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ThinkingEDU 11: Break or Broken

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Over this Holiday Break, do teachers find themselves broken down from all the standardization and deprofessionalization that they experience or do they use the break to find their voice?

Mentioned:

Mindy Kuykendall
De-professionalization of Teaching
Carol Jago

About 20 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 10: Digital Is: Presentation Matters

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Merianna discusses the importance of teachers creating their own curriculum, why presentation is important and what teachers and learners can do to have more involvement and ownership over their own educational destiny in ThinkingEDU 10.

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Kevin Hodgson
Because Digital Writing Matters

About 20 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 9: Virtual Multiplication

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ThinkingEDU 9 brings Merianna to your ears via real bits to discuss the current hot-button issue of virtual schooling and learning. Is there a future for learning via the web? Are schools in for a major shift in coming decade? Have we already stepped over that line towards major reform? Merianna discusses the options in this one.

Mentioned:

WaPo: Virtual Schools are Multiplying

About 20 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 8: Jumping Through Hoops to Integrate Technology

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Merianna Neely investigates the ins-and-outs of integrating new technologies in classrooms and points out potential pit-falls and major successes that are possible.

Mentioned:

Why Social Media Can and IS Changing Education

The 10 Barries to Technology Adoption

About 20 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 7: Where Does Digital Literacy Fit?

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Merianna Neely (aka Teacher Without A Classroom) brings a new episode of ThinkingEDU with a discussion of the all-important issue of digital literacy and how it relates to what happens in/out of our classrooms.

Show Notes:

Intro Song: Trailer for Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Ending Song: Meatloaf “Two of Three Out of Three”

Mentioned:

Middle School Is Worse Than Meatloaf by Jennifer Holm
Don’t Let The Pigeon Run This App

About 22 minutes and change

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ThinkingEDU 6: Bad Teacher or Bad Marketing? Finding Your Teacher Voice

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Merianna Neely thinks about podcasting, thinking, bad teaching, bad marketing, good promotions and what it means to be a teacher in the new millenium.

Mentioned:

meriannaneely.com

teacherwithoutaclassroom.com

Bad Teacher

Intro Song: Teacher Teacher by Edwin Phillips
Closing Song: Vertical Horizon Finding Me

About 20 mins and change.

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ThinkingEDU 5: What Lies Ahead

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What happens when you take teaching down to its core? Can you be a teacher without a classroom?

Mentioned:

Why I Did TFA and You Shouldn’t

meriannaneely.com

Teacher Without A Classroom

About 20 minutes and change

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ThinkingEDU 4: Homework Hang Up

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Merianna Neely explores the tricky subject of homework and offers up a few suggestions for teachers in Episode 4.

Mentioned in this show:

Alfie Kohn

Do Kids Have Too Much Homework?

About 30 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 3: Simple Minded

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Merianna talks of blogs, blogging as pre-writing, classroom instruction, and the future of writing mechanics.

24 minutes and change.

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ThinkingEDU 2: Reboot the Year

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This week, ThinkingEDU host Merianna Neely is joined by Josh Rosenberg, a high school Biology teacher and soccer coach in Shelby, NC (Cleveland County, NC… not SC) for a discussion on student engagement and uses of technology in (and out) of the classroom.

Mentioned:

Josh’s Class Site

Josh’s StudyDesigned Blog

Generation Z from PrincipalsPage

56 minutes and change

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