WISE On Air

About WISE On Air

An education podcast where we talk to the world’s leading minds. Brought to you by WISE: The global platform for innovators in education. Join us as we talk to thought leaders, innovators, educators and artists from around the world about any and all things to do with education.

Publisher

WISE Qatar Foundation

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Nov 2017

Latest episode

1 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

140 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Nov 2026

   133 : Sona Jobarteh : What if children could grow up proud of who they are, without ever needing to be told?

   What if children could grow up proud of who they are, without ever needing to be told? In #WISEOnAir, kora virtuoso Sona Jobarteh shares how the Gambia academy is rethinking education in Africa.ماذا لو نشأ الأطفال على الفخر بهويتهم دون أن يُطلب منهم ذلك؟ في "وايز على الهواء"، تشاركنا عازفة الكورا سونا جوبارتيه كيف تعيد "أكاديمية غامبيا" التفكير في التعليم في أفريقيا.

2. 

   17 Sept 2026

   WISE Conversation Ep 04 - Omar Al Shogre

   What can a prison cell teach us about education and leadership? In this episode of #WISEConversations, Syrian human rights advocate Omar Alshogre shares his experience surviving imprisonment as a teenager and how he and his fellow prisoners built an informal school they came to call the “University of Whispers”. Through poetry, shared knowledge, and human trust, he found a way to turn suffering into meaning, and reflects on why education today so often fails to inspire purpose, why passion matters more than structure, and what real #leadership looks like when it is tested under extreme pressure, always rooted in #humanvalues.

3. 

   27 Aug 2026

   Dr. Spencer Striker on Cognitive Debt, AI Slop & The Future of Creative Education

   Is #AI making us cognitively lazy, orjust outsourcing the boring parts? In this episode of #WISEOnAir, Sam Meekings talks withDr. Spencer Striker, Professor of Digital Media Design at @NorthwesternUniversity in Qatar, about AI's role in education. They cover #cognitivedebt, the MIT study behind it, and how leaning on AI for hard thinking can leavestudents with little real work to show. The talk also touches on rethinking assessment, the rise of AI slop, and why taste and originality matter more than ever, before landing on the bigger question: what is higher education reallyfor, and how do we protect that as the tools around us keep changing?

Who has been a guest on WISE On Air

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Fadia Hamdi
• Abdulhamid Haidar
• Ramy Abdulzaher
• Gideon Olanrewaju
• Dina Sherif

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

6,947,363

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.9 / 5

8 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

60

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

51

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.