Season 6 is Here!
Haeny and Nathan are back with a new season of Pop and Play! And we're trying something new: this season we're inviting you the listeners to play along! Curious? More info coming soon: Follow now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or search “Pop and Play” wherever you listen to podcasts!

Season 6, Episode 1 - (New!)
What’s Poppin’: Summer Edition
This week Haeny and Nathan are here to talk about Summer Break! Just in time for it to be over. But we can look back on it fondly! They talk about pools, road trips with the family, and their advice for parents thinking about what to do over the summer with their kids.
Collections
Pop Offs
- Are AI Tools Good for Teaching?
- Do We Need Checklists for Children’s Play?
- Special Halloween Bonus!
- Is It Okay to Play in Difficult Times?
- Why Are We Hearing So Much about “Parents’ Rights?”
- Offering Hope about Gun Violence Research with Sonali Rajan
- Goodbye 2024! New(ish) Year’s Bonus Episode
- FAQs from Adults about Kids’ Play and Pop Culture
- Curriculum Is Everywhere with Curriculum Encounters
Past Seasons
Previous Episodes:
- Episode 1: Making a TV Show as a Family with EcoLeaders
- Episode 2: How Does Fandom Shape Our Lives and Politics?
- Episode 3: Can the Arts Save Education?
- Episode 4: What if the Games We Play Exclude You?
- Episode 5: How Children’s Media Is Changing
- Episode 6: Children as Creative Collaborators with Story Pirates
- Episode 7: Centering Play in Children’s Media with Teletubbies Co-creator Andy Davenport
- Episode 8: What Media Do Kids Like? (With Kids!)
- Episode 9: What’s Poppin’ at the End of the World: A Story Episode
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Meet Your Hosts
Haeny Yoon is an Associate Professor of Early Childhood Education in the Dept. of Curriculum and Teaching. She works with both pre and in-service teachers in designing spaces for children’s play and inquiry. She is also the faculty co-director of the Rita Gold Early Childhood Center, serving children from infant-PreK. The center provides a play-based, emergent curriculum model that forefronts children agency and imagination as central to children’s development.
Nathan Holbert is a dad who designs stuff and builds stuff. He also plays a lot of games. He’s quite lucky to be able to design, build, and play as an Associate professor of Technology, Media, and Learning at Teachers College, Columbia University. Nathan likes to build and study playful tools and technologies that help kids make things they care about or ask questions about the world around them.
Nathan is co-editor of Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs and Founding Director of the Snow Day Learning Lab.