New Norms of Hybrid Professional Development
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Release Date: 07/29/2020
The Lost Learning Year: Intelligent Recommendations
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LeiLani discusses learning loss during quarantines and remote learning across America with Illuminate Education’s John Bielinksi and Kyle Wagner. Schools working through digital transition have largely focused on creating any learning at all, but numbers are showing they’ll need to find out where student’s are really at and make a recovery plan.
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A Story about PODS
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In this EduJedi Report Podcast, LeiLani talks about PODS, the new trend in homeschooling-tied-to-schools. With the advent of the pandemic, a scenario she first talked about in her book, The Consumerization of Learning, is coming true. She reads a purely fictional account of a student’s journey in a POD from the last chapters of her book, giving a glimpse into the future.
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Looking Back Before Looking Forward
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Guests, Dr. Travis Taylor, Instructional Technology Specialist from Little Rock School District, Arkansas, and Berj Akian, CEO of ClassLink, have a lively conversation about one of the biggest organizational conundrums for schools as quarantines went into effect and how to better prepare for the future. Dr. Taylor shares how Little Rock is using single sign-on and analytics to bring order to remote learning in an evolving digital landscape.
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New Norms of Hybrid Professional Development
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Guests Tyce Miller, CEO of Mobilemind and Sarah Porisch, Dir. of Tech., Brainerd Public Schools, discuss what’s happening now with teaching the teachers. Training is now shifting to on-demand and highly personalized through advanced technology. The talk focused on the success from Minnesota, and how Sarah helped lead change with all their teachers becoming immersed in how to use technology successfully for their student learners.
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Remote Learning in the Hot Zone - NY School District
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What’s it been like to transition to digital remote learning in one of our nation’s hot zones? One district with a “Keep Learning, Don’t Miss Out” motto made every day in quarantines count.
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Digital Instruction Design is Different and Getting More Different
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Leilani and Sakon discuss what is happening with the intersection of regular instructional design and the new digital instructional design paradigm with one of the nation’s preeminently qualified UI/UX and instructional design experts found tucked away in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), Sakon Kieh.
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Let’s Not Screw Up this Stimulus for Education
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LeiLani Cauthen Interviews Dr. Barbara Nemko, Napa County Superintendent of Schools, Napa County Office of Education, CA
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What Really Happened with Quarantine & Education
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LeiLani Cauthen and Senator Howard Stephenson of Utah discuss concerns about the sudden shift of all schools to remote learning, and what it really means for the future. Just one of Stephenson’s great comments: “The thing you need to focus on is those tools that provide immediate interactive, adaptive feedback while the student is doing the work. It's not about PDFs online. It's not about worksheets.”
info_outlineGuests Tyce Miller, the CEO of Mobilemind and Sarah Porisch, Director of Technology, Brainerd Public Schools, discuss what’s happening now with teaching the teachers. Where schools once had those eight-hour days of intensive professional development, training is now shifting to on-demand and highly personalized through advanced technology. The talk focused on the success from Minnesota, and how Sarah helped lead change with all their teachers becoming immersed in how to use technology successfully for their student learners.
In reference to getting reluctant teacher-learners on board, Sarah said, “A couple of (our teachers) actually even said, ‘I always said, it'd take an act of God to do this!’ Now they're like, ‘Here it is!’ (Referring to the pandemic as the ‘Act of God’ that has gotten all teachers on board.) So that has really, as you said, kind of that almost spiritual thing to kind of watch that change happen and people really realize why we've been introducing this all along the way. It's not to force change. It's not to do something different just to do something; it's because this is what our learners need to be successful in the world.”
“Especially with a program like MobileMind, it's not just a sit-and-get and now I'm going to go back to my classroom and maybe I'll use a piece of it, maybe I won't. It’s something built into everything we do,” said Sarah.