LEARN Podcasts
LEARN Podcasts is a show that highlights the work of innovative educators with their students as well as the services that LEARN offers to support learning in the English milieu. The show is a part of our core mission of supporting the English education community in Quebec.
LEARN Podcasts
Latest Episodes
ShiftED Podcast #100 Every Language Belongs: Erin Quirk on Plurilingual Kids and Quebec Classrooms
What if the languages your students speak at home are actually your most powerful teaching tool? Erin Quirk, linguist and researcher at the Université de Sherbrooke, joins Chris to unpack what the research tells us about plurilingual chi...
ShiftED Podcast #99 • In Conversation with Lisa Green: Outsmarting Distraction in the Age of AI
In this episode of ShiftED, we sit down with Lisa Green, Canadian author of Outsmarted: The Changing Face of Learning in the Era of Smartphones and Technology. Together, we explore how smartphones, AI, and the attention economy are resha...
ShiftED Podcast #98 • In Conversation with Guy Rex Rodgers What We Remember, What We Forget
What does it mean to belong to a place that’s constantly redefining itself? In this episode, Chris Colley sits down with playwright, filmmaker, and author Guy Rodgers for a thoughtful conversation about identity, language, and the often-...
ShiftED Podcast #97 In Conversation with Gina Tesoriero: Get Curious Before You Get Concerned
Gina Tesoriero just finished her PhD — and her research is a reminder that the best way to understand how students use AI is to just... ask them.A special education teacher turned researcher, Gina spent years watching STEM transform ...
ShiftED Podcast #96 In Conversation with Dr. Danielle "Nell" Thompson: Language Is the Foundation
Language is the foundation. Everything else is built on it.In this episode of the ShiftED Podcast, Chris Colley sits down with Dr. Danielle "Nell" Thompson — literacy leader, coach, and former speech-language pathologist — for a wide...
