Description:  Valeri Irvine is Professor of Educational Technology at the University of Victoria. She has been involved in Teacher Education, preservice and inservice, as well as grad studies focused on educational technology. She has been a leader in looking at education change, open education, and open pedagogy. She shares how …

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Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes 29 with Valerie Irvine – Creating Space, Time, and Agency

Description: Dave Sands and I discuss 7 Parenting Tips to help navigate the challenges of students learning at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. The 7 tips are: 1. Manage Expectations 2. Make a Schedule 3. Minimize Distractions 4. Learning occurs everywhere 5. Set daily and weekly goals 6. All screen …

Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes 28 with Dave Sands – 7 Parenting Tips for Learning at Home

   Description: Joe Truss and I start the conversation off talking about taking care of ourselves so that we can be better leaders. Then we move on to meditation in schools, and then on to what it means to be a culturally responsible leader. The focus is on hearing the …

Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes 27 with Joe Truss – Culturally Responsive Leadership

Description: Jonathan Sclater is an Elementary School Principal in Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. He completed a Master of Education curriculum studies degree in Imaginative Education from Simon Fraser University in 2011, and he was awarded The Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012. Jonathan is passionate about using imaginative thinking …

Podcasting Pair-a-Dimes 26 with Jonathan Sclater – Imaginative Learning

Description: “Every Day is a PD Day!” Kelly and I have been connected online for 14 years, starting on a blogging platform called ELGG, which included a number of different educator communities and social networking apps that predated Facebook and Twitter. Although we have never met face-to-face, we have been connected …

Pair-a-Dimes 25 - Kelly Christopherson

Description:  “Creating off-ramps for learning.” Mike Slinger is an educational thinker and leader. He and I have had many professional development adventures together and whenever we do, I like to  debrief our learning ‘out loud’. This conversation happened at the San Diego airport after #DesignCamp on Saturday January 26ht, 2019. The …

Pair-a-Dimes 24 – Mike Slinger

Description: Dr. John Sarte, from Inquiry Hub Secondary, and I joined other Canadian educators and headed down to San Diego. On this whirlwind 48 hour trip, we visited 2 schools, High Tech High and Vista Innovation and Design Academy (VIDA Middle School). This is our reflection on the first night, …

Pair-a-Dimes 23 – Dr. John Sarte

Description: Miguel Guhlin and I go on a road trip to St. Gabriel’s Catholic School and Manor New Tech Middle School in Austin Texas. Join us as we reflect on our visits in Miguel’s car between and after the visits. Show Notes: [Listen Now *Direct link to mp3] Miguel Guhlin Personal …

Pair-a-Dimes 22 - Miguel Guhlin on a Road Trip in Austin, Texas

Description: Jeff Richardson and I talk about his role as an instructional coach, tools like Google Earth, and the value of understanding what it is you want to do with any tool, before you start to use it.  Show Notes: [Listen Now *Direct link to mp3] Jeff Richardson – Blog: Changing Their …

Pair-a-Dimes 21 – Jeff Richardson

Description: This David Jakes interview was recorded at the 2018 SXSW (South by South West) EDU Conference in Austin Texas. Accompanied by Jeff Richardson, we light-heartedly touch on some of David’s ‘hot buttons’, and we pick his brain on designing learning spaces, both with and without a budget.  Show Notes: …

Pair-a-Dimes 20 – David Jakes

Description: I visited Josh Abrams at Meridian Academy with Mike Slinger and Evan Sharp, and I can’t begin to share in a brief description how many amazing quotes came out of the conversation. So I made a poster: 2di.me/abramsquotes and the full quotes are shared on the podcast page: 2di.me/abramspodcast. …

Pair-a-Dimes 19 Josh Abrams

Description: Remi Kalir sits down with me after the ‘2017 CANeLearn Symposium & BC Digital Learning Conference’ and we discuss Educator Agency. The conversation enters personal spaces, and reveals how our identities influence and play upon our abilities to have agency as both educators and learners. Show Notes: [Listen Now] …

Pair-a-Dimes 18 – Remi Kalir

Description: Barbara Bray shares a great life hack, using checklists to feel good as well as get things done. She broke her neck, and it inspired her to change careers and become an educator. (She went from dental flossing to mental flossing.) She also loved to dance and had a …

Pair-a-Dimes 17 - Barbara Bray "Discover your purpose."

Description: Join Grant Frend and I on a drive home from a Flexible Schools Network meeting. This conversation is for anyone interested in models of learning outside of the more traditional block schedule. Hear Grant share why vision, not stuff, gets funded and why he hires Swiss Army Knives and …

Pair-a-Dimes 16 – Grant Frend

Description: Experiential Learning is the theme of this conversation with Zoe Branigan-Pipe. We discuss designing and creating spaces where learners want to collaborate and learn together… Spaces that invite learners to extend their learning out into the community, where true learning happens! Show Notes: [Listen Now] Zoe-Branigan Pipe (@zbpipe on …

Pair-a-Dimes 15 – Zoe Branigan-Pipe

Podcasts by David Truss and his PLN on Education, Technology, and Learning

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