Introducing: Season 4 of the MASCLab podcast!

MASCLab alum Azsaneé Truss chats with a few members of the #JustLit Project team: Katie Harlan-Eller, Noelle Mapes, and Jenice Mateo-Toledo, and the founder of the project, Professor Detra Price-Dennis. She discusses how they’ve gone about curating multimodal sets of resources for K-12 teachers, specifically those they curated around the topic of racial literacy.
 
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Produced and edited by Azsaneé Truss
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

MASCLab Podcast Season 4

Season 4, Episode 1: The #JustLit Project Tackles Racial Literacy

In this episode, Katie Newhouse introduces our series on sounds of the pandemic. She stitches together short sound collages submitted to our group project by Gabby Zhou, Kyle Oliver, and Shoshana Gottesman.

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Produced and edited by Katie Newhouse.

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 4, Episode 2: Alone Together: Sounds of the Pandemic

Episode 6 of (Re)Search for Solutions takes a hard look at how in some cases, communities, especially communities of color, are harmed by efforts claiming to be in service of stopping gun violence. We look at one of the most well-known examples of discriminatory policing, “Stop and Frisk,” and how these types of ineffective practices become legitimized. 

Sonali interviews Ekow Yankah, a Professor at the Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, and Sarah Lustbader, a public defender in New York City, about criminal law and policing as they relate to gun violence. Iesha Sekou, the CEO and founder of Street Corner Resources, also paints a picture of the profound effects gun violence has on communities.

Visit the episode 6 page on researchforsolutions.com for transcripts and other resources.

Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsaneé Truss with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Special thanks to Joe for mastering this episode!
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 6: Guns and the Criminal (In)Justice System

MASCLab members Xiaoyi Gabby Zhou, Joe Riina-Ferrie, and Lívia Barros Cruz chat with Catherine Cheng Stahl, a Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Curriculum and Teaching of Columbia University, Teachers College. She discusses how she used multimodal research methods to explore how Gen Z youth navigate their identities on digital spaces.

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Produced and edited by Xiaoyi Gabby Zhou
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

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Season 4, Episode 3: Multimodal Research and Gen Z Online Identities

Sound capsule 2020: Loops and samples, presence and collective memories, creativity and remixing multiplicities in music education

In what ways can sound snippets, traces, and edges that hold intimate and every day personal and collective feelings and memories of our lives during this pandemic spark creativity and reflection? How can this practice meet educational spaces of all kinds? In this episode from the series “Sounds of the Pandemic,” MASCLab member Shoshana Gottesman shares her composition of sounds from the pandemic submitted by members of the MASC Lab alongside the loops and samples of music producer and Teachers College doctoral student Chucky Kim. From there, Shoshana and Chucky explore together how this kind of co-creating through sampling, beatmaking, soundscapes, loops, remixes, and found sounds within music education is a way to facilitate creative moments within the framework of community especially during this time of pandemic. Talk to us on Twitter @MASCLab!

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Produced and edited by Shoshana Gottesman.

Music: Shoshana Gottesman and Chucky Kim
Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 4, Episode 4: Sound Capsule 2020

Unique New York: This season, the MASC Lab’s Podcasts series focuses on themes connected to place, in this case New York City, and the many interconnected realities of life in the big apple. Our process is inquiry based and we chose this season’s focus by starting with the question: What is unique or strange about NYC?  Our collaborative podcast series this semester grew out of that question, in one way or another.

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Check out https://www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!

Season produced and edited by: Jacqueline Cofield, Avukile Zoya, Joy Yang, Michael Cerda, Kate Elizabeth Orgera, and Shoshana Gottesman

Episode produced and edited by: Jacqueline Cofield, Michael Cerda, Kate Elizabeth Orgera, and Shoshana Gottesman

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 1: Unique New York

NYC Open Streets And Public Space: Streets are often seen as a place of transit, exclusively for the person on the move, but streets also have a history as spaces for community, as public spaces where people come together rather than just pass by one another. This podcast episode shares a brief history of the New York City Open Streets program and how it has shaped public space in New York City since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!

Episode produced and edited by: Michael Cerda

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 2: NYC Open Streets And Public Space

The Rat Takeover: When was the last time you saw Rats? Do you like them or are you like most of us? Terrified of them? And where were they? In the subway, in the rubbish on the streets or did you see them scurry across the road? This episode chronicles the ecosystem and history of New York City's rat population. Though they cause a lot of damage to the city, are they underrated creatures?

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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!

Episode produced and edited by: Avukile Zoya

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 3: The Rat Takeover

Big Apple Educators: What's unique about being a teacher in New York City? This episode investigates this question through the stories of three New York City educators with backgrounds in environmental justice education, art education, deaf education, international education, and adult education.

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Episode produced and edited by: Joy Yang

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 4: Big Apple Educators

NYC Mom Chat: What is it like to be a mom in New York City? Three graduate students discuss various aspects of being moms to young children in NYC.

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Episode produced and edited by: Jacqueline Cofield

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 5: NYC Mom Chat

New York, New York - A Brief History of the Broadway Musical: New York’s Broadway theater district has a world-renowned reputation as the center of the American theater world, particularly musical theater. Kate Elizabeth Orgera discusses how New York City created and shaped musical theater, and how Broadway has influenced New York City in turn.

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Check out www.masclab.org/podcast-working-group for the episode transcript and to learn more!

Episode produced and edited by: Kate Elizabeth Orgera

Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Instrumentalist

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

Season 5, Episode 6: New York, New York - A Brief History of the Broadway Musical

A behind-the-scenes clip from our early conversations about the story that would become Episode 1.

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Preview - Lalitha on Multimodal Literacy Research

MASCLab's Lalitha Vasudevan sits down with Ana Dopazo, Program Director of Choices, Alternative to Detention. They discuss student-centered learning, multimodal research, and alternative sites of education.

You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep1-script

Special thanks to EdLab at Teachers College, who provided supplemental audio.

Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org

Episode 1 - Choices: Centering Communities in Education & Research

MASCLab's Ioana Literat discusses exciting new research with Caroline DeVoe, Elizabeth Herbert-Wasson, and Kyle Oliver. Her project examines the political participation that took place on youth-oriented online communities for creative expression in the days following the 2016 U. S. presidential election.

You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep2-script

Episode 2 - Youth Political Participation and Online Creativity

Join us Friday, December 15 at the launch party for our new podcast. From 5 to 7 pm, the Smith Learning Theater will come alive with first-person stories of real-world learning. Let our hosts transport you to the research sites of Teachers College students, faculty, and alums.

You can learn more about Podfest and the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org/podfest

You can read a transcript of this trailer at https://bit.ly/podfest-trailer-script

As always, our theme music is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 4.0 via FreeMusicArchive.org).

Trailer - Podfest (Launch Party)

MASCLab's Kyle Oliver interviews Sarah Lefton, Jewish educator and founder of BimBam, about the art and science of teaching old wisdom on new media.

Sarah and Kyle talk about Christian readings of Hebrew texts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oktwIkRLZQ

Rough edit of Sarah and Kyle's full conversation:
https://soundcloud.com/kylematthewoliver/sarah-lefton-full-interview

You can read a transcript of this episode at https://bit.ly/masclab-ep3-script

Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org

Episode 3 - Teaching Torah on YouTube

MASCLab's Joe Riina-Ferrie interviews our colleague Janell Drone about her research into African American one-room school facilities and her experience of school desegregation in rural West Texas. A transcript of this episode is coming soon.

This video includes photos from Dr. Drone's archival research:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE6Kf9HFfqc

Our theme music is "Kelp Grooves" by Little Glass Men, published under a Creative Commons Attribution License at http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

Learn more about the Media and Social Change Lab at https://masclab.org.

Episode 4 - One-Room School Facilities and Experiencing School Desegregation

Teachers College, the first and largest graduate school of education in the U.S., serves students in the interrelated fields of education, health, and psychology. It does so through a number of degree programs, centers, labs, and institutes spread out across a large, city-block campus in New York City. Its partnerships have national and global reach. 

MASCLab sat down with TC’s Tom Bailey just ahead of his inauguration as the school’s 11th President. We wanted to hear his thoughts on taking the helm of our longstanding institution at this time in our nation’s history. We spoke with President Bailey about—among other things—his vision for the college, the state of higher education, and his love of Chopin.

More about MASCLab:
https://masclab.org/

More about inauguration events:
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/inauguration/

More about the Community College Research Center:
https://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

Special Episode - TC President Thomas Bailey

A wide-ranging conversation on the phenomenon of firearm use and gun reform legislation, recommendations on policy and areas in need of further research with MASCLab Director and Professor of Technology and Education, Lalitha Vasudevan, Louis Klarevas - an expert on the study of mass shootings and homeland security, and author of the recently published book Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings and Sonali Rajan, Assistant Professor of Health Education at Teachers College, Columbia, and an expert on adolescent risk behaviors who studies school climate, aggression and violence prevention in schools, and socio-emotional wellbeing among adolescents.

Season 2, Episode 2 - Preventing Gun Violence and Understanding Gun Reform

On October 29, 2018, Steve Goodman, founding director of the Educational Video Center, came to Teachers College to discuss his new book “It’s Not About Grit: Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching.” 

The Educational Video Center is a social justice youth arts organization that builds the capacity of young people in transfer schools and international schools to create documentary films and to think and engage deeply with social justice. 

On this episode of the Media and Social Change Podcast, we will hear from Steve Goodman about what grit is, from his lens, and its relation with urban youth and education.

You can buy It’s Not About Grit by Steve Goodman where books are sold, and you can check out films by Educational Video Center participants at evc.org.

The Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 2.0): http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

Season 2, Episode 4 - It's Not About Grit

Season 2, Episode 6 - Math Histories

MASCLab’s Podfest is A Celebration of Podcasting and Media-Makeing held each year at Teachers College, Columbia University. The event is hosted in the state-of-the-art Smith Learning Theater to provide an interactive and immersive environment for students, researchers, practitioners and community members to come together and share in the experience of listening. 

Our 2019 Podfest included a bit of live podcasting, where we hosted a panel to discuss all things multimodality. The panel included Lalitha Vasudevan, Ioana Literat, Haeny Yoon, Katie Newhouse, and Dalia Constantine. 

Listen in as they answer questions about making and youth story-telling, being open to various modes of inquiry, and the importance of multimodal research as a whole. 

The Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Kelp Grooves by Little Glass Men (CC BY 2.0): http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Little_Glass_Men/Kelp_Grooves/Kelp_Grooves

Season 2, Episode 7 - Live from Podfest 2019

(Re)Search for Solutions is a podcast where we cover research about pressing issues in our world today. This season of (Re)Search for Solutions is a limited series focusing on unexpected and creative ways that researchers are looking at solutions to the persistence of gun violence. Subscribe to the (Re)Search for Solutions podcast feed on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud, & Google Play!

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Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the Research for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

Introducing: (Re)Search For Solutions

Episode 1 of (Re)Search for Solutions discusses greening - the conversion of an overgrown vacant lot to a small, grass-covered community space - as a non-policy-based solution to gun violence. We interviewed Professor Charlie Branas, Chairman of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, and Keith Green, Director of the Philadelphia LandCare Program at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS), about their research into the effects of greening in Philadelphia.

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Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search For Solutions Episode 1: Cleaning And Greening

Introducing: Season 3 of the MASCLab podcast! 

MASCLab member Thomas Sendgraff sits down with Erin Riley, Director of the Greenwich Academy Makerspace, FabLearn Fellow, & Instructor of the Creative Technologies course at Teachers College, to talk about Makerspaces and the world of Creative Tech.

The (new!) Media and Social Change Podcast theme song is Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist.

Season 3, Episode 1 - Creative Technologies

In Episode 2 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we talk about adverse childhood experiences, or “ACEs,” and how they can help us think more broadly about the impacts of gun violence and how to prevent it. We focus on the implications for school safety practices in particular.

Lalitha Vasudevan interviews our usual host, Sonali Rajan, Professor at Teachers College and the Mailman School of Public Health, about her work on how researchers can think of gun violence as an “adverse childhood experience.” Sonali talks with Danielle Kassow from Trauma Free NYC about ACEs and how schools can take a “trauma informed” approach to gun violence prevention. And Sonali sits down with Laurie, the director of her son’s pre-school, to talk about how they approach school safety while being mindful of the needs of their students.

Special thanks to Kyle Oliver for help with mastering this episode.

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Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Joe Riina-Ferrie with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 2: Adverse Childhood Experiences and School Safety

In Episode 3 of (Re)Search for Solutions, we discuss firearm suicide prevention. Firearm suicides make up about two-thirds of deaths by firearms, but suicide is sometimes downplayed in conversations about preventing gun violence.

Sonali interviews Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia University, about her research on gun violence and suicide. Kerry also shares how suicide has affected her and her family. Sonali also talks with Doreen Marshall, Vice President of Programs at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention [AFSP] about their efforts to prevent firearm suicide and to support survivors of suicide loss. Visit AFSP.org for more resources and support. If you are in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255).

Special thanks to Kyle Oliver for help with mastering this episode.

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Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Joe Riina-Ferrie with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 3: Firearm Suicide Prevention

What is media literacy? And more importantly, why does it matter? MASCLab member Azsaneé Truss has a conversation with TC Professor and MASCLab co-director Ioana Literat about media literacy.

Production Team: Azsaneé Truss, Ahram Park
Editing: Azsaneé Truss
Music: Grandma's Impala by Sarah, The Illstrumentalist

You can find more media literacy resources at NAMLE.net

MASCLab Podcast Season 3

Season 3, Episode 2 - What is Media Literacy?

In 2018, the NRA tweeted, “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane,” in response to a paper released by the American College of Physicians (ACP) about Reducing Firearm Injuries and Death in the United States. Soon after, medical professionals from around the country responded with their stories using the hashtag #ThisIsOurLane.

Episode 4 of (Re)Search for Solutions reflects on the crucial role emergency medicine physicians, who are on the front lines of responding to firearm injuries, play in developing solutions.

We spoke with Dr. Megan Ranney, an emergency physician and faculty at Brown University and co-founder of the AFFIRM Research collective. She tells us how AFFIRM includes the perspectives of more than 40,000 healthcare professionals, public health experts, and researchers to find ways to reduce gun violence. Additionally, Dr. Ameera Haamid, an emergency medicine physician at Cook County Hospital in Chicago and the Assistant Medical Director of the Chicago West EMS System, as well as Dr. Garth Walker, an emergency medicine physician at Jesse Brown Veteran Affairs Medical Hospital in Chicago and a health equity fellow with the Northwestern Emergency Department and Northwestern Buehler Center for health economics and policy, share their experiences treating gun violence victims.

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Learn more about AFFIRM and find additional resources on the webpage for this episode: researchforsolutions.com/episode-4

Production Team: Azsanee Truss, Joe Riina-Ferrie, Sonali Rajan, and Lalitha Vasudevan
Editing: Azsanee Truss with the help of the (Re)Search for Solutions team
Music: “Research Area” by Poitr Pacyna
Website: ResearchforSolutions.com

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 4: This is Our Lane

What if we considered gun violence as an issue of national security? Increasingly, terrorist groups, and specifically white supremacist extremist terrorists, have been turning to guns as instruments of terror for attacks in the United States.

Sonali sits down with Lou Klarevas, political scientist and author of Rampage Nation: Securing America from Mass Shootings, to talk about the intersection of gun violence and security studies. They discuss how and why most deadly terrorist attacks in the United States are now perpetrated using firearms. And she talks with Colin Clarke, a Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center about the rise of white supremacist extremist terrorism in particular. Finally, she talks with her sister, Anjana Rajan, who has worked on designing an approach to identifying and preventing attacks by white supremacist extremists using cryptography as a fellow at The Aspen Institute. Listen to find out more about the intersection between gun violence research and national security.

Visit the episode 5 page on researchforsolutions.com for transcripts, links to work by Lou, Colin and Anjana, and other resources.

The views expressed in this episode are solely those of the speaker to whom they are attributed. They do not necessarily reflect the views of the faculty, administration, staff or Trustees either of Teachers College or of Columbia University.

(Re)Search for Solutions Episode 5: Security Studies And Guns

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