Episodes
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Jason McKenna - What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement. This is episode 638 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
In the book What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, author and educator Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM education in his elementary school changed his classroom and his life, improving his students’ and his own approaches to problem-solving, collaboration, and general motivation to learn. Offering examples, tried and tested classroom projects, and collaborative strategies, this innovative resource opens up STEM education in K–6 classrooms in exciting and expansive new ways.
Awesome conversation!
So much to learn and use in your classroom!
Before you go...
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Connect & Learn More:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1954631456/ref=jmckenna
https://twitter.com/MckennaJ72
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jason-mckenna/
Length - 59:58
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Wednesday Jan 17, 2024
Jason Dietrich - Certified NASA STEM Educator: Hyperlexia, Building STEM Participation, the Virginia Space Flight Academy, and SSAI (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.). This is episode 636 of Teaching Learning Leading K12, an audio podcast.
Jason is a highly motivated, certified NASA STEM educator with more than four years of teaching experience seeking to influence and engage students to participate in STEM career pathways.
Jason has Hyperlexia, which is a form of autism. Even though he struggled with reading comprehension, he never gave up.
He is interested in increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in STEM as well as building a solid foundation for STEM literacy. In this technology-based society, he seeks to build computational literacy and develop critical thinkers capable of analyzing and integrating data to formulate solutions to complex real-world problems through the use of innovative and differentiated instructional methods.
He is experienced in training and professional development, global education policy and methods, statistical analysis, curriculum development, and assessment strategies. In addition, he has been mentored by a current Virginia Space Flight Academy (VASFA) STEM Engagement Specialist and has authored a NASA application design to identify hidden barriers to STEM engagement.
Jason is eager to promote and use STEM engagement activities through NASA’s missions to inspire a diverse future STEM workforce.
Our focus today is Jason's role as a certified NASA STEM Educator, dealing with hyperlexia, building STEM participation, the Virginia Space Flight Academy, and SSAI (Science Systems and Applications, Inc.).
Lots to learn.
Great conversation!
Before you go...
You could help support this podcast by Buying Me A Coffee. Not really buying me something to drink but clicking on the link on my home page at https://stevenmiletto.com for Buy Me a Coffee or by going to this link Buy Me a Coffee.
This would allow you to donate to help the show address the costs associated with producing the podcast from upgrading gear to the fees associated with producing the show. That would be cool. Thanks for thinking about it.
Hey, I've got another favor...could you share the podcast with one of your friends, colleagues, and family members? Hmmm? What do you think? Thank you!
Okay, one more thing. Really just this one more thing. I mentioned in the opening of the show that you could hear me interviewed on Behind the Mic about my podcast Teaching Learning Leading K12. Click this link Behind the Mic: Teaching Learning Leading K12 to go listen.
You are AWESOME!
Thanks so much!
Learn More:
https://www.instagram.com/vaspaceflightacademy/
https://www.facebook.com/VaSpaceFlightAcademy
https://www.youtube.com/@virginiaspaceflightacademy7029
https://www.linkedin.com/company/virginia-space-flight-academy/about/
Length - 52:12
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Episode 60: Vicki Davis-The Cool Cat Teacher
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Wednesday Jul 01, 2015
Vicki is a teacher and an IT Director in a small school system in Camilla, Georgia, but she is connected through her writing, speaking, podcast, and social media content throughout the world!
This is her 13th year teaching.
She writes regularly for the website Edutopia and Vicki can frequently be found as a national keynote speaker presenting on a multitude of topics.
She is a published author and has her own podcast on the BAM Radio Network called Every Classroom Matters
I subscribe to her podcast on iTunes and look forward to every episode.
Her books are Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds: Move to Global Collaboration One Step At A Time and Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools that are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever
She has an amazing blog, http://www.coolcatteacher.com/, where she expresses her thoughts about many different areas associated with teaching from technology to classroom management and many topics in between. She also connects the readers to many resources for helping with better teaching and school leading.
She also is very active on social media, especially Twitter, where her handle is @coolcatteacher
https://www.pinterest.com/coolcatteacher/
https://www.facebook.com/coolcatteacher
https://www.youtube.com/coolcatteacher
Vicki is engaging and overflowing with incredible ideas for making the classroom experience unforgettable.
After talking with Vicki, I couldn't stop talking to my team members about her inspiring words!
I think that you will get just as energized.
Enjoy!
Length:
40:45
Thursday May 07, 2015
Episode 54: The 50 States Album and Engaging Kids with Dr. Lodge McCammon
Thursday May 07, 2015
Thursday May 07, 2015
Dr. Lodge McCammon is focused on improving teacher quality and helping teachers create learning environments that are highly collaborative, differentiated, and engaging.
Lodge is a professional musician who plays numerous instruments and creates educational songs for each of the academic core areas. Recently, he has been working on his 50 States Album as well as teaching teachers and kids how to use paper slide videos. He is an expert at flipping the classroom, a concept that he sees as making the teacher more efficient at using time. Lodge shows teachers how to flip so that more classroom time can be spent on learning instead of listening. (Check out Lodge’s original talk with me on Episode 10 and Episode 11)
If anyone has ever visited with Lodge they would probably talk about his creativity, his sense of humor, and his ability to make learning fun and engaging! You will hear all of this loud and clear throughout the interview…
By the way…my favorite state songs are Illinois and Colorado… Find out which ones you like the best…
He is a former public high school teacher (Civics and AP Economics) who earned his PhD at NC State and has worked with that same university to emphasize efficiency and engagement in the classroom with new and veteran teachers.
Lodge is an amazing keynote speaker, consultant, musician, and educator. In today’s interview I get him to talk about everything from what music he likes to his latest on using time more efficiently…Flip the Phone Meetings… and Walk and Talks.
You can find out more information about Dr. McCammon at
https://twitter.com/pocketlodge
http://www.youtube.com/pocketlodge
http://www.youtube.com/flippedtraining
https://www.facebook.com/fizz.education
Length – 01:30:42
Thursday Apr 23, 2015
Episode 52: Avoiding Junkware with David Rogers
Thursday Apr 23, 2015
Thursday Apr 23, 2015
Today on Quick Tech Tip David and I talk about… How to Avoid Junkware…
Does junkware drive you nuts?!
It does me!
You know what I’m talking about …as David says, “…the 3rd party software offers…click and suddenly you have any number of unwanted stuff on your computer.”
David notes, “You go to install legitimate software and then…the installation by default adds something unwanted!”
I think we have all had issues with this headache…especially me…
Listen as David gives you his …
5 Steps to Avoiding Junkware
1. Download from a reliable source
2. Beware of fake download buttons
3. Be alert during the software installation
4. De-select any options to install additional software
5. When in doubt don’t do it!
Enjoy!
And just say no to clicking on those download buttons!
Length: 12:20