Join Adam as he sits down with Toby Price. Toby is a former teacher and elementary principal. He is a husband, an educator, a writer, a storyteller, an artist, and the King of Dad Jokes. He spends his time advocating for students and kids with special needs. As @JediPadmaster, on Twitter, Mr. Price loves connecting, learning, and laughing with other educators and parents. He believes that kids need access to all kinds of books, especially silly books. He is a father of three beautiful kids, two with autism. He has been married to his lovely wife, Leah, for 21 years. He lives with his family in Mississippi.

Connect with Toby online at Twitter / Buy The Almost True Adventures of Tytus the Monkey

Join Adam as he sits down to talk with Kathy Schrock. Kathy has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, and a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian. She is currently an online adjunct graduate-level professor for Wilkes University (PA) and an independent educational technologist. Kathy is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically-sound practices for the infusing of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Her passions are online tools to enhance classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, assessment and rubrics, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type!

Connect with Kathy online at Twitter / Blog / LinkedIn / Website / Guide to Everything / Mastodon

Join Adam as he sits down for an exciting chat about all things gaming with Lucas Gillispie. Lucas is Director of Technology and Media for Surry County Schools in North Carolina. A passionate educator and gamer, Lucas explores the intersection of games and learning. He is the creator of the WoWinSchool Project, exploring the educational potential of online games like World of Warcraft with middle schoolers, was one of the earliest pioneers to bring Minecraft into classrooms, and is working to build game-inspired professional development for teachers in his district through his EPIC Academy program. As an international speaker and facilitator, Lucas explores all things related to games and learning, from board games to esports, and shares a variety of resources with educators on his website: http://www.edurealms.com.

Connect with Toby online at Twitter / Blog

In this episode, Adam chats with Carl Hooker. Carl is an educational consultant and speaker from Austin, TX. He spent the past 23 years as a teacher and administrator building successful mobile learning programs for schools. He also serves as an advisor for multiple ed tech companies and is the co-founder of the social media platform K12Leaders.com.

He has written 6 books on mobile learning as well as being a named a National Faculty Member Emeritus for Future Ready Schools out of Washington, D.C. He hosts two podcasts (ISTE’s Learning UnLeashed and The UnDisruptED podcast) and his latest book Ready, Set, FAIL! is intended for teachers and school leaders looking to unlock creativity and innovation in their schools and classrooms. For full bio go to https://CarlHooker.com

Connect with Carl online at Twitter / Website / K-12 Leaders

Join Adam as he speaks with the incredible Elana Leoni. Elana has dedicated the majority of her career to improving K-12 education. Prior to founding LCG, she spent eight years leading the marketing and community strategy for the George Lucas Educational Foundation where she grew Edutopia’s social media presence exponentially to reach over 20 million education change-makers every month.

Connect with Elana online at her personal Twitter / LCG Twitter

Check out the LCG podcast, All Things Marketing and Education

You can learn more about Leoni Consulting Group here

Join Adam as he speaks with the father of video games, Nolan Bushnell! In 1972 Nolan created an industry when he founded Atari and gave the world Pong, the first blockbuster video game. Today his design credo—that games should be “easy to learn and difficult to master”—is inspiring a new generation of developers. A prolific entrepreneur, Bushnell has started more than 20 companies, including Chuck E. Cheese’s Pizza Time Theater, Catalyst Technologies, the first Silicon Valley incubator, and Etak, the first in-car navigation system. In the process, he pioneered many of the workplace innovations that have made Silicon Valley a long-standing magnet for creative talent. Bushnell was the first and only person ever to hire Steve Jobs, which he details in his 2013 book, Finding the Next Steve Jobs.

He is currently Chairman of ExoDexa, a gamified education company, CKO of Moxy, a “play to earn” game and token platform, and an advisor to companies in the gaming and esports spaces. Additionally, he sits on several Boards, focusing on games, gaming and robotics.

A true icon of the digital revolution, Bushnell was named one of “50 People Who Changed America” by Newsweek. A biopic about Bushnell, tentatively titled “Atari”, was acquired by Leonardo DiCaprio’s production company and is in pre-production.

Connect with Nolan online at Twitter / Moxy / ExoDexa

Join Adam as he speaks with Adam Phyall. Dr. Phyall focuses on how teachers can keep students engaged in rigorous learning by putting technology in the hands of students. Adam works directly with teachers showing them fun and easy methods of incorporating technology into instruction by “Putting the Pieces Together.” Throughout his professional career, Dr. Phyall worked extensively with Title I and Urban schools to improve technology integration with economically disadvantaged students. He has planned and developed Mobile Learning plans for school districts in Georgia and Missouri that have led to 1:1 device initiatives. His philosophy on teaching is “if you’re having fun teaching it, then your students will have fun learning it.”

Connect with Adam Phyall online at Twitter / Website / Instagram

Join host Adam Bellow as he interviews Steve Isaacs. Steve is the Education Program Manager at Epic Games. His mission in this role is to support educators and students in exploring career opportunities that leverage interactive 3D skills. Prior to his role at Epic, Steve was a public school teacher for 28 years, teaching game design and development as well as other courses related to creative uses of technology. Steve enjoys spending time with family and friends. His hobbies include video games, biking, snorkeling, hiking and live music.

Connect with Steve online at Twitter / LinkedIn

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