#21 with Monica Burns, Classtechtips.com with Ron Reed, Executive Producer, SxSw Edu

#21 with Monica Burns, ClassTechTips.com with Guest Appearance from Ron Reed, Executive Producer, SxSw Edu‘On placing the task before the app’ show notes and further reading TX: August 2016

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• Ron Reed, Exec Producer, SxSw Edu on the Microsoft/Mac Book conundrum when you have Bill Gates speaking at your event (3:28)

• Interview with former NYC public school teacher Monica Burns @classtechtips of classtechtips.com on placing the task before the app and promoting deeper learning with technology.

• Engaging methods and tools for using scannable technologies like virtual reality, QR codes and augmented reality within the classroom in an accessible way ‘beyond the headset.’

• What are the opportunities and risks of an open educational resources policy?• Content creation tools which demonstrate student understanding

• Monica’s journey from chalk boards and overhead projectors to training on tech• How to engage in ‘disruptive education’ whilst also ‘respecting the process’ and time needed for change to happen; which

models are modernising education?

SAMPLE QUOTES

• ON MAKING VR ACCESSIBLE: ‘How are you going to translate this into a tool for teaching and learning when schools don’t have enough money for every student to have the devices you would like them to have’?

• ON WHAT MATTERS: “It’s more than just the technology…it’s so much about the pedagogy and the best practice.’ • ON SUSTAINABILITY AND EDUCATION CO-INCIDING: ‘Part of the funding for iPad purchases… came from this mission to be

more eco-friendly and paperless.’ • ON OPEN EDUCATION: ‘Whenever you have an open library…quality control can be an issue.’

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FURTHER READING

• Monica’s Book on Scannable Technologies: http://buff.ly/2bw9tNa • Virtual Reality:

• Nearpod: https://nearpod.com/nearpod-vr • Google Cardboard: https://vr.google.com/cardboard/

• Lit World: http://www.litworld.org/wrad/ • ISTE: http://www.iste.org/

• Apple Distinguished Educator: http://www.apple.com/education/apple-distinguished-educator/

• Edutopia: https://www.edutopia.org/users/monica-burns

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