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Sponge partners with Snap Inc.’s Global Head of Learning for launch of new ‘Unforgettable Learning Podcast’

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The podcast will feature expert guests from learning science, design, and tech, as they dive in and unpack what goes in to making future-fit learning programmes.

 

Bristol, UK, - June 7th, 2023 - Digital learning provider, Sponge, has launched ‘The Unforgettable Learning Podcast,’ which can be found on most major podcast streaming platforms. The podcast will be released monthly, with guests from Google and The Lego Group already set to feature following the initial episode with Snap Inc. Each episode will see podcast host, Kate Pasterfield, co-founder of Sponge, converse with guests from the worlds of learning science, the arts, and technology – all in the name of exploring what it takes to make learning unforgettable. 

“We’re thrilled to be launching this podcast,” said Olivia Haywood, Chief Marketing Officer at Sponge.“It’s a way to bring a distilled taster of the insights that Sponge is lucky to gain through our network of the great and the good of the L&D world. The reception we’ve received from the guests who have agreed to feature has been fantastic andit’s an honour to be able to share their experiences and expertise with a wider audience.”  

Released on June 7th, the launch episode features guest Stacey Long-Genovese, Global Head of Education, Learning, and Training at Snap Inc. Stacey shares insights gleaned from a winding career path in training, through which she found empowering others to be a guiding principle.  

Find the podcast on your favourite streaming services:

The Unforgettable Learning Podcast S1, Ep 1: Augmented Reality, “blank canvas creators”, and experiential learning at Snap Inc, with Stacey Long-Genovese.   

Throughout a winding career path in training, Stacey Long-Genovese has found the common theme has been empowering people. At Snap Inc, where she’s Global Head of Education, Learning and Training, her mission is to build a world with more AR developers – and she’s pioneering the use of immersive tech to do it. 

Stacey shares with us her passion for the possibilities that experiential and immersive learning solutions can bring us, asking us to imagine learning about astronomy where the stars fill the room, or geometry where we pull the corners of triangles to visually experience concepts that were once on paper. 

This is what AR allows us to do and – for those who can navigate its unique combination of design, storytelling, computer science… and the rest – it’sopening up entirely new ways to learn at work.