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I've wanted to start a podcast for a very long time. However, I allowed fear to keep me from doing so. Well, not anymore. It's official...A Meaningful Mess Podcast is a thing and I can't wait to share it with all of you! Here is where you will find show notes, resources, and details related to each episode. I look forward to sharing and learning with you all as we come together to meaningful ways to engage today's learners, even when it's messy. |
Episode 4 - Learning by Doing and Through Failure in a Makerspace with Melissa Pardun
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Melissa Pardun is the Executive Director and Co-Owner of Maker’s Edge. Voted one of Waco’s “Top 20 Movers and Shakers,” Melissa has had her own winding road to get to her current position. With advanced degrees in business, communications, and theology, a makerspace isn’t where she planned to land. As an ordained minister, she splits her days between Maker’s Edge, hospice chaplaincy, and non-profit work training professionals and high schoolers about human trafficking through UnBound. She and her high school sweetheart have 3 children and live in a house that they built with their own hands. I hope that in listening to today’s podcast, you’ll be able to see how Makerspace can give students opportunities to learn by doing. Melissa shares such great insight and helps us realize the importance of getting out of their way and allowing them to sit in their struggle as they find ways to problem solve and create independently.
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Episode 3 - Opportunities to Share their Learning with Marlialice Curran
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Episode Notes:
In Episode 3, I had the privilege of interviewing Marialice Curran. Marialice Curran is the founder of the Digital Citizenship Institute and a great friend of mine. As a mother and a connected educator, she has served as an associate professor, middle school teacher, principal and library media specialist. As a pioneer in digital citizenship, she developed and created the first 3-credit digital citizenship course for teachers in the United States. She co-founded the digital citizenship chat in Twitter (2011) and the Digital Citizenship Summit (2015). She chairs the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) digital citizenship PLN and is a researcher, keynote and TEDxYouth speaker. On today’s episode, we will take the time to explore practical ways for students to share their work beyond the walls of the classroom. Twitter Resources: Mrs. Jalland @ellieprimary1 Timmy Sullivan @TimmySull1van Amy Storer @techamys #digcitcommit #digcitweek #digcit |
Marialice Curran
Twitter Handle - @mbfxc Website - www.mbfxc.com Digital Citizenship Institute DigCit Kids |
Episode 2 - Opportunities to Experience New Learning
Episode Notes:
In this episode, learn five practical ways to give your students opportunities to experience new learning as well as understand why this was such a priority in my own classroom.
3 Reasons that Every Student Deserves an Opportunity to Experience New Learning
1. No Fun - It's no fun to sit through something that you already know.
2. Missed Opportunities - Every moment spent sitting through something that they have already mastered is a missed opportunity to reach a deeper level of understanding or learn something new
3. Growth - Every learner deserves an opportunity to grow, not just struggling learners. Just because a student understands or has mastered a concept, doesn’t mean that there is not an opportunity for growth.
5 Practical Ways to Give your Students Opportunities to Explore New Learning
1. Coding - Scratch and Scratch Jr.
2. TED Talks - TED Connections from Mensa for Kids
3. Wonderopolis
4. Chess - ChessKid
5. Writing - Book Creator
To experience new learning as an educator, please visit Learn with Andi on my website.
Episode 1 - Identifying Core Beliefs to Anchor your Teaching Practices
Episode Notes:
In this episode, I share a little bit about why I am starting the podcast, my story, and how my core beliefs became an anchor for me as I began to take risks and do things differently in my own classroom. My core beliefs are...
⚓ I believe that every student deserves an opportunity to experience new learning.
⚓ I believe that every student deserves an opportunity to share their learning.
⚓ I believe that every student deserves an opportunity to learn from failure.
⚓ I believe that every student deserves an opportunity to learn by doing.
⚓ I believe that every student deserves an opportunity to pursue their passion during the school day.
Below are the five steps to not only identifying, but activating and sharing your own core beliefs.
1. Take some time to focus on what you believe to be true about education.
2. Write down 3-5 of those beliefs that you believe deserve your focus and attention.
3. Think about the ways that your beliefs can be "activated". In other words, how can you make it happen?
4. Post your core beliefs in a place that you will see them every single day.
5. Share your beliefs on Twitter using #makeithappenEDU and with anyone else that will listen.
You can read more about my core beliefs and creating your own on my blog.