bring our fears and worries with us, and together we鈥檒l look for something that will help鈥搉ot in a way that minimizes problems, but in a way that allows us to take a breath and find a next step.
Jen: We鈥檒l start this fall, and in the meantime you can subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to receive updates. More soon.
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