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March 29, 2021
Join Me and Monica Burns on Clubhouse – Tuesday, March 30 7 pm Eastern
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Join me and @ClassTechTips on Tuesday 3/30 at 7 pm Eastern on Clubhouse.
If you’re a newbie, we can learn together. If you’re a pro, jump on stage and share a tip!
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5 Things We Need to Get Right As we Move Back to In Person Learning
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As we consider how we move back into school, we need to think about neuroscience research about how students learn. Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath talks about stress, learning duration, homework, spaced repetition, and sleep as well as computers and technology. You can’t just have a longer school day to improve learning. You also can’t always expect every technology to improve learning either.
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March 22, 2021
Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now
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Do you need safe, fun ways for students to connect and learn while keeping their distance in the classroom? Augmented reality apps might be for you! Remarkably, there are best practices you can use to teach math, ELA, and more using Augmented Reality. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom. Additionally, Mi...
March 18, 2021
4 Social Emotional Learning Strategies to Use in the Classroom Now
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We know that to teach students, we must relate to educate and one of the first things we must relate to is their emotions in that moment. In today’s show, Robin Fox shares four techniques you can use in your face-to-face or distance classroom to connect with your student’s social and emotional lives. She reminds us that student emotions are constantly in motion but we have to help them so we can unlock their ability ...
March 14, 2021
How to Create Massive Multiplayer Kahoot Games
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Did you know that you can play massive Kahoot games with many students as players? Today’s guest, George Pearce, talks about how he streams Kahoot games, handles security and privacy, fights bots that allow cheating and attack his Kahoot games, and also how he deals with a lag to make game competitions more equitable even when hundreds of miles separate the learners. He also shares the software he uses and tips to ge...
March 9, 2021
How to Partner with Parents During Pandemic Learning
J.T. Taylor shares how schools can better connect with parents
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Some schools need to reset their relationships with parents. Others want to make it stronger as they transition to a different form of learning. At the forefront of all of this is the psychological health of students during this time. JT Taylor is helping schools connect with parents and support them and today he gives advice to schools and teachers who a...
March 6, 2021
Horse and Buggy Classrooms
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Why don’t more people drive a horse and buggy to school?
They got the job done.
They took us where we wanted to go — just slow.
Sure, we had to feed the horses.
And we had to live nearer to the schoolhouse.
But a horse and buggy got us there.
Didn’t they?
Sure, cars are faster and can take us further.
We can travel to faraway places that a horse and buggy could never go.
But a horse and buggy worked so well for so lo...
March 3, 2021
3 Ways to Stress Less in Today’s Classroom
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Teachers are stressing over so many things. Today, Dr. Desiree Alexander tackles three of those issues: distance learning, hybrid learning, and digital equity. She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways.
March 1, 2021
How to Close the Learning Gap
Dr. Rachael George shares advice on how to help kids now
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Students are returning to school and teachers and administrators know a learning gap is there. What do we do about it? How do we close the gap without stressing everyone out? Turnaround principal Rachael George tells us how.
February 24, 2021
Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It
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Dr. James Lang has six recommendations in this podcast about how we can better understand student attention and how we can get their attention while we teach – even when teaching online. This important topic will help all of us become better teachers in challenging times.
