The first one they talked about is Culture Shock. The author begins by explaining how everyone experiences culture shock when first moving overseas and trying to adapt to the new culture. The author really finds cultural adaptations to be helpful when trying to expand on technology in one place, and trying to bring it to another place. It brings different cultures together to interact. She speaks to ideas of "mobility", "customization", "adaptability", "always on", "collaboration", "quickly", "emergence", and "blending" in asian cultures that she has experienced, and how these ideas relate to their cultural education, and how these words should resemble our western American education.
The second topic the author talks about is convergence. The main idea of this is that successful people will be the ones who will be able to adapt to changing situations. Ways of doing this is growing up in other country and being "immersed" in other societies. The podcast continues to interview children who grew up in other countries and how they feel about "convergence".
The third and final topic that the author talks about is the future of education. She begins by talking about a personal learning network. Which is a group of people who your collaborate with on a daily basis. This is not only in person, but also online in other places. To make a successful personal learning network, the author says, "connect yourself, to connect your class". The six different things that the author provides to help a teacher who wants to build a personal learning network would be to read RSS feeds, create and join a social network, start a blog and develop your personal profile, create personal levels off your blog, go to online conferences, and finally try twitter. These things will help you improve your personal learning network, which will in the end help your future students create a personal learning network.
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