Digital Learning Today

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we sit down with Tony Skauge and Jamie Candee to showcase how teachers are using Edmentum to design engaging learning experiences for their students.

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Edmentum, Inc., is committed to making it easier for educators to individualize learning for every student through simple technology, high-quality content, and actionable data. Founded in innovation, Edmentum’s powerful learning programs blend technology with individual teaching approaches. Edmentum is committed to being educators' most trusted partner in creating successful student outcomes everywhere learning occurs. Built on 50 years of experience in education, Edmentum programs currently support educators and students in more than 40,000 schools nationwide. For more information, visit edmentum.com.

• Exact Path: https://www.edmentum.com/products/exact-path
• Study Island: http://www.edmentum.com/products/study-island
• Reading Eggs: http://www.edmentum.com/products/reading-eggs-reading-eggspress
• Courseware: http://www.edmentum.com/products/courseware

Tony Skauge, Services Program Manager, Edmentum

Tony Skauge has worked in the field of education for over 10 years as an award-winning classroom instructor and as an Education Specialist at the Science Museum of Minnesota. He received his bachelor of science degree in Elementary Education from Minnesota State University Moorhead. Tony is currently the Services Program Manager at Edmentum where he worked on the ground with hundreds of schools districts and professional educators from across the country to successfully integrate online and blended learning strategies into the classroom with goal of helping each child be successful.

Jamie Candee, President and CEO, Edmentum

Jamie joined Edmentum in 2005 and began her career with the company in Human Resources, before working her way through nearly every department within the organization—serving as Director, Sales and Service Effectiveness; Vice President, Product Development; Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing; and Chief Revenue Officer during her initial tenure.

Jamie rejoined the organization in 2017, to lead Edmentum’s strategic vision and long term growth plan as President, CEO, and Board Director, bringing her successful record of accomplishment as an executive with extensive experience in education technology, private equity, and policy. Jamie was selected by Minnesota Business magazine as one of the 2015 (Real) Power 50, by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal as a 2017 Titans of Technology honoree, and 2017 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist. She sits on the board of directors for Project Success, a MN-based education non-profit and serves as an advisory board member for Bethel University’s Department of Business and Economics.

Jamie holds a Master of Business Administration from Bethel University and a Bachelor of Science in political science from the University of Wisconsin. Her ambitious personality, relentless commitment to serve educators and students, and strong leadership inspire her teams to build and implement education programs that promote and support lifelong teaching and learning.

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Question: In what way are you creating interactive and engaging lessons for your students?

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we speak with Technology Integration Specialist Jarod Bormann, author of the book Professionally Driven. Together, we break down the role of professional development in the school district and begin to understand why it is vitally important to every district to have a clear system from which professional development is given.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why is it important for school districts to constantly rethink their Professional Development strategy?
• What types of PD work … What types of PD don’t work?
• When should PD be delivered top-down vs from the ground up?
• The role of the Tech Coach at various educational levels (classroom, building, district, community)
• How to think of PD like a Caveman

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Jarod Bormann is a Technology Integration Specialist at the Keystone Area Education Agency in NE Iowa. He received his Masters degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Northern Iowa, and is currently an adjunct professor for the same Masters program. Jarod taught Middle School/High School English for seven years in one of the first 1:1 iPad schools in Iowa. He is an ISTE presenter and was recognized as the 2014 Iowa Safe Schools Educator of the Year. Jarod blogs at bormannbytes.com and professionallydriven.com. An annual presenter at the Keystone KPEC Conference, Iowa Technology & Education Connection (ITEC Featured Speaker), as well as other educational tech conferences throughout the Midwest, he is an ITEC Iowa Board Member and co-hosts the Next Level Learning podcast. Connect with Jarod via twitter @jbormann3

• professionallydriven.com

Professionally Driven is a personalized PD model designed to empower every educator in a school district. The model is embedded on three main concepts: growth mindset development, intrinsic motivation, and sustainable autonomy. The book lays out the Why behind these three areas and offers the How-To steps to set up the Professionally Driven model in any school district.

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In what ways have you found professional development to be helpful in your school district? How did you know that it was being effective, not just for yourself, but for the entire population of teachers?

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we speak with Dr. Ayanna Howard, Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology about Robotics, STEM Education, and her upcoming Keynote at the Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC)

In this episode, you will learn:

• What is the difference between Coding and Programming?
• Why should STEM be included in all subject areas?
• Can STEM and Coding be included in our Pre-K programs?
• Where can teachers find great resources to get them started in STEM?

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Dr. Howard has over 13 years of R&D experience covering a number of projects that have been supported by a range of agencies including: NSF, NASA, Procter and Gamble, ExxonMobil, and Intel. Her robotics and assistive technology research, has resulted in over 200 publications and numerous patents. Her accomplishments are highlighted through a number of awards and articles, including highlights in USA Today, Upscale, and TIME Magazine. She was named MIT Technology Review top young innovator, recognized as NSBE Educator of the Year, and a recipient of the Anita Borg Educator Award. In addition to her extensive robotics experience, Dr. Howard’s entrepreneurial experience involves development of a leading genetic algorithm package and Brainsheet, a neural-network optimization package. The IP for both applications were later acquired by larger companies. Dr. Howard holds a degree from Brown University, a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. from the Drucker Graduate School of Management.

• http://zumolearning.com/
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Question: What were the first steps you took when bringing STEM into your classroom?

Please share your experiences in the comments section below.

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

• Zyrobotics
• Code.org
• Daisy the Dinosaur
• Tommy the Turtle: Learn to Code
• Scratch JR

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we learn that STEM Education is not just for the K-12 classroom but can also be introduced as young as 2-3 years old. Recently, LEGO Education has released great products aimed at our youngest of learners. On today's podcast, we speak with three educators that not only are bringing these products into their classrooms but are responsible for creating a curriculum that can be used both in the classroom and at home by moms and dads.

• How can STEAM Education be brought into the PreK classroom?
• Is it possible to design a MakerSpace for nonreaders?
• How can your classroom take advantage of great products from LEGO Education?

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The following participating teachers can speak to the importance of STEAM learning in early education. They have been implementing the new LEGO Education STEAM Park product and curriculum into their student’s classrooms and can speak to the students’ experiences with this resource:

• Kate Leis, Student and Faculty Achievement Coach at Primrose School of Burlington (MA). Kate oversees and maintains standards of excellence with curriculum and instruction school-wide; she was instrumental in developing STEAM Park. Kate Leis works as a Curriculum and Instruction Coach at the Primrose School of Burlington in Burlington Massachusetts. She has worked previously as a public school Kindergarten teacher and with the YMCA in education administration. She graduated in 2013 from Endicott College with a Bachelors in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Special Education.
• Alicia Carroll, Director of STEM at Boston Public Schools: Alicia has been implementing STEAM Park into her student’s classroom. https://youngsteaminventors.com/
• Myrna Promousas, Boston Public Schools: Myrna has been implementing STEAM Park into her student’s classroom.

LEGO Education offers playful learning experiences and teaching solutions based on the LEGO system of bricks, curriculum-relevant material, and physical and digital resources to preschool, elementary, middle school and after school. Solutions and resources from LEGO Education enable every student to succeed by encouraging them to become active, collaborative learners, build skills for future challenges, and establish a positive mindset toward learning.

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we discuss Augmented Reality with Metaverse CEO, Dmitry Shapiro. Together, we explore how Augmented Reality is being used in and out of the classrooms and learn where this amazing technology will be taking us as we head into the future.

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Dmitry Shapiro is CEO and Co-Founder of GoMeta (Metaverse), an augmented reality platform. Before Metaverse, Dmitry founded three companies (in network security, online video, social networking), raised $100 million in venture capital, tried to bring MySpace back from the dead (as CTO of music), and spent four years at Google working on a social graph, content discovery, and identity.

The Metaverse AR platform makes it easy for non-techies to create augmented reality. While it has applications across many industries, K-12 teachers were the first to embrace Metaverse, and it is being used in thousands of classrooms across the world.

Metaverse is an Augmented Reality platform that makes it easy for teachers and students to create amazing interactive experiences without having to code.

Thousands of teachers are building all kinds of interactive curriculum, including educational games, stories, puzzles, challenges, scavenger hunts, and more. The most popular thing teachers are building are Breakout EDU-style challenges in Augmented Reality. Breakout Experiences can be built in under 15 minutes (Here's a tutorial).

Not only have teachers been building Metaverse Experiences for their students, they are having students build experiences themselves. Metaverse is great at teaching the logic behind computer programming, allowing students to build things they can see, use, and play with immediately.

• https://gometa.io/
• Download Metaverse
• Metaverse Twitter
• Metaverse Teachers Facebook group

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Question: How do you see yourself using Augmented Reality in your classrooms? 

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we speak with TED speaker Ted Dintersmith about his movie “Most Likely to Succeed” and ask the question, “what should our students be learning in school?”

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After a 25-year career in venture capital, Ted Dintersmith is now committed to creating national change through initiatives at the intersection of innovation, education, and film. He is the producer of the documentary “Most Likely to Succeed,” and an executive producer of “The Hunting Ground” (both films premiered at Sundance, 2015). Ted served as part of the delegation representing the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly in a year, where he focused on global education and entrepreneurship; is a partner emeritus with Charles River Ventures; and has served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association, chairing its Public Policy Committee. He earned a Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford and an undergraduate degree in physics and English from the College of William and Mary.

Most Likely to Succeed is the first national campaign to inspire – and empower – communities across the country to revolutionize their schools for the 21st Century. Through a 50-state tour; community screenings; and a call to action to students, parents, educators, policymakers, and organizations to take a stand for the potential of every young person, we are uniting millions to revolutionize education once and for all.

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In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we take a look at some pretty awesome “Unplugged EdTech” in the form of interactive whiteboards known as mcSquares. For the last year, I have been a big fan of mcSquares and have actually been using them to teach the EduTriplets how to write their names.

The simple yet durable form factor of mcSquares makes it not only easy to use in class, but very easy to store away when not in use. There are several things that you can do each day with your mcSquares from basic writing and drawing activities to complex programming and coding planograms with your students. 

In this episode, you will learn 3 ways to use mcSquares in the classroom.

• Elementary SchoolOne of the easiest ways to use mcSquares is as a simple dry erase board. Both version 1 and 2 are built from combining a front and a back form surrounding a sheet of paper. This paper can be interchanged with anything you wish to use as a template for whatever project you are working on. For my children, I like to cut out pages from their favorite coloring book and they can use mcSquares and it’s clear outer marker board to color their favorite characters over and over again.
• Middle SchoolBecause each square magnetically can stack on top of each other, mcSquares make a great tool in any foreign language class. Verbs have never been able to be conjugated this easily before!
• High SchoolBecause mcSquares creates a grid of removable, modular tiles on your board, they make the perfect assistant in your coding or programming classroom. Each student can create a block of code (as seen on “Scratch Programming”) and together you can use the squares to learn video game programming.

• In 2016, mcSquares was featured on the TeacherCast Podcast. Check out our recording below.

• www.mcsquares.com
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• www.mcsquares.com/facebook
• http://www.twitter.com/mc_squares
• https://vimeo.com/mcsquares

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mcSquares are personal, hand held whiteboards that easily snap together on a wall to create a larger, collaborative system that is infinitely flexible and completely customizable.

Anthony Franco

Along with founding 7 different successful companies and holding multiple patents, Anthony has held leadership positions in creative direction, feature film post-production, technological architecture, advertising production, enterprise product development, computer aided design, hospitality management, and physical product manufacturing.

Most notably, Anthony founded the large, Denver-based consulting firm, EffectiveUI, the world’s first and leading user experience and digital product development firm. EffectiveUI is responsible for the creation of hundreds of award-winning digital products for many of the world’s most recognizable brands. O’Reilly publish a book based exclusively on our philosophies and practices, titled “Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experiences in Software”His most recent start-up, mc squares, was born from lessons learned in running brainstorming workshops within fortune 100 conference rooms. The company has just come out of 2 years of product R&D and has released its first iteration in a long line of collaboration systems.

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Does edtech really need to be plugged in? In what ways can students learn 21st-century skills such as Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking without the need for apps? Please leave your comments below.

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Recorded October 19, 2017

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, we sit down with Jill King from the Cartoon Network and Champika Fernando from the Scratch team to discuss why it is critical to be teaching STEM and coding skills to children of all ages.

• How is the Cartoon Network reaching students worldwide?
• Where can parents learn more about the Cartoon Network?
• What is Scratch and how can students learn coding and programming skills?
• Why is it important that we address the gender gap in STEM education?
• CSForAll Summit

Cartoon Network is more than an animation station – it’s a technology-enabled multiplatform entertainment powerhouse that fosters kids’ creativity with engaging shows; mobile, online, console and VR games; toys; and even coding tutorials. Each of these platforms incorporates educational components that support Gen Z’s creativity in 24/7 environments through problem-solving, critical thinking and self-expression. A few examples:

• Cartoon Network launched Powerpuff Yourself in 2016 to celebrate the reboot of Powerpuff Girls, and in just a year, over 12 million fans have created custom avatars
• Since December 2015, kids have built and shared more than 20,000 animations, games and other creations through the We Bare Bears tutorial on MIT’s Scratch.
• Cartoon Network partnered with the NBA ahead of the 2017 All-Star Weekend in New Orleans for a 3-day mini-camp designed to inspire students to cultivate their storytelling abilities through creative coding.

• http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/
• https://scratch.mit.edu/
• http://csforallconsortium.org/ – October 16-17 in St. Louis

Jill King is senior vice president, marketing and partnerships for Turner’s Cartoon Network, Adult Swim and Boomerang, as well as their digital brand extensions, including CartoonNetwork.com and AdultSwim.com. In this capacity, King oversees all aspects of consumer marketing for Cartoon Network and Boomerang along with strategic marketing partnerships, event marketing and trade marketing for the portfolio of youth and young adult-targeted networks.

She leads the development of innovations that leverage emerging technologies to engage audiences in new ways and offer advertisers first-to-market platforms in today’s dynamic digital environment. She is also instrumental in developing the flagship Adult Swim Upfront trade marketing strategies.

• Cartoon Network Twitter: @cartoonnetwork
• Cartoon Network PR Twitter: @cartoonnetPR
• Cartoon Network Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CartoonNetwork/

Champika began her career as an engineer and designer. She's most passionate about supporting people using technology as a tool for self-expression and creativity. She's proud to be a part of the Scratch Team, supporting millions of children around the world as they create, share, and express themselves with code. Before the Scratch Team, Champika was at Google where she worked on creative platforms like Blogger, toolkits like Blockly, and outreach programs like Made with Code.

Scratch is a free online programming language and community for creating your own stories, games, and animations. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.

• Scratch Twitter: @Scratch
• Scratch Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/scratchteam/
• Champika’s personal Twitter: @Champika_F

In this episode of the TeacherCast Podcast, I sit down with one of the founders of the Padcaster, Josh Apter to discuss educational video production and how your school can create an extremely professional video product using the Padcaster.

For the last few months, I have been using the Padcaster not only to upgrade my home studio but to give me a portable solution to record in classrooms and conferences. Simply put, the Padcaster is the perfect solution for any school looking to create morning announcements, live broadcasts, or record athletic events.

This fall, Padcaster will be releasing several new products that I think will continue to revolutionize and simplify video production. One of these is the new Padcaster VERSE, a complete solution to turn your mobile phone into a “mobile media powerhouse”. In today's podcast, Josh shows us how the VERSE is not only a dynamic stand and equipment holder for your phone, it also provides additional battery support so you can be on the road and not worry about losing battery in your device.

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Featured in Apple’s “Your Verse” international advertising campaign for the original iPad Air, as well as the newly released iPad Air 2 “Change” campaign, and Visa’s “Visa Checkout” campaign, The Padcaster is a patented, rugged multifunctional iPad case that transforms the iPad into an all-in-one mobile production studio. The Padcaster enables consumers to shoot, edit and upload video on the fly – or stream live right from the iPad. More than an innovative way to mount an iPad to a tripod, The Padcaster transforms the iPad into an all-in-one production tool. The Company is creating, developing and enabling a new category of convenient and cost-effective professional quality video documentation and production.

The Padcaster box comes complete with the aluminum frame, macro lense, mounting brackets, shotgun microphone, windsock, and dual headphone adapter. For those interested in taking their digital production to the next level, Padcaster offers an Ultimate Studio package that has several great accessories.

• Padcaster Wide Lense
• Padcaster XP-38 LED light
• Padcaster Shotgun Microphone
• Dual Mic/Headphone adapter
• Padcaster Stick Mic
• Padcaster Lav Mic
• Three Piece Clamp system
• VT-16 Fluid Head Tripod
• Padcaster Green Screen
• Mini Teleprompter
• Padcaster Backpack.

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• View our recommendations for school podcasting equipment

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When I first met the Padcaster team at ISTE this year, I was blown away not only by how durable and portable the system was, but how they have managed to create a single package that takes the stress off of school districts when purchasing equipment for their video projects. In the past, I used to consult with school leaders and share with them an entire catalog of apps and equipment options to help them make the best decision for their school. Now, I simply tell them to take a look at Padcaster and in one single purchase, they are all set to go for a successful school year.

Full disclosure: Where there was no money exchanged to write this post or create this podcast, Padcaster has been a supporter of TeacherCast by allowing us to test out their products. That being said, as a video editor and broadcaster, I fully endorse this product and have tested it out both in a professional situation and as a dad running around recording my children. It is simply a game changer when it comes to portable video production.

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Recorded October 7, 2017