In Episode 11, high school history teacher Rich McGinnis discusses using Minecraft Education with students to present their research findings about a Civil War battle. Rich has 20+ years experience in the classroom and always looks to integrate technology within his past lessons and units to promote engagement and deeper learning for his students. Tune in to hear how his instructional design unfolded for this project, his overall experience, and what he has learned from the process.

In Episode 10, M'Liss Bonagura shares her expertise and secrets on how she utilizes student choice to empower learners in her classroom. M'Liss is a science teacher here at the high school and during the episode we focus on her biology course.

I have heard from many teachers that student choice is difficult when the curriculum is large, and time is limited. This happens often in a course that has a state assessment. M'Liss explains how she uses these projects to enrich student understanding of already covered material, along with constructing new knowledge through additional research. Her living organisms project allows students to choose their organism, explain what makes it a living organism through planning research, curating and evaluating sources, and connecting new learning to prior knowledge. This assessment design not only displays a great strategy to empower learning but also highlights and instructional design that aligns with the Knowledge Constructor student ISTE Standard.

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Mike Soskil, a science teacher and WAEA union president who also serves as the chair of the PSEA AI Task Force, sits down to discuss his work in the AI frontier that dates back to 2016. Mike has a rich history in discussing education on the state, national, and world stage. His experience has led him to the ability to inform legislators on best practices and policy creation surrounding the topic of Artificial Intelligence in education.