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This Week in Canadian EdTech MindShareTV with Melissa Burns Exploring the Growth of eSportsedu across Canada

Danny is a visionary and thought-leader in the esports industry. As the Co-founder/CEO of Esposure Inc. and Esports Professor at SMU, he has aided in the professional development of students, interns, and post-graduates. These students have received esports scholarships and employment from acclaimed Universities and esports Organizations like Central Methodist University, Complexity Gaming, Pacers Gaming, and Mavs Gaming. Furthermore, he has provided opportunities for many esports players to play with professional franchises. Danny's passion for helping others has allowed him to speak at several high schools and universities, on panels in front of thousands of individuals. In his pursuit of connecting everyone to esports, he maintains relationships with the NBA, NFL, & music industry. Danny is always ready to talk about esports and is on a mission of helping 20,000 esports enthusiasts by 2025.

Kwesi Hayford is an Esports Evangelist, Creative Designer, and Digital Media enthusiast with a passion for youth culture, technology and education. He inspires and empowers young people to create opportunities for themselves in digital media for the socio-economic growth for Africa.Currently creating synergy, developing collaborations of Esports with all stakeholders both Ghana and internationally with the Ghana Esports Association which focuses on grassroots participation and content creation.Kwesi Hayford has been very instrumental in organizing Esports events and helping professional gaming communities develop.He is also founding member of the Africa Esports Championship. The dream to connect Africa with a Championship tournament is currently ongoing, with 20 countries already on board and committed to the project.Kiddie Esports is one of Kwesi's initiatives to help kids develop a growing interest in Esports and build and correct pathways via Education, Empowerment and Exposure.

Mr. Steve Isaacs has been teaching since 1992. In 1998 began teaching in Bernards Township, NJ where he developed an internationally recognized middle and high school game development program. Steve is an EdTech influencer, community builder, and leader in game-based learning. He has brought commercial video games including Minecraft and Fortnite into his classroom to support students as content creators. Steve is actively involved in building the K12 to College Esports pipeline and co-founded the #EsportsEDU community as well as Garden State Esports. He is one of the co-authors of the upcoming book: The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming. Steve was honored as the 2016 ISTE Outstanding Teacher and the PBS Digital Innovator representing the state of New Jersey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wondernamya/message

Who is Danny Martin? Danny has 10+ years of experience in the industry of Esports. He has aided in the professional development of students, interns, and post-graduates. These students have received Esports scholarships and employment from acclaimed Universities and Esports Organizations like Central Missouri University, Complexity Gaming, Pacers Gaming, and Mavs Gaming. He is also Co- Founder and CEO of Geekletes an organization that aims to provide support for the greater Texas area, whether in competitive gaming or career opportunity.

Bubba currently is the Executive Director of the Varsity Esports Foundation. This non-profit strives to increase literacy around the Esports industry’s positive impact on healthy lifestyles, mental health, community, STEM and digital citizenship. Bubba has worked in the non-profit and traditional sports industry for 20 years with the YMCA, NCAA, NAIA and the Chamber of Commerce. Three years ago he dove deep into the esports industry and partnered with esports organizations to create this foundation. He now works to educate businesses, organizations, and schools about being proactive around the foundation's initiatives.

About The Academy of Esports Founder, James O'Hagan An educator for 20 years, James has long believed that video games can promote a positive culture for students that engages creativity, communication, collaboration and critical thinking skills. He has served as an elementary, middle and high school teacher and administrator, and has worked with rural, urban and suburban students. In addition, James founded esports teams in two school districts that have blossomed into city-wide conferences. James is a national speaker on a variety of topics involving the intersection of technology and education, and is currently completing his dissertation in the field of instructional technology at Northern Illinois University.

With prior experience as an esports commentator, Justin Varghese is the North American Marketing Manager at DreamHack. the Swedish production organization specializing in esports tournaments and other gaming conventions. Justin's role revolves around carefully planning and executing regional activations to galvanize key markets and demographics, while simultaneously scoping out larger plays to increase brand awareness on the western hemisphere. DreamHack Dallas  2020 May 22 - 24. Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center, Dallas, TX, USA.    

Charles Reilly: Co-Founder of the High School Esports League. Charles oversees the customer onboarding experience as well as the customer support team. He co-founded the company in 2012 and has helped grow the HSEL to 2500+ schools and 75,000+ students. Aaron Hawkey: is the CTO and a Co-Founder of the High School Esports League. Since being involved in the esports community in both high school and college, Aaron has used his experience combined with his passion for technology to build HSEL and help revolutionize the landscape of esports in education.   High School Esports League Mission Make Esports available to every student as a legitimate varsity level sport in high schools across the nation. We achieve this by making it easy for faculty to offer students an opportunity to engage in healthy Esports competition, surrounded by peers, and supervised by teachers.  Through organized Esports competition students will tie their commitment to gaming to their success in academics and future careers.   Spring Major 2020 You won't want to miss out on this Spring Major with up to $1,000 in scholarship money up for grabs... that's up to $1,000 per starting player! Before you can even think about those sweet sweet scholarship bucks, make sure you're signed up and ready to go. Here are the Spring Major 2020 key dates: Season: 3/23 - 5/15 | Playoffs: 5/23 - 5/31 | Finals: 6/1 - 6/5 https://www.highschoolesportsleague.com/  

Carrie Linden, AKA Chocmoojoo, is an active streamer, gamer, parent and educator. She works in California where she is the Director of Gaming for Education at Progressive Learning Academy. She has a Masters in Education and a certificate in Esports Management from the University of California Irvine.You can find her online captaining a ship with her father in the popular game "Sea of Thieves," or on Twitter helping to moderate the #EsportsEDU discussions on Thursday evening at 7:30pm Eastern Time. In this episode of The Academy of Esports Podcast, we talk about her life as a parent of an active competitive gamer, steps she takes to develop her community in an online environment, and her thoughts about engaging with others within the esports space. -- Carrie Linden (LinkedIn // Twitter) Progressive Learning Academy Sea of Thieves Todd Marinovich: Learning to Be Human Again With Dad's support, one teen is playing ‘Fortnite' instead of going to high school -- Esports is organized competitive video games allowing schools to redefine their athletic culture, diversify opportunities for student participation, promote physical and mental health, increase collegiate scholarship pathways, and play games! We cannot forget the importance of play! James O'Hagan (LinkedIn // Twitter) is the Founder and Host of The Academy of Esports podcast. The Academy of Esports (Website // Twitter) You may email any questions or topic suggestions to contact@taoesports.com. -- Music provided Royalty Free "8 Bit Adventure!" Querky Fun Game Music by HeatleyBros iTunes: https://goo.gl/M3b16f Spotify: https://goo.gl/5SbVuk License: https://goo.gl/jadB5E Twitter: https://goo.gl/fKqyrj Facebook: https://goo.gl/PrsTvS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/support

Steven Spohn is our guest today and he began his journey in the world of accessible gaming as a gamer with disabilities himself. He’s now an author and the Chief Operations Officer and Community Outreach Director for the AbleGamers Foundation. Steven shares his thoughts on when “gated communities” for gaming are appropriate, advocates for insurance companies to cover gaming as social therapy, and much more in this engaging conversation.

Steve Isaacs joins us today to talk about using gaming in the classroom. He clarifies the difference between gamification and game-based learning, shares his insights as a game design and development teacher, and speaks about his involvement with Minefaire, the #1 Minecraft event in the United States.

Dr. Kathryn Ringland joins Mai Ling to share with us how she used the Autcraft Minecraft server as a research environment to learn first-hand how it was benefitting autistic kids. In addition to sharing what she learned from the research project, Kathryn tells how she is using the data she collected and how others can use it as a resource for similar efforts. She also talks about the recent founding of her own non-profit and gives us 3 tips that we can take action on in our own projects.

Stuart Duncan runs the Minecraft server, Autcraft, and he is with us on the show to share his experiences with us. Autcraft is a Minecraft environment created especially for kids of all ages with autism to play the game in a safe setting. Stuart tells us the origin of the idea for the server, a bit about his background, and the volunteer team he’s put together on the server. He also explains how running Autcraft led to him giving a TEDx Talk and he also talks about his approach to preparing for it.

Immediately following the panel presentation of J Collins, Dr. Liz Newbury, Tristan Wheeler and Steve Isaacs at ISTE 2019, I sit down with them and Bradford Harris to go a little deeper into some of the topics and perspectives facing the #EsportsEDU world including questions of access, equity, and our thoughts about the current issues swirling around Riot Games in relation to our student programs. A truly fantastic episode! -- Participants: J Collins (LinkedIn // Twitter) Dr. Liz Newbury (LinkedIn // Twitter) Tristan Wheeler (LinkedIn // Twitter) Steve Isaacs (LinkedIn // Twitter) Bradford Harris (LinkedIn // Twitter) EsportsEDU on Twitter Riot Games Exposé How to Spell "esports" -- Esports is organized competitive video games allowing schools to redefine their athletic culture, diversify opportunities for student participation, promote physical and mental health, increase collegiate scholarship pathways, and play games! We cannot forget the importance of play! James O'Hagan (LinkedIn // Twitter) is the Founder and Host of The Academy of Esports podcast. The Academy of Esports (Website // Twitter) You may email any questions or topic suggestions to contact@taoesports.com. -- Music provided Royalty Free "8 Bit Adventure!" Querky Fun Game Music by HeatleyBros iTunes: https://goo.gl/M3b16f Spotify: https://goo.gl/5SbVuk License: https://goo.gl/jadB5E Twitter: https://goo.gl/fKqyrj Facebook: https://goo.gl/PrsTvS --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/taoesports/support

In this episode, Mike and Glen discuss what is going with education in Ontario, the student walkouts, and teacher protests that have happened over the last week. They will debate if there is a better way for companies to spend their marketing budget than giving away swag. Our guest this week is Dr. Chris Haskell from Boise State University.References:Guest: Chris HaskellTwitter: https://twitter.com/haskellWebsite: https://dochaskell.com/Notes:#ChatOnEducation is a hit! - Thursdays - Questions at 9am, 12pm and 3pmOntario student walkouts April 4th: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-student-walkout-protest-education-1.5084024Is there a better way to spend conference marketing budgets? https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-04-04-tech-company-drops-conference-swag-in-favor-of-13-000-school-donationsToday's podcast is brought to you by:Classcraft: Are you in the middle of testing season? Are you looking for a way to engage and connect with your students? Go to classcraft.com/oneducation and you will receive the first month free on a monthly premium subscription. Premium features include Boss Battles for formative review and much much more!

Computer science teacher Tristan Miller has incorporated STEM courses across the K-12 spectrum, started an e-Sports team, and is working on cybersecurity in high school. Learn more about these programs and future work! [00:02:45] Question of the Week: What key skills best prepare students for a rapidly changing workplace? [00:03:55] Tristan Miller Interview [00:04:15] Building a CS program [00:05:00] Code.org & Scratch [00:06:30] Project Based Learning [00:06:55] Flipping the Classroom [00:07:45] Building Lifelong Learners [00:08:00] Computer Language Specifics [00:08:55] Design Thinking [00:10:30] Gender Disparity in CS [00:12:10] Cybersecurity Course in High School [00:15:35] Maintaining a Current CS Curriculum [00:17:10] Game Design Sequence [00:22:48] eSports [00:26:50] NASEF (http://www.esportsfed.org, #eSportsEDU) [00:27:22] Question of the Day (interview) tmiller@somervilleschools.org @MrMillerCodes

OnEducations' FETC 2019 coverage is brought to you by Classcraft! OnEducation listeners can go to classcraft.com/oneducation and use promo code ONFETC to get $16 dollars off a yearly premium license and a free class pack which includes 2 poster and 48 stickers for their students and classroom. Valid through end of February.In this episode Mike & Glen recap day three of FETC chatting about conversations with Piper, who make an amazing DIY laptop, Mike’s session on eSports with Steve Isaacs and our treacherous journeys back home to the cold.Rae Hughart on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RaeHughartTeach Better Team: https://teachbetter.com/Michael Cohen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheTechRabbiBUY THE BOOK!: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1949595102/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thetechrabbi-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=1949595102&linkId=f4add396bdae5693266ffd75be897fa7Mike & Steve's Slide Deck for eSportsEDU session: https://t.co/7ok4XpQj5G