EdTech’s Role in Helping Students Feel Engaged, Safe, and Productive, with Ryan Straight

Ryan Straight shares ways to use EdTech to help students feel engaged, connected, safe, and productive on episode 308 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast [divwrap class=”one-half first”] Quotes from the episode Leave the LMS to deal with the management portion of things and bring the community elsewhere, because that is where the engagement comes from. -Ryan Straight You have to be engaged first. -Ryan Straight The number one thing that I want students to do is be a person rather than just a username. -Ryan Straight Pedagogy comes first. The tool is just a tool. -Ryan Straight [/divwrap][divwrap class=”one-half”] Resources Mentioned Inkademic YouTube Channel Slack Episode 140: Thinking Outside the LMS with Steven Michels Steven’s video on organizing a class structure in Slack What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain* Ken Bain on Teaching in Higher Ed: What the Best College Teachers Do Chris Gilliard Chris Gilliard on Teaching in Higher Ed [/divwrap]