Podcasts about empowering modern learners

On today's episode of the Illumination by Modern Campus podcast, host Amrit Ahluwalia was joined by Jocelyn Widmer to discuss the wider role digital education plays and how land grant institutions can leverage this new form of education to execute on their mission. 

Join co-host Beth Lyons as she explores how school library professionals are “leveraging their LLC” using the Canadian School Library graphic as a starting point for discussion. The panel discusses book circulation as we work to keep staff and students safe as we adopt curbside pickup or a delivery model. An important piece of the puzzle is how might school library professionals provide curriculum support due to repeated re-organizations of staff into different assignments, a lack of tech devices as they are being given out to online students and not available to those learning in the face-to-face model. The panel shares how they are creating and curating lists of available resources and making “how-to videos” to support the needs of their community, especially as the virtual library learning commons becomes a more central piece of how the library functions. The current role of various communication tools and how we are getting the needed information to families is considered as many boards look at which tool- Google Classroom/Site, Brightspace, and/or Messenger, can be used as Virtual Learning Environments and the importance of building capacity with these tools in order to best serve the needs of our learners. Finally the panel looks at collection building- what are school library professionals looking to purchase and use to build a rich and diverse collection especially in light of the Ministry report highlighting the anti-Black racism in PDSB and the ongoing societal shift as we open our eyes to the need for these materials. On a personal note, I want to thank the four educators who joined me to discuss their current roles and goals as we returned to school for the 2020-2021 school year. The emotion and stress attached to all educational roles this year as educators work to pivot to our new reality while still working to support students as best they can is palpable and I am grateful for their trust in sharing their stories. ~BethThanks to our guests:Jonelle St Aubyn @Ms_St_AubynDawn Telfer @DawnTelferJess Longthorne @LongthorneJessDiana Murrell @Murrell_TLCSL Graphic- https://www.canadianschoollibraries.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CSL_LeverageYourLLC.pdfJonelle St Aubyn mentions “EML” which stands for Empowering Modern Learners from the PDSB. Books MentionedI Will See You Again by Lisa BoivinThe Forgotten Home Child by Genevieve GrahamPunching the Air by Ibi ZoboiThe Third Path by Dr. David Tranter, Lori Carson, and Tom BolandThe Last Houseguest by Megan MirandaI'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing BrownWe Have Always Been Here by Samra HabibMystery authors- Ruth Ware and Mary KubikaPodcasts Mentioned:88 Cups of Tea

Welcome to the final episode of Empowering Modern Learners for Season 1, the 2017-2018 school year. In this episode, Jim and Amit look back over the season and highlight a few favourite moments from guests they have interviewed. They also listen to some bloopers from the past 34 recording sessions and share some laughs. Nicole James and Emily Farkas also join in and talk about next year's podcast. 

In this episode, Jim and Amit provide some commentary and connections to Empowering Modern Learners while listening to various guests who stopped by to chat at the annual Digital Tool Summit that took place May 12, 2018.

In this episode we interview Jim Blackwood, who is the Head of Innovation at Jean Augustine Secondary School. He shares the work the school is doing around Service, Advocacy, Innovation & Leadership (SAIL) and how it connects to Empowering Modern Learners.

In this episode, Will Richardson talks with Lawrence DeMaeyer about the realities of deep change at Peel School Board outside of Toronto, Ontario. Lawrence received his Masters in Education from the University of Toronto, and in recent times has lead much of the development of many of the elements of the Peel School Board’s  Empowering Modern Learners initiative. As such he is now Peel Board's coordinating Principal of Modern Learning and guiding the implementation of the new vision for modern learning. His responsibilities include: implementing the new vision: Empowering Modern Learners coordinating professional learning and training that aligns with Ministry of Education and district priorities championing e-learning supporting principals and vice-principals with technology and data-related matters supporting protocols and practices to ensure that all data is clean, accurate, accessible, secure and available for integration advising Learning Technology Support Services regarding the appropriateness of software and hardware solutions Highlights from their conversation include: What are the learning outcomes that you’re aiming for and how can technology play a role in helping that to really happen How did you go about getting to that point where you could put a consistent definition to some of those bigger terms? How is this new vision vision different from what the traditional experience of classrooms has been in Peel? Why are we dividing our school day into 75 minute blocks or 40 minute blocks in some places and forcing kids to switch from a Science hat to a Social Science hat to a Math hat in 40 minute intervals? Given we work really hard as educators to try and control the learning outcomes for students.  We’ve predetermined what it is that they need to learn, and how they go about learning it.  That’s a very teacher focused, or teacher centered point of view or perspective on a learning process. What can we do about that? How do you unleash students’ ability to determine for themselves what some of their learning outcomes need to be, and how they’re going to go about building their capacity and competency to reach some of those outcomes? What is the role of instructional coaches? How can they best help teachers make pedagogy and their teaching and learning, the focus of how they use technology? Why it is important to provide teachers with some time to sit and talk about and work out for themselves, what a vision actually means in their school, with their community, in their classroom, and how they can leverage their own prior learning to make this happen, and where some of the gaps are. The importance of having top-down predetermined professional learning, whether it’s for administrators, or for teachers. Why you should be trying to get away the role, where we’ve taken away all the power and all of the voice and agency, away from the learner. Transcript for the show So, what’s it like to lead change at what may be the most progressive school district in one of the most educationally progressive places in the World? Hey, everyone, I’m Will Richardson, and that’s the question we’ll be discussing in this episode from season one of the 2017 Modern Learners Podcast, where we’re spanning the globe to find leaders who are setting a higher bar for relevant, sustainable change in their schools and classrooms. Lawrence DeMaeyer is the principal of Modern Learning for the Peel School board outside of Toronto, Ontario.  A board that serves about a hundred and forty thousand students.  Lawrence and his team at Peel made a huge splash last fall with the release of their long in the making new vision document titled, Empowering Modern Learners, Inspire, Innovate, and Ignite.  For my money, it’s one of the best articulations of modern learning that I’ve seen.  In our talk, we spent a lot of time on process, culture, building capacity to change,