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Episode 1: The Rapping Science Teacher: Science, Social Media and the Ban

8/31/2026 • 32 min

In the first episode of Tech Shock's 13th season, Vicki is joined by Matt Green, The Rapping Science Teacher. A former teacher, Matt has built a following of millions by making science accessible and exciting to young people through music and social media. Matt's work is a real-world example of technology doing exactly what it should: reaching young people who m… Play episode

5: Dr Garth Graham: Bringing Education to the World at Scale
4: Lisa Felton and Jeffrey DeMarco: A Partnership for Thriving
3. Katie Searle: Switched on to privacy: chat, choose, check.
2. Leon Xiao: The House Always Wins. The Home Loses.
Spring Special Episode 4: Melinda Tankard Reist: ‘A Callous Society?’
1. Natalie Foos: VoiceBox and AI chatbot support for parents
Spring Special Episode 3: Haroon Chowdry: ‘Levelling the Playing Field’
Spring Special Episode 2: Andy Burrows: ‘Towards a Safer Future’
Spring Special Episode 1: Maeve Walsh: ‘Has the Online Safety Act Failed?’
7. How to find friends and alienate people: geolocation, gender, and unhel…
6. Being ‘literate’ in the age of AI
5. Deepfakes, disinformation, and a trundle towards ‘reality apathy’?
4. Experience AI
3. RSE in the era of nudification apps and AI romance
2. A new gambling levy, and the dark side of the industry
1. "A range of questionable trends and industry practices” – gaming in 2025
10. Everyday Digital – a media literacy programme that works
9. EdTech: “Big Tech in a school uniform”?
8. Violence against women and girls: what’s needed for change?
7. Is tech destroying our attention spans?
6. Family vlogging, young people’s perspectives and the response ‘across t…
5. What's next for the Online Safety Act?
4. Schools and emerging tech: a new era of sexual harassment and abuse?
3. Understanding ‘good enough’ parenting and toddlers' tech use
2. Early years digital media literacy: new report highlights significant g…
1. Time for a change? Talking Child Financial Harms with Adam Groves
7. Season round-up with VoiceBox’s Natalie Foos
6. Digital resilience, wellbeing and the online world
5. AI’s role in mental health support?
4. From child rights to regulation: are we in a good place?
3. Digital parenting and monitoring technology
2. Mark Weinstein, privacy, anonymity and surveillance capitalism
1. The Annual Cyber Survey with Adrienne Katz
Smartphone bans: the professional perspective
Smartphone bans: what are young people saying?
9. Bonus episode - The minimal digital living standard
Smartphone bans for under-16s: the parent perspective
7. Season roundup, with VoiceBox
6. The secrets of search
5. Young people and the emerging gender divide
4. The debate surrounding screen time, with Pete Etchells
3. The ‘wicked problem’ of child financial harms
2. Katie Davis
1. Has media literacy’s time finally come?
7. Sharenting
6. A problem hiding in plain sight?
5. The respectable face of the porn industry?
4. Money muling
3. Romancing the bot

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