Episode 88 of the EdTechLoop Weekly Podcast! After having our fill of caprese salads and grilled vegetarian kebabs it's finally time to whip up some #GoogleEdu marinade and slather it on this week's meat of the show, “We gave your kid a device...now what?”

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Episode 88 Transcription:

Stephie Luyt  0:00  

Hey, they still have dot matrix printers over there.

 

David Noller  0:05  

Yes, they still have modems

 

Larry Burden  0:15  

Should I be recording, hold on.

 

Stephie Luyt  0:15  

You didn't save the day for them. 

 

David Noller  0:16  

I had a legitimate moral dilemma. 

 

Larry Burden  0:19  

I am recording by the way and you need to settle down.

 

Larry Burden  0:28  

it's Episode 88 of the EDtechLoop podcast My name is Larry Burden and ignoring the fire marshals maximum occupancy warnings. It's Danielle Brostrom, Stephie Luyt, and the TechNollerGist, David Noller. We've packed up the beach towels and the sunscreen in favor of backpacks, Chromebooks, and this week's moment of Zen. 

 

Moment of Zen  0:47  

What is art? It is when you have paper, and you don't know why it's paper. 

 

Larry Burden  0:54  

Thank you from one of the students from my wife's toddler classroom for that one. 

 

David Noller  1:00  

It's when you have paper, 

 

Larry Burden  1:01  

and you don't know why, 

 

David Noller  1:03  

and you don't know why 

 

Larry Burden  1:03  

it's paper 

 

David Noller  1:04  

it's paper. Yeah, I gotta go.

 

David Noller  1:09  

That, I want to think about that more than anything else right now.

 

Larry Burden  1:12  

 I know, she said that this morning and I was like, yeah I need that.

 

Larry Burden  1:19  

We've lost the TechNollergist, after having our fill of caprese salads and grilled vegetarian kebabs it's finally time to whip up some Google Edu marinate and slather it on this week's meat of the show, we gave our kid a device...Now what. I love this topic and I think it's the perfect way to start the first pod of the year. Because really, we tend to focus on all these different things we can do with the device, the goals that we're trying to reach with the device. Let's, Let's start at the beginning, we've given them. This tool. Now, let's start looking at those transitional properties of what do you do with it to get to the goal. So what do you do, what do you supposed to do with the tool to reach your goal. 

 

Danelle Brostrom  2:01  

And I think this is where it becomes kind of becomes a thing because in our district we do give kids a device in sixth grade, and they get to take it home, and it's, it's, it's theirs to manage and the parents job to manage and I think that this is a great podcast for parents because we do need to give them some advice on what they can do to help manage this new media that's going to be in their home.

 

Larry Burden  2:26  

On Twitter. We had two comments, two comments that came through when I asked this question, and I thought they framed it in the two in two ways that maybe we should look at the first comment from and I'm gonna get his name wrong and he's all over Twitter, he's great follow Anthony Locricchio, maybe, I don't know, I apologize, his comment, it's a learning tool, and it's yours, so treated as if it's the last one in the world. I think that's a great way to look at it because it is it's a it's a tool it's one of the things we're trying to focus on this year. But, B, it is access to everything, and how important is that, as an educational tool if they know how, if they have the foundational skills to use it appropriately. The other one was from Danielle Brostrom, practice balance every day, shut the device down once in a while, and look your friends in the eye. I think that's great and really it comes down to thinking about those two, two comments. First o