Brainwaves Season 2: This season’s extraordinary guests

Atomi Brainwaves is a podcast on education for educators where we look at key issues in the world of pedagogy and speak with a variety of teaching experts and influencers from all over the world.

Our first season of Atomi Brainwaves featured some incredible guests including well-known principals, educational psychologists, and a Top 10 finalist of the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. We also tackled some big topics like blended learning, asynchronous learning during COVID-19 and school leadership.

We are proud to announce that Atomi Brainwaves is back for Season 2 and by popular demand, we have a great guest line up and are set to cover even more key issues faced in the world of education today.

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Here is a sneak peek into our Season 2 guests:

Jocelyn Brewer

Registered psychologist Jocelyn Brewer talks us through digital nutrition, a framework to guide parents and students understand the virtual nutritional values of the online media content we consume via apps and games on tablets and screen technology.

A bit about Jocelyn

Jocelyn is a Sydney-based registered psychologist with a special interest in the psychology of technology. She has an Arts Degree from the University of Sydney, a Diploma of Secondary Education from UNSW and a Graduate Diploma of Psychology from the University of Sydney. Jocelyn became a fully registered psychologist with AHPRA in 2013.

Jocelyn has over 13 years experience in public education as both a teacher and school counsellor. In 2013 Jocelyn created Digital Nutrition™ to help guide best-practice, balanced tech use and healthy relationships with digital devices. She regularly comments in the media on a range of issues and presents to various groups about the impacts of technology and digital wellbeing. Jocelyn has a private practice where she sees individual patients. She is currently completing her Masters in Applied Science, which she may turn into a PhD studying teenagers perceptions of their own ability and efficacy to monitor their technology use!

Anne Knock

Education consultant Anne Knock discusses the value that adapting the physical space can bring to the classroom, as well as her role as a translator in this process between school and architect.

A bit about Anne

Anne has worked in education and development for over 30 years. She started her career as a primary school teacher, but moved onto community development programs, school system administration and growing a school-based innovation centre in Sydney. Anne is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne with a focus on how we might create environments where people thrive, and how to transform culturally to sustain change.

For the last 15 years, Anne has worked directly with schools, systems, principals, teachers, school boards and architects to facilitate innovation and change, and continue to be an independent consultant.

Dr Briony Scott

In this episode the venerable Dr Briony Scott, Principal of Sydney’s Wenona School, shares what it takes to create a thriving, dynamic and successful school community. In this broad-ranging discussion, we touch on topics from academic success to ensuring schools are still places for students and teachers to find and become their best selves as well as those all-important moments of joy along the way.

A bit about Dr Scott

Dr Briony Scott is has a Masters and Doctorate in Education from the University of Sydney, specialising in girls’ education, the utilisation of technology in the classroom, and non-government school funding policy. Prior to commencing at Wenona, Dr Scott was Principal of Roseville College and served as Head of Senior School and Director of Studies at Oxford Falls Grammar School. She has worked as a systems analyst for Olivetti and is a regular columnist on education and parenting issues for well-known newspapers. Dr Scott frequently speaks at community forums and conferences and is highly regarded amongst her peers.

James Nottingham

Influential author and keynote speaker James Nottingham walks us through the reasoning behind, practices involved in, and outcomes of his highly successful challenging learning process.

A bit about James

James Nottingham is the founder of Challenging Learning, Co-Founder of P4C.com and Creator of the Learning Pit. His passion is in transforming the most up-to-date research into strategies that really work in the classroom. Before training to be a teacher, James working in the chemistry industry, for the American Red Cross, and as a teaching assistant in a school for deaf children, He gained first-class honours at university, and went on to work as a teacher and leader in primary and secondary schools in the UK. James currently spends a lot of time touring the world and speaking at conferences and events and leads professional learning days across six countries. James has written a number of best-selling education books, all of which are available here.  

Steve Collis

Learning design specialist and consultant Steve Collis joins us to bring us through his unique journey in education and offer insight into schools can maximise the learning potential of their students through careful and innovative design of the teaching environment.

A bit about Steve

Steve Collis started out as a classroom teacher where he was awarded both the ‘Excellence by a Teacher’ award and the ‘Microsoft Innovative Teacher of the Year’ award. For 7 years he was the Director of Innovation at Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (SCIL) and travelled the world seeking out examples of exemplary learning innovation. James spent years working at the nuts and bolts level with educators to re-envision virtual and physical spaces to facilitate personalised, purposeful learning and increased student engagement and agency and worked with leadership teams to create strategies that promote a culture of innovation and perpetual transformation. He is extremely active in thought leadership and has presented keynote addresses in America, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia, as well as publishing academically.

Catlin Tucker

Bestselling education author Catlin Tucker joins us to provide her expertise on blended learning, critique some of the most popular resources and techniques for a blended classroom, and describe her role as a blended learning coach.

A bit about Catlin

Catlin Tucker is a Google Certified Innovator, best selling author, international trainer, and keynote speaker. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County where she taught for 16 years. Catlin is pursuing her doctorate at Pepperdine University and working as a blended learning coach. Catlin’s books include Blended Learning in Grades 4-12, Blended Learning In Action, and Power Up Blended Learning. Catlin’s newest book, Balance With Blended Learning: Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life, was published in January 2020.

Heather Clayton Staker

Ready to Blend founder and president Heather Clayton Staker provides her expertise on how to disrupt traditional education systems with innovation, outline the best strategies for both hybrid and pure play school models, and assesses the changing landscape of the US classroom.

A bit about Heather

Heather Clayton Staker is a researcher and author in the United States who has spent 15 years studying innovation in education and the rise of blended learning as the enabler of student-centred learning. As the founder of Ready to Blend, Heather leads a team of 150 facilitators in the United States, Middle East, and South America who have been certified to deliver blended-learning workshops to their teachers. Prior to this role, Heather was a senior research fellow for the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, a strategy consultant and served for one year as the student member of the California State Board of Education. She was a teaching fellow at Harvard College, founded a co-op preschool, and holds a BA magna cum laude in government from Harvard University as well as an MBA with distinction from the Harvard Business School. Heather has a number of bestselling books available to purchase on Amazon.