Dina Dreidstadt from Glenwood Elementary School in Virginia Beach, Virginia shares how she is currently using the Alexa Kids Edition in second-grade classroom. In this episode Dina shares the exact skills she is using to engage her students using voice in education.

Episode 15 of Voice in Education discusses the significance of the increase of voice searches and how it might impact parent communication. Could we be creating weekly or daily flash briefings using Amazon Alexa to share newsworthy classroom information with parents? Would we be meeting them where they are?

Episode 14 of Voice in Education discusses what educators need from developers of voice skills. Needs are shared based on three different areas: content, instructional design, and interface. Teachers want to be intentional in their use of voice for educational purposes.

This week's episode of Voice In Education talks about the importance of teachers truly evaluating voice skills for classroom usage. The episode discusses the recent checklist created by Julie Daniel Davis to aid teachers in choosing good skills for integrating into practice. This blog post can be found at blog.juliedavisedu.com

In Episode 12 of Voice in Education, hear how to use Amazon Blueprints with the Kids Edition Echo Dot. Also, hear 3 blueprints that every teacher should consider utilizing in their classroom.

Episode 11 of Voice in Education talks about the recent issues of using Google Home Assistant on shared networks that are not home-based and how this could impact classrooms. This episode briefly talks about the importance of rules for using voice assistants in the classroom. You can find the Alexa infographics mentioned in the podcast here. 

Episode 9 of Voice in Education discusses the cons of algorithms that control the information we receive from voice searches. This episode questions the dependence on artificial intelligence to decide the information we need to know when questioning using voice speakers.

This week's podcast discusses Conversational Design and its importance in the future. Specifically, this podcasts discusses the need to teach students how to write for Conversational Design. Should this be part of creative writing classes?

Episode 7 discusses the need for separate parental permission forms when using voice speakers in the classroom setting.

Episode 6 of Voice in Education discusses the differences between voice search and text search and how that might impact education.