Digital Learning Radio

Laura Kile (@mslkile) and Kathryn Laster (@kklaster) are excited to begin Season 9 of Digital Learning Radio. Join us in reflective discussions related to all that we’ve learned about professional learning (and ourselves!) over the past year, and how our thinking has been transformed regarding designing professional learning experiences post pandemic and beyond.

As we move into summer learning and planning for fall of 2021, we are looking forward to transforming professional learning, beyond the way we’ve always done things. 

Episodes will be released each week on Thursdays. Follow along on their learning journey and continue the conversations on Twitter @DigLearnRadio.

Resources:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Season 8 final episode

In the final episode of the season, Kathryn and Laura spend some time discussing a few of their favorite ideas regarding transforming the new semester and new school year for the fall of 2020 as education moves from emergency remote to emerging redesign.

We recorded the new intro on June 3, 2020, and the resources below have helped shape our thinking and grow our knowledge of racial injustice and inequality.

Resources for Antiracist Self-Work: 

• “To my white educators…” twitter thread from Joe Truss, Culturally Responsive Leadership
• An Antiracist Reading List, Ibram X. Kendi
• Why #BlackLivesMatter in Your Classroom Too, Cornelius Minor
• To White Educators: We Must Remember Our Anger When Anger Feels Less Comfortable, Jess Lifshitz
• Framing Brave Conversations About Race and Ethnicity, Sheldon Eakins, Leading Equity Center
• Anti-Racism Resources, compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020
• A Decade of Watching Black People Die, Code Switch podcast
• A Digital Learning Radio episode from last year about self-work: Our Journey Begins - Caring Enough to Step In

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Curious Minds: Gayle Allen & Priya Parker on The Art of Gathering
• Together Apart Podcast, Priya Parker
• Reopening School: What it Might Look Like, Jennifer Gonzalez 
• Let’s Not Go Back, Let’s Go Forward, Silvia Tolisano
• “Include the entire community” twitter chat idea shared by Knikole Taylor
• TEDxNYED, Heidi Hayes Jacobs
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio

In this episode Kathryn and Laura continue the conversation about feedback, this time through the lens of students. They discuss tech tools that have come to the rescue to use to provide authentic feedback to students during emergency remote learning and delve into the idea of feedback driven metacognition.

Resources Mentioned:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Cult of Pedagogy - Flash Feedback, Jennifer Gonzalez
• Feedback Rubric Spreadsheet for Google Classroom, Alice Keeler
• Tech Tools for Feedback: Google Classroom, Screencastify, Loom, Flipgrid, Pear Deck
• Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning, Pooja K. Agarwal & Patrice M. Bain
• Powerful Teaching Resources (scroll to see the Fours Steps Feedback Driven Metacognition resource)
• How Giving Students Video Feedback Can Foster Understanding
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio

In this episode Kathryn and Laura have a discussion about the third pillar of The New Pillars of Modern Teaching: feedback. Centering the conversation around the types of feedback that have been prevalent during emergency remote learning, they discuss what constitutes effective feedback and how to leverage it in preparing to end the current semester and plan for a transformed future.

Connect!

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio

In this episode Kathryn and Laura continue the curation conversation based on the book The New Pillars of Modern Teaching. Today’s episode focuses on curation for students, and the transformation of our class design to foster students’ ability to own their learning and fill in gaps through the critical thinking required to scan, sense-make, and share curated resources. 

Resources Mentioned:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Adding or Subtracting Learning, George Couros
• To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation, and Are You a Curator or Dumper, Jennifer Gonzalez 
• Everyday DigCit, Nancy Watson
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio 

In this episode Kathryn and Laura discuss curation for educators based on the book The New Pillars of Modern Teaching. Today’s conversation focuses on the how and why of sifting through information overload to emerge better organized and enabled to locate and share our learning.

Resources Mentioned:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• The One Workflow You Can’t Live Without, Gayle Allen
• Curated list of Curation Tools We Love
• Trello for workflow
• Yoga with Adriene 
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile

Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio

In this episode Kathryn and Laura continue discussing design, this time filtered through the lens of students, and based on the book The New Pillars of Modern Teaching. They discuss how remote learning allows opportunities for students to own their learning and develop agency in learning processes. Today’s conversation imagines how some of our current remote realities can continue and transform the design of our classrooms and learning in the fall.

More to Explore:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Digital Learning Radio episode - interview with Gayle Allen (November, 2017)
• “Do you secretly like remote teaching?” post & podcast from Angela Watson
• “Why Are Some Kids Thriving During Remote Learning?” Edutopia
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with Digital Learning Radio @DigLearnRadio 

In today’s episode Kathryn and Laura dive into their discussion of the book The New Pillars of Modern Teaching. They focus on the pillar of design, looking at it through the lens of educators, and discuss learning preferences, how designing learning has shifted for remote learning, and conjecture how learning design will transform for future pedagogy and practice.

Resources Mentioned:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Rethinking Big Ideas: Daniel Pink on the Future of Work
• Digital Learning Radio episode - interview with Gayle Allen (November, 2017)
• Tony Vincent’s Classy Graphics Class
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio 

Welcome to Season 8, episode 1 of Digital Learning Radio. Today’s episode is an introduction to our new series, From Triage to Transformation, with Kathryn (@kklaster) and Laura (@mslkile). For this season of our podcast, we are focusing on transcending the triage of our remote learning lives as we discuss where we are and where we’re going to transform our pedagogy and practices.

Resources Mentioned:

• The New Pillars of Modern Teaching, Gayle Allen
• Curious Minds Podcast, The Power of Inclusive Design
• First Responders Matter, blog post from Craig Gray
• What are the problems we’re trying to solve?, Grant Lichtman
• Connect with Kathryn @kklaster
• Connect with Laura @mslkile
• Connect with DigLearning Radio @DigLearnRadio 

For this season of Digital Learning Radio, Kathryn Laster (@kklaster) and Laura Kile (@mslkile) will collaborate, share reflections, and curate resources for ways to transform learning in this new world of education. Episodes will be released each week on Thursdays. Follow along on their learning journey and continue the conversations on Twitter @DigLearnRadio.