edWebcasts

This edWeb podcast is sponsored by ClassLink and presented by CoSN and AASA.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Technology plays an ever-increasing role in providing high-quality education for all PreK-12 students, but its use and application may sometimes be inequitable. In this edWeb podcast, three superintendents and a senior director of information technology share the strategies they use to ensure not only equitable access and effective uses of technology for all the students and families in their school districts, but also how they promote diversity within their district technology teams to better represent all the communities they serve. 

Listen to the conversation with three leading-edge superintendents and a senior director of IT as they review specific approaches for thinking outside the box to create equitable digital learning opportunities for all students. In addition, tune in to learn the processes the superintendents lead and implement when it comes to hiring and leading collaborative district technology teams that truly represent the communities they serve. 

This edWeb podcast is of particular value to superintendents, K-12 school and district leaders, and aspiring school leaders.

ClassLink
ClassLink’s mission is to remove barriers between students and impactful education content.

CoSN
Visionary leaders empowering every learner to achieve their unique potential in a changing world.

AASA, The Superintendents Association
AASA advocates for equity for all students and develops and supports school system leaders.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Common Sense Education.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

Introducing digital citizenship can sometimes feel a little overwhelming, especially when you have limited class time. You may be wondering: When should I talk to my students about it? What are the relevant issues I should bring up? How do I make these conversations fun and engaging? How do I include parents in these conversations?

It is never too early to talk to your kids about their digital lives and to help them practice digital citizenship. Research shows kids are getting access to devices at a younger age and that tech plays a role in almost every aspect of their lives—from how they connect with friends to how they learn at school.

Common Sense Education just launched the Meet the Digital Citizens series to help kids get to know the friendly characters even better. Each lesson plan connects a character to a foundational digital citizenship concept in a way that’s easy for younger kids to understand. In this edWeb podcast, the presenters talk through how these new lessons can be integrated into daily routines, SEL initiatives, and family engagement. Additionally, they discuss other ways to use these free lessons to build a positive classroom culture and integrate digital citizenship into bite-sized activities.

This edWeb podcast is of interest to K-3 teachers, librarians, and school leaders.

Common Sense Education
Dedicated to helping all kids thrive in a world of media and technology.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by edWeb.net. The webinar recording can be accessed here.

In this PD in Action edWeb podcast, the Wayne Township Public Schools team provides an update on their journey to reinvent professional learning for their whole staff, drawing on lessons they learned and resources they discovered during the pandemic. Their goal is to provide more personalized learning and better work/life balance with more flexible, virtual learning options.

The Wayne team takes you step by step through the timeline of their evolution from past practices that were not effective or aligned with district goals to the steps they’ve taken to improve their practice. They show creative ways they use tools for personalized, collaborative PD including edWeb.net, Google, Swivl, Zoom, and more. They also put a special emphasis on providing wellness resources for the whole staff. During this session, you learn:

• Why Wayne Township Public Schools decided to reinvent their professional learning program
• The steps Wayne Township Public Schools’ leaders took to implement and introduce the innovations
• How you can implement a robust support system for your entire staff with edWeb’s virtual professional learning resources

The Wayne team uses edWeb.net to create private communities for collaboration districtwide and also for special needs and interests. The team uses edWeb CE certificates and reporting to provide incentives for earning PD hours virtually on staff members’ own time and also for earning credit towards salary advancement. You get many ideas you can put into practice in your school or district. The edWeb team also provides information on the coaching and training services they can provide so you can set up your own district or school program on edWeb.

This program is part of the edWeb PD in Action series that highlights how education leaders are redesigning professional learning to support staff growth, culture, wellness, and retention, and improve student outcomes. This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to school and district leaders, teachers, paraprofessionals, and any educator interested in creating effective and engaging professional learning programs.

edWeb.net
edWeb is an award-winning professional learning network that serves the global education community.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by STAGES® Learning.
The webinar recording can be accessed here.

The number of students with disabilities in our nation’s public schools is growing, yet the number of teachers, paraprofessionals, and other staff who are qualified and prepared to teach and support them is declining. Teacher and staff shortages predate the pandemic, but the pandemic has made the situation much worse. The current crisis is much worse for our students with special needs. 

In this edWeb podcast, we present new quantitative and qualitative data on the impact of staff shortages and hear, in their own words, from teachers, paraprofessionals, and administrators on how this is affecting the whole school community. We review a range of ideas and solutions that can help to improve the situation. 

You also learn more about how to apply for a STAGES Learning ARIS Thrive Grant for autism educators. A $10,000 prize package will be awarded to four recipients who will be announced during Autism Awareness Month in April. 

This edWeb podcast is of interest to any educator who works with students with special needs or who is interested and concerned about this topic.

STAGES Learning
Equitable access to quality autism education during the critical early intervention window

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by BrainPOP Science.
The edLeader Panel recording can be accessed here.

Science education has evolved far beyond asking students to memorize facts or follow steps to complete a cookie-cutter experiment. Preparing the next generation of scientific thinkers and doers hinges on equipping them with transferable skills like asking essential questions, analyzing data, challenging assumptions, and reasoning analytically. It all starts with nurturing their curiosity! 

Listen to this conversation with product creators and education leaders from BrainPOP, PhET Interactive Simulations, Tuva, and the Tennessee STEM Innovation Network. They share unique insights on the evolution of science education and discuss strategies to empower educators to confidently embrace new approaches to teaching and learning. Listen to this edWeb podcast to explore how to:

• Nurture a culture of learning anchored in student-driven inquiry
• Build measurable, transferable scientific-thinking skills and practices
• Expand science teachers’ capacity to teach complex science and engineering practices

This edWeb podcast is of interest to middle school teachers, school and district leaders, education technology leaders, technology integration specialists, and science-focused educators and administrators.

BrainPOP Science
Unlock complex science concepts for all middle schoolers

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by SETDA. The webinar recording can be accessed here. 
 
Utah has been an education lighthouse for many years in implementing supports for high-quality instruction. Listen to this edWeb podcast to learn about the keys to success in Utah, showcasing their multi-year, aligned support system. Learn how they developed and implemented a vision for their Portrait of a Graduate and explore the frameworks, grant structures, and aligned professional learning that the state rolled out for its Digital Teaching and Learning work, followed by the Personalized and Competency-Based Framework for teaching and learning.

This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders, education technology leaders, and state leaders.

SETDA
SETDA is the principal association representing U.S. state and territorial edtech leaders.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Digital Respons-Ability. The webinar recording can be accessed here. 

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more and more a part of education. ChatGPT can be used to write an essay, or NightCafe to create art. What does this new world of AI look like? And how does it connect to digital citizenship?

In this edWeb podcast, listeners learn more about the AI landscape and how this affects copyright and intellectual property. They also learn ways AI tools can supplement existing learning and teach digital citizenship concepts and support ISTE and state computer science standards. Take a deeper dive into the growing world of AI and what this means in policy, legislation, critical thinking, media literacy, and more.

This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, and education technology leaders.

Digital Respons-Ability
A mission-based company researching and working in the area of digital citizenship.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by News Literacy Project and National News Literacy Week. The webinar recording can be accessed here. 

How can you engage and motivate students to think critically when navigating today’s complex information landscape? How can you help students develop the skills to evaluate the trustworthiness, credibility, and reliability of evidence? How can cross-disciplinary connections help your students in “fighting fake news”?

Listen to this edWeb podcast featuring the News Literacy Project (NLP) for a conversation around these questions with Dr. Jeff Wilhelm, Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State and literacy teaching expert. Dr. Wilhelm’s forthcoming book is Fighting Fake News: Teaching Students to Identify and Interrogate Information Pollution.

Dr. Wilhelm is joined by NLP experts Brittney Smith, Senior Manager of Education Partnerships (East), and Pamela Brunskill, Senior Manager of Education Design. Shaelynn Farnsworth, NLP’s Senior Director of Education Partnership Strategy, moderates.

The edWeb podcast includes a discussion of the need for and benefits of critical reading skills, as well as a look at NLP’s Framework for Teaching News Literacy, developed using the Understanding by Design template by Wiggins and McTighe (2005). Viewers learn about a variety of resources and techniques that they can implement immediately in the classroom. This edWeb podcast is part of National News Literacy Week (January 23-27), an annual event presented by the News Literacy Project and The E.W. Scripps Company.

This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to K-12 teachers, school leaders, library/media/technology leaders, and education professionals.

News Literacy Project
A nonpartisan national education nonprofit.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by Milestone C and Stemi. The webinar recording can be accessed here. 

How will a free computer program that will provide a detailed answer to ANY question radically change your classroom today? What is ChatGPT anyway?

Listen to find out how technology affects students today and why evolving the classroom is imperative to prepare our students for their futures.

In this edWeb podcast, listeners will:

• Be introduced to areas of new-age tech that are imbedded in Industry 4.0, including design, robotics, and AI
• Build on that knowledge base to learn how the world around us relies on technology and will ever more into the future
• Hear how this affects students’ career choices down the road

Let’s make our students developers, instead of consumers, of tech and STEM!

This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to middle and high school teachers, librarians, education technology leaders, and school and district leaders.

Milestone C
Experiential STEM Programs: Real Education for Our Future Leaders

Stemi
Transforming education with our innovative platform and STEM programs for middle and high schools.

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This edWeb podcast is sponsored by The Educating All Learners™ Alliance (EALA), An InnovateEDU Project. The webinar recording can be accessed here. 

Some problems need people who think differently—who think systematically and creatively and see the world in ways others may not. Some students who underperform in class might just be the problem solvers to help tackle the grand challenges we face in our society when they are given a chance to shine. TERC’s research shows that computational thinking activities can reveal the hidden talents of neurodivergent learners.

This edWeb podcast provides educators, specialists, and administrators with examples of teaching and learning tools that help build elementary and middle school students’ computational thinking while supporting the executive function needs of all learners. Watch to learn how you, your school, or your district can use Including Neurodiversity in Foundational and Applied Computational Thinking (INFACT), funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Education Innovation and Research program, to support inclusive STEM problem-solving.

This recorded edWeb podcast is of interest to elementary and middle school teachers, school and district leaders, and education technology leaders.

The Educating All Learners™ Alliance
An alliance dedicated to equity for complex learners

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