About Us
EdPod presents a mix of education stories, from early childhood to the end of secondary school. It's a jargon-free look at the experience of educators, researchers, parents and students. EdPod examines new education ideas, and asks whether things could or should be done differently. From the classroom to the staff room and on to the home - EdPod brings you the latest ideas about learning.
Richard Aedy
Richard Aedy grew up in Sydney and Canberra. In the process he went to seven different schools – three primary and four high schools.
Not that he was kicked out or anything - one of the moves came out of change in zoning. The next was because his parents weren’t happy with the new school. The one after that was the move to high school. See, it’s all very normal. Then the family moved to Canberra, which meant another high school. But in Canberra high school only goes to Year 10 – after that you go to college, which he enjoyed a lot.
Then there was the small matter of repeating Year 12 at another college because he’d enjoyed the first one a bit too much.
The year after that, and much to the relief of his mother, Richard went to night school and got into university. Some time later, he married an outstanding scholar. He hopes the children will take after her.
To see what Richard has done with all this education, visit Life Matters which Richard also presents.
Kyla Slaven
Kyla Slaven fell in love with radio in her late teens, when she combined working at community radio station 2SER-FM with night research on the late Andrew Olle's ABC breakfast show in Sydney.
She has worked at a dot.com internet radio station, tutored at Macquarie University and run the university's radio studio. Over the years she has worked on a variety of Radio National programs including Open Learning, Late Night Live, and Perspective.
More recently she has been the Executive Producer of Triple J's national current affairs show, Hack, and spent a few months teaching journalism and radio to students at the dilapidated University of Kabul in Afghanistan. She suspects she learnt more than they did.
