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In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we sit down with Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern to discuss their new book Bring Your Teaching into Focus: The EduProtocol Field Guide available now from Dave Burgess Publishing.

This year at ISTE 2017, I had the opportunity to meet the team from LEGO Education and learn about their great products coming out for the 2017-2018 school year. I was very impressed with the direction that the LEGO team is going in their Duplo lineup.  As a father of 3-year-old triplets, I am constantly looking for great solutions to help my little ones learn reading and mathematics skills. I want to thank my friends at LEGO Education for allowing me an early preview of their educational line up and also for featuring me in this great promotional video. For more information * LEGO Education Homepage * Twitter * Facebook * YouTube * Pinterest * Instagram Thank You For Your Podcast Reviews Are you enjoying Educational Podcasting Today or other shows on the TeacherCast Network, please share your thoughts with the world by commenting on iTunes today? I enjoy reading and sharing your comments on the podcast each week. Ask Me Your Podcasting or WordPress Question Are you interested in starting your own podcast? Do you need help creating an awesome WordPress website? I am available for 1:1 consulting. Please visit my homepage and I will help you launch your personal brand today! Contact Me * Host: Jeff Bradbury @TeacherCast * Email: info@teachercast.net * Voice Mail: http://www.TeacherCast.net/voicemail * YouTube: http://www.TeacherCast.net/YouTube * iTunes: http://www.TeacherCast.net/iTunes Check Out More TeacherCast Programming * TeacherCast Podcast (https://www.teachercast.net/tcp) * Educational Podcasting Today (http://www.educationalpodcasting.today) * The TechEducator Podcast (http://www.techeducatorpodcast.com) * Ask The Tech Coach (http://www.AskTheTechCoach.com) View LIVE Professional Development from TeacherCast * Watch LIVE: http://www.TeacherCast.tv | Broadcasting Schedule (https://www.teachercast.net/showcal) * TeacherCast Broadcasting Community: http://www.TeacherCast.net/broadcastingcommunity Need a Presenter? * Jeff Bradbury

This year at ISTE 2017, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Learning.com, the nations leader in helping school districts teach students technology skills.  For the last 18 years, Learning.com has been partnering with school district to provide award winning curriculum in key subjects such as Digital Literacy, Digital Citizenship, Coding, and Programming. With more than 5 million students actively using the cloud based platform, Learning.com provides a simple solution for students and teachers to become partners in learning.  It's more true now than ever that with an ever changing technology landscape and evolving digital curriculum that teachers are struggling to keep up with the skills they need to provide high quality lessons for their students.  This is where Learning.com takes over. By using the Learning.com platform, teachers can select from cloud based modules organized into grade bands.  Lessons are presented as animations and simulations that tie into a schools current curriculum through project based learning lessons.  If time is of concern when bringing these lessons into the classroom, Learning.com also has a self-paced option where students can learn on their own time outside of the classroom. With an average cost of $7 dollars per student, now is a great opportunity to bring Learning.com into your K-8 curriculum.  For more information, please check out Learning.com today. Why Learning.com? By 2020, it is estimated that nearly 80% of jobs will require some level of technology proficiency. We live in a digital society. Students must be given the opportunity to learn and develop digital literacy skills – starting as early as Kindergarten. From keyboarding and word processing, to coding and computational thinking, digital literacy skills are needed more than ever. Learning.com makes it easy to teach students the critical digital literacy skills they must have to succeed. About our Guest Keith Oelrich has been a pioneer in the K-12 online education market for the past 15 years. During that time, he has served as CEO of several companies which have collectively provided K-12 online education programs to thousands of districts, tens of thousands of schools, and millions of students and their families. Keith was previously the Founder and CEO of Insight Schools. Insight Schools operates one of the nation’s leading networks of full-time, diploma-granting online public high schools, and is now a subsidiary of K12, Inc. Prior to founding Insight Schools, Keith was the President and CEO of KC Distance Learning (KCDL), where he operated the largest private online high school in the United States. Before joining KCDL, Keith was the President and CEO of Apex Learning, a leading virtual high school company founded by Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen. Links of Interest * Learning.com Homepage * Twitter * Facebook * Pinterest * LinkedIn   Thank You For Your Podcast Reviews Are you enjoying Educational Podcasting Today or other shows on the TeacherCast Network, please share your thoughts with the world by

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we take a look at the state of Social Media with our guest Mike Allton. Together, we discuss Social Media and how it is affecting parents, teachers, and students in regards to internet safety, data privacy, and tips and tricks for creating the best learning experience to our students. In this episode, we discuss: What is the state of Social Media in 2018? Creating Content for Social vs Creating Content for Search Why visit Social Media Sites? What Social Media accounts should we be active in? Social Media Tips 1) Have a presence in Social Media if you are a business with your brand or name. Use this to build up an audience. 2) When ned Social Networks come out… don’t be fascinated by shiny objects 3 Questions Who is your target audience and which networks seem to support that target audience? Geography Demographics Age Interests What kind of content are you comfortable creating? Text Images Audio/Video Which Social Networks have I used personally, and out of those, what has my experience with them been? How to craft your Call to Action on your Podcast or Blog Tips and Tricks for Social Media Success Facebook Twitter Instagram Pinterest Facebook: Data Breach Social Media for students How important is Data Privacy? What should we do if we are finished with a social media? How should we create great podcasting show notes? Creating Teachable Moments through Social Media education Follow our Podcast The TeacherCast Educational Broadcasting Network | @TeacherCast Educational Podcasting Today Podcast | @PodcastingToday Follow our Host Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury About our Guest Mike Allton is a Content Marketing Practitioner – a title he invented to represent his holistic approach to content marketing that leverages blogging, social media, email marketing and SEO to drive traffic, generates leads, and convert those leads into sales. He is an award-winning Blogger, Speaker, and Author at The Social Media Hat, and Brand Evangelist at Agorapulse (formerly CMO at SiteSell). As Brand Evangelist, Mike works directly with other social media educators, influencers, agencies and brands to explore and develop profitable relationships with Agorapulse. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/allton Twitter: https://twitter.com/mike_allton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeallton/ Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MikeAllton Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mallton/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/mikeallton/ Join the Conversation Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section.   This weeks question is: How are you using Social Media in your classroom?

The school year is kicking off and I am excited to share a terrific series of podcasts with you about teaching with robots. Below is the beginning of the post, be sure to check out the full article on Beyond The Hour of Code. Lesson Design in Three Dimensions, Learning with Robots The idea of teaching young children by playing with robots seems both amazing and laughable. If it is funny or strange, that is only because it is difficult to imagine learning with a robot. Spoiler alert: it will not involve C3PO lecturing your students. Learning with robots through programming and group work is a very kinesthetic form of learning. Understanding the roles a robot can play will help you design engaging and meaningful lesson. The role a robot can play in a lesson does depend on what a robot can do. While this text refers to several different robots, these are just a few of the ever-expanding selection of educational robots. For the most current and updated information about these robots be sure to check BeyondtheHourofCode.com. Robot as Pointer From the desktop to floor Great news! You have lessons written that are almost robot-ready. The most important element in a robot lesson is to make the location of the robot meaningful. A matching activity designed for desktop work can be adapted quickly to a robot activity. Many lessons take only two steps con convert from desktop to robot lesson: * Enlarge the images used in the desktop activity and places them on the floor. * Have students working in groups program a robot to move from the image to its match. With this simple idea, you can place answers to math problems on the floor and have students navigate to the right answer once they have solved the problem. Students could also roll dice and navigate to the correct answer. This model of using the robot as a pointer to indicate the correct answer was the seed of a lesson in Tali's class. The robot used in this lesson was a Bee-Bot, a very simple robot that looks like a bumble bee and has a small wheelbase. It is programmed by pressing directional buttons on top of the robot. Every time theBee-Bot moves, it moves 15 cm. The bee bot runs on a grid of 15 cm squares. The objectives of this lesson * Students will develop math skills (differentiated by skill) * Students will develop communication skills through group collaboration Planning this lesson requires knowledge of the students and their math abilities, but with this knowledge, you can do some very meaningful differentiation. Tali had six robots to work with, so she divided her 24 students into six groups. She did not create groups of equal numbers. Instead, she created groups of similar math ability. With ability groups, she was able to customize the challenge level of the work to fit the students' needs. Tali ensured engagement through differentiation. The Groups The core of this lesson is students do the math at hand and navigate the robot to the correct answer. Tali gave each group appropriate math to do and customized the robots grid with the answers needed. Although the groups had slight variations in size, there were four active roles for students in the groups. * Calculator- counts the pips on the dice, or computes the solution to the problem on the sheet. This student talks through their process aloud as they work. * Verifier- checks the math problem, and is available to help in the computation process. * Programmer- writes and inputs the program needed to navigate the robot to the solution. * Debugger- follows the program as it runs to discover any errors, also available to assist in the programming process. When Tali introduced the lesson, she spent time talking about each of the roles.

How to Teach Anything Through Code Welcome to episode 2 of Beyond the Hour of Code, a podcast to help teachers do great work. In this episode, we take on a couple of the big ideas we need to use code the best way possible for our elementary students. Code is a Text, and we Teach Through Text If you have been teaching for a while and you don't have a degree in computer programming, no one expects you to stop what you are doing and go become an expert in code, you are an expert in kids. Code is a text, it communicates something, it does something for some reason. With the help of simple apps like ScratchJr, my students can compose these meaningful texts, even my pre-readers. If you are a teacher who likes to address standards in multiple contexts (spiraling), coding can become another stop on your instructional tour. Programming is Problem Solving My students have plenty of problems to solve every day, and leveled programming apps give me a chance to teach problem-solving skills. Most of the programming work my kids do is more open-ended, and composing those texts is a problem-rich process. Since you as the teacher are not a code expert, this problem solving can be very genuine. When I teach this part of coding I enjoy being a partner in the process with the kids, helping them find the right information on the screen. So much of this is actually reading strategy instruction. (READ THE SCREEN). Coding the Standards Computer Science Standards Leveled CS experiences * CS First Google's CS First curriculum is a collection of fun activities like “Make your own Google Logo.” Through the activities, students learn about and apply computer science concepts. * Kodable * The Foos Beyond Computer Science- Content Area Knowledge * Open Studio Apps * Story Telling (Thanks, Jacob Lee) * Dialogues Beyond Standards- Student Empowerment * Profound platform for sharing and interacting * Students quickly learn that they can create these texts about the things they care about. Like the Show? Buy the Book! Programming in the Primary Grades: Beyond the Hour of Code is your guidebook for keeping the focus on your highest goals as you bring coding into your classroom.    

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we tackle the tough topic of teacher/student communication and together learn how to use Google Docs to create effective learning environments.  Did you know that Google Docs features multiple ways of providing feedback to students in the form of Comments and Suggestions? Google Docs is not only a fantastic word processing application but one of the best communication tools for any teacher to use in the classroom.  Check out our podcast above to learn more.

Welcome to Beyond the Hour of Code, the podcast to help you use programming to teach core content. I am Sam Patterson and in today's episode, we talk about blockly-based programming in Apps. For a more detailed discussion check out my new book “Programming in the primary grades: Beyond the Hour of Code”

In this episode of Educational Podcasting Today, we take a look at the brand new TeacherCast.net website and share three reasons why you might be interested in creating your own podcast.  

In this episode of the TechEducator Podcast, we take a look at Google Slides and discover how useful they can be in the classroom beyond the traditional “Slide Deck” and be paired with STEM education topics such as coding and programming. In this episode, we discuss: Google Slides … Why do we love you? What are Google Slides good for beyond the traditional slide deck? How do you link slides together? Hidden features of Google Slides you might have missed. Should Google Slides be put in the same category as PowerPoint, Prezi, Haiku Deck and other slide programs? Using Google Slides as a Professional Learning Ice Breaker

In this episode of Beyond the Hour of Code, we DARE TO SHARE and we SHARE to CARE! Big slogans made of short words and the power of programming and robots to help your kids learn how to share jobs and resources in the classroom. A side note last week I used this lesson in Kindergarten with the BeeBots and I said to the class, “The hardest thing about working with the BeeBots is NOT programming the robot, that is just pushing buttons. The hardest part of working with Bee Bots is-” and at this point I hear a soft voice, calling out, but not loudly “it is the sharing.” This child was not in trouble because he was right. The sharing is the hardest part, and today we are going to talk about how to create a lesson and set expectations that help students learn from this sharing process.  In this episode, you will learn: How to help students share a BeeBot in a group of 4 How to use roles similar to literacy circles to help students manage turns and work in a robot group How to create a space that makes it easy for kids to be successful (tape grids and whiteboards) Follow our Podcast The TeacherCast Educational Network | @TeacherCast * Subscribe to Beyond the Hour of Code Today! Follow our Hosts Jeff Bradbury | @JeffBradbury Sam Patterson | @SamPatue

In this episode of “Ask the Tech Coach,” we sit down with Mike Lawrence and Dr. Sam Patterson to talk about the State of Professional Learning.  Together, we take on the topic of Innovative Professional Development and share our thoughts about how we can create a culture of learning in our school districts that encourage teachers to think outside of the box.

Jeff sits down with Jack West to discuss why Hapara is the perfect tool for any school district wishing to properly and effectively manage their GAfE environment. About Hapara Hapara is a Māori word for dawn or daybreak. Teacher Dashboard was first conceptualized by a pioneering group of educators and developers working together to serve an underprivileged population of students in Auckland, New Zealand. The tools were built in a collaborative fashion to solve the knowledge management challenges teachers face when going all in with Google Apps. The Hapara team has grown significantly since the inception and now has team members in New Zealand, California, Boulder, Colorado and Washington DC. Hapara’s exclusive focus on K12 education solutions for Google Apps has won the team several awards including the New York City Gap App Challenge Best Administrative App, the Texas Association of School Administrators iZone Award, and a Gates Foundation Literacy Challenge Prize.

Jeff sits down with Ami Shah to discuss how Peekapak is able to help promote child development in grades PK-2. About Peekapak Peekapak aims to improve learning outcomes in early childhood by enabling teachers and parents to work as partners in a student’s education. Through Peekapak’s platform, teachers are provided digital access to Peekapak’s character development curriculum and extended home activities for families to reinforce the learning in the home. The platform will also track student progress so that both teachers and parents are able to get a complete view of how a student is developing in the class and at home. Peekapak is currently in private beta and is looking to partner with educators to test and pilot their program.

Jeff sits down with Mik Tholfsen and Ari Schorr to discuss how Microsoft OneNote is being used in classrooms to help teachers and students stay digitally organized.