{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Educast 3000","title":"The Neverending (Learning) Story: Skills for a Whole Life","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1608,"description":"Learning doesn't end at graduation, and the systems around us shouldn't either. This clips episode takes that idea and follows it across a whole life. Hosts Ryan Lufkin and Melissa Loble revisit five conversations, from a charity teaching school kids to code in Australia to a summer-learning advocate to a university leader rethinking credentials, and line them up as one continuum: the skills that matter at every stage, and the gaps that open when we treat each stage as separate.\nIn this episode:\nFear, not ability, is what keeps kids out of digital skills, which is why Megan Woff's Code for Schools starts with curiosity as it works toward reaching a million students by 2027.\nSummer learning loss hits low-income students hardest, and Christi Kobus Rokicki explains how a gap that opens in childhood compounds every year that learning stops.\nDurable skills like resilience and leadership can't be studied for a test, since Emily Foote argues they're built by doing real work, which matters more as AI absorbs the entry-level tasks graduates used to cut their teeth on.\nThe critical thinking and communication skills the liberal arts have always taught, Joe Potvin makes the case, outlast any single job or technology.\nCredentials should recognize the learning people already carry, and Martin Bean lays out how a connected learning system would follow a person across their life instead of ending at a diploma.\n\nGuests: \nEmily Foote, Chief Growth and Strategy Officer, Saxbys \nMegan Woff, CEO, Code for Schools \nChristi Kobus Rokicki, Vice President for External Affairs, National Summer Learning Association\nJoe Potvin, History Adjunct Professor, Simmons University, and Senior Portfolio Manager, Cengage \nProfessor Martin Bean\nKatie Novak, Founder and Chief Education Officer (CEO), Novak Educational Consulting","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/DDODfSdXU3WxmelLdCXwpuyR1UVMaBJBT4P69rKbN2g/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTNm/ZDNkMGI4YjhiMDU0/YzQ4OTYwZGY3Y2M0/NjUyMy5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}