Unpacking Education & Tech Talk For Teachers

In today’s episode, we'll explore tools and strategies to inspire student creativity by integrating audio into your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In today’s episode, we'll review video capture and production tools as well as seven flexible integration ideas you can use to bring video into your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Kids today are more than just digital natives, “They’re mobile first,” observes our guest, Alefiya Master—a former teacher and the founder and CEO of MAD-learn. “That’s the first device that they learn how to use before they get to a computer. So let’s use that hook. Let’s leverage that hook to enable them to come into the computer science world, come into the world of creating as opposed to just...

Discover ten benefits of facilitating student creation in your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

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In today’s episode, we'll explore ChatGPT, how it works, and some of the questions it has prompted in education circles. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Explore benefits, tools, and integration ideas for using online discussions effectively in a face-to-face classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In the spirit of reflection and growth, the podcast team recounts the themes that stand out from this past year in education and anticipates the topics and trends that they feel will be important in the year to come. The conversation is filled with insights, collegiality, and humor. Visit AVID Open Access for more great resources.

In today’s episode, we review four digital question-and-answer tools and six ideas for integrating these tools into your classroom. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode, we look back on 2022 and recap some of our favorite moments, key topics, and best memories. Tune in for highlights, a few dad jokes, and a musical tribute to this past year as we count down the last 12 months of podcasts. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode, Betty Gessesse from Amazon shares an overview of the Amazon Future Engineer Scholarship and program. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

In this episode, we explore four digital tools and strategies that you can use to provide your students with holiday-related brain breaks. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

Explore ways that you can celebrate and honor the holiday traditions of all your students by empowering them to share their stories. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

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 h...

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 Decemb...

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. Spence...

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 successf...

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 classr...

 Review seven ways that students can take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital tools when taking and processing notes. Visit AVID Open Access to learn more.

 In this episode, we are joined by international thought leader, best selling author, and blended learning practitioner, Dr. Catlin Tucker. Together we unpack why should consider a blended learning approach and discuss how blended learning can be an effective solution for many of the pain points educators may be feeling, including a perceived lack of student engagement, the challenges of different...