Teach, Tech, Lead

With shoutouts to House of the Dragon, Spiderman and our upcoming live pod at The National Education Summit with Dr Haili Hughes, this episode has it all! In our latest #one-pager, Gus outlines a technique he calls Calling Across the Room, designed to keep students on task in a very visible and authentic way. Hope you enjoy it!

Many teachers use Learning Goals and Learning Intentions (or similar). Many others will be surface parts of study designs and give students lists of Key Knowledge of Key Skills dot points. None of these things are wrong, but in our latest one-pager, Gus and I discuss the ways in which we can help better define and reinforce with students the learning 'nodes' that they should be taking away in each lesson. Hope you enjoy it! One-pager link: https://angushumphries.substack.com/p/pedagogy-one-pager-14-whats-the-takeaway?r=7lhl7i&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
 

Gus and I were joined by Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath - a neuroscientist, educator, and researcher whose work explores how the brain learns and what that means for teaching in the real world. He's the author of The Digital Delusion, a thought-provoking book that challenges many of our assumptions about technology in education and asks whether more technology really leads to better learning. The conversation was wide ranging and thought provoking - we hope you enjoy it!

We know that our students have a limited 'cup' of ... for want of a better description... capacity, attention, focus! We have a tendency to fill their cups quickly and once this happens, the additional material we send in their direction, simply overflows their cup and is lost. After a prolonged lesson of chalk and talk, how much has really be retained? Is there a better way? In this one-pager, Gus and I discuss a method of chunking content that allows for students to process and transform the content to demonstrate what they have (or have not) understood. As Gus likes to say "Just do it Ringo!" (you'll have to listen to get the explanation!) Hope you enjoy it!
One-pager: https://angushumphries.substack.com/p/the-in-then-the-out?r=7lhl7i

Milica Savic is the Coordinator of Learning & Teaching at Wesley College's Elsternwick Campus and she joined us in studio for a great conversation about learning design, instructional coaching and building cultures of inquiry. Milica has been part of a team leading a whole-school transformation of professional learning through the development of Wesley's Personalised Professional Learning (PPL) framework, enabling teachers to engage in action research, peer coaching, and collaborative inquiry. Her work focuses on creating the conditions for deep professional thinking, sustained change in practice, and collective efficacy. Hope you enjoy it!

Gus and I recently had a chance to chat to Holly Wedd, the Head Teacher of Maths at Orara High School. Holly has received several teaching and leadership awards, and chatting with her even for this small amount of time, it was clearly evident why! Not only does she have a passion for Maths and education as a whole, her use of high impact teaching strategies in the classroom is both seemless and inspirational! We know you will enjoy this conversation!

The idea that we want (and need) our students to think seems quite uncontroversial right? In this modern age we find ourselves in, students will do their utmost to avoid thinking. Thinking is hard! It was certainly a challenge for us pre-AI but tech is continuing to make this difficult to enact in our classrooms. So what can we do? Well - so glad you asked! The solution isn't necessarily 'easy' but it's certainly much more attainable if we put this idea right out on front street. In this pod, Gus and I discuss his latest one-pager - "Thinking is Compulsory". Hope you enjoy it!

Glenn Solomons is a learning designer, course strategist and former school leader who helps educational consultants and school systems scale their impact through high-quality professional learning design. Through his company Cheeky Learning (https://www.cheekylearning.com.au/), Glenn works with educational thought leaders, government organisations and school systems to build blended and asynchronous learning experiences that create real change, not just course completion. Hope you enjoy it!
 

Trent Ray is the founder of The Cyber Safety Project and he joined Gus and myself for a chat about the challenges that schools, teachers and students face and the critical and evolving nature of the cyber safety landscape. Trent has a wealth of experience in the #Cybersafety field - driven from his own prior roles teaching and managing ICT in schools. You can reach out to Trent via the Cyber Safety Project at https://cybersafetyproject.com/ Hope you enjoy it!
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In the latest One-Pager from the #TeachTechLeadPodcast, Angus Humphries asks "Are they listening?" ... with the cheeky sub-title... "and why not?". Do we bombard students with long and verbose amounts of content and instructions, without first considering the cognitive load of students and how much they are actually taking in? I've linked the full One-Pager in the comments - hope you enjoy it!#Education #Pedagogy #Teaching #Q4T