Learning Unleashed: ISTE Podcast

We've seen an exponential explosion of technology use during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The good news is that teachers around the world were introduced to powerful new teaching tools.  But our guest says many of us went too far and that it's time to remind ourselves that the science of learning still matters.

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We all know it. We have to take care of ourselves before we can teach others well.  But how do we practice self-care in the midst of pandemic teaching and learning?  Our guests offer practical strategies.

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Susan Brooks-Young has 38 years of experience in PK-12 education as a teacher, school administrator and professional development provider. She has written many books, including Creating Content With Your Tablet; Making Technology Standards Work for You: A Guide for School Administrators, Third Edition; and A Better Approach to Mobile Devices: How Do We Maximize Resources, Promote Equity, and Support Instructional Goals?

Sara Armstrong, Ph.D., has 43 years of experience in PK-12 education as a teacher, principal, curriculum developer and professional development provider. She has written a number of articles and several books on education topics, including Information Literacy: Separating Fact from Fiction and The Invent to Learn Guide to 3D Printing in the Classroom.

In this episode, we talk about how to get students engaged and thinking critically with robotics. We explore how standards-based skills  can be covered in English language arts, math, science, and social studies.

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Jorge Valenzuela is the lead educational coach at Lifelong Learning Defined and a teacher at Old Dominion University. Additionally, he is a national faculty of PBLWorks and a lead educator for littleBits. Jorge is the 2018 and 2019 awardee of ISTE’s Computer Science Excellence Award and ISTE’s STEM Excellence Award. He is also the recipient of the 2018 Lynn Barrier Engineering Leadership Award for his contributions to STEM education in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a 2017 Emerging Leader honoree for the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association. In the 2019-2020 school year, Jorge has joined the Empowered Learner magazine advisory panel for ISTE and was recently appointed by the Governor of Virginia to the Virginia STEM Education Commission.

Leonardo da Vinci was perhaps the most renowned example of the cross-discipline relevance of art. In this episode, we talk about how to use art effectively and creatively in your classroom.

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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. He is active on social media, guest hosting education chats and sharing his thoughts on arts and education. You can find him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram @timneedles.

Video can be an exceptionally riveting teaching tool if you get the ingredients just right. Join us for a discussion on creating and curating videos that can fire up your students and power great learning.

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Josh Stock is a sixth grade language arts teacher at Santa Fe Trail Middle School in Olathe, Kansas. He’s been teaching language arts-related subjects for 10 years, including ninth grade English, sixth to ninth grade reading, reading seminar and newspaper. He has a bachelor’s degree in education, English, and a master’s in instructional design and technology from Emporia State University. As an “awesomeness expert,” Stock’s passion for teaching and enthusiasm for all things learning are contagious, which comes through in his presentations. He’s an active speaker and has recently appeared at industry events such as the Mid-America Association for Computers in Education Conference, the ISTE Conference & Expo, the National Council of Teachers of English Conference and the Kansas Department of Education Conference.

Many teachers around the world were suddenly exposed to online learning for the first time. Some are keeping the process as simple as sending home packets of worksheets. Others are using the opportunity to innovate, take risks, and try new things.

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Mike Ribble (@digcitizen) is the author of Digital Citizenship in Schools, now in its third edition. Ribble has served as a classroom teacher, a secondary school administrator, a network manager and a university instructor. His nine elements of digital citizenship have informed audiences around the world and inspired dialogue around responsible technology use. He has presented at national and international conferences, and helped form the ISTE Digital Citizenship PLN. He offers resources for teaching digital citizenship on his website (digitalcitizenship.org).