Episode #126: The Blended Learning Breakdown: Practices, Models, and Edtech

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 126 called “The Blended Learning Breakdown: Practices, Strategies, and Edtech” In this episode, we’ll share best practices and models of Blended Learning and the edtech tools that enhance your blended classroom. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Happy Thanksgiving
2. NJECC Conference is March 7th (Tuesday in person) and March 8th (Wednesday remote)
3. Upcoming 12 Days of EdTech

1. What is Blended Learning?
2. What are the advantages of Blended Learning?
3. The focus shifts to the acquisition of knowledge rather than its transmission.
4. Deeper understanding of content
5. Increases student engagement through collaborative experiences
6. Collaboration allows students to hear/see many viewpoints of the content
7. Creates an opportunity for more meaningful learning experiences
8. Student autonomy
9. Allows the educator to help students that need 1 on 1 interactions
10. Allows for personalized small group/individual feedback opportunities
11. Allows teachers to strategically prescribe groups
12. Allows students to work at their own pace
13. How can blended learning be implemented into the classroom?
14. Many of the best practices from Episode 124 Personalized Learning still apply to Blended Learning
15. Get to Know the Learners
16. Everyone is a student but has the ability to be a learner (autonomy is their learning)
17. All learners are different
18. Special Education Considerations
19. Gifted Education Students
20. SEL Students
21. ESL Students
22. Multiple Intelligences
23. Use UDL or Flipped, give options for assignment completion
24. Design a Personalized Learning Environment
25. Help Students Set Goals
26. Learn the art of questioning
27. Professional Development
28. Podcasts
29. YouTube
30. Online Asynchronous PD Opportunities
31. Asking your PLN

1. Flipped Classroom
2. How will you share video content? Many options 
3. EdPuzzle
4. PlayPosit recently purchased by WeVideo
5. Screencastify
6. Screencastomatic
7. ScreenPal
8. YouTube
9. Google Drive - interactive video lessons! 
10. Station Rotation
11. Need to provide feedback as students work through stations … 
12. Mote
13. GoFormative
14.  Floop
15. Other Tech
16. Edji
17. QR Codes
18. CanvaEDU 
19. GoSoapBox (GoSoapBox is a web-based clicker tool used by educators around the world to keep students engaged and gain real-time insight into student comprehension)
20. Playlists
21. Flippity (large variety of uses from grouping to games)
22. Prodigy (Prodigy unlocks game-based learning · Students reported an average of twice the level of math enjoyment in just a few months)
23. Choice Boards

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• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
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• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

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Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is episode 125 called “12 EdTech Tools to be Thankful For”.  In this episode, we’ll talk about some of the things that we are thankful for, including new tech tools, old tech tools, and some people, places and things that keep us inspired.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss.  Check it out.

• Fresh Air at 5
• www.twitter.com/BryonCar
• Teach Better Podcast Network
• Josh Stamper
• Experiences we are thankful for  

3 Old Tools - Nick

• Canva
• Edit PDF
• Video
• Audio
• Single-page websites
• Screencastomatic
• ScreenPal
• The Noun Project

3 New Tools - Nick

• AllSides.com - News articles categorized as left, right or center and shown from various perspectives.  Building a better democratic society
• ePals - internet supported penpal service
• TimeToast - sleek, easy to build timelines

What is a change to your teaching practice that you feel has made a difference?

3 Old Tools - Guise

• Mote
• Flippity.net
• Iorad

3 New Tools - Guise

• Cooltext.com
• Listen Notes
• Cleanpng

What is a change to your teaching practice that you feel has made a difference?

• Creativity-based learning

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
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• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 124 called “The 7 Commandments of Personalized Learning Enhanced with Edtech”   In this episode, we’ll share 7 aspects of Personalized Learning and the edtech tools that enhance your personalized learning classroom.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Linc Learning Virtual Conference November 8th
2. Free LincSpring Virtual Conference
3. https://linclearning.com/lincstream-teachers-2022/

1. Get to Know the Learners
2. Everyone is a student but has the ability to be a learner (autonomy is their learning)
3. All learners are different
4. Special Education Considerations
5. Gifted Education Students
6. SEL Students
7. ESL Students
8. Multiple Intelligences
9. Use UDL or Flipped, give options for assignment completion
10. Choiceboard Learning Get to know you board
11. MoteCon2022 Presentation
12. Free mini-subscrption for mote.com at www.myedtechbundle.com
13. Design a Personalized Learning Environment
14. Flexible Learning Environments
15. Harkness Tables
16. How can we use a row of desks to convert to a collaborative learning environment?
17. ClassroomQ
18. Free mini-subscrption at www.myedtechbundle.com
19. Help Students Set Goals
20. Listen 90% Talk 10%
21. Be direct, be flexible but hold a standard
22. Learn the art of questioning
23. Give the students just enough to progress … don’t spoon feed the answers
24. What are you wondering about … 
25. Develop your assessment strategies
26. Standardizing Testing vs Content Creation or PBL
27. Target-Based Learning
28. Rubrics
29. Make the Checklist the 3 out of 5
30. Grading    
31. Standards-Based Grading vs %
32. Choose Edtech Tools that will enhance the learning process
33. Reading
34. Natural Readers
35. Planning/Organizing
36. MindMeister
37. Mindomo 
38. Canva for Education
39. Writing
40. Speech to Text Chrome Extension
41. Wordtune
42. Free mini-subscrption at www.myedtechbundle.com
43. Collaboration
44. Canva for Education - the new Google Doc?
45. Discord for students
46. Curating   
47. Google Sites
48. Wakelet
49. Note-Taking
50. Scrible
51. Quick Notes - easy note taking in a new tab
52. Note Anywhere - take notes on web pages that reload each time you visit that page
53. Research
54. TheJuice
55. Free mini-subscrption at www.myedtechbundle.com
56. Publishing
57. Blogging
58. EduBlogs
59. Video Channel
60. Class YouTube Channel
61. Class Website
62. Google Sites
63. hvspn.com

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
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• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 123 called “17 EdTech Tools to Get Ahead of 2023 (Part 2)” In this episode, we’ll share 17 unique and fun edtech tools in a variety of educational categories. Guise will also talk about his experience at the 2022 Teach Better Conference and give us a sneak peek at an upcoming bonus episode of GotTechEd. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Guise talks Teach Better 

1. Playphrase.me - type a phrase and see what movies says it   
2. Neal.fun - Type in your bday and see what has happened since
3. Gethuman.com - get the number for any company to speak to a human
4. Privnote.com - send a note that destructs after its read
5. Temp-email.org - temporary emails
6. Psdfreebies - editable templates of flyers/posters
7. Beautiful.ai - presentation templates 
8. Fakeyou.com - type a message and pick a famous voice
9. learn anything xyz - populates articles basics of that topic
10. Jitter.video - motion graphic templates
11. svg artista - animation logos
12. Vocalremover.org - separate music and voice
13. Calligraphr.com - turn any sentence into calligraphy
14. 360gigapixels.com - 360 degree pictures
15. BigSpeak.ai - voice-over
16. Incompetech.com - royalty free music
17. Oldversion.com - old versions of software

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
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• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

In this episode Phil Strunk and Eric Guise breakdown the Teach Better 2022 Conference in Akron, Ohio. This episode features recordings from the conference as well as my interview with Phil that reflected on our experiences at the conference.  

Featuring:

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• @mrshowell23
• @mrsjankford
• @mrs_ruckman
• @phausedu
• @guisegotteched

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 122 called “15 EdTech Tools to Help You Get Ahead of 2023 (Part 1)”   In this episode, we’ll share 15 unique edtech tools in a variety of educational categories.  We’ll also share some updates on our fall/winter presentation schedule for this school year.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Teachbetter Conference October 14th and 15th
2. Presenting Edtech Throwdown with Stephanie Howell
3. Podcasters Row
4. Free LincSpring Virtual Conference
5. https://linclearning.com/lincstream-teachers-2022/
6. Shout out to our PLN friend Stephanie Howell on her release of her new book Control the Chaos
7. Book Hook Audio
8. Cowritten by Tara Ruckman and Stephanie
9. Control the Chaos Podcast
10. https://www.amazon.com/Control-Chaos-classroom-executive-functioning/dp/B0B92V9L2Y

Free Professional Development

1. Simplilearn- Free online PD and boot camps
2. Coursecity online courses and tutorials
3. Class Central - Free PD Courses

Video Editing

1. Keevi -video editor/tools
2. Capcut -Tiktok Video Editor
3. Tella.tv- Make Videos come to life with this video recorder

Photo Editing

1. magicerasor.io - photo editor
2. Iloveimg- modify images fast and free

Math Tools

1. Photomath-solve any math problem
2. CueThink - math problem solving collab tool

Writing

1. learn anything xyz - get basic research for topics
2. Copy.ai- Experience the full power of an AI content generator that delivers premium results in seconds.

Gamification and Fun

1. Geoguessr- Google map-linked game where Google Maps shows you a picture and you have to guess where you are in the world
2. Blitzortung - Thunder and lightning tracker
3. Musclewiki - Pick a body part and let muscle wiki prescribe a workout and show you how to do it

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 121 called “12 Easy-to-Use Artificial Intelligence (AI)- Powered Edtech Tools”   In this episode, we’ll discuss 12  awesome websites and apps that use AI to power what they do.  We’ll also share some ideas for how these tools can be used in your classroom..  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Teachbetter Conference October 14th and 15th
2. Presenting Edtech Throwdown with Stephanie Howell
3. Podcasters Row
4. Free LincSpring Virtual Conference
5. https://linclearning.com/lincstream-teachers-2022/

1. GradeScope 
2. Gradescope helps you seamlessly administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class. Save time grading and get a clear picture of how your students are doing

1. iScanner
2. US-based #1 scanning and document management platform. Ad-Free and trusted by over 80 million people worldwide!
3. Wordtune - rewrites sentences for you
4. Otter.ai
5. Otter has your back - empowering you with real time, accurate notes that are stored in one central, secure, and searchable place so you and your team can be more engaged, collaborative, and productive.
6. WowTo.ai - Use AI to create videos in multiple languages
7. Lookout-Assisted vision
8. Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily. Using your phone’s camera, Lookout makes it easier to get more information about the world around you and do daily tasks more efficiently like sorting mail, putting away groceries, and more.
9. Built with guidance from the blind and low-vision community, Lookout supports Google’s mission to make the world’s information universally accessible to everyone.
10. Speechify- Chrome, IOS, and Android

1. Quillbot
2. Fotor (GoArt.fotor.com)
3. Edit photos, create NFT’s
4. Dream by Wombo
5. AI Art Generator
6. NFTs
7. NSynth Sound maker - mix sound effects to make never before heard sounds
8.  Soundraw.io - royalty free AI music creator, pay only

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 120 called “Should It Stay or Should It Go”   In this episode, we’ll discuss some popular educational acronyms and discuss whether they still have a place in education and edtech.  We’ll also share some updates on our fall/winter presentation schedule for this coming school year.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

1. Teachbetter Conference October 14th and 15th
2. Presenting Edtech Throwdown with Stephanie Howell
3. Podcasters Row
4. Free LincSpring Virtual Conference
5. https://linclearning.com/lincstream-teachers-2022/
6. Shout out to our buddy Kyle Niemis who is a former edtech coach who is now working for Quizizz.
7. Where motivation meets mastery https://quizizz.com
8. Motivate every student to mastery with easy-to-customize content combined with tools for inclusive assessment, instruction, and practice.
9. I really like Quizizz because it has been an awesome tool for engaging students both in and out of the classroom. You can assign games for homework or have students work on these engaging alternative assessments in class.  What makes Quizizz one of my edtech tools… it's gamification features and the variety of question types.

1. Blended Learning/Personalized Learning
2. PBL- problem or project based learn
3. Datanuggets
4. HHMI biointeractive
5. CBL - case-based learning
6. University of Buffalo
7. GBL - game based learning
8. UDL - universal design for learning
9. CER - claims, evidence, reasoning
10. MicroLearning 
11. Microlearning is a form of spaced repetition learning, in which lessons are broken up into bite-sized chunks and repeated over time.
12. This is said to help new concepts and skills sink in for the long term.
13. PLC - professional learning community
14. STEM or STEAM - 
15. STEAM, the difference lies in the way they approach scientific concepts. STEM focuses explicitly on the hard scientific, technological, engineering or mathematical skills to drive progress or create a new concept. In STEAM curricula, per The Conversation, students leverage both hard and soft skills to solve problems.
16. VR/AR - virtual and augmented reality
17. BYOD - bring your own device
18. e-Learning - electronic learning
19. EduTainment - The act of learning through a medium that both educates and entertains
20. Classhook
21. Creation-Based Learning

1. UnRollME unsubscribe emails
2. Knowt https://knowt.io/ notecards
3. Unlayer email templates editor 
4. WowTo
5. fontspace.com
6. https://www.pixton.com/

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• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning

Welcome to a Bicoastal episode with our guest from the podcast GotTechED,  Nick Johnson and Eric Guise !!!!

Guise and Nick:  Students as content creators:

• World Ready 1: Hvspn.com - getting students to be more independent with editing and posting, practical exams
• World Ready 2: Independent Publishing Projects
• Unboxing Video
• Publish a class cookbook
• Brand a club, class, or community business

Eric:  

• The Morning Brew
• The resurgence of mouse pads?
• Google Cheat Shortcut Mousepad
• Reference Guides
• G-Suite Tutorials Collection

Nick: Hyperlink Slides Choice Board

https://youtu.be/nX68w4kSy8U 

Ryan:

Jessica Ryan’s “Fun Ideas to Start the New Year”                                                                                                                                                       https://twitter.com/jryan412/status/1555693750344720385 

My “14 Ideas for the First Day”

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1vOsD2DM0cBwPifkQFT663o8rcRdVjOjXlFY5taOjTbg/preview   

Brian: Acorn on Mac. Thanks to Brent Warner for this one. (Sorry Ryan)  

Brian: Heard this on the Pardon My Take Podcast and ask you this… Math, Science, English, and History. You need to buy a binder for each subject. Which of these colors do you get for the subject from Red, Green, Yellow and Blue.

Guise: How did this get made? 

• Have you ever seen a movie so bad that it's amazing? Paul Scheer, June Diane Raphael and Jason Mantzoukas want to hear about it!
• Movies that were so bad they are good
• Episode 219 Drop Dead Fred 

Can also check out Ryan on the newest installment of Hard Knocks:

Welcome back to GotTechED the podcast this is Episode 118 called “Top 5 Tips for the New School Year”   In this episode, we’ll each give our top 5 pieces of advice for new teachers and then again for returning teachers.  We’ll also call out our favorite edtech tools for classroom implementation.  This is another episode you don’t want to miss, check it out.

Motecon

Gamification pd

Choiceboard pd

Design THinking question from twitter

Top 5 Tips for New Teachers

Guise’s 5

1. Set Goals
2. Come up with an organizational system that works for you
3. Come into teaching with a Growth Mindset
4. Learn as much as you can about your students
5. Be a part of a PLN (I like Twitter)

Nick’s 5

1. Get to know the Secretaries and Custodians
2. Observe Veteran Teachers
3. Don’t be afraid to ask for help
4. Lean on your mentors
5. Say yes

Top 5 Tips for Returning Teachers

Nick’s 5

1. Don’t be afraid to cut back, but choose 1 new piece of edtech to learn this year
2. Focus on getting organized (digitally and in your classroom)
3. Pick something you’ve always wanted to do and do it (empty out an old shelf, join a committee, etc)
4. Develop a new lunch routine
5. Behaviorism works - learn it (choice, limit attention for negative behaviors, pick your battles)

Guise’s 5

1. Continue to grow your PLN
2. Expand your practice through reflection
3. Reach out and lend a hand to your new teachers
4. Avoid Burnout by trying something new
5. Find ways to be more efficient with your time

Top 5 Tips for Integrating EdTech

1. Solidify your skills
2. Power in Numbers PLC’s
3. Allow students to use tools that they are comfortable with
4. Don’t be afraid of failing
5. Create your edtech toolkit
6. Guise’s
7. Presentations
8. Slidesmania
9. Infographics
10. Canva
11. Feedback
12. Mote
13. ScreenPal
14. Productivity
15. Print Friendly PDF
16. Audio/Video
17. WeVideo
18. ScreenPal
19. Organization
20. Trello
21. Formative Assessment
22. Quizizz
23. Nick’s
24. Presentations
25. Canva
26. Infographics
27. Canva
28. Feedback
29. Poll everywhere and Floop
30. Productivity
31. Snipping Tool
32. Audio/Video
33. Screencastify
34. Organization
35. Extensity
36. Formative Assessment
37. Quizizz

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As experienced presenters and content creators, you can contact Nick and Guise to speak at your school, event, or conference. They can customize a workshop that meets your organization’s unique time and content needs. While no topic is out of bounds, GotTechED is best known for sessions on:

• 1:1 Chromebook Integration
• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
• Gamification (Badge Systems)
• Game-Based Learning (Escape Rooms, Amazing Race, and more)
• Google apps and extensions
• Personalized learning and Choice Boards
• Teacher productivity (Lesson Planning, Online Grading. and Feedback)
• Digital content creation
• Student Podcasting
• Screencasting
• Flipped Classroom
• Student-Centered Learning