{"id":1080,"date":"2026-01-29T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T14:09:52","slug":"what-happened-to-the-learning-hack-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cogitateandpercolate.com\/?p=1080","title":{"rendered":"What Happened to The Learning Hack Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6lWno34Ex5KdFvYorB00epxrdhmvecsJ3kbOd4Cn9MMFMCJgsOh9ZGd0HVAWrAhPQCwo33WqDRh8S3gRnlPNX1J9zujwjGAyTfjJL4XPAYpLpQqSyqwCSN0I9-AvBQg1Bkit4vZeeu3Uq4JJwIMs3_o2HGMWsFYs3v2R08k2LkMHN3wIzoE_v8gr23j8\/s320\/The%20Learning%20Hack%20podcast.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"851\" data-original-width=\"574\" height=\"320\" data-src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEh6lWno34Ex5KdFvYorB00epxrdhmvecsJ3kbOd4Cn9MMFMCJgsOh9ZGd0HVAWrAhPQCwo33WqDRh8S3gRnlPNX1J9zujwjGAyTfjJL4XPAYpLpQqSyqwCSN0I9-AvBQg1Bkit4vZeeu3Uq4JJwIMs3_o2HGMWsFYs3v2R08k2LkMHN3wIzoE_v8gr23j8\/s320\/The%20Learning%20Hack%20podcast.jpg\" width=\"216\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 216px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 216\/320;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Serious question. What happened to <a href=\" learninghackpodcast.com\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">The Learning Hack Podcast<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>I used to be such a fan! Of course, I was a fan of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@JohnHelmerConsulting\/search?query=donald%20clark\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Great Minds on Learning episodes<\/a> when <a href=\"https:\/\/donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Clark<\/a> went over theory and research. But I just watched an episode and I had to bail around 49 minutes or so because it was so boring.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=66ZBkYsPf24&amp;t=1608s\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">this episode had Margaret Korosec<\/a> and I&#8217;ve worked (to my delight) with Margaret so I was really looking forward to listening\/watching.<\/p>\n<p>Instead I found some rather boring, not-staying-on-track, and oh-by-the-way-did-you-bring-any-content stuff.&nbsp; It&#8217;s interesting b\/c even the host John mentions that he&#8217;s received some flack for his podcasts and I wasn&#8217;t thinking much of it.&nbsp; For sure, even if he lets a live conversation wonder, he does not reign it in much in editing. But after the aforementioned 49 minutes, I was grasping for&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>some<\/p>\n<p>kind&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>of&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>point.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Even my friend Margaret&#8230;what had she said simply beyond proposing words as questions?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><i>Teachers should learn from students<\/i> when it comes to using AI in schools<\/li>\n<li>What are the <i>ethics<\/i> involved in AI in schools?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>What is working and <i>not working<\/i> with AI in schools?&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All questions. No answers. If I paid to go to this conference, for sure I&#8217;d have wanted to hear some answers to those questions. I&#8217;m in no mood for conscience pricking, thank-you-very-much. I&#8217;m an&nbsp;<b>American <\/b>and<b> right now I&#8217;m getting much of that.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The high point that I can remember is that John asked Donald and Margaret who they follow (influencer-types) in either the instructional design, learning and development, or AI in education space and they named some names. Nice, but I could have gotten that all for free off of their own respective social media feeds.<\/p>\n<p>Now let me go for the real point.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember The Learning Hack Podcast interspersed with SO MANY ADS.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ads:<\/p>\n<p>0:33 &#8211; 1:12 Learning Technologies Conference<br \/>1:13 &#8211; 1:51 Synthesia with a discount link&nbsp; (and intros in this podcast were done by &#8220;Mariana, An AI Avatar from Synthesia&#8221;..what happened to the dear lady?)<\/p>\n<p>26:27 &#8211; 26:47&nbsp; The Podcast Learning Festival 2026<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing the ads went on but I bailed.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m sorry to say, ads for things like &#8216;using AI to create your learning materials&#8217;&#8212; makes me shudder&#8211; because I used to come to this Podcast for good content but now I&#8217;m going to have to wonder how much John edits in or out just to be favorable to his sponsors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I get it. Perhaps the man&#8217;s gotta make a buck. But there are other choices.<br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li>If you can no longer produce your podcast, stop producing it.<\/li>\n<li>If you must have sponsors, try to get one that might <b><i>not<\/i><\/b> be a conflict of interest. \ud83c\udfa4\ud83d\udca7<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nSerious question. What happened to The Learning Hack Podcast? I used to be such a fan! 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