The EdTechEnergy Podcast

If there is one valuable time-saving tip I would provide new teachers when they create unit and summative assessment projects, it would be to fully embrace the power of project-...

In today’s episode (Episode 19), I talk about three feelings students must feel before they decide to engage in your instruction, student learning activities, and assessments.

Go to this Episode 18's Show Notes at: edtechenergy.org/listen18 OR melanie.wiscount/listen18

In today’s episode, I talk about how to integrate and use Amazon Alexa™ AI (Artificial Intelligence) in your instruction, student learning, and assessment in the classroom to DRIVE UP student engagement!

Listen for 10 QUICK Tips to get you off and running when integrating Alexa™ AI (Artificial Intelligence) in your classroom.

In today’s episode, I talk about why podcasts created by students make a GREAT assessment! The popularity of podcasts is on your side when you introduce a podcast project to your students, and watch out for the excitement, pride, and confidence they come out of a series of podcast assessments. Plus, it’s a 21st century way to get our students to write and speak!

Before the March 2020 Pandemic school closings across not only the nation, but the world, plagiarism was one of those occurrences that happened in our classroom that we as teachers wanted to squash. The internet and the easy “copy and paste” makes plagiarism prevalent and problematic in our secondary education classrooms.

In today’s episode, I’ll give you some tips and tricks that will make your self-chosen and initiated EdTech PD in your career something you look forward to, and gets you excited as well as those higher teacher evaluation scores!

If you were teaching BEFORE March 2020, you can easily compare what you knew about and did with EdTech with what you know about EdTech now. Whew! What a tailspin! With all these changes, teachers should make EdTech professional development part of their career plan.

We can, in our classroom, make this a customary practice and develop a conscientiousness in our students about copyright, intellectual property, and checking licenses of media to make sure we can use them in our instruction, student learning, and their assessment.

At the beginning of the year, it never fails. The first question teachers ask me or email me is how to get around the school district’s content filter to access YouTube instructional videos for instruction and student learning. Check out:

On both my blog and podcast, I write and speak about student engagement in the classroom. The reason why I put so much emphasis into student engagement? I have found, in my eighteen years in the classroom either as a middle school or high school educator, or an educational technology instructional coach the past five years, if students are engaged in our instruction and their student learni...

In my recent blog posts, I talked a lot about what engages our students in our classrooms. You learned that community, technology, instructor presence, and more are real game-changers when it comes to engaging our students from the start of our lessons to the end. But in this episode, I’m going to talk about what prevents student engagement from happening if it’s not included in your classroom.

Whether you are a teacher who uses a lot of technology in the classroom, or one who uses a small amount of technology in the classroom, I believe we can all agree, technology in our classrooms is here to stay, especially since the situation we all found ourselves in March 2020 when everything we did in our classroom had to turn digital to reach our students.

As teachers, we participate in many professional development sessions about instruction, student learning, and assessment. In our college courses, we learned about instructional strategies, assessment approaches, and classroom management.

In my 18 years in education as both a computer science teacher and educational technology instructional coach, I’ve seen patterns of powerful influencers that have a tremendous positive impact on encouraging classroom student engagement. Some of my best memories in my 13 years teaching students in my classroom were community memories…unforgettable times we had together as a class.

We read and hear a lot about concerns that due to students learning from home, being away from school, teachers, friends, and extra-curricular activities, and not having what used to be the normal and familiar routine of going to school, there may be gaps in their learning and development.

Finals are right around the corner. What should your final look like to gauge your student’s learning at the school-year end that keeps in mind social-emotional wellness and fairness to our students in these unique times?

Did you know the top three struggles teachers are experiencing in virtual learning?

Did you know the way you provide feedback to your students can increase their engagement in an assignment, as well as their future performance, plus save you time?