Jonathan brands himself as an Educational Technology Specialist. He is not working toward “best practices,” but rather “next practices.” He believes that innovation and creativity is where we are supposed to live as educators and that the phrase that will kill a career is, “but I have always done it this way.”

 

In today’s episode, Jonathan talks to us about Project Based Learning. He examines the generational differences in technology that kids are dealing with today, talks about how we can work with students to understand their motivations, and how to use tech in the classroom effectively. 

Timestamps

2:35 Who is iGen? And what do we do to adapt online education to their educational needs?

3:52 The good things about Millennials - and the consequences 

5:16 Different generational attitudes about technology

8:47 Education about digital privacy

9:40 How Computer Science aligns with privacy, morals, and ethics

10:19 Technology laws are often archaic

11:59 Talking to kids about privacy

13:41 How socialization has changed with social media

18:06 Online learning has been a major pivot for a lot of people, and we’ve learned a lot about it in the past few years

19:02 Elementary teachers do PBL so well! 

21:45 Problem based learning

24:27 How are we connecting with students?

25:13 What do students care about?

28:28 Laying out expectations

28:44 How do you do this with tech?

29:49 Bringing in experts

31:52 One of the great powers of online education

32:36 Why does this matter (to me)?

38:00 If Jonathan could give one thing to every teacher in the U.S., what would it be?

 

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