EduJedi Report Podcast: Heritage Relevant Digital Learning Design
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Release Date: 12/01/2021
EduJedi Report Podcast: Heritage Relevant Digital Learning Design
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In this episode of the EduJedi Report podcast, Host and Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning about digital learning design that is heritage-relevant.
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New Answers to Systemic Inequity of Language Learning
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Age-old instructional methods for language learning have had structures that predispose them to English-language only delivery models. New digital delivery mechanisms makeway for learning scaffolding that is culturally responsive to empower educators to lead bi-lingual learners in systems without built-in prejudices. Listen to find out exactly what it means to have learning built digitally to improve outcomes in language learning and empower educators to address individual needs in less time.
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Getting Real about What Blended Learning Is and Isn't in the Classroom
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There is a lot of confusion around what effective blended learning really looks like. What are some actionable strategies for integrating technology in the classroom and supporting blended learning? Alexis Treat, Sr. Director of Literacy Curriculum and Meg Van Voorhis, Director of Professional Learning from Lexia share stories and tips. It all comes down to what’s real and what isn’t for teachers’ workload and workflow.
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Testing at a Crossroads: Assessment for Personalization vs Normalization
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The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a lot of innovation in how testing and assessment is used to provide students and schools with starting places to identify and address unfinished learning.
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A Conversation about Hybrid Logistics
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Longtime friend and great intellect Drew Hinds, Executive Director of Technology Services from Huntington Beach City School District in California, discusses with LeiLani the idea of Hybrid Logistics as an answer to the huge disruption of how schools currently use time and space. The student requirement for significant flexibility is here, and what does that mean for schools? LeiLani mentions the “real definition” of personalization comes from the consumer world.
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Four Surprises Post-Pandemic for Schools
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LeiLani Cauthen discusses what EduJedi are seeing for changes in expectations and what schools will need to do to overcome “hidden” frictions. She also brings up “infinity scale logic” versus binary logic and why it is important to be familiar with it to address cultural shifts as schools. Listen to also find out the “two modes” of communications patterns for students today.
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Becoming Human Using Assessment Data
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What if testing was more human centric and not so scary and indiscriminate? Listen to this discussion about bringing back meaning to assessments through new skills in data and logic that work even in distance learning scenarios. EduJedi LeiLani Cauthen interviews CEO Laura Slover and Joey Web, Director of Academic Services, of CenterPoint Education Solutions.
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Lights, Camera, Action! What about on-camera Simultaneous Teaching
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EduJedi LeiLani Cauthen and Fred King from Cisco discuss the “why” of simultaneous teaching in a live classroom plus via video online feels a lot like going on stage. Behavior tends to change when cameras are panning, tilting, zooming, so a new Cisco solution modifies all that with a stationary “quad-cam” and audio detection that auto-creates a split-screen and software manages everything.
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Learning Recovery Starts with Seeing and Hearing A.I.
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Schools now have a big worry about lack of learning because students just can’t see or hear well, either because of masks and plexiglass everywhere on site or from a distance over video feeds. Guest Daniel Kleman and EduJedi LeiLani Cauthen discuss things like invisible sound bubbles that block background noise, artificial intelligence managing audio beams so the teacher is heard by all and students don’t get left behind.
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Access and Engaging the Student
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Dr. Lance Ford, Chief Technology Officer from Howe County Schools in Oklahoma shares their journey pivoting to digital, battling poor connectivity, and grappling with the reality of a new normal of expectations by students and parents. Innovative thinking from this smallish district shows what’s non-negotiable in delivering learning and how a new formula is taking center stage. A fun and fast conversation.
info_outlineIn this episode of the EduJedi Report podcast, Host and Learning Counsel CEO LeiLani Cauthen talks with Kristie Shelley, Senior Director of Emergent Bilingual Curriculum at Lexia Learning about digital learning design that is heritage-relevant.
Lexia English is a K-6 product that helps promote bilingualism or multilingualism. From day one, they approached the program with an asset model, which makes it unique, seeking to honor learners first and foremost. Studies indicate that teachers talk 80 percent of the time in the classroom. Lexia flipped the model because the only way to learn a language is to actually speak the language. In order to make this happen in an interactive atmosphere, they use a technology of the speech recognition engine. And to make the learner comfortable, Lexia allowed characters to use familiar accents, yet encouraged the learner to use Academic English, which showed in their writing and reading.
The unique Lexia English program is finding huge success while removing the burden from disappearing numbers of ESL teachers, and the professional grade UI/UX design is blowing the doors off competitors’ offerings.