Future Ready with Kevin Brookhouser

Here at York we're a BYOD (bring your own device) school. In this podcast, I recommend the best device for most of our students. The Acer Spin 11.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Chromebook-Convertible-Celeron-CP511-1HN-C7Q1/dp/B074BWHPVR/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1525880833&sr=8-3&keywords=chromebook+spin+11

After my students received what seemed like a participation award for being a part of the Dell Tech Challenge in San Jose, I invited a few friends to hash out why we hate on participation awards so much, and where its appropriate to honor the act of striving "in the arena."

Guests

Laura Bradley https://laurabradley.me/

Doug Bradley

Grace Khieu https://gracekhieuphotography.pixieset.com/

In this episode I talk about how to motivate students how are unmotivated by grades.

Author, Non-profit founder, and 8th grade student, Adom Appiah and superstar health teacher Ryan Clark share their experience with 20time in their academic work.

Chief Safety Innovation Officer at Zoox, Inc., Mark R. Rosekind is a passionate safety professional with more than 30 years of experience promoting innovation through science and leadership in complex environments. Prior to Zoox, Dr. Rosekind was appointed by President Obama to be the 15th Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Serving from 2014 to 2017, Dr. Rosekind led significant transformation, instilling a proactive safety culture while driving both the Agency and automobile industry to be future-oriented. His initiatives included the development and issuance of the first-ever Federal Automated Vehicles Policy, the founding of the Road to Zero coalition to develop a 30-year plan to eliminate traffic fatalities, and aggressive oversight of safety in the automobile industry, including leading the Agency through the nation’s largest product safety recall in U.S history.This presentation will introduce the basics of sleep and strategies for better sleep, alertness, and performance.

Learn more at

https://sleepfoundation.org/

and

https://sleepfoundation.org/sleep-news/backgrounder-later-school-start-times

In this rebroadcast from EdTechTeam's The Press Release, Kevin and David Hotler discuss Kevin's book Code in Every Class. We cover why it's important that all students get exposure to computer programming and how teachers can make it happen, even without computers.

Buy the book at amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Every-Class-Kevin-Brookhouser/dp/1945167211

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Grace Khieu, photographer, student, social media maven and Kevin discuss the importance of maintaining a deliberate digital footprint, and why younger high school students should start thinking now about their presence on the web.

Learn more about what Grace does here.

https://www.youtube.com/user/gracekhieu

https://www.instagram.com/gracekhieu/

https://gracekhieuphotography.pixieset.com/