Episode 14: Nick Covington and Chris McNutt: Human Centered Learning

Chris McNutt

Nick Covington

Nick Covington and Chris McNutt are fun, passionate advocates for great education.  In this episode, we discuss the importance of human centered learning and what they are doing with The Human Restoration Project, a fantastic free resource for educators.  Then they compete with each other in a nerdy throw-down during The 5-Minute Game Show.  And on In the Trenches today, we have a mystery guest! Our fauxmercial superstars this week are Barbara Heller as Rocky, Elliot Schiff as Boris and TV Announcer,  Jill Moray as Natasha and Yossie Frankel as Bullwinkle.

Special thanks so to Nick, Chris and the fauxmercial players!

Links to the resources mentioned in this episodes:

Alifie Kohn’s The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and “Tougher Standards”

Star Sackstein’s Hacking Assessments: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School

Neil Postman’s Teaching as a Subversive Activity

bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

The Essential John Dewey

Nick Covington and Chris McNutt are fun, passionate advocators for great education.  We discuss the importance of human centered learning and what they are doing with The Human Restoration Project, a fantastic free resource for educators.  Then they compete with each other in a nerdy throw-down during The 5-Minute Game Show.  And on In the Trenches today, we have a mystery guest!

Here's a quick idea of what human centered learning is all about.

Fauxmericial: A commercial parody about a fake educational product we wish was real at the beginning of every episode of Overthrowing Education.