The Public Thinktank is a weekly radio show all about education.

The Public Thinktank is a forum for conversation.  What we’re talking about:

• the diverse meanings of education for individual lives and in our American society
• triumphs and challenges in all areas of education
• how media educate us throughout our lives

*

publicthinktankradio.org

*

Email us at bcthinktank@gmail.com with all kinds of feedback, or to get involved with the show.

-

The Public Thinktank is the brainchild of Leigh Anne Keichline.  Way back in 1999, Leigh Anne hosted an interview show on Oberlin College’s WOBC, and she has long been an avid fan of radio.  Frustrated by the lack of ongoing public conversations concerning education in both TV and radio, she had been itching for years to start a radio show all about education.  She launched The Public Thinktank in the fall of 2008.

Since her high school days in the early ’90s, Leigh Anne has worked and volunteered with a wide range of populations, from preschool to adult education, in both public and private schools as well as in other educational settings, in Ohio, New York City, Baltimore, Boston, and Connecticut.  She is working on a Masters in Political Science at Brooklyn College and is interested in questions of democratic citizenship and education.

On the show: Tuesday, Dec. 1

Listen live:  12 noon EST.  Click here.

On the first part of today’s show, we’ll talk with Mary Rothschild of Healthy Media Choices.  Healthy Media Choices is an organization that helps parents, caregivers and teachers of young children use their own insights to come to terms with media influence.  Visit their website at healthymediachoice.org.

On the second part of the show, we’ll listen to an interview with Andrew Buckland and his wife, Maria Azkue.  Buckland talks about his documentary project on the Witchi, a native people in Argentina.  We discuss the impact a state school in the community might be having on the new generation, and touch on the power of the documentary to educate.  Our conversation ends with what Buckland and Azkue learned during their time with the Witchi.  For Azkue’s interview about education in Argentina, listen to our Nov. 17 show.

Choices for parents in a fast-paced media world… to a slower pace of life with the Witchi… coming up.

*

Music in today’s show by Paul Brill and Evil Art Form.

On the show: Tuesday Nov. 24

Listen Tuesdays at 12:00 noon EST streaming live on the web at brooklyncollegeradio.org. Click here to connect.

For mp3s of all past shows, scroll down to “listen to past shows.”

Coming up this fall on publicthinktankradio.org:

Making healthy media choices.  Learning about the Witchi.  Dec. 1.

Red Brick Voices.  Global Kids documentary on a school phase-out.  Breakdancing in NYC.  Dec. 8.

The Public Thinktank will be hibernating for the winter!  Check back in the spring for more programming.

listen to past shows

click on all links below for show summaries and mp3s

Nov. 17.  Tragedy and comedy in education.

Nov. 10.  Libraries 2.0.  Education in Argentina.

Nov. 3.  Girls in Engineering, Math and Science.  New York City Parents blogging.

Oct. 27  Gay youth.  Education in France.  Computer games on civics.

Oct. 20.  Fortune cookies, ugly vegetables, mountains and moons.  Memoirs of a Jewminicana.

Oct. 13. The Hero Project.  Advocating for deaf students of color.

Oct. 6. Home-schooling for a missionary family in Guinea.  How God Changes Your Brain.

Sept. 22. Spiritual Youth for Reproductive Freedom.

Sept. 15. University of Houston student organizer.  Brooklyn College voices on the new school year.

Sept. 8. Fall ‘09 preview show.

May 12. Women, welfare, and access to higher education.  Ask a Magnet Yenta about LA schools.

April 28. Student walk-out against CUNY tuition hikes.  Documentaries as education; docu on Jewish music.

April 21. Edible gardens and nutrition in schools.  Environmental ed.

April 7. Campus Progress and the Center for American Progress.

March 31. American Views on home schooling.  Education after retirement.

March 24. Three women educators.

March 17. Panel discussion on Obama’s education speech.

March 10. Teaching South Park.  Sol Study Abroad.

March 3. Teaching educators.  Malaysian education.

Februrary 24. Drama and arts education in schools, interviews with cast and crew of a BC production.  Perceptions of Obama around the world.

February 17. The Duke lacrosse team rape case.  The Shirley Chisholm Project.

February 3. Art education.  Education in Laos.

December 9. Performance and Interactive Media Arts program at BC.

November 25. Studying abroad in China.

November 18. Education in Trinidad.  A veteran and a student.

November 11. College radio.

November 4. Panel discussion on election day.

October 28. Education in Japan.  Studies in Religion.

October 21. American Views.  Storycorps.

October 14. Nerd Nite.  Mayoral Control 101.

October 7. Education in Germany.

EXTRAS

Bonus audio not played on show.  Click below for mp3s.

Clio In the Classroom:  A Guide for Teaching U.S. Women’s History. Audio of BC event for book launch.

More World Views interviews.  Coming in January.

*

Do you have a response to a show you’ve heard?  Email us at bcthinktank@gmail.com.  We welcome all kinds of feedback.