Season 3

April 25, 2023

099 | Community of Inquiry & Visme

Will and Josh detail the Community of Inquiry and its impact on online and traditional education. The relationship between Cognitive, Teaching, and Social Presences helps us identify where we can build inquisitive community i...

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April 18, 2023

098 | Nick at Arguflow

What happens when you correlate arguments, logic, debate, reasoning, and the internet? An app to help train us in the process of reasoned debate: Arguflow . We talk to Nick at Arguflow to find out why we need an app …

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April 11, 2023

097 | GK at Brain Racers

This interviews find us with GK from Brain Racers , the fastest and funnest (yeah, I said it) learning tool for your classrooms. Pairing excellent music, challenging gameplay, and automated content production (thanks ChatGPT ...

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April 4, 2023

096 | Interpersonal Communication Skills & Slack

Josh and Will played a game called Hot Takes, and it spawned a podcast episode. The question came up about social media and its impact on interpersonal communication skills. We take this entire episode to play the idea out an...

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March 28, 2023

095 | Ungrading: Where Do I Start? & Explain Everything

We wrap up the ungrading series with a new beginning. Where do you start with ungrading? Listen in for a few easy ways to start small while aiming big! We leave you with a great tool for creating learning assets …

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March 21, 2023

094 | How Do You Assess Ungrading? with Dr. Timothy Shea & Twitter fo…

Dr. Timothy Shea joins us for episode 4 in the ungrading series to discuss HOW we even assess ungrading. Isn't the point not to assess? Wrong. Assessment and feedback are key to learning, but numerical/alphabetical grades are...

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March 14, 2023

093 | Ungrading in an LMS & TechSmith's Snagit

The series continues with an informational how-to: setting up ungrading in an LMS! Now, this is not a detailed, step-by-step walkthrough for every LMS. This is more of a general guideline for what it takes to do ungrading in...

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March 7, 2023

092 | Why do ungrading? with Dr. Justin Harbin & ResearchRabbit

Long-standing friend of the podcast, Dr. Justin Harbin, returns to help us establish the rationale for ungrading. What's its purpose? Is it "good?" Should we be doing it or is it a fad? Answer all of these questions and more …

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Feb. 28, 2023

091 | What is Ungrading? & Adobe's Frame.io

Starting a new series on Ungrading! Hear our two cents on the subject and join us for the series where we'll have some folks speaking to how they've used it in their classrooms. AND, we are excited to discuss Frame.io …

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Feb. 21, 2023

090 | Dr. Charles Illingworth: Online Acupuncture? & A Manual of Acup…

We're joined by Dr. Charles Illingworth (Will's big brother) to talk about how in the heck they managed to continue teaching acupuncture during the pandemic. Join us for a few laughs, some awesome stories (stay tuned for Moon...

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Feb. 14, 2023

089 | Justin Phillips: Teaching Art Online & Google Jamboard

We are joined by Justin Phillips , Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs at Pennsylvania College of Art and Design . Justin and Will met over a bagel, and the rest was history! Listen to Justin's story about pivoting into the …

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Feb. 7, 2023

088 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 2 & Sutori

Part 2 on motivation! What does it take to design motivational elements into your curriculum or an activity? We think there are a few key pieces to consider and reflect on some examples of how to get this done. Then, …

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Jan. 31, 2023

087 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 1 & Asana

Part one of a two part conversation on motivation. This episode focuses on underlying motivation theories as well as the relationship between motivation and emotions. We hope you find it motivating. After that, we investigate...

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Jan. 24, 2023

086 | Plagiarism Pandemic: ChatGPT & Diigo

That's right, folks! We're tackling the hot topic of OpenAI's ChatGPT . What is a chat bot? Are these things new? Why does everyone care so much? We answer these questions and more as we reminisce about SmarterChild , address...

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Jan. 17, 2023

085 | Casey & Things You Wish You Knew (as a first time teacher)

Casey returns for a fun conversation about the next stage in her journey: teaching! We've followed her from her master's degree in non-profit leadership to her becoming a secondary education theater and speech teacher for a p...

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Jan. 10, 2023

084 | Philosophy of Technology & Code.org

Season 3 kicks off with a philosophical chat on technology. Why do we use it? How should we use it? Is it good for learning? Lots of fun. Then, we end the episode out with a chat on Code.org . …

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