In Pt. 2 of this 2 part episode, Jarod and Craig chat with Trevor Ragan of the Learner Lab. Trevor works with professional sports teams, schools, and fortune 500 companies around the world on the science of learning. Their discussion is centered on the topic of coaching and how we can help athletes take their mental and physical performance to the next level.

More about Trevor...

Hi! I’m Trevor Ragan,

I have the best job in the world.

My time is divided into three buckets:

1. Learning

2. Producing Content

3. Facilitating Workshops

Workshops are my greatest strength. Each one makes me better and I’m beyond grateful to have so many awesome reps with a wide range of groups that allows me to do what I love.

There would be no website without my amazing mentors, teachers, and the incredible people who have shared their work with me along the way. It’s because of them that I’m able to do this.

I am so excited to keep learning together!

Trev

Website: https://thelearnerlab.com/

Socials/Handles:

Twitter @learner_lab

Facebook.com/learnerlab

Youtube.com/c/TrevorRagan

Jarod and Craig chat with Trevor Ragan of the Learner Lab. Trevor works with professional sports teams, schools, and fortune 500 companies around the world on the science of learning.

In Ep. 7, Matt Miller joins us once again to talk about his new book and the topic of AI for Educators. Don't forget to visit our Facebook page to enter a drawing for 1 of 5 signed copies of Matt's new book!Resources mentioned in this episode:

Matt's Bio:Matt Miller is an educator, blogger and presenter from West Central Indiana. He has infused technology and innovative teaching methods in his classes for more than 10 years. He is the author of the six books, including Ditch That Textbook: Free Your Teaching and Revolutionize Your Classroom. He writes at the Ditch That Textbook blog about using technology and creative ideas in teaching. Matt is a Google Certified Innovator and Microsoft in Education Expert. He was named a ‘23-’24 Top 100 Influencer in EdTech by EdTech Digest. He won the WTHI-TV Golden Apple Award for excellence in teaching.After trying to do the traditional “teach by the textbook” for a few years, he launched into a textbook-less path where learning activities were often custom-produced for his students as well as infused with technology. He likes the results a lot, and his students do, too.Matt has presented to thousands of teachers at hundreds of workshops on a number of topics related to educational technology, student engagement, and more. He combines a conversational, engaging speaking style with loads of resources, leaving teachers equipped and inspired to move forward.Website: http://DitchThatTextbook.com Socials/Handles: Twitter @jmattmiller, facebook.com/ditchthattextbook, youtube.com/ditchthattextbook, tiktok.com/@ditchthattextbook, pinterest.com/ditchthattxt

Jarod sits down with co-hosts Deb Cleveland and Melissa Wicklund to discuss the latest on what we know about Neuroscience in Education with Dr. Lori Desautels, Assistant Professor at Butler University and author of Intentional Neuroplasticity.

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More about Dr. Lori Desautels...

Dr. Lori Desautels, has been an Assistant Professor at Butler University since 2016 where she teaches both undergraduate and graduate programs in the College of Education. Lori was also an Assistant Professor at Marian University in Indianapolis for 8 years where she founded the Educational Neuroscience Symposium that has now reached thousands of educators and is in its 10th year. Lori’s passion is engaging her students through the social and relational neurosciences as it applies to education by integrating the Applied Educational Neuroscience framework, and its learning principles and practices into her coursework at Butler. The Applied Educational Neuroscience Certification, created by Lori in 2016, is specifically designed to meet the needs of educators, counselors, clinicians and administrators who work beside children and adolescents who have, and are, experiencing adversity and trauma. The certification is now global and has reached hundreds of educators. Lori’s articles are published in Edutopia, Brain Bulletin, and Mind Body Spirit international magazine. She was also published in the Brain Research Journal for her work in the fifth-grade classrooms during a course release position with Washington Township Schools. Lori continues her work co-teaching in the K-12 schools integrating her applied research into classroom procedures and transitions preparing the nervous system for learning and felt safety. Lori is the author of 4 books. Her most recent book, Connections over Compliance: Rewiring our Perceptions of Discipline was released in late 2020. Her new book was published in January, 2023 entitled, “Intentional Neuroplasticity, Our Educational Journey Towards Post Traumatic Growth.”

Lori has met with well over 100 school districts across the country, in Canada, Costa Rica, Australia, Scotland, England and Dubai equating to more than 100,000 educators with much more work to be done!

Socials/Handles:

Twitter - @desautels_phd

Instagram - @lori.desautels

Jarod and guest co-host Deborah Cleveland chat with STEAM Lead for Mississippi Bend AEA, Aaron Maurer, about the newest disruptor in education: Chat-GPT. This AI software is the fastest growing digital tool that that can easily begin to scare educators due to it's highly sophisticated language adaption, spitting out essays in seconds. Is this a tool that should be blocked or is it possible to use for good too?

Check out all of the resources mentioned in this episode -> https://www.aealearningonline.org/leveluplearning

John Miller is the founder of Agile Classrooms and works with schools and businesses to adopt to the Agile SCRUM framework, a framework originally developed by tech companies to organize project and team development. You can learn more about John and his work from his website.

Guest co-host, Laura Williams, is a student of John's course and works with schools within the state of Iowa on the Agile Classrooms framework as a part of the Authentic Learning Network.

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New co-host, Craig Mohr, introduces us to Laura Edwards, VP of Training and Education at Hy-Vee. Hy-vee is a company that has been working hard to revamp in-house education programs to recruit within, and it's not hard to draw comparisons between the business sector and the education sector. Educators and business people alike can glean something from this conversation.  

Be sure to check out the show notes and resource links mentioned in this episode - https://www.aealearningonline.org/leveluplearning

Social/Emotional Learning has been a hot topic in education since COVID in 2020. But before then, Mandy Froehlich was addressing the issue as an author and now as a speaker who travels the country working directly with districts. With three books to her credit, she joins Instructional Designers, Jarod Bormann and Melissa Wicklund to discuss some easy strategies that any educator can add to their tool-box.   

Be sure to check out the show notes and resource links mentioned in this episode - https://www.aealearningonline.org/leveluplearning

Blended Learning was an instructional practice being discussed and shared years before COVID hit the educational system in March of 2022. However, COVID did amplify the need for this instructional practice with educators finding themselves needing to engage students both socially and cognitively now remotely. Two years later and with schools back in session, there are still elements of Blended Learning that stuck around and some that have fallen back to the wayside.

Instructional Designers, Jarod Bormann and Melissa Wicklund discuss with Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook what impact COVID had on Blended Learning and what still continues to be utilized today.

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