Unpacking Education & Tech Talk For Teachers

Being a new teacher is challenging, even in the best circumstances. Our guest, Kathy Koszegi, not only began her teaching career during a pandemic but also taught her first year in a remote school before transitioning to a face-to-face learning environment during her second year as a teacher. In this episode, we hear about Kathy’s unique experience and discuss how we can support new teachers and help them to remain in the profession long term. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Explore several ways to capture and annotate digital images as well as two ideas for integrating this process into your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Kiki Prottsman joins us to unpack computational thinking and practical ways that teachers can recognize Computer Science Education Week in their classrooms and with their students. She provides insights and practical strategies that you can use to introduce computer science to your students and help them develop lifelong problem-solving skills.CSEdWeek 2022 is celebrated during the week of December 5–11. It’s an opportunity to highlight the importance of computer science education in our K–12 schools and to provide students with opportunities to experience and explore coding and develop computational thinking skills. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Review the four elements of computational thinking and ways that you can use these in your classroom during Computer Science Education Week. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Discover three online note-taking tools as well as three integration ideas for using these with video in your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

We finish our conversation about empowering students with Dr. John Spencer by discussing a few more sections of the book, Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning. We then expand our conversation to design thinking and the importance of creativity by digging into his previous book, LAUNCH: Using Design Thinking to Boost Creativity and Bring Out the Maker in Every Student.Dr. Spencer talks about the value of using the LAUNCH process to stimulate creativity and develop problem-solving skills. He says, “In a world of artificial intelligence, and automation, and all these trends that we’re seeing, creativity becomes, I think, the most essential skill.”If you missed our initial episode with Dr. Spencer, be sure to go back and listen to the beginning of this insightful conversation about empowering students. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more and access additional, free resources.

Review five strategies for marking up digital text as well as five digital annotation tools that your students can begin using today. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

We are joined by Dr. John Spencer for the first part of a two-part conversation about empowering students in our classrooms. In this episode, we dive into the topic of student empowerment by breaking down the book he cowrote with A.J. Juliani, Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning. We explore strategies for helping students develop the key skills that they will need to be successful today as well as adaptable in the future.Dr. Spencer says, “When people would say we need to prepare students for jobs that don’t exist yet, I kept thinking, well if we don’t know what those jobs are . . . maybe the best way to prepare students for the future is to empower them in the present.” Tune in to this episode to hear our full conversation. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more and access additional, free resources.

Explore five digital mind mapping tools as well as seven strategies for using these in your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode, we continue our conversation about blended learning with international thought leader, best-selling author, and blended learning practitioner Dr. Catlin Tucker. This week, we discuss how to leverage blended learning to reduce workload and improve work–life balance. We also address important topics, such as rethinking assessment, improving equity and relationships, relieving classroom pain points, and getting started with blended learning.If you missed the first part of our conversation with Dr. Tucker, be sure to go back and listen to the beginning of this insightful conversation about blended learning. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.