The Digital Learning Podcast
Matt Miller and Holly Clark
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The podcast all about blended learning, Where we look at research based lesson ideas and leave you with ideas you can use in your classroom or school tomorrow. Perfect for the teacher and leader who wants to understand the full power of blended learning.
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The Changing AI Classroom with Peter Paccone
Peter Paccone, a high school social studies teacher in California, saw the benefits of generative AI as soon as ChatGPT came out in 2022. Since then, he's been incorporating it into his practice but also championing its use in Advanced Placement classes and to promote instant feedback with students. In this episode, Holly and Matt ask Peter about his experiences -- and why he believes so strongly in the power of AI on equity in education.
You can connect with Peter on Twitter/X @PeterPaccone
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Nov 12, 2023
Give Students Choice with Digital Explore Boards
Students have lots of content to master. But not all of it is connected to their interests or curiosities. Thankfully, we have ways to infuse student choice into what students are learning. Choice boards give students additional resources connected to what they're learning that are tailored to what students are into. In this episode, Matt and Holly tell you all about explore boards and how you can make them for your students.
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Resources:
* Using an Explore Board in the Classroom: The Outsiders HyperDoc Example from Holly Clark
* Personalize learning with Explore Boards from Matt Miller
* 🍿Watch this one minute Tik Tok on what this Explore Board is
* 🍿Watch this one minute Tik Tok of this Explore Board in action with students
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Nov 7, 2023
Chatbots in the Classroom
In this episode of the Digital Learning Podcast, Matt Miller and Holly Clark discuss how to create chatbots for use in the classroom. Chatbots can be a valuable addition to the classroom, providing students with personalized support and feedback. By following best practices, teachers can create effective chatbots that enhance the learning experience for their students. In this episode, Holly shares her experience creating a chatbot and ideas for using something similar in the classroom.
Resources:
* Poe.com Poe is a platform that lets people ask questions, get instant answers, and have back-and-forth conversations with a wide variety of AI-powered bots. It is available on iOS, Android, MacOS and web.
* Huggingface.co Hugging Face offers tools that enable users to build, train, and deploy machine learning models.
* ChatGPT Vision The new features include voice and image capabilities that allow users to have a voice conversation or show ChatGPT what they are talking about, and to snap pictures of objects and ask questions about them.
* Khanmigo Khanmigo is an AI-powered tool developed by Khan Academy that helps students and teachers with their learning and teaching. It gives suggestions and feedback to students as they write, debate, and collaborate, and provides personalized tutoring to learners of all backgrounds.
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Oct 31, 2023
Students and Artificial Intelligence
Let's be honest. Students are already using AI tools on their own, whether or not they're old enough or have permission. But they're not just using them to do their homework. In this episode, Matt and Holly share what they're hearing from teachers and students about how they're using AI to learn deeply -- and paint a picture of how it can be used to engage students and level up learning.
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Oct 23, 2023
Finding Thousands of Articles, Videos and Resources for Your Students
We want to provide students with high-quality articles, videos, and other resources so they can learn about new ideas. We love it when students can explore those resources on their own to learn. But we don't want to spend countless hours searching for them -- and vetting them. Where can we find great learning resources that we can share easily with our students? In this episode -- where he's flying solo! -- Matt shares several of his favorite sources of quality learning materials that you can put in your teaching materials and class activities or share easily with students.
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Read more:
* 20+ sources of FREE digital content for your class from Ditch That Textbook
* Personalize learning with Explore Boards from Ditch That Textbook
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Oct 16, 2023
Preparing Students for an Unpredictable Future with AI
It's hard to picture what the world will look like as AI grows and gets smarter -- even in the next few years. But it's up to our students to be prepared to survive and thrive in a world where AI will be a regular part of it. How do we prepare them? How do we even know what to do when there's so much that's unclear? In this episode, Matt and Holly think through it and provide some guidance.
More AI Resources:
AI for Educators book by Matt Miller
Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.
It’s bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?
AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.
* It translates AI through a teacher lens.
* It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
* It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time.
* It also paints a picture of the future our students will face—and provides questions you can help them grapple with.
We can use AI to empower teaching and learning. And it can start today.
The AI Infused Classroom book by Holly Clark
Ready or not . . . AI is here. Now. And it has concerned and curious educators asking questions:
* What are the strengths and weaknesses of artificial intelligence (AI) models, like ChatGPT?
* How do ChatGPT and other large language models change things like the writing process?
* What do we need to understand about large language models (LLMs) and AI’s ability to transform how—and how quickly—we can communicate with our students and peers?
* How can we teach students to use AI appropriately and in ways that enhance their learning experiences?
With the right mindset, the right questions, and the right strategies, you can use AI to create and broaden meaningful learning experiences for every student.
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Oct 12, 2023
How Students are Using AI in the Classroom
As educators better understand AI -- and as it spreads into our everyday lives -- it's finding its way into classrooms. How are students using it? How can we use it to level up learning? In this episode, you'll see what might make a student say, "AI isn't doing the work for me. It's helping me be a better thinker."
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Oct 2, 2023
AI Essay Grading and the Future of Education
According to a recent article, AI is now as good as a human at evaluating a standard five-paragraph essay and giving feedback on it. We know that AI can be helpful on saving us time. But is it making it more efficient at the right things ... at things that will really help students learn and prepare them for their future? In a solo episode, Matt shares some ways we can shift our thinking to really unlock the true potential that AI has for our classrooms and schools. He shares four places where we think AI is helping us -- and then paints the picture of how it can really transform learning instead.
Article: AI Can Grade a Student Essay as Well as a Human. But It Cannot Replace a Teacher
Infographic: Will Students Use AI on Classwork? It's Complicated
Join the Ditch That Textbook email newsletter for techy student engagement ideas based on Matt's book, Tech Like a Pirate.
Learn more about AI in the classroom with The AI Infused Classroom book by Holly Clark
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Sep 25, 2023
AI Image Generators in the Classroom
AI image generators will create gorgeous, high-resolution images for us. All we have to do is type a description of what we're looking for. We've heard lots of discussion about using large language models like ChatGPT in the classroom. Can we use AI image generators to lead to meaningful learning? Absolutely! In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about some of their favorite AI image generator tools. They talk about classroom activities that can be amplified by AI-generated images. And they talk about some of the implications to keep in mind while using these tools. After listening to this episode, you'll be excited and equipped to start adding AI-generated images to your teaching and learning.
More Resources:
AI image generators: 10 tools, 10 classroom uses
In this post you'll find:
10 things to know about AI image generators
10 AI image generators you can use in the classroom
10 classroom ideas that use AI image generators
AI for Educators book by Matt Miller
Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.
It’s bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?
AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.
* It translates AI through a teacher lens.
* It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
* It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time.
* It also paints a picture of the future our students will face—and provides questions you can help them grapple with.
We can use AI to empower teaching and learning. And it can start today.
The AI Infused Classroom book by Holly Clark
Ready or not . . . AI is here. Now. And it has concerned and curious educators asking questions:
* What are the strengths and weaknesses of artificial intelligence (AI) models, like ChatGPT?
* How do ChatGPT and other large language models change things like the writing process?
* What do we need to understand about large language models (LLMs) and AI’s ability to transform how—and how quickly—we can communicate with our students and peers?
* How can we teach students to use AI appropriately and in ways that enhance their learning experiences?
With the right mindset, the right questions, and the right strategies, you can use AI to create and broaden meaningful learning experiences for every student.
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Sep 18, 2023
Transparency with AI
In this episode of the Digital Learning Podcast, Matt Miller and Holly Clark, discuss the impact of using artificial intelligence (AI) in education and the importance of transparency when using it. The hosts mention that many students are starting to use AI assistants such as ChatGPT as they complete their schoolwork, which has left teachers in a difficult position of trying to teach students how to use AI in responsible ways while navigating the ever evolving landscape of AI themselves. Matt and Holly discuss what student transparency looks like in reference to the plagiarism graphic created by Matt (viewable below and at ditch.link/cheating).
Resources:
AI in the classroom: What’s cheating? What’s OK?
Now that generative AI tools like ChatGPT are available, classwork is bound to change as a result. How do we preserve academic integrity? What's cheating, and what's OK? Here are some ideas.
AI for Educators book by Matt Miller
Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.
It’s bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?
AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.
* It translates AI through a teacher lens.
* It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
* It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and save time.
* It also paints a picture of the future our students will face—and provides questions you can help them grapple with.
We can use AI to empower teaching and learning. And it can start today.
The AI Infused Classroom book by Holly Clark
Ready or not . . . AI is here. Now. And it has concerned and curious educators asking questions:
* What are the strengths and weaknesses of artificial intelligence (AI) models, like ChatGPT?
* How do ChatGPT and other large language models change things like the writing process?
* What do we need to understand about large language models (LLMs) and AI’s ability to transform how—and how quickly—we can communicate with our students and peers?
* How can we teach students to use AI appropriately and in ways that enhance their learning experiences?
With the right mindset, the right questions, and the right strategies, you can use AI to create and broaden meaningful learning experiences for every student.
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Sep 11, 2023
AI and Classwork: How to Get the Right Mix
In this episode of the digital learning podcast Matt and Holly discuss the impact of using artificial intelligence to write essays. They discuss what place essays play in the future of learning and how other examples of classwork change. As we think about AI in the classroom how should we adjust? Should we adjust?
Resources:
AI in the classroom: What’s cheating? What’s OK?
Now that generative AI tools like ChatGPT are available, classwork is bound to change as a result. How do we preserve academic integrity? What's cheating, and what's OK? Here are some ideas.
AI for Educators book by Matt Miller
Artificial intelligence may change the world more than the iPhone, the internet, or even electricity.
It’s bound to change education. (It already has.) But how?
AI for Educators is a readable guide for educators.
* It translates AI through a teacher lens.
* It provides practical ideas you can use in class right away.
* It unlocks powerful ways to streamline teaching and s…
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Sep 5, 2023
What's New with Artificial Intelligence?
In this episode of the Digital Learning Podcast, Matt and Holly discuss the latest developments in artificial intelligence and how they impact education. They highlight the benefits of using AI in education, such as the ability to use AI to assist with lesson planning. They also discuss the impact of ChatGPT4 and ChatGPT5, along with other tools that are beginning to integrate AI into their user experience.
More AI resources:
ChatGPT, Chatbots and Artificial Intelligence in Education from Ditch That Textbook
AI just stormed into the classroom with the emergence of ChatGPT. How do we teach now that it exists? How can we use it? This post provides an overview of ChatGPT and tons of resources about AI and it's place in the classroom.
30 AI Tools for the Classroom from Ditch That Textbook
Artificial intelligence is growing by leaps and bounds. It's no longer science fiction anymore!
Lots of AI tools can serve as our own personal assistants -- answering questions, helping us write tex…
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May 24, 2023
TONS of FREE Summer PD
When the summer comes around, it's definitely time to relax, disconnect and recharge your batteries. But it's also ME time, where you get to learn what you want to learn. Thankfully, there are tons of professional learning opportunities over the summer. In today's episode, Matt shares lots of the things he's excited about.Â
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* AI Infused Classroom: A free learning event -- Inspiring ideas to shift teaching and maximize learning in a world of AI, 10 sessions, 10 days, 10 challenges. Sessions come out July 15 to Aug 15. infused.link/ai-infused ... Register to get the ChatGPT and AI in Education Resources Slides, including: AI bias and misinformation help guide, quick start guide for teachers and students, and AI lesson upgrade ideas. Register for FREE here
* Wakelet Community Week -- "promises to be the biggest, boldest, and most exciting online EdTech event of the year!" Immerse yourself in a week of exclusive sessions, keynotes, networking, and giveaways - boosting your p…
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May 16, 2023
The Connection Between AI and Academic Integrity
In this episode, of the Digital Learning podcast Matt and Holly discuss the connection between AI and academic integrity. Many students are starting to understand the capabilities of AI assistants such as Chat, GPT, Bard, and Microsoft's Perplexity and are using them to cheat on their schoolwork. This has left teachers in a difficult position of having to teach in the current environment while also trying to keep up with the evolving technology and changing landscape. Matt and Holly discuss the difficulty of knowing how much cheating is being done without openly discussing AI in the classroom and the use of AI detectors to detect plagiarism.
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May 9, 2023
Blended Learning with Book Creator and Microsoft Flip
In this episode of The Digital Learning Podcast, Holly shares her experience of providing professional development to teachers at a school with diverse student populations. She introduced the concept of blended learning and encouraged teachers to use digital tools to engage and differentiate their students. Holly showcased the Microsoft Flip and Book Creator tools and their ability to help students create rather than just consume information.
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Apr 18, 2023
10 Ways to Make Learning Stick at the End of the Year
In this episode, we get nerdy with some cognitive science! Matt and Holly share 10 tips, backed by brain science, that lead to long-lasting learning. They're little shifts that often don't take extra prep time or many instructional minutes. But the benefits of them are long-lasting. You can use lots of these practices right away to help student learning stick in time for end-of-year tests.Â
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Read more:
* 10 ways to use the science of learning in class
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Apr 13, 2023
End the Year with Digital Portfolios and Reflection
In this episode of the podcast, Holly and Matt celebrate that the end of the school year is getting closer and closer! As students start wrapping up their work for the year, digital portfolios and reflection can be a big help. Students can use digital portfolios to display their best work -- what Holly calls a "showcase portfolio." Or they can select items that demonstrate all of their growth throughout the year. It's OK if you haven't been adding to portfolios all year long. It's not too late! Also, we discuss the power of reflection -- a quick practice you can add in just a few minutes that brings important transfer and lasting learning.Â
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* Student Digital Portfolios Made Easy with Wakelet
* 15 ideas for digital end-of-semester final projects
* 7 strategies to thrive at the end of the semester
* Ditch That Textbook's end of the year reflection templates
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Mar 28, 2023
Learning from One School's Crackdown on ChatGPT
What happens when a disruptive technology like ChatGPT is on a collision course with your school's policies and practices?
In this episode of the Digital Learning Podcast, we explore the reaction of a Florida high school to its students using ChatGPT in their classwork. Whether you've had to confront these issues in your school or not, this serves as a case study to examine when it's time to have those conversations.
We discuss the importance of having conversations -- with students, with parents, and among school staff -- about appropriate use. We also talk about the importance of having conversations before handing out punishments.
This episode will help equip you for your own conversations and decisions in your school and school district.
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Mar 22, 2023
How ChatGPT and AI assistants Can Save Us Time
In this episode of The Digital Learning Podcast we discuss how ChatGPT and AI assistants can help teachers save time and be more productive. We cover the benefits of AI for summarizing chapters, generating lesson plans, and assisting with IEPs and emails. While AI can provide feedback and rubrics, we also acknowledge that human interaction and personalized approaches remain essential for effective teaching.
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Mar 14, 2023
Rethinking Writing in a World of AI
In this episode of The Digital Learning Podcast, we're discussing how to incorporate AI, specifically ChatGPT, into your classroom to change the way you think about writing. Our guest, Jill Pavich, shares practical ways to use AI to enhance the writing process and empower your students.
As teachers, we're always looking for ways to make our students' learning experiences more meaningful and engaging. AI tools like ChatGPT can help us do just that. Rather than relying solely on AI-generated content, Jill encourages teachers to encourage students to add their own human touch to their writing. By leveraging their interests and passions, AI tools can stimulate ideas and save time.
Jill highlights the speech-to-text feature as a valuable tool for both students and teachers. By embracing AI tools, we can work smarter and give our students more meaningful experiences.
So if you're looking to incorporate AI into your classroom, this episode is a must-listen. Tune in to discover how ChatGPT…
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Mar 7, 2023
Revolutionizing Writing in 2023: AI and Authenticity
In this episode, we hear from Jill Pavich, a former high school English language arts teacher who coaches teachers to develop authentic learning and writing in real contexts. Jill discusses how writing is changing in the digital age and how we can prepare students for writing in 2023 and beyond. She emphasizes the importance of valuing academic writing while also incorporating writing that is authentic and relevant to students' lives, such as social media and video. Jill also discusses the role of ChatGPT, an AI language model, in the writing process and how it can be used to help students overcome the intimidation of starting and to focus on the revision phase. Finally, Jill encourages educators to shift the conversation from "kids need to write" to "kids need to edit" and to let go of the stigma of social media as a valid form of communication.
Connect with Jill at jillpavich.com
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Feb 28, 2023
ChatGPT in Schools: What You Need to Know
In this episode of The Digital Learning Podcast, we discuss ChatGPT - an AI language model developed by OpenAI. We talk about how teachers can still use it and copy over the responses for their students to use even though it's age-restricted. We also discuss how AI is changing the writing process and information literacy, and what will become the most important part of writing in a world of AI.
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Feb 15, 2023
Lessons in AI from an AI App Developer
Everyone seems to be talking about artificial intelligence right now -- and its impact on education. Now that ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence assistants are going mainstream, how does it affect education? We've discussed this with educators. Now let's talk to someone in the tech industry. In this episode, Matt interviews Jens Seip, co-founder and CEO of Curipod, an AI tool that will build you interactive presentation slides on any topic. He shares insight from inside the tech landscape -- plus some tips and things that teachers should keep in mind.
Curipod website: https://curipod.com/
Generate a ready-to-use interactive slide deck right now: https://curipod.com/ai
Follow Curipod on Twitter: https://twitter.com/curipodofficial
Follow Jens on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JensSeip
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Feb 7, 2023
The Buzz from the TCEA Conference
Matt and Holly just attended the TCEA Conference in San Antonio, Texas. They presented on ChatGPT and AI in Education together ... but there were other things that everyone seemed to be talking about.
They noticed the long lines to attend some sessions and figured out what a big topic of conversation was -- creating in the classroom!
In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about the importance of classroom creation -- one of the building blocks of blended learning -- and some tools you can use to help your students create, too.
We were also joined by Stevie Frank, an educator from Indiana who has helped her students to create podcasts.
In this episode, we mentioned several tech tools:
* Book Creator (http://bookcreator.com)
* Microsoft Flip (http://flip.com)
* Apple Clips (https://www.apple.com/clips)
* Soundtrap (http://soundtrap.com)
For more information about the Digital Learning Podcast -- and to subscribe! -- visit our website at http://digitallearningpodcast.com
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Jan 17, 2023
3 Authors, 1 Show, Lots of Ideas
Description: Matt traveled to Samsung's offices in New York and New Jersey recently and met up with a few education authors with big ideas. Hear what their books are all about and some important takeaways from those books that will get you thinking or teaching differently -- whether you buy the books or not!
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Guests include:
* Dr. Monica Burns, education consultant/author, Class Tech Tips
* Dr. Micah Shippee, Samsung professional development director
* Dee Lanier, author, speaker, and Samsugn professional development consultant
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Jan 2, 2023
The Ditch Summit Recap
In this Ditch Summit recap, we talk about the sessions you don't want to miss to help narrow down which ones you absolutely will want to watch. Hurry access to The Ditich Summit ends Jan 6th. Get your FREE access at ditchsummit.com.
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Dec 13, 2022
Places for Students with Free Time on Their Hands
In this episode, Matt and Holly dscuss some great lesson ideas for that time before the break. This includes six sites that get students having fun and learning to think about the world around them.
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Dec 8, 2022
Creative Lesson Ideas for End of Semester
In this episode, Matt and Holly dscuss six creative lesson ideas for the classroom. From a very powerful HyperDoc to Passion Projects this episode will focus on how we can give students more agency in their learning.
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Dec 6, 2022
How to Upgrade Digital Assessment in our Classrooms
In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about how we can go beyond quizzing apps to really powerful assessment practices in our digital classrooms.
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Nov 15, 2022
Assessment and Practice with Quizzing Tools
In this episode, Matt and Holly look at digital quizzing tools. They deconstruct the pros and cons and offer ways to use these digital tools most effectively in the classroom.
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Nov 8, 2022
Pizza, Airports and Blended Learning
In this episode, Holly and Matt unpack a few metaphors that might help teachers understand the parts of blended learning.
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Nov 1, 2022
What Does Blended Learning Look Like?
In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about what a blended learning class should look like and the upgrades educators could make that are simple but produce transformative results.
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Oct 25, 2022
The Building Blocks of Blended Learning
In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about some of the building blocks of blended learning. To be a good digital educator these six building blocks will help you ask the right questions, and think about what digital pedagogy should look like in the classroom.
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Oct 18, 2022
We're Talking Digital Citizenship
We discuss what digital citizenship is, where to find great resources (spoiler alert: it’s Common Sense), and how digital citizenship can show up in your class all throughout the year.
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Oct 11, 2022
Let's Start with Blended Learning
In this episode, Matt and Holly talk about the importance of blended learning, why we do it and offer a few quick suggestions for getting started.
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Oct 4, 2022
What is the Digital Learning Podcast
In this episode, Matt and Holly take three minutes to introduce their new collaboration- The Digital Learning Podcast meant to inspire educational leaders and future thinking teachers to find their blended learning genius.
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