THRIVEinEDU by Rachelle Dené Poth @Rdene915

We had a great chat with Molly and Weston about their podcast, books, and swagger! Hope you enjoy this episode, be sure to check out the video of our chat on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3yfa3Iwjs8&t=246sor via Twitter posts.

Follow @Rdene915 @MelodyMcAllist7 and @Wes_Kieschnick!

In prior episodes, I shared ChatGPT and some of the articles that I have written and we also had a conversation with Brad Waid recently as well about ChatGPT. Explore it, ask some questions, review the responses, and see what the benefits/concerns are.

Would love to hear about your experiences!

Ideas for reflection for students and teachers. I share some methods to promote reflective practice with students and how to make it part of our daily practice. Check out @LessonLoop, @Padlet, @Spaces_Edu, @Nearpod @PearDeck, Flip and more!

Hope you will get some new ideas from this episode.  Check out Brain Racers, StoryJumper, WeVideo and more! 

Here are some ideas to make time for reflection in each day!  Check out @getfocusable and other ideas for making time for you! #education #edchat #SEL 

Dive into some new methods and tools in the new year!  Follow ThriveinEDU on FB, subscribe to my blog www.Rdene915.com and submit your guest blog. 

My books are all available at bit.ly/pothbooks

Wonder what it is like to learn and work in the metaverse?  Curious about blockchain, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and web3?  Learn more from my experience with the Ed3DAO conference held in November. Amazing experience created by @Vritisaraf and @edtechpeck 

Have you tried OpenAI yet?  What has your experience been?  Sharing some background info, insights, questions and more in this latest episode. Stay tuned for a blog soon!  Also, check out my blog at www.Rdene915.com and submit a guest blog and sign up for my blog posts too. Thanks for listening!

Join Rachelle and Mel and our special guest Carl Hooker @mrhooker to talk about school, challenges, keeping motivation, and more! 

Some ideas for building digcit skills. Check out Brain Pop, Buncee, Checkology, Digital Compass.

Listen to our conversation with Michele about the importance of learning experiences that promote the development of SEL and help students to learn about challenges in the world. Look at @x2VOL for tracking hours for work-based learning, CTE, volunteering and more. www.x2vol.com 

It is so important to take time to focus on our mental health and wellness and have strategies in place to help us work through challenges. What are your strategies for self-care and dealing with stress?  Build SEL skills is important for students and for us as adults.  Share your strategies with others and please let me know what your ideas are too!  Thanks for listening.

Enjoyed being at TCEA and checking out the amazing innovation of Invzbl! Join us Friday, June 10th to learn more about it from CEO, Chuck Morrison and have some fun by playing a game too! 

I think it is important to consider not only the impact we make in our work, but the impact our students make on us that make us appreciate what we do. ANd think about the teachers that made an impact on you. Hope you enjoy listening! 

How will AI and NLP impact us and what do we need to know? 

If you missed our live chat with Paul @PaulSolarz, now is your chance to catch up!  Check out Paul's book, Learn Like a Pirate and join the chat on Monday nights at 8pm ET #learnlap 

Check out our great chat with educator, author, podcaster Joshua Stamper. We enjoyed our conversation and playing a game.  You can check out the recording on our YouTube Channel or through the ThriveinEDU Community! Check out @EduMatchBooks for Josh's new book, Aspire to Lead, as well as copies of Rachelle and Mel's books!

Join us to catch up with Sean and Lainie and how the connected educators for a powerful learning experience. And we had some fun too! 

Join Rachelle and Andrew who had the chance  to chat with author and educator Al Kingsley! 

We had a great chat with Dr. Katie Martin, author of Learner Centered Innovation and her newest book, Evolving Education.  Listen in and check ou the recording from our live show!

Join us with the team from JabuMind to learn about how to promote self-care and mindfulness, get the JabuMind app for teachers. Check out the recording on our YouTube channel!

Listen to our great conversation  with Elissa and check out the recording on our YouTube channels or Facebook Communities! 

Listen in to our great chat and fun with George Couros. You can catch the recording on YouTube or Twitter.  Enjoy! Catch us live on Mondays and Fridays!  @gcouros @Rdene915 @EastonA1 

Ideas for Digcit week and for all year learning! @BookCreatorApp @Nearpod @commonsenseEducation and more! 

Tools for digital storytelling and more!

Importance of opportunities to develop SEL all through the year and prrovide students with differerent ways to demonstrate learning. See Buncee, Tract, Book Creator, Spaces and more!

Check out some tools like Gimkit, Whiteboard Chat, Padlet and more for interactive, anywhere learning! 

Check out @Buncee Tract Learning, @WeVideo and @Flipgrid for some great ways to build community and SEL! 

Summer learning continues with virtual events. Thinking about the new school year, here are five (or so) ideas to explore for back to school. Focus on SEL and building relationships and preparing for the future.

Did you attend ISTE Live? Have you been to the Model Schools Conference? Hear about some of the focus areas of these events. 

Are you taking a break? Focusing on self-care? Or looking for PD?  You can find that in our ThriveinEDU community and our weekly shows!  What are you working on this summer? 

There is a need for students to learn more about computer science. Check out some resources to learn to code and have some fun trying them out this summer.  Blackbird Code, Code.org, Hopscotch, Girls Who Code, Rex Academy, 

Learning or taking a break this summer?  We can do both. Decide what is best for you and find something that works with your time and finding balance. Rely on your PLN, join the communities in ISTE, Microsoft, ambassador programs, read a book, check out a podcast, but do so when it is best for you.  

Ideas for boosting student engagement, benefits, tools to promote SEL

Check out Spaces EDU for digital portfolios and more! 

How to prepare for another shift? Here are some ideas and thinks to consider. 

Tools for anywhere learning, some students to use to create with, some for more active learning and more. A few: Canva, PearDeck, Screencastify. Tune in! 

Are you on Clubhouse? Need an invite?  Here are some of the things that I learned this past week on Clubhouse. Join in my rooms on Saturdays and Sundays, also Monday and Wednesday nights.

Want to bring some AI into your classroom? Here are some ways to get started. Join me on Clubhouse for more discussions about AI and other emerging technologies! 

Check out Google AI Experiments, AI World School

Increase in use of AI in the world and in our classrooms. What are resources to explore and how can we get started? Check out Quick Draw, Auto Draw, Teachable Machine, and Will Robots Take My Job

Here are some hacks and 5 tools to explore!  Hope to see you on Clubhouse, join in my rooms on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. 

A few weeks in, Clubhouse has become a favorite space to connect and learn. Join in my rooms on Saturdays and Sundays and twice during the week, for ThriveinEDU chat.

 In this episode, I share some ideas from educators who joined in. Tools to check out this week!

Have you heard about Clubhouse?  It is an iOs app and it has been a hot topic over the past few weeks. Learn what it is and how to get started! 

Wondering how to become more connected? Looking for a space to become part of a PLN? Here are some ideas. Also recommend joining my FB Thrive in EDU group https://www.facebook.com/groups/THRIVEinEDU 

Check out some chats: FormativeChat, PLN365, CelebratED, CultureED, EdAdventures, CrazyPLN and Bookcamppd to start!

Hybrid teaching is not easy and some days I feel like I could have done so much better.  I've decided to try some new ideas, break from the traditional methods and explore different tools that can help to connect us more in learning.

What are your takeaways? The wins? The positives you found this year?

Looking back over 2020 and what we have learned about our work as educators. What challenges have we faced as we transition through in-person, to virtual to hybrid? What worries you about your work? Sharing my experiences and what I have learned this year.

Tools that are beneficial regardless of where learning is taking place. Check out Buncee, Formative, Nearpod, Blooket, Bingo Baker, Gimkit, Quizizz, Quizlet Live! 

There are definitely challenges when it comes to hybrid teaching and I've been working through a few. However, there are a lot of positives too. Being able to see  some of the students and work together has been a definite plus!

What are the challenges, benefits, frustrations of what we are experiencing as educators and students?  Some of my experiences and ideas/hacks for making it work! 

Ideas for meeting SEL needs virtually.

Ideas for promoting collaboration whether in the classroom or virtually. Check out some of the tools mentioned.  Also join my ThriveinEDU Facebook Community! 

Ideas for storytelling in the digital age. 

Navigating the fake news, building digcit skills

Check out Flipgrid/Wonderopolis

Adobe Photoshop: https://landing.adobe.com/en/na/products/creative-cloud/69308-real-or-photoshop/index.html

Fake or photo: https://area.autodesk.com/fakeorfoto

PBL, collaboration, giving feedback and more! Wonderopolis, Thrively, Padlet, Wakelet, Trello, Anchor, Synth and Flipgrid

How is your experience?

Importance of being a mentor and finding a mentor for ourselves. 

Preparing for the start of the year, 

10 ideas to find balance, or do something each day for self-care

Navigating in the Digital World: Creating our Space for this School Year

ChartYourNewCourse

Ideas to help us reflect, for our students to become more reflective and build SEL skills. PBL and more!

Ideas for starting the year, things I have learned about the value of sharing our story, and the power of connecting as we embrace the unknown this school year.

Ideas for focusing on preparing for the unknown. 

 Also to join in my weekly show on www.learningrevolution.com on Wednesdays, 4:00 pm EST   A different guest and topic each week!

What are some things that we can work on now, that will benefit us in  the new school year, regardless of where learning takes place

What have we learned and what can we do better?  Planning for the Unknown

Take time to breathe, focus on  what is most important: Relationships

Make time to ask students for feedback and use their input  to  guide your next steps for summer learning and planning  ahead. 

5 fun  tools to create with AR/VR 

Reflections on progress, plans for the future, new ideas and fun activities

Check out the  EALA: Educating All Learners Alliance, a project focused on providing resources and  support for special education.

Check in on family and friends, make sure your students are doing okay. Every moment matters. 

Innovation does not mean technology. Take some risks, try something new, ideas for students and families. 

Think about best ways to communicate, focus on transitions that may happen fast, as our closures did. Prepare for the return to school by taking some opportunities to try new ways to foster communication.

How can we find balance now? What should we do? Stay connected, make time for you, take breaks. Just some ideas for how to plan days and find some balance during this uncertain and chaotic time. 

Why we need to focus on connecting and how. 

I use Zoom and this is how I set it up and  why I am glad that I did. 

Looking  for tools for learning, here are ideas that families can enjoy too. Try Gimkit, Kahoot!, Quizizz, for games or Buncee and Flipgrid for storytelling, or explore with Nearpod for VR. 

Also look at explore.org for live cams around the  world, animals, places, and climates. 

Pernille Ripp and Global Read Aloud: Authors doing read-alouds each day. 

Just some thoughts to share about things to consider, what has worked, tips, and hopefully some ideas to try.

Chats, Audio, Video and Meetings

Bachchannel chat, Anchor, GoSynth, Padlet, Buncee, Zoom,  Google Meet, Google Hangouts

Some ways to foster connections during remote learning. Access is important, make sure families and students have access to information and resources. Next, how will you communicate? We still need to have social interactions, leverage the technology to make that happen.  Google Classroom, Teams, Slack, Padlet, Flipgrid, Screencastify, Zoom. 

Continuation from prior episode, with advice from students. Be creative. Be supportive.  Make connections. Take risks with learning. Encourage and Inspire. 

Reflect on your experience. Share your story, lean in and listen more and see the student, not the behavior. I recommend reading the book Lost at School. 

Share your story: Podcast, Blog, Periscope. Start with one and use it as a way to reflect and share your ideas. Your story needs to be told.

Some ideas for learning and growing with your PLN

Carl Hooker and Adam Phyall Session

Jaime Donally AR/VR

Claudio Zavala, Amy Storer, Brian Romero Smith and Marialice Curran - Creativity is my Jam

Laura Steinbrink - Train like a NAVY SEAL

Lori Gracey - The Future is Now (great title, like my book!)

Esports

Expo hall sightings

The BETT experience, part II: The Space, Technology and the People

Here are some favorites: Buncee, Gimkit, Nearpod, Wakelet, Synth, Anchor, Voxer

Some of my takeaways from FETC  and conferences in general. 

How to share our experiences, learn and grow together

Follow up to a conversation. Importance of being a risk-taker, connecting, not being afraid to ask for help

Five ways that I find time for personal and professional  development.

Do you make resolutions? I think more about goals, being intentional about  changes I would like to make and reflecting. Relentless pursuit of growth.

Ideas for the new year after time to relax  and recharge. Focus on relationships, family engagement, learning spaces and more.

We had a Tweet and Talk (EduMatch) last night, and the discussion was the 2nd part of a talk on the future of education and work. A great panel and so I wanted to share what we discussed and some of my own thoughts for this episode.

Check out code.org and look to twitter for the #hourofcode hashtag!

Check out the Hour of Code and Code.org site

Also try Code Academy, Hopscotch, Brain Pop, MIT Scratch, Girls Who Code, Khan Academy

How we made more powerful connections during PBL: Edmodo, Flipgrid, Padlet, Synth, Buncee and Nearpod

I learned that I was not truly doing authentic PBL in my classes. Here are some resources and ways to provide a better and more authentic experience for students. 

Some ideas for creating more personalized learning experiences for students. Examples PBL, Blended Learning and  Station Rotations. 

Five ways to build collaborative skills in the Classroom,

Here are five ways that I have tried to create more active learning in my classroom. 

What happens if we offer more choices for students to learn and design their education?  What are the skills that students need for now and the future?

Some ideas of how to prepare students for the future of work and learning.

Ideas about AI and how it can be used in education, resources to explore

A space in which students take a more active role, transforms students from consumers to creators and the former teacher-centered classroom into a student-centered and student-driven space. n an effort to encourage students to become more active learners as well as to be more involved in the types of activities and instruction in the classroom, I started to implement some teaching strategies involving music and games.

Mentoring and why it is important. 5 ideas for connecting and forming a mentorship.

Check out my blog at www.Rdene915.com

Learn about my books In Other Words and  The  Future is Now, bit.ly/Pothbooks