176: A Roadmap for AI in Education (with Dr. Benny Fong)
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Release Date: 03/14/2025
183: Healthy Calling: From Toxic Burnout to Sustainable Work (with Arianna Molloy)
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Dr. Arianna Molloy shares hopeful and practical guidance as we seek to understand and live out our calling. Arianna defines key terms, unpacks professional research, and shares personal anecdotes to cast a vision for a healthy, reflective practice for flourishing in work and in relationship with the Caller. | “As believers, our primary calling is to love God and love others, and to do that well in everything that we do.” “[God] is a personal, intimate designer, and He has equipped each of us with skill sets and passions.” Work as a calling: meaningful, identified Caller, skill set...
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182: From the Garden to the City (with Brian Delamont)
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181: The Mission of God and the Witness of the Church (with Justin Schell)
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On this Good Friday, author Justin Schell traces the mission of God as seen in the sacrifice of Christ – to reveal Himself to humanity so that we may know Him in the world He’s made – and calls the Church to witness to this Master who invites us to feast with Him. Learn more about Lausanne’s “Mission is one of those things in ministry and in Christianity that so easily can become about other things than about God.” “The mission of God is Him revealing Himself to humanity so that we might know Him in the world that He’s made.” “That’s our role as a Church – we are...
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180: Teaching with Humor: Building Rapport in the Classroom (with Kevin McClintock aka @MrMcTikTok)
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Humor is one way to build rapport with your students, but there’s more to it than just being the “fun teacher.” Kevin McClintock – better known as Mr. McTiktok – shares from his experiences as a teacher and social media influencer, underscoring the importance of consistent boundaries and connecting with your students. Follow Kevin: | “When the kids come into class and they know what’s expected of them inside the class, we can get stuff done. We still can be funny, but we have certain goals.” “When you are kind of an entertainer, there’s always going to be this ebb and...
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179: Worlds Here and There: A Resource for Moving Internationally (with Paul Snider)
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Are you moving internationally or returning to your passport country? Have a friend who will be relocating soon? Worlds Here and There is a guide for navigating this significant life transition. Listen in to hear from one of the creators of this resource, Paul Snider of MK2MK, as he shares about how this book came to be and the importance of processing the impacts of moving abroad, whether upcoming, recent past, or many years ago. “How can we name and grieve the things that they’re losing [...] and look at what they’re entering into?” “Here and there is really about the magnitude...
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178: Transformation in God’s Family (with Brian Delamont)
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What does it look like to bear with one another? What message are we proclaiming, and how does the message dwell within us? Brian Delamont returns to the podcast this week to unpack Colossians 3. “Learning is actually so rich and so all-encompassing. It’s not just hearing a tidbit of information or being able to do a single skill; it’s understanding and applying that skill in context, in community, in relationship to other things that are happening.” “It’s our churches, it’s the community of Jesus followers that we find ourselves in, that can be greenhouses and accelerators for...
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177: Transformed Students to Transformed Adults in Tanzania - A Calling Story (with Emmanuel and Ruth Mbennah)
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Emmanuel and Ruth Mbennah serve as TeachBeyond leaders in Tanzania with an amazing story and vision for their country. Hear how Emmanuel’s childhood experience with school and Ruth’s background as a teacher play into their ministry today. “Where I was born and where I grew up, there was no church, there was no school, there was no hospital, there was no road going to that place.” -Emmanuel “No matter the circumstances in which one grows up, education can really define the destiny of the person. Education is key, education is possible. People regardless of where they are born and...
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176: A Roadmap for AI in Education (with Dr. Benny Fong)
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Dr. Benny Fong joins co-hosts Heather Brown and Keane Fine to share perspectives and tips for leveraging AI as a teacher. Dr. Fong provides practical applications, ethical considerations, and how AI, when used wisely, can help minimize the mundane and allow educators to focus on relationships for Kingdom impact. What are your experiences with AI in your classroom or school? Share with us at . “The misconception is that the kids will just shift totally to using an artificial teacher or something. [...] We know that book learning is really only one part of learning. The bigger part of...
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175: 10 Ways to Prepare to Serve in Missions (with Amanda Cameron and Rachel Schmitt)
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Thinking of serving in missions someday? Hear from co-host Heather Brown, along with mobilization coaches Rachel Schmitt and Amanda Cameron, about practical steps you can take now as you consider missions for the future – and in the meantime, make an impact where you are and continue to grow in Christ! Pray. Serve where you are. “How can I be plugged in? How can I use what God’s given me and actually build and grow those skills that could be used in the future? Those things can be used now, too, and benefitting the communities that we’re in. It can help with our...
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174: From Renewed Minds to Transformed Cultures (with Brian Delamont)
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Brian Delamont, TeachBeyond Vice President, returns to the podcast to share from 2 Corinthians 5 about what it looks like for our personal, internal transformation to impact culture – “getting out of our heads and into our neighborhoods.” Romans 12:1-2 “Every culture, every sub-culture, has patterns of thinking, patterns of behavior.” by Terrence Deal and Allan Kennedy “For everyone everywhere, there’s a ‘way that we do things around here.’ So what people think moves then from internal to external because it’s the values that drive the action. What you value...
info_outlineDr. Benny Fong joins co-hosts Heather Brown and Keane Fine to share perspectives and tips for leveraging AI as a teacher. Dr. Fong provides practical applications, ethical considerations, and how AI, when used wisely, can help minimize the mundane and allow educators to focus on relationships for Kingdom impact. What are your experiences with AI in your classroom or school? Share with us at [email protected].
- Episode 147: Being Human in the Age of AI
- “The misconception is that the kids will just shift totally to using an artificial teacher or something. [...] We know that book learning is really only one part of learning. The bigger part of learning comes from a mentor, a teacher, a guide to light that fire of curiosity.”
- “The whole idea of generative AI is to generate new content based on past context and experiences and information.”
- “You have to treat it as a new technology, emerging technology. What are you comfortable with?”
- “As with any technology, we [have] to know the ethical boundary and the privacy first,”
- Suggestions for practical application:
- ChatGPT for lesson planning with differentiation
- Perplexity or Copilot search engines
- Real-time translation
- Multi-modal feature
- “We don’t want to shortcut the process for beginning teachers to become good teachers. We don’t want to shortcut the process for students to learn their content.”
- “I think the danger obviously is always viewing tools as good or bad. It’s always nuanced. I think that the more that we understand the tool [...] the better we can wield this tool [...] for God’s work and for His Kingdom.”
- “As educators, we are lifelong learners.”
- “AI is really just the latest in terms of tools that forces us as educators to be flexible in how we engage our stakeholders.”
- “Education leaders have to start [...] They need to recognize that things are changing. They need to work with the teachers and parents and students to formulate prudent policies first to get on the same page. Then, once things are on the same page, then that frees up the teacher to the next step, which is to innovate and learn.”
- “We want to build [...] salt and light and ambassadors to the world that needs the Gospel. What does that look like with the help of AI?”
- “Minimize the mundane stuff so that I can maximize the relationship.”
- “Real leaders are created through mentoring and through relationship. So, what I feel is that AI, if used properly, can actually maximize that relationship building and mentoring aspect with those around us.”
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What’s changing our lives:
- Keane: Doodling on a Boogie Board LCD writing tablet
- Heather: HabitShare app
- Benny: Being reminded about grace at a recent marriage conference
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