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Episode 18: Leveraging the Power of Technology - Innovation and Creativity
Episode 18: Leveraging the Power of Technology - Innovation and Creativity
featuring Jared and Kari Wall
SHOW DATE: February 27, 2019
SUMMARY: In this episode, we pick up where we left off last episode. Having identified multiple key issues that lead to teacher burnout, how can we rethink teaching and learning in light of technology in our classrooms.
SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
Wall EdTech is proud to be a presenter at the LSU Department of Education's conference entitled Innovative Practices & Techniques: A Cross-Fertilization of the Immersion, ESL, and Second Language Classrooms. We will be offering a session to world language educators that highlights some technology tools that can be beneficial to learning and teaching new language learners.
Here is the link to our Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/b0eab2bd. Feel free to share with us some of your thoughts on this podcast and/or ideas for something you want us to discuss.
Technology Tools & Trends
Technology Tools:
Trends: If you are a professional educator and not on Twitter, create an account and get on now. The latest trend for Twitter in Education is the Twitter Chat. PLC’s around the nation and globe are grabbing a relevant hashtag, inviting you to follow and respond, and asking questions that allows discussion on topics relevant to you and your classroom.
Tools: Nearpod and PearDeck - Need a tool for guiding students through your notes, quick formative assessments, flipping your classroom? Check out these two tools.
Question:
In light of the issues we discussed last podcast that lead to teacher burnout, how can we re-envision school (teaching and learning or education) in a way that alleviates such issues as data madness, student standardization, and micromanagement and that embraces the idea that teachers and students are unique learners?
Embrace uniqueness. This week I am reading a book entitled The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand. In ch. 8 he discusses the “Law of Errors”. This is the history of the development of statistical formulas that were imposed upon social issues. In other words, the use of data to create what would become the “average man”. Using this data allowed for predicting human behavior. It is in the image of the bell curve that we now see students in relation to the “average”. Much to be said here about the outliers. Those who do not follow the statistical model. It is my contention that human beings are diverse and unique. No bell curve, no data, no GPA, no test score can or should be a predictor of student success or determine their worth. By embracing the uniqueness of each learner, we open the possibilities of life, the future, and the classroom. Students see past the closed curriculum and are able to experiment and learn in ways and about things that they are passionate about.
Technologies possibility. By using technology to bring in voices, topics, and learning that might never have been possible in previous school eras, teachers must embrace the possibilities of opening up the curriculum using these tools for research, connectivity, collaboration, innovation, and creation.
Next on Wall to Wall Podcast: We will discuss tools for teaching when you are out of the classroom.
featuring Jared and Kari Wall
SHOW DATE: February 27, 2019
SUMMARY: In this episode, we pick up where we left off last episode. Having identified multiple key issues that lead to teacher burnout, how can we rethink teaching and learning in light of technology in our classrooms.
SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
Wall EdTech is proud to be a presenter at the LSU Department of Education's conference entitled Innovative Practices & Techniques: A Cross-Fertilization of the Immersion, ESL, and Second Language Classrooms. We will be offering a session to world language educators that highlights some technology tools that can be beneficial to learning and teaching new language learners.
Here is the link to our Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/b0eab2bd. Feel free to share with us some of your thoughts on this podcast and/or ideas for something you want us to discuss.
Technology Tools & Trends
Technology Tools:
Trends: If you are a professional educator and not on Twitter, create an account and get on now. The latest trend for Twitter in Education is the Twitter Chat. PLC’s around the nation and globe are grabbing a relevant hashtag, inviting you to follow and respond, and asking questions that allows discussion on topics relevant to you and your classroom.
Tools: Nearpod and PearDeck - Need a tool for guiding students through your notes, quick formative assessments, flipping your classroom? Check out these two tools.
Question:
In light of the issues we discussed last podcast that lead to teacher burnout, how can we re-envision school (teaching and learning or education) in a way that alleviates such issues as data madness, student standardization, and micromanagement and that embraces the idea that teachers and students are unique learners?
Embrace uniqueness. This week I am reading a book entitled The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand. In ch. 8 he discusses the “Law of Errors”. This is the history of the development of statistical formulas that were imposed upon social issues. In other words, the use of data to create what would become the “average man”. Using this data allowed for predicting human behavior. It is in the image of the bell curve that we now see students in relation to the “average”. Much to be said here about the outliers. Those who do not follow the statistical model. It is my contention that human beings are diverse and unique. No bell curve, no data, no GPA, no test score can or should be a predictor of student success or determine their worth. By embracing the uniqueness of each learner, we open the possibilities of life, the future, and the classroom. Students see past the closed curriculum and are able to experiment and learn in ways and about things that they are passionate about.
Technologies possibility. By using technology to bring in voices, topics, and learning that might never have been possible in previous school eras, teachers must embrace the possibilities of opening up the curriculum using these tools for research, connectivity, collaboration, innovation, and creation.
Next on Wall to Wall Podcast: We will discuss tools for teaching when you are out of the classroom.
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featuring Jared and Kari Wall
SHOW DATE: February 27, 2019
SUMMARY: In this episode, we pick up where we left off last episode. Having identified multiple key issues that lead to teacher burnout, how can we rethink teaching and learning in light of technology in our classrooms.
SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
Wall EdTech is proud to be a presenter at the LSU Department of Education's conference entitled Innovative Practices & Techniques: A Cross-Fertilization of the Immersion, ESL, and Second Language Classrooms. We will be offering a session to world language educators that highlights some technology tools that can be beneficial to learning and teaching new language learners.
Here is the link to our Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/b0eab2bd. Feel free to share with us some of your thoughts on this podcast and/or ideas for something you want us to discuss.
Technology Tools & Trends
Technology Tools:
Trends: If you are a professional educator and not on Twitter, create an account and get on now. The latest trend for Twitter in Education is the Twitter Chat. PLC’s around the nation and globe are grabbing a relevant hashtag, inviting you to follow and respond, and asking questions that allows discussion on topics relevant to you and your classroom.
Tools: Nearpod and PearDeck - Need a tool for guiding students through your notes, quick formative assessments, flipping your classroom? Check out these two tools.
Question:
In light of the issues we discussed last podcast that lead to teacher burnout, how can we re-envision school (teaching and learning or education) in a way that alleviates such issues as data madness, student standardization, and micromanagement and that embraces the idea that teachers and students are unique learners?
Embrace uniqueness. This week I am reading a book entitled The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand. In ch. 8 he discusses the “Law of Errors”. This is the history of the development of statistical formulas that were imposed upon social issues. In other words, the use of data to create what would become the “average man”. Using this data allowed for predicting human behavior. It is in the image of the bell curve that we now see students in relation to the “average”. Much to be said here about the outliers. Those who do not follow the statistical model. It is my contention that human beings are diverse and unique. No bell curve, no data, no GPA, no test score can or should be a predictor of student success or determine their worth. By embracing the uniqueness of each learner, we open the possibilities of life, the future, and the classroom. Students see past the closed curriculum and are able to experiment and learn in ways and about things that they are passionate about.
Technologies possibility. By using technology to bring in voices, topics, and learning that might never have been possible in previous school eras, teachers must embrace the possibilities of opening up the curriculum using these tools for research, connectivity, collaboration, innovation, and creation.
Next on Wall to Wall Podcast: We will discuss tools for teaching when you are out of the classroom.
featuring Jared and Kari Wall
SHOW DATE: February 27, 2019
SUMMARY: In this episode, we pick up where we left off last episode. Having identified multiple key issues that lead to teacher burnout, how can we rethink teaching and learning in light of technology in our classrooms.
SHOW NOTES:
News and Notes:
Wall EdTech is proud to be a presenter at the LSU Department of Education's conference entitled Innovative Practices & Techniques: A Cross-Fertilization of the Immersion, ESL, and Second Language Classrooms. We will be offering a session to world language educators that highlights some technology tools that can be beneficial to learning and teaching new language learners.
Here is the link to our Flipgrid: https://flipgrid.com/b0eab2bd. Feel free to share with us some of your thoughts on this podcast and/or ideas for something you want us to discuss.
Technology Tools & Trends
Technology Tools:
Trends: If you are a professional educator and not on Twitter, create an account and get on now. The latest trend for Twitter in Education is the Twitter Chat. PLC’s around the nation and globe are grabbing a relevant hashtag, inviting you to follow and respond, and asking questions that allows discussion on topics relevant to you and your classroom.
Tools: Nearpod and PearDeck - Need a tool for guiding students through your notes, quick formative assessments, flipping your classroom? Check out these two tools.
Question:
In light of the issues we discussed last podcast that lead to teacher burnout, how can we re-envision school (teaching and learning or education) in a way that alleviates such issues as data madness, student standardization, and micromanagement and that embraces the idea that teachers and students are unique learners?
Embrace uniqueness. This week I am reading a book entitled The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America by Louis Menand. In ch. 8 he discusses the “Law of Errors”. This is the history of the development of statistical formulas that were imposed upon social issues. In other words, the use of data to create what would become the “average man”. Using this data allowed for predicting human behavior. It is in the image of the bell curve that we now see students in relation to the “average”. Much to be said here about the outliers. Those who do not follow the statistical model. It is my contention that human beings are diverse and unique. No bell curve, no data, no GPA, no test score can or should be a predictor of student success or determine their worth. By embracing the uniqueness of each learner, we open the possibilities of life, the future, and the classroom. Students see past the closed curriculum and are able to experiment and learn in ways and about things that they are passionate about.
Technologies possibility. By using technology to bring in voices, topics, and learning that might never have been possible in previous school eras, teachers must embrace the possibilities of opening up the curriculum using these tools for research, connectivity, collaboration, innovation, and creation.
Next on Wall to Wall Podcast: We will discuss tools for teaching when you are out of the classroom.