Here's what's coming in Season 4! AI and #ChatGPT, #Roastery episodes, new guests, new, new, new! Josh and Will have a special announcement for the future and growth of the pod. Blog posts and new connections with the Education Podcast Network. So much to see, hear, read, listen, do, experience, subscribe!

Will and Josh detail the Community of Inquiry and its impact on online and traditional education. The relationship between Cognitive, Teaching, and Social Presences helps us identify where we can build inquisitive community in our classrooms. Then we review Visme - the digital media studio. Create stunning media and access tons of excellent stock footage with their platform. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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What happens when you correlate arguments, logic, debate, reasoning, and the internet? An app to help train us in the process of reasoned debate: Arguflow. We talk to Nick at Arguflow to find out why we need an app like this (and we at HiTech certainly believe we do), and how we can use the Arguflow experience to improve our logic and reasoning. In a world that fights over the color of a dress, we need more methods to improve our discourse. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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This interviews find us with GK from Brain Racers, the fastest and funnest (yeah, I said it) learning tool for your classrooms. Pairing excellent music, challenging gameplay, and automated content production (thanks ChatGPT and similar language models), Brain Racers puts learners in a side-by-side race to see who can answer questions about the world around us. GK's motivation comes from a deep love for learning, and we hope you'll enjoy the conversation! For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Brain Racers' social:

Twitter

TikTok 

Instagram

LinkedIn

Josh and Will played a game called Hot Takes, and it spawned a podcast episode. The question came up about social media and its impact on interpersonal communication skills. We take this entire episode to play the idea out and see just what we think. After a bit of waxing poetic, we chat about Slack and how it can serve the purpose of teaching with social media without it being so social. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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We wrap up the ungrading series with a new beginning. Where do you start with ungrading? Listen in for a few easy ways to start small while aiming big! We leave you with a great tool for creating learning assets and feedback loops for your students: Explain Everything. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Dr. Timothy Shea joins us for episode 4 in the ungrading series to discuss HOW we even assess ungrading. Isn't the point not to assess? Wrong. Assessment and feedback are key to learning, but numerical/alphabetical grades are not. Listen in for how Dr. Shea has been doing this for decades! He also leaves us with an oldie but a goodie: Twitter for Education. He still uses Twitter for his professional purposes and trains students how to effectively engage in social media tools. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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The series continues with an informational how-to: setting up ungrading in an LMS! Now, this is not a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough for every LMS. This  is more of a general guideline for what it takes to do ungrading in an LMS. There are a lot of settings that can get in the way, so tune in to get a sense for what you need to watch for when doing ungrading in your course. We also leave you with TechSmith's Snagit, a fantastic tool for all image and video capture. Josh uses it for his teaching, so check out why he thinks it stands out. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Long-standing friend of the podcast, Dr. Justin Harbin, returns to help us establish the rationale for ungrading. What's its purpose? Is it "good?" Should we be doing it or is it a fad? Answer all of these questions and more when you tune into episode 92. And then, Justin leaves us with an excellent tool called Research Rabbit. This tool can help automate the discovery of new materials, making literature reviews and all levels of research that much easier. Even better: they operate on an open-source platform and methodology. Check it out today! For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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Starting a new series on Ungrading! Hear our two cents on the subject and join us for the series where we'll have some folks speaking to how they've used it in their classrooms. AND, we are excited to discuss Frame.io: a collaborative video critique software. Upload your video, send your link out, and start annotating the video! It's pretty dang awesome. For more on our conversation, check out the episode page here.

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