Dr. Oliver (Ollie) Dreon is a professor in the School of Education and Human Services at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. At Millersville, Ollie teaches a wide variety of education and instructional technology courses both in face-to-face and online formats. Ollie is the co-author of the books Authentic Instruction with Technology: A Student-Centered Approach and The Power of Blended Learning in the Sciences and is the co-editor of the book, Teacher Education for Ethical Professional Practices in the 21st Century. Ollie has also published in various journals, including the Middle Level Journal, TechTrends, Teachers and Teaching, Science Education, Online Classroom, Distance Education , Academic Leader and Teacher Education & Practice. Ollie has spent almost thirty years teaching in various educational environments and provides regular professional development and consultation on online and blended learning. His work examines how technology can be used to support student development through physical, online, and hybrid learning spaces. Prior to coming to Millersville, Ollie taught middle school and high school science in the Pittsburgh and Harrisburg areas.
Ollie Dreon has hosted 221 Episodes.
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Episode 204: The Lark Owl Connection
July 31st, 2024 | Season 4 | 33 mins 55 secs
This week we talk about teaching climate and climate changes in the context of a new book from Mark Widschitl (lead author of the Ambitious Science Teaching book).
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Episode 203: Induction Junction, What's Your Function?
July 24th, 2024 | Season 4 | 41 mins 50 secs
In this episode, we discuss mentoring and induction of new science teachers.
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Episode 202: Who is Your Tribe?
July 17th, 2024 | Season 4 | 37 mins 52 secs
This week we talk about how truth is tribal and social, and so social death is scarier than physical death and why that matters for teaching and learning.
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Episode 201: Not Changing Buses
July 10th, 2024 | Season 4 | 36 mins 36 secs
In this episode, we discuss the sticky subject of transfer in education.
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Episode 200: Talking with Your Dog About Gravity
July 3rd, 2024 | Season 4 | 46 mins 30 secs
This week we dig into the differences between cognitive and sociocultural perspectives on learning and how they characterize not just different ways of learning, but of knowing.
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Episode 199: Two Beefs from Ollie
June 26th, 2024 | Season 4 | 45 mins 53 secs
In this episode, we discuss some of the issues we have with the current discourse around AI in education.
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Episode 198: Epistemic Extinguishing Event
June 20th, 2024 | Season 4 | 41 mins 27 secs
This week we talk about the fundamental mismatch between different ways of what it means to know something impacts everything about school (and everything else).
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Episode 197: Secret Sauce and Conference Chicken
June 12th, 2024 | Season 4 | 48 mins 46 secs
In this episode, we chat with Dr. April Luehmann, Associate Professor in the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester.
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Episode 196: AI Old Man Noises
June 5th, 2024 | Season 4 | 52 mins 55 secs
This week we have a wide ranging (even for us) conversation about Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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Episode 195: Hypothetical Ollie
May 29th, 2024 | Season 4 | 52 mins 23 secs
In this episode, we discuss whether scientists (and others) are inventors or discoverers.
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Episode 194: Esperanto of Residue
May 22nd, 2024 | Season 4 | 41 mins 15 secs
This week we talk about the concept of learning residue in both virtual and physical learning spaces.
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Episode 193: The Progress of Learning Progressions
May 15th, 2024 | Season 4 | 51 mins 7 secs
In this episode, we discuss a 2009 article from the Journal of Research in Science Teaching which discusses learning progressions and scientific modeling.
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Episode 192: Start with the Kid
May 8th, 2024 | Season 4 | 39 mins 21 secs
This week we talk about special education, students identified with special needs, and how we can support them in ambitious and equitable science teaching classrooms.
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Episode 191: Albert Einstein... You're wrong!
May 1st, 2024 | Season 4 | 45 mins 25 secs
In this episode, we discuss how the words we use to describe students' ideas matter.
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Episode 190: A Litany of Vague Expectations
April 24th, 2024 | Season 4 | 53 mins 15 secs
This week we talk about time management, work/life balance, and what it all means for teaching, learning and research.
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Episode 189: Wait a Minute, Mr. Postman
April 17th, 2024 | Season 4 | 51 mins 51 secs
In this episode, we discuss a technological change in the wake of generative artificial intelligence by unpacking a chapter from the book, Exploring New Horizons: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education