31. Short Film: "Reflections"
Patience Nyanway is an aspiring college students in Texas. A few weeks ago Patience used her phone to interview children and parents in her neighborh...
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This podcast is for the Guardians of the Internet Generation—the teachers, school leaders, and parents who are raising youth in a society filled with technology. We’ve got to get this right—our future depends on it. I’m your host, Heather Clayton Staker, co-author of the book Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools. I'm founder and president of Ready to Blend, based in Austin, TX. I write, speak, and train on how to use technology in schools. In this podcast we'll discuss the whys and hows of introducing technological innovation into our children's lives.
30. Online and Blended Learning Fundamentals: Learning from the Pioneers
As the pandemic has required schools to innovate, including with online, blended, and hybrid models that are unfamiliar to them, too many educators h...
29. Helping Children Feel Safe to Share
In this class, Heather teaches three ways to build bridges that help learners connect across any divide they might be experiencing so that they feel s...
28. Using Games to Support Children Socially and Emotionally
I've restructured this podcast as a class, so that each episode going forward will teach a skill to help you blend online learning into school and hom...
27. Where Do We Go from Here? with Atomi's Simon Hennessy
We are alive right at the moment when there's an opening of opportunity to retool the classroom for the end user. We have the will plus the disruptive...
26. Developing Student-centered Teachers
What's the best way for school leaders to equip teachers with the skills they urgently need to transform their instructional model? For years many edu...
25. Hacks for Solving Esteem Gaps
Children want to make progress. They crave achievement—even if they do not appear to be motivated—provided that the basic levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy...
24. Hacks for Solving Social Belonging Gaps
Feeling somewhat lonely and depressed? Small wonder . . . the world is locked in social distancing, and humans brains are wired to suffer as a result....
23. Hacks for Solving Safety Gaps
The shifting pandemic and school closures are opening safety gaps for many families and children, including personal, financial, and emotional insecur...
22. Hacks for Solving Physiological Gaps
School closures and lockdowns are causing major physiological gaps for some children in the form of food, exercise, and sleep shortages, while other c...