Navigating Education - The Podcast

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviews Zach Groshell, who is a Director of Educational Technology and a Ph. D. student in Instructional Design and Online Learning on the topic of cognitive load and its effect on learning. To begin, we define cognitive load theory and then discuss how practices on how we can limit its effects on our student's working memories. Zach provides a number of strategies t...

On Episode 11 of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Matthew Downing an EdTech coach and integrationist on the topic of Attitudes/Beliefs and Relationships as the Foundation of Technology Integration. This conversation focused on establishing positive views and beliefs related to integrating technology use in the classroom setting. We discussed how to begin those conversatio...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses how to select research-based instructional strategies as well as EdTech tools and integrate them together to amplify student learning. Dr. Matt outlines each of these steps in addition to discussing how to implement the strategy integration within classrooms and practice it over time with students. The goal of this podcast is to illustrate to teachers and lead...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses what classroom routines should look like within digital and physical spaces that encompass modern classrooms. Beginning with outlining what classroom routines are, Dr. Matt provides a framework for how they are defined and how they can be implemented. Then, he goes on to discuss digital and physical classroom routines. This involves EdTech integration as well...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses how Special Education teachers along with service providers for students with special needs can optimize their case management with EdTech tools. With large caseloads and fires to put out, teachers working with students on their caseload need to build systems and procedures along with integrating EdTech to make their case management efficient and effective. Th...

In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rhoads discusses how adaptive EdTech can be utilized as a personalized learning tool that can help students with retrieval practice to amplify their learning. As adaptive EdTech becomes more sophisticated, it's important to see its instructional uses for K-12 teachers and how it can be leveraged to help students practice reading and math skills. The three segmen...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses best practices grounded in research that work in online learning classroom settings. Dr. Rhoads outlines how to provide instruction during synchronous as well as asynchronous portions of the lesson along with integrating several instructional strategies with EdTech tools to amplify student learning. The podcast ends with a short discussion on the practical app...

Today we live in a world of in-person and virtual instruction. Now, classes have a physical and a digital space where instruction and feedback take place. This is blended learning. With blended learning becoming a prevalent instructional model, there a number of ways to amplify blended learning to support students in their learning. From setting up a classroom infrastructure to implementing instru...

In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses how we are in the age of formative assessment in education. Dr. Matt outlines the implications of being in a time where a teacher can quickly assess student progress and provide student feeedback. Also, throughout the episode Dr. Matt describes how assessment can be integrated within the sequence of a lesson and how it help teachers monitor and adjust instruct...

In Episode 3 of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Matt Rhoads discusses how teachers and school leaders can use data collected from mainstream EdTech tools to make instructional data-driven decisions in a matter of seconds and minutes. Focusing on data visualization dashboards and extracting data to spreadsheets, Dr. Matt summarizes a step by step process of how he uses data to drive his ins...

Today, Dr. Matt Rhoads discussed social-emotional learning strategy integrations with several EdTech tools to help amplify student SEL development in any classroom setting. Using what educators call an app-smash, Dr. Matt outlines how step by step to integrate Google Slides, Pear Deck, and Flipgrid together for a powerful instructional sequence that can be implemented within any classroom setting....

In this introductory episode, the host Dr. Matt Rhoads, provides a summary of the podcasts purpose, episode formats, and why he wants you to become a listener and guest on an upcoming episode. Overall, the podcast's purpose is to provide a space to help educators and the greater community navigate education now in the present as well as the future. Topics of the podcast range from instruction, edt...