Monica Burns: No Fear Tech Talk

03/19/20 • 66 min

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In this incredibly challenging time of new realities every day, I have put together a special episode with Educational Tech expert Dr. Monica Burns and long-time awesome home school mom Kelila Sicilano who started OURSandYRS: Our Online Village They each bring lots of sage advice, tools, tips and strategies for helping educators and parents figure this out and try to make it work. Please share this episode with everyone you know! And go to www.overthrowingeducation.com for tons of great resources.

Previous Episode

Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris: Why Robots Will Not Replace Teachers

Two of my previous guests, Jesse Stommel and Sean Michael Morris and I discuss digital pedagogy, bettering education, and why teachers will not be replaced by robots. However, In the Trenches, we have my 14-year old computer wiz son explaining why they just might be. Jesse and Sean play a super fun The 5-Minute Game Show after their interview. And I do want to give a shout out to all the great educators on twitter who inspired my Robo-Helper commercial by answering my question: What are school-related tasks you resent that take you away from actual teaching?

Next Episode

In the Trenches: Educators Reflect Respond Inspire

In this powerful episode, 12 educators in the trenches share their challenges, tips, tools and words of inspiration during this challenging time of a shut-down schools and distance learning. This is a double-sized episode that is filled with not-to-be-missed dispatches from all over the US (and one from Canada) representing all different communities and the difficulties they are facing along with the creative approaches these passionate educators are using.

The Best part is that this episode can be viewed as well at OverthrowingEducation.com. And I highly recommend watching because you can see the people who spoke with me. It’s amazing to see them as they tell their stories. And here’s the thing – just as there is a huge technological disparity that impacts how our students are able to access their learning right now, the video portion of this episodes shows the challenges of various WiFi connections, devices and so forth because some are clearer and smoother than others. I’m usually really picky when I edit my episodes, but this episode is very raw and real.

And I added some bonuses as well. I’m bringing back some of my favorite fauxmercials, one of which I fully animated.

Also, I’m doing something a little different for the The 5-minute Game Show. Instead of playing a game with my guest, because I had so many special guests today, this game show is strictly for you, the audience. So play along, and then submit your answers to [email protected]