SHAPE Shorts Podcast

How many times have you had someone say, "Math is alright, but I'm not very good at it"? How about, "I'm not really an artist, it's not my thing"? Here's today's point: I kind of disagree with that. One way we see an expression of people's art, even if they're not really using it consciously, is a real simple thing: Your house design, your furniture design, your outfit choices. Do you like your house sparse with nothing on the walls? Do you have some combination of broken Victorian? Whatever you want and whatever you do is an expression of your art. Like mathematics for some reason, art is considered something that only a select group of people can be good at or understand, but it's not limited to a small group. All of us at some level are artists. Your art is who you are!

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Today on the Shape Shorts Podcast, we have a special guest who shares a unique perspective on maintaining a growth mindset in education. Kim Strobel is a speaker, podcaster, consultant, and all around positive personality in the mindset space. Today she shares the importance of students maintaining a growth mindset in the classroom for their development and how teachers can influence this in their students. She also shares some practical tips for identifying when you may be stuck in a fixed mindset and some ideas to help make a positive change to a more growth focussed mindset.

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IG: @kimstrobeljoy

Online: www.StrobelEducation.com

Podcast: She Finds Joy

Today, Stew is talking about an issue that comes up quite a bit... Instruction versus Education. We often confuse these terms as synonymous with each other, but believe me, they're not! Instruction tells you what to do and how to do it. We think that in education we are doing instruction, but instruction is merely a tool we use periodically. We've decided that instruction is the most important, but that overlooks the true need. Instruction pounds in, education draws out.

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Today we have a special guest, Stephanie DeMichele. Stephanie is a learning designer, coach, and speaker with the Educational Service Center of Northeast Ohio who encourages & inspires educators to grow, to innovate, and conquer their Edtech fears when it comes to student-centered learning. In fact, she's been dubbed the "Slayer of Edtech Fears." Today on the show we talk all about different ways to use technology in the classroom and how technology has evolved throughout the years.

Find Stephanie on IG @techknowteacher

Find Stephanie on Twitter @sdemichele

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-demichele/

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In 2014, 2 inventors were inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame. These 2 inventors had invented something in the early 1940s during World War II, and were granted a U.S. Patent 2292387. What was interesting about this invention, was that it had to do with the guidance of torpedos that were used during World War II to defeat the enemy, Nazi Germany. These 2 inventors came together, both artists who were not trained in the sciences. But their invention was critical.

Invention is significant. It's the intersection between curiosity and creativity... and that's the same of the heart of science. Inventors have a freedom where they're not looked upon, whereas scientists have a particular jury that they have to answer to. Inventors are scientists at heart, AND they can produce.

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Nate and Angie Ridgway are a son and mother duo who are passionate about equipping educators with evidence-based strategies to address the intersection between technology and differentiation. Their philosophies, founded in Universal Design for Learning, or UDL for short, are very similar to our Inspirational 6 (i6) strategies! On this episode, Nate and Angie dive into their backgrounds, passions, and the work they are doing to change the landscape of education from UDL.

Find out more about their work on teachingfromtheridge.com

Find them on Instagram @teachfromridge

Within our history, after every name is a birth date and a death date. What if, after every name, instead of those dates we simply put "Once upon a time"? I think if we did this and made history a story, we would never forget it. History itself, is a series of thoughts on a straight line indicated a chronological picture. Just leaving a person's name and their dates, hides the story of that person. If we start with the concept of "Once upon a time" then we realize that there's a story here for each and every one of us.

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Tony and Stew are talking epistemology today on the Shape Shorts podcast. Epistemology, "the study of knowledge", is interesting because it goes back 3000 years or more. It's all about how do we know certain things? How do we arrive at certain things? Did we arrive at it intuitively, rationally, or empirically? And then furthermore, how do we incorporate this into the educational setting?

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When we talk about people, especially historical figures, we often turn them into what I refer to as "stick figures". We make them unidimensional, we make them simple, and we make them uncomplicated. One thing I can tell you I certainly know about people... they're not uncomplicated. All of us, whether we are in a history book, a science book, or no book, we all have many dimensions and facets to who and what we are.

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How many times has everybody heard (or said it themselves) "I think X is true", "I feel X is true.", "I believe X is true."? You have to ask yourself, did they really tell you anything X? Or did they tell you something about themselves? If you conversation was supposed to be about X, then why would it turn into a subjective conversation about them? "I think", "I feel", and "I believe", are not synonyms for "I know", but we use them as if they were. We all think, feel, and believe many things, but we KNOW next to nothing.

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