SPS Digital Learning Hour

We're back! In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour I met with Alyson Santerre from Milton Bradley Elementary School. Come and learn all about her journey with technology in the classroom and her growth as a classroom teacher to be a leader in her building with the use of technology. Hear some great ideas for teaching reading remotely and ways that you can continue to use best practices developed through COVID that you can use even when you are back. I loved chatting with Alyson and I think you'll love the conversation too.

Tools mentioned:

Schoology

Dyknow

OneNote for Teachers

Padlet

Promethean Boards

Flipgrids

Nearpod

You can find me at:

Website: Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardedteched

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/beardedteched

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Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn

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With this week's episode we jump into module three of the very popular book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. With the SPS Digital Learning Hour podcast, we are talking our learning out loud. If you do not own this book, get it now and join us on the journey of discovery. You will also hear my thoughts and takeaways from each module. 

This week's module was all about the relationships between Teachers and Students. We discuss each of the sections in this part of the book including Learning Intentions, Characteristics of Teacher–Student Relationships, Judgment and Will, Not Just Knowledge and Ability, Peer-to-Peer Relationships Are Influenced, Too, A “Chilly” Classroom, A View From the Early Years, Reaching the Hard to Teach, and Increase Your Touchpoints With All Students. Check out all my thoughts and admitted faults I felt I had in reflecting on my time teaching.

Do we have some of the same takeaway? Is there something else that you got out of the chapter? Follow us on this journey. Leave your thoughts in the comments below or the future blog post.  

Links: 

https://resources.corwin.com/distancelearningplaybook/student-resources/reproducible-forms 

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If you missed it in Episode 103 we meet with various teachers, students and parents from Liberty Elementary School in Springfield to discuss Minecraft in the classroom. When I was talking with everyone I quickly realized that I needed to share the whole interview with the teachers, as they gave me so much good stuff but I didn't want to make a 2 hour episode, I'm not Joe Rogan. So I am producing two separate podcasts with the full interviews of the teachers.

This first episode features three teachers, Katie Peterson, Colleen Kutz and Elizabeth Walsh. What I loved about these interviews is that we hit the range of grades for K-5 and all levels of ability. In this episode you will hear each teacher's journey with Minecraft and how they are applying it in the classroom. If you are looking for some ideas on how to use Minecraft in the Classroom, then check out this podcasts.

I will say that for parts of the interviews the audio is a little tough to hear but it was a great time anyways.

Tools mentioned:

Minecraft for Education

You can find me at:

WeLearn Blog (available to SPS District Employees only)

Website: Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardedteched

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beardedteched

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beardedteched

Music:

Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tell-me-instrumental

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/IsDZxG0bExY

🎵 Track Info:

Title: Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Genre and Mood: Dance & Electronic + Bright

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🎧 Available on:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UL9T7B

iTunes: https://apple.co/36VZlIw

Deezer: https://deezer.com/us/track/1019283902

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FR8gZdiiWg

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn/tell-me

In this week's episode we visit with Teachers, Students and even Parents at Liberty Elementary School to discuss how, as an entire community, they have adopted Minecraft Education. As a Microsoft district we provide Minecraft for Education for all schools, at a district level, we are thrilled with Liberty that they have taken advantage of our Microsoft Partnership. Liberty Elementary is also a Showcase School for Microsoft, so they are all well versed in all the tools Microsoft offers. When you are listening to this episode, you will hear about a lot of different ways to use Minecraft: Education Edition within your classroom! You'll probably need to listen to it at least twice.

Tools mentioned:

Minecraft for Education

You can find me at:

WeLearn Blog (available to SPS District Employees only)

Website: Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardedteched

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beardedteched

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beardedteched

Music:

Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tell-me-instrumental

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/IsDZxG0bExY

🎵 Track Info:

Title: Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Genre and Mood: Dance & Electronic + Bright

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🎧 Available on:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UL9T7B

iTunes: https://apple.co/36VZlIw

Deezer: https://deezer.com/us/track/1019283902

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FR8gZdiiWg

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn/tell-me

In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour I met with Kristyn Brannigan, classroom teacher from Beal Elementary. Come and learn all about her journey, which took her from teaching in Springfield to all around the world and back again. Hear some great ideas for teaching reading remotely to younger students and ways that you can take care of yourself. I loved chatting with Kristyn and I think you'll love the conversation too.

Tools mentioned:

Schoology

Dyknow

SAMR Model: This is a great article on how you can integrate the SAMR model in your teaching

You can find me at:

Website: Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardedteched

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beardedteched

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beardedteched

Music:

Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tell-me-instrumental

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/IsDZxG0bExY

🎵 Track Info:

Title: Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Genre and Mood: Dance & Electronic + Bright

———

🎧 Available on:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UL9T7B

iTunes: https://apple.co/36VZlIw

Deezer: https://deezer.com/us/track/1019283902

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FR8gZdiiWg

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn/tell-me

In this week’s episode we met with Catherine Murphy, a Kindergarten Teacher from Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School. Catherine is doing some amazing work in the classroom. During this magical year, she introduces many students to what school is all about. As a CSForAll teacher, she integrates a lot of technology into her class pre-COVID, which excites her students throughout the year. If you have ever wondered how to teach Kindergarten remotely, this is an episode not to be missed.

Tools mentioned:

Schoology

Class Dojo

Ozobots

BeeBots

Dyknow

I-Ready

Scholastic Lit Pro

You can find me at:

Website: Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beardedteched

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beardedteched

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beardedteched

Music:

Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn

Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0

Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/tell-me-instrumental

Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/IsDZxG0bExY

🎵 Track Info:

Title: Tell Me (instrumental) by RYYZN

Genre and Mood: Dance & Electronic + Bright

———

🎧 Available on:

Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2UL9T7B

iTunes: https://apple.co/36VZlIw

Deezer: https://deezer.com/us/track/1019283902

YouTube: https://youtu.be/4FR8gZdiiWg

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ryyzn/tell-me