Learning Unleashed: ISTE Podcast

In this episode, we look at some of the myriad ways classroom teachers and school librarians can help students get back in the learning grove after a disrupted school term.

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Bill Bass is an award-winning educator and former English teacher who now serves as Innovation Coordinator for Instructional Technology, Information, Library Media, and Federal Programs in the Parkway School District in St. Louis, MO. As an international speaker, writer, and professional developer, he focuses on the systemic and sustainable integration of technology into classrooms at all grade levels. Bill has served as the president of ISTE Board of Directors and was named as one of NSBA’s 20 to Watch EdTech Leaders. He is an ISTE Certified Educator, Google Certified Innovator, Google for Education Certified trainer, and has written numerous articles and book chapters. He has also authored three books: From Inspiration to Red Carpet (ISTE 2012), Digital Reading: What’s essential in grades 3-8 (NCTE 2015), and Leading from the Library (ISTE 2019).

Our guest believes that in the current climate we have to be more intentional and creative about reaching all students -- especially routinely reserved or shy students. In this episode, we discuss innovative ways to use movie-making to make learning more personalized, appealing, and meaningful to students with widely different needs.

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As a middle school teacher for 16 years and a California Teacher of the Year (2014), Jessica has continually worked to redefine what learning looks like in her classroom. An ISTE author, Jessica's book, Moviemaking in the Classroom, will be released in August 2021. She is an advocate for student choice and voice, as demonstrated by the original content her students regularly publish for a global audience. She also spent over a decade as a professional development instructor and Consulting Teacher for a digital storytelling non-profit organization called DIGICOM Learning, aimed at promoting moviemaking in southern California classrooms.

Eavesdrop on a delightfully down-to-earth, insightful, and inspiring discussion with the head of ISTE about the exciting opportunities we have sitting in our laps and what we can do to make the most of the moment.

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Richard E. Culatta is the CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Prior to holding this position, he was the chief innovation officer for the state of Rhode Island and the director of the Office of Educational Technology for the U.S. Department of Education. Richard is the author of the new book, Digital for Good: Raising Kids to Thrive in an Online World.

Our guest believes that every teacher can benefit from making room for makerspaces this term. Join us as she shares tools and strategies you can add to your pandemic teaching tool kit.

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Caroline Haebig's expertise is centered on developing innovative coaching practices to support productivity, efficiency, and engagement. Caroline designs and leads professional learning and training nationwide.

As a specialty, Caroline leverages digital learning technologies and platforms in her coaching and leadership work. Caroline started her career as a classroom educator before advancing to district-wide administrative and coaching positions expanding her work to an organizational level, expanding to developing non-education industry partnerships, focusing on computational and design thinking and maker learning.

In her educational administrative roles, Caroline has successfully led teams working toward multi-grade, system-wide implementations of 1:1 devices, as well as productivity and collaboration platforms.

ISTE REWIND: In this special edition of Learning Unleashed, we air a panel discussion about the need for safe spaces and places in schools, why the pandemic has made these spaces even more important, and how to create them.

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Grace Collins is the founder of Snowbright Studio, an LGBTQ+ certified game and media development studio. They previously led game-based education policy at the U.S. Department of Education and managed educational technology projects at the Smithsonian Institution. Grace is a former computer science teacher at an all-girls’ school, a published author and game developer. They have been recognized with several awards, including being named a Finalist for the 2020 Digital Education Breakthrough of the Year Award, receiving a 2020 Educator Award by the National Center for Women & Information Technology and being named a 2021 Innovator for the Headstream Accelerator. Grace is author of the ISTE jump start guide Esports in Schools

Jessica Pack is the 2014 California Teacher of the Year, and was named the CUE Outstanding Educator in 2014. She has used digital storytelling as an instructional strategy for 14 years, and has presented on the topic at regional and national conferences, including the ISTE Digital Storytelling Network (DSN) 2020 Virtual Summit and ISTE20 Live. Pack has spent a decade as a teacher-consultant for DIGICOM Learning, a nonprofit that promotes and supports digital storytelling in Southern California classrooms. In this role, she provides professional development courses for teachers on digital storytelling. Pack also co-hosts the podcast “Storytelling Saves the World,” available on iTunes and SoundCloud. She previously self-published a book on iTunes called Digital Storytelling: Connecting Standards to Movie-Making (2013), and she is author of the ISTE book Moviemaking in the Classroom.

Julia E. Torres is a language arts teacher at a public high school in Denver, Colorado. As an advocate for all students and public education, Torres regularly undertakes speaking engagements and facilitates workshops and professional conversations about equity, anti-bias/anti-racist education, culturally sustaining pedagogies and literacy in the digital age. She also serves on several local and national boards and committees that promote educational equity and progressivism. With Valerie Tagoe, she is co-author of the forthcoming ISTE book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens.

Sarah Thomas, Ph.D., is an educator and the founder of the EduMatch movement, a project that empowers educators to make global connections across common areas of interest. She has presented internationally, participated in the Technical Working Group to refresh the 2017 ISTE Standards for Educators, and is a recipient of the 2017 ISTE Making It Happen Award. She is also a national advisor for the Future Ready Instructional Coaches Strand. With Nicol R. Howard and Regina Schaffer, she is co-author of ISTE’s 2-book Closing the Gap series.

Jorge Valenzuela (@JorgeDoesPBL) is an education coach, author and advocate. He has years of experience as a classroom and online teacher, a curriculum specialist and a consultant. His work focuses on improving teacher preparation in project-based learning, computational thinking and computer science integration, STEM education, and equity and SEL integration. Valenzuela is an adjunct professor at Old Dominion University and the lead coach at Lifelong Learning Defined. His book Rev Up Robotics and the jump start guides Ready, Set, Robotics! and SEL in Action are available from ISTE, and he is co-author, with James Fester, of the ISTE book Environmental Science for Grades 6-12. His next book, which dives deeper into the Equity and SEL Integration Framework, is forthcoming from Solution Tree.

ISTE REWIND: In this special edition of Learning Unleashed, we air a panel discussion about the silver linings our guests found in the pandemic, the new possibilities they discovered, the myths and misconceptions that were shattered during pandemic teaching, and reasons to be excited and inspired about the school year ahead.

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Nicole R. Howard, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Redlands. She has served as co-chair of ISTE’s Digital Equity Network. Her research foci are equitable uses of technology in K-16 classrooms, STEM education opportunities and achievement, and teacher education concerns. She’s a co-author of the ISTE books Closing the Gap: Digital Equity Strategies for the K-12 Classroom and Closing the Gap: Digital Equity Strategies for Teacher Prep Programs. Tim Needles is an artist, writer, performer, and educator from Port Jefferson, New York. He has been teaching art and media at Smithtown School District in New York for more than twenty years as well as serving as an adjunct college professor. His work has been featured on NPR, in the New York Times, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Alexandria Museum of Art, the Katonah Museum of Art, the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and The George Washington University Museum. He is the recipient of the ISTE Technology in Action Award, the ISTE Arts and Technology Network Creativity Award, the National Art Educators Association AET Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Robert Rauschenberg Power of Art Award at the National Gallery of Art. He has served as a National Geographic Certified Teacher, a PBS Digital Innovator, and an Adobe Education Leader, as well as a TEDx speaker. Michele Eaton is the director of virtual and blended learning for the MSD of Wayne Township in Indianapolis, Indiana. She focuses on staff and course development for Achieve Virtual Education Academy and the district’s various blended initiatives and programs, from elementary to adult education. Eaton is a Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) Certified Education Technology Leader (CETL) and 2016 Next Generation Leader, 2018 EdWeek Leader to Learn From, president-elect of the ISTE Online Learning Network, conference chair for Indiana Connected Educators (an ISTE affiliate), member of the EdTech Heroes and moderator for the #INeLearn chat. Rachelle Dene Poth is a Spanish and STEAM: What’s nExT in Emerging Technology Teacher at Riverview High School in Oakmont, PA. Rachelle is also an attorney with a Juris Doctor degree from Duquesne University School of Law and a Master’s in Instructional Technology. Rachelle is an ISTE Certified Educator and serves as the past president of the ISTE Teacher Education Network. She was recently named one of 30 K-12 IT Influencers to follow in 2021

n this episode, we shift gears and change seats to talk about the audacious changes we hope to see next school year.

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Join us for a walk on the creative, expressive, artistic side of computer sciences as we talk about how to integrate art and coding in your classroom.

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Josh Caldwell (@MrJoshida) develops tools and instructional experiences to help bring the beauty of computer science to students and teachers across the world. He currently works on CS learning and instruction projects for Google in Berlin. Previously, he led the development of several curricula across K-12 at Code.org. Before developing CS curriculum for teachers at scale, Josh was a middle school teacher outside Seattle, where he developed and taught a full spectrum of computer science and robotics courses with a focus on using project-based learning to connect CS to students’ interests and local issues. He is the author of Creative Coding: Lessons and Strategies to Integrate Computer Science Across the 6-8 Curriculum (ISTE 2018).

Our guests believe that we need to make math, coding, and problems solving skills relevant to their everyday lives of our students.  How can we convince students, parents, and ourselves that the pandemic is a good opportunity to teach these skills?

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Nicol R. Howard, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Education at the University of Redlands. She has served as co-chair of ISTE’s Digital Equity Network. Her research foci are equitable uses of technology in K-16 classrooms, STEM education opportunities and achievement, and teacher education concerns. She’s a co-author of the ISTE books Closing the Gap: Digital Equity Strategies for the K-12 Classroom and Closing the Gap: Digital Equity Strategies for Teacher Prep Programs.

Keith E. Howard, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Attallah College of Education Studies at Chapman University. His research interests include technology use in education, ethical issues in K-12 education and equity issues in mathematics. Howard previously worked as a mathematics teacher, computer science teacher and technology coordinator in the Los Angeles Unified School District.