edmoves: Recent Episodes
Serena Hicks, PhD
Edmoves podcast highlights pedagogy moves in teaching settings across K-12 and higher education. Its topics include timely, authentic, transparent conversations from experts who teach like everyone's watching!
In this episode, Dr. Anthony Saba shares strategies for building community in an online classroom.
Anthony is an Instructional Design Consultant at Boise State University. He is professor, designer, and human resource developer whose specialty is around effective and engaging learning. Anthony cuts through the theories of effective online learning and talk about the guts of it--what are we supposed to do?
This podcast is a master class in building community. Anthony shares a million ways that teachers can reimagine their content through a community lens and the importance of building a community that leads to learning. As we enter the heart of the fall semester, Anthony's expertise reminds us why and how to keep the culture of our classes strong.
Today on our podcast, Dr. Kim Jaxon shares the wisdom of the next right thing. How do we move forward together as a learning and teaching community when there are so many pressures and possibilities? How do we move with integrity?
Kim and I banter about public opinion around education, letting students lead the choice around technology tools, building student identity, and the power of a problem-based approach to teaching. Kim has practical ideas for how our students can be seen and heard, even behind a computer screen, and believes the hope of a bright future lies partly in our ability to innovate.
This episode is full of powerful reminders about who should be in charge of learning, and how to get out of our own way and defer to the experts--our students.
To connect with Kim and follow more of her work:
Kim’s articles (focused on digital pedagogy) for the Connected Learning Alliance here
“A Guide To Resisting Ed Tech: The Case Against Turnitin”
https://kimjaxon.com/?p=648
Peter Johnston is one of my teaching mentors, a Bright Spot whose words and ideas reach beyond the classroom into the way I see the world, my kids, my friends. I'm thrilled that he agreed to answer questions and muse with me about the state of teaching and learning.
Dr. Johnston is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Albany in New York. His long career of teaching, researching, and noticing has led to countless publications, awards, and conversations around building intellectually healthy classrooms, which, he believes, won’t be achieved without socially and emotionally healthy students.
His newest book, co-authored with six remarkable classroom teachers is called Engaging Literate Minds, K-3: Literacy Teaching That Grows Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives.
Peter and I talk about the importance of imagination, noticing, equity, and community. We talk about teachers and learners who pursue justice in the world because, perhaps, they learned to care about each other in the classroom.
You can reach Peter Johnston at pjohnston@albany.edu
You can also browse his collection of books and his upcoming events:
Engaging Literate Minds
Opening Minds
Choice Words
Literacy for All conference: Event Summary
Today in our podcast, Dr. Matt Townsley shares experiences shifting his practice to standards based and mastery teaching principles. The former middle school math teacher is now Assistant Professor at Northern Iowa University who teaches and researches topics around educational leadership. His new book, Making Grades Matter, released this year, and is a treasure of resources for building a standards based community.
My time with Matt felt like going to church! His experience and expertise rolls as stories and analogies that invite listeners to understand important shifts in assessment. Matt’s energy is infectious, and he explains the moves he makes around learning in a way that makes them accessible and exciting. Matt is a cheerleader for student learning and for supporting teachers in the process.
You can reach Matt Townsley at @mctownsley (Twitter) or www.mctownsley.net
Follow Serena Hicks and edmoves at:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/teachlikeeveryoneswatching
- Instagram: @teach_like_everyones_watching, @dochixboisestate
- Twitter: @HixDoc
Today in our podcast, Dr. Scott McLeod challenges what it means to be literate in the classroom. He shares his work at the intersection of technology and leadership as we explore the challenge to relinquish power and potential through the ways access to technology has been marginalized in every level of education for decades.
We might think this is a new problem, but Scott helps us understand what is truly at the center of transformative teaching, and that it’s more about leadership than the Learning Management System. He dismantles the “walled gardens” of education technology and how our use of technology can catch up to what our students might have known all along.
Learn more about Scott at:
Dangerously Irrelevant
@mcleod on Twitter
And numerous other social media platforms
Dr. Ryan Mallo shares practical ways to manage new stresses we are all experiencing. He is compassionate, funny, and he GETS it. He knows that teachers are also dads and moms and partners and friends.
Ryan holds advanced degrees in both nursing and educational leadership. He is a teacher and a medical health provider, which gives him a unique perspective into the lives and stressors on teachers. Ryan talks today about more than medicine. He shares the importance of a support system, of finding people and things that give us joy, and the warning signs unique to all genders.
Connect with Ryan at ryanmallodnp@gmail.com
Join a community of learners, teachers, thinkers and researchers as we move learning forward. In this introduction episode, Serena shares what brought her to this new way of sharing ideas and conversations about education. She explores why it's important to look UP, look OUT and listen for the encouragement, support, and passion in the voices around us. The edmoves podcast is a place to consider what’s possible, what moves you. It’s a safe space where you can dance with ideas that inform your practice, and just rest and enjoy hearing great stories of powerful teaching and learning. If learning floats on a sea of talk, then we have a wide ocean to explore.