This is EdTech Now, a ten-minute podcast about education technology and how it's used in the classroom.

Our guest today is Alex Corbitt, a seventh-grade ELA teacher in the Bronx. His work focuses on socioemotional learning, gamification, education technology, and literacy. You will often hear him on the "Voices from the Middle Podcast," which comes from the National Council of Teachers of English.

The EdTech NOW podcast is sponsored by Stackup. Get credit for what you read online. Build your personal learning profile and discover your interests, automatically, on Stackup. (http://stackup.net) The podcast is produced by Red Cup Agency. The interviewer is Lee Schneider