In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Rhoads discusses how adaptive EdTech can be utilized as a personalized learning tool that can help students with retrieval practice to amplify their learning. As adaptive EdTech becomes more sophisticated, it's important to see its instructional uses for K-12 teachers and how it can be leveraged to help students practice reading and math skills. The three segments the episode is divided into are defining adaptive EdTech tools, how we can leverage adaptive EdTech to personalize practice, and what are the instructional implications of using these tools in our classrooms. After listening to this episode, our goal is for you to know how to use adaptive EdTech and leverage it strategically within your instruction to support your students where they are at in their reading and mathematics. Additionally, you will also know how to use the data generated to monitor and adjust your instruction. 

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In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses best practices grounded in research that work in online learning classroom settings. Dr. Rhoads outlines how to provide instruction during synchronous as well as asynchronous portions of the lesson along with integrating several instructional strategies with EdTech tools to amplify student learning. The podcast ends with a short discussion on the practical applications of online instruction that can be integrated into face-to-face and blended learning classroom settings. Overall, listeners by the end of the episode will have a number of instructional strategies integrated with EdTech tools that can be utilized in a variety of different classroom settings as well as some solid research-based tips to amplify your instruction within online classroom settings!

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Today we live in a world of in-person and virtual instruction. Now, classes have a physical and a digital space where instruction and feedback take place. This is blended learning. With blended learning becoming a prevalent instructional model, there a number of ways to amplify blended learning to support students in their learning. From setting up a classroom infrastructure to implementing instructional sequences for students with synchronous and asynchronous instruction, there are a variety of strategies that can be integrated to help with organizing the instructional sequence. By the end of this podcast episode, listeners will be able to incorporate many successful strategies into their blended learning classroom settings that amplify student learning. 

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LinkedIn: Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D.

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In this episode, Dr. Rhoads discusses how we are in the age of formative assessment in education. Dr. Matt outlines the implications of being in a time where a teacher can quickly assess student progress and provide student feeedback. Also, throughout the episode Dr. Matt describes how assessment can be integrated within the sequence of a lesson and how it help teachers monitor and adjust instruction and provide student feedback. On this note, Dr. Matt will outline that in the past, short assessments could not be quickly analyzed by teachers in real-time, which made it difficult to provide feedback directly to students immediately after the assessment. In much of the literature related to learning, this is a massive step forward because we are now able to give feedback related to performance, which amplifies student learning. Altogether, by the end of this episode, listeners will have a solid understanding how the power of formative assessment and how to integrate it into their instruction. 

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LinkedIn: Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D.

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In Episode 3 of Navigating Education - The Podcast, Dr. Matt Rhoads discusses how teachers and school leaders can use data collected from mainstream EdTech tools to make instructional data-driven decisions in a matter of seconds and minutes. Focusing on data visualization dashboards and extracting data to spreadsheets, Dr. Matt summarizes a step by step process of how he uses data to drive his instructional decision-making. Using many mainstream EdTech tools, listeners will then be able to see how they can use the data collected from these tools to help them amplify their students' learning by helping enhance their instruction.  Overall, the goal of this episode is to demonstrate that we have so much data around us that can be used to help support our instruction and students. It’s more accessible than ever before so let's take advantage of it. Therefore, let’s talk about and begin using it extensively to amplify our teaching!

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Today, Dr. Matt Rhoads discussed social-emotional learning strategy integrations with several EdTech tools to help amplify student SEL development in any classroom setting. Using what educators call an app-smash, Dr. Matt outlines how step by step to integrate Google Slides, Pear Deck, and Flipgrid together for a powerful instructional sequence that can be implemented within any classroom setting. Ultimately, the goal of this instructional integration is to help build classroom community and relationships with your students to maintain and establish positive classroom learning environments and cultures. Overall, this podcast summarizes this process and the benefits it can have on students, if implemented within K-12 classrooms. 

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LinkedIn: Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D.

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In this introductory episode, the host Dr. Matt Rhoads, provides a summary of the podcasts purpose, episode formats, and why he wants you to become a listener and guest on an upcoming episode. Overall, the podcast's purpose is to provide a space to help educators and the greater community navigate education now in the present as well as the future. Topics of the podcast range from instruction, edtech integration, Special Education, policy, English language learners, instructional models, organizational models, leadership, and much more. Last, listeners of these podcasts will be given research, step-by-step how-to's of instruction, thoughts to evaluate within their classroom and schools, and opportunities to listen to a diverse set of voices. Ultimately, you will learn about this podcast and future episodes by listening to this introduction podcast!

Be sure to check out Dr. Matt on social media to continue the conversation. 

Twitter: @mattrhoads1990

LinkedIn: Matthew Rhoads, Ed.D.

Website: www.matthewrhoads.com