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Text to Task: Simplifying Education

Text to Task: Simplifying Education

di Gargi Sarkar

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Why Traditional Teaching Is Failing | The Future of Blended Learning with Ingrid Hovdar-Stojakovic

Today's learners want flexibility. Working professionals need education that fits into their lives, not the other way around. And with AI and digital tools changing everything, one question matters more than ever: How do we make learning more human, engaging, and effective? To help us answer that, I'm thrilled to welcome Ingrid Hovdar-Stojakovic, Head of Academic Area of Intercultural Communications and Management at Salzburg University of Applied Sciences. She has spent years helping universities rethink teaching through blended learning, digital education, and innovative classroom design. She's also the co-author of two Springer books on blended learning that are helping educators around the world redesign how students learn. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

The Future of Learning: How Technology Is Changing Education | Prof. Charlott Sellberg

Education is changing quickly. Today, technology is doing much more than bringing lessons online. It is helping students and professionals learn by doing, making mistakes safely, and building real-world skills before they step into a classroom or workplace. In today's episode, I'm excited to welcome Professor Charlott Sellberg from the University of Gothenburg. She is an expert in simulation-based learning and studies how technology can make education more practical, engaging, and effective. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EktLntMAAAAJ&hl=en Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

Why the Indian Government Wants You to Stop Becoming an Engineer or Doctor?

If the Indian exams still leak. If the Indian colleges still teach a syllabus from another decade. If society still treats anything outside medicine and engineering as a consolation prize, then "explore other skills" isn't reform. It's a distraction dressed as encouragement. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

How to maintain a Borderless Classroom

I'm Gargi Sarkar — a Fulbright Scholar, published author, and international TESOL professor on a mission to transform education globally. This is Text to Task: Simplifying Education — your go-to podcast for making teaching smarter, simpler, and more impactful. This episode explores everything about digital classrooms and how they are reshaping access, language, and learning across borders. In this episode, I’m chatting with Marlon Pontillas (Arl). Assoc. Prof. Marlon S. Pontillas, Ph.D. is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Camarines Sur Polytechnic Colleges (CSPC) and a leading voice in online learning, applied linguistics, and educational leadership. His research focuses on translanguaging, Philippine English, teacher–student interaction, and language learning in digital and disrupted learning environments. A published scholar and research mentor, he actively advances inclusive, quality education through research, community engagement, and faculty development. Like the show? Please Subscribe, Review, Download and Share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

What Rocky Taught Me: ESL lessons from Project Hail Mary

An alien with broken sentences. An astronaut with no Wi-Fi. And three classroom activities that will change how your students learn English — and how they see themselves. Fulbright Fellow Gargi Sarkar shows ESL educators how Project Hail Mary teaches what no textbook can: how to think alone, connect across difference, and break free from the scroll. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

The Exam Factory

Every night in Kota, 150,000 teenagers’ study until they can't think straight — not because they want to, but because a $227 billion coaching industry convinced their parents this is the only way. This episode goes inside the machine — the suicides, the manipulation, the ranking obsession — and asks the one question coaching centers are terrified to answer: at what cost? Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

Equal Education – The Beautiful Lie

Equal education sounds like justice. It isn't. It's the most expensive lie we keep telling our children—and the data proves it's widening the very gaps it promised to close. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

Want to be unforgettable? Here’s 7 habits from 500 teachers.

I spoke to 500 teachers about what makes someone unforgettable. Here are the 7 habits they have mentioned. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611 Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

We update our Phones. Why not our books?

Software updates fix bugs and add features. School Books? They stay frozen in time, spreading outdated facts and abandoned theories. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: mailto:gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

Why Your Phone is Killing Your Million-Dollar Idea

Ever feel guilty about being bored? Think again. Science reveals that those uncomfortable moments of "nothing" are actually your brain's most creative playground. Discover why the world's most successful people embrace boredom. Like the show? Please subscribe, review, download and share. Want to know more about me and my work go to: https://gargisarkar1611.wixsite.com/gargi-sarkar Connect with me : https://www.linkedin.com/in/gargi-sarkar1611/ Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gargispeaks/ Contact me: gargisarkar1611@gmail.com

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