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HiTech Podcast — 265 episodes

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256 | The Real Reason Nobody Has Time to Innovate

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255 | Can AI Replace Us? We Let NotebookLM Host Our Own Podcast

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254 | Why Every Team Needs an AI Mission Statement

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253 | Anthropic's New AI Got Pulled in 3 Days - Here's What Should Scare You

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252 | 1 in 5 Teens Have an AI Girlfriend

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251 | Amateur Hour Is Over — A Topia Pro Just Rebuilt Our Virtual World

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250 | Nvidia's RTX Spark: The "Personal" AI Revolution

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249 | Felix the AI Cat Is Making $300K — And It Has Us Asking Big Questions

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248 | Is Tech Destroying Our Kids? Dr. Justin Harbin Corrects Us

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247 | How to Get Your Own Personal AI Work Coach ft. Dan Wolchonok

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246 | Age Verification Laws Are Coming for the Internet — Should You Be Worried?

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245 | Stop Paying for Cloud Storage — Build Your Own with Jellyfin

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244 | Is Tech Damaging Our Kids?

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243 | AI Detection: Possible or Pointless? We Debate It

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242 | We Built a Chatbot That Refuses to Give Answers

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241 | Is Google Owning Your Life? Will's De-Googling Update ft. Proton

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240 | The Secret to Scaling AI? Corridor Crew Figured It Out First

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239 | Hot Takes, Hard Questions — AI Goes on Trial at Lancaster Learns

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238 | Ethical EdTech: Is AI in Education Moving Too Fast? ft Priten Soundar-Shah

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237 | Should AI Go to War? Anthropic's Pentagon Refusal Explains Everything

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236 | Spotify AI Music Fraud: Is AI Killing Real Artists?

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235 | OpenClaw: What Happens When AI Goes Unsupervised?

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234 | Minisode: In Sickness and in Health

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233 | STEM & AI with Jason McKenna at VEX Robotics

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232 | Scribe Tutorial Builder Review + the De-Google Journey Begins

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231 | I'm Leaving Google in 2026 (Here's Why) ft. Proton

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230 | Can Anyone Actually Compete with YouTube?

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229 | Building a HiTech World in Topia: The Future of Online Connection

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228 | Building Your AI Assistant in 2026: Claude Skills & Reusable Prompts

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227 | Start Your Podcast in 2026: Guide to Editing (No Skills Required!)

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226 | Gateway to America's Front Yard: How One Tool Connects Us to History ft. Bobby Koeth

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225 | AI Browsers - The Future of Web Automation? ft. Fellou & Perplexity Comet

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224 | AI Job Takeover or Holiday Cheer? ft. Steven Miletto

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223 | Starting a Podcast? Learn from Someone Who Just Hit Record ft. Ron Moore

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222 | Wrestling with 1X's NEO - Are We Ready for Humanoid Robots?

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221 | Real Talk About AI with Steven Miletto

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220 | Are We Overdependent on Tech? (AWS Outage) & Reflection App

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219 | HiTech Hot Take: Is Tech Poisoning Education?

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218 | Notion 3.0 Deep Dive

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217 | How to Podcast with AI ft. Descript

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216 | Delight & Impact in Virtual Learning ft. Topia

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215 | Rating Our Ultimate Travel Tech Setups

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214 | Build Apps with AI in Minutes - No Coding Required!

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213 | The Environmental Impact of AI - Should We Stop Using It?

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212 | OpenAI's Study Mode - Teaching Tool or Fancy Wrapper?

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211 | AI vs Expert - Can Claude Beat a Human at Board Games?

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210 | AI Toddlers Throwing Tantrums

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209 | Documentation Done Right (+ Our Scribe Review!)

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208 | Pirates vs. Purchasers The AI Smackdown

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207 | Technologists React: Sweeping Bad AI Under the Rug

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206 | Designing Effective Digital Experiences ft. Miro

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205 | Building Better Certifications with Tech

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204 | One Doesn't Simply Check for Integrity ft. Storyline

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203 | AI vs Real Photos Challenge: Can We Tell the Difference?

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202 | Bridge the Media Gap with AI ft. Synthesia

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201 | Systematic Decision Making - Stop Spinning Your Wheels ft. Miro

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200 | Will AI Make Us Dumber? + AI Image Generation Demo

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199 | Does AI Generate or Create?

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198 | Does Tech Make Life More Complicated? (+ Zapier Demo)

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197 | Breaking the Code Barrier ft. Claude AGAIN

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196 | Is AI Unfaithful? ft. Claude AGAIN

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195 | Adaptive Learning with AI ft. Alma AI

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194 | Slow Down ft. Reflection App

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193 | Grass Is Greener ft. Descript

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192 | Are There AI Experts? ft. Humane Tech

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191 | How to Build an AI Dust Buddy

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190 | Clean Up with an AI Dust Buddy

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189 | To Cite or Not to Cite AI? ft. Perplexity AI

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188 | Using AI to Make Games..AGAIN ft. Rosebud AI

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187 | Learning? on YouTube: Pie Bake Off

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186 | Learning? on YouTube: Bidet Install

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185 | Learning? on YouTube: Elvish

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184 | Using AI to Make Games ft. ChatGPT

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183 | Die SCORM Die ft. Storyline

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182 | Is AI Okay at Work? & Claude

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181 | Continuous Course Improvement & OSCQR ft. Robin S Jeffers

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180 | Eliminate Effort with AI & ElevenLabs

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179 | L&D Hot Takes! 🔥

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178 | Design a Successful Course

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177 | Best Holiday Tech Ever ft. Steven Miletto

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176 | Holiday Teach Tech Well

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175 | Holiday Together Tech

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174 | Human Tech: Thoughtfully Evaluate

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173 | Human Tech: Cautious Creativity

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172 | Human Tech: Be Clear on Why

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171 | Human Tech: Human Nature

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170 | Scary Tech

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169 | Write First, Meet Later ft. Writebook

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168 | Reclaiming the Internet ft. Bryan from HAX

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167 | Roasting Wasteful Big Tech ft. Framework

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166 | QR Adventures ft. Sophie Youngs

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165 | Evaluating without an instructor? ft. Typeform

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164 | Social Media Ruining the World?

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163 | Tech Savvy & Authentic Social Media ft. Chris Crosdale

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162 | AI, Storytelling & Space Pirates

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161 | Dadsigner: Agile Digital Collaboration

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160 | Consulting in Ed-tech & Goblin Tools

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159 | Old Tech Wars with Steven Miletto

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158 | Try Everything, Do Nothing

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157 | Thinking Outside Your Inbox

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156 | Anxiety Relief in a Tech-Crazy World

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155 | What essential types of tools do we need to be productive in a tech heavy world?

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154 | Why Isn’t Technology Making Us More Productive?

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153 | Meet the New HiTech Podcast

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152 | How to retain Teachers and staff plus a look at Synthesia

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151 | Master Stress-Free Living: How to Tame Notifications & Save Time with Loom's AI Video Magic

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150 | How Topia Makes the Internet More Human with Spatial Video & Interactivity ft. CEO Daniel

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149 | Is it Time to Ditch Turnitin and AI Checkers? Plus, a Dive into Lucidspark

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148 | Is Remote Proctoring More Harmful than Helpful? + looking at Vectormagic, unDraw, & Coolors.co

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147 | Creating Equitable Math Tutoring with AI ft. Simon Nicholas from Archer

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146 | Learning to Master Grant Writing and Podcasting in Education with Christie Cloud

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145 | Discussing How Teachers Can Craft Their Own AI Learning Spaces with Trevor from SchoolAI

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144 | How to Have a Holistic Approach to Mental Health with Harrison Parker from Linewize

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143 | Will the Apple Vision Pro Revolutionize Education? & a Look at Runway AI

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142 | Embracing Humanity in EdTech: A Deep Dive with Amanda Kocon from Edmentum

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141 | Unlocking Course Clarity: How to Make Your Content Accessible with Expert Lauren from Stickity

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140 | Discussing Reflection.app with Dave Radparvar

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139 | What is Culturally Responsive Teaching & Tarjimly? ft. Robin Jeffers

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138 | Mastering Figma for Education: Key Takeaways from David Curran

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137 | Sphero, eLuma, Renee Dawson & Book Creator, Amy Dujon & FETC

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136 | Discussing AI, Reading & Games with Shoelace, Antimatter & Beanstack at FETC 2024

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135 | A Deep Dive with Chris from ClassVR & playing with Adobe Express at FETC 2024

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134 | Is AI the Future of Curriculum Development? & Exclusive insights into Diffit!

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133 | Discussing AI & The Future of Education with Priten Soundar-Shah from Pedagogy.Cloud

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132 | Empowering Students with Immediate Mental Health Relief: ft. Elsa & Scott from Alongside

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131 | Unveiling Why Will Left Education and Checking Out The Escape Classroom

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130 | Ted Lasso Goes to College: Put the Student Before Your Objectives ft. Dr Charles Illingworth

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128 | Ted Lasso Goes to College: Tips for Providing Excellent Student Care & Exploring CommonLit.org

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129 | Ted Lasso Goes to College: We Need to Humanize Our Students ft. Steve Martinez & Kami

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Holiday Gift Giving Guide for Techies from HiTech Podcast & Teaching Learning Leading K-12

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127 | Ted Lasso Goes to College: How to Mentor Your Students to Success & Looking at Mentimeter

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126 | Ted Lasso Goes to College: How Group Dynamics Can Transform Teaching & Miro

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110 | How SEL helps teachers connect with students! featuring Laura Lavery & Quizizz

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111 | How Fun Pedagogy Can Revolutionize Education! featuring Dr. Sharon Lauricella & Perusall

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112 | Demystifying Student Engagement: What does it actually look like? & KnightLab Projects

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113 | Transforming Your Teaching with Flipped Classroom Techniques featuring Steve Martinez & Kami

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114 | Tech & Questioning Lenses: A Recipe for Empowering Students ft. Batsheva Frankel & Edpuzzle

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115 | Are these Game Changers? The Role of Backchanneling in Education & Kami

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116 | The Ultimate Interview: How Do We Answer the Tough Questions? + FabuLingua & Miro

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117 | Mastering elearning development: Insights from David Patlut & RetroTools.io

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118 | How Sophie Youngs' Digital Escape Rooms Are Revolutionizing Education & Google Sites

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119 | Changing Education with Erica Ehrlich & Tina Lewis: The Power of Commonsense.org!

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120 | How We Master the Art of Effective Learning? Discovering Universal Principles & Midjourney

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121 | How to Teach Through Memes ft. Jonathan Libov from Antimatter

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123 | Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Educational Leadership & Revolutionary AI Tool ID-Assist

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125 | How to Continually Improve Your Course & the Game Changing Tool: Figma

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124 | Learning How to be an Education Change Agent with Steven Miletto & Canva

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122 | Time to Roast Microsoft 365 & Introduce Eleven Labs, the Future of AI Audio

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109 | Opening AI: How AI Can Change the Future of Education For the Better & Curipod

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108 | Opening AI: Will AI replace teachers?! featuring Joel Kupperstein of Learning A-Z

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107 | Opening AI: How to Write a ChatGPT Prompt & MidJourney / Adobe Firefly

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106 | Opening AI: Helping Teachers Teach & Learners Learn with MySchoolAI

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105 | Opening AI: Deciphering ChatGPT & Notion AI

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104 | Mark at FabuLingua

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103 | Productivity Tech Tips & Atomic Search for Canvas

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102 | The Roastery: Articulate & kanopy

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101 | Is Higher Ed Dying? & Research Rabbit

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100 | ExtravaCanva Event!

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Season 4 HYPE

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099 | Community of Inquiry & Visme

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098 | Nick at Arguflow

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097 | GK at Brain Racers

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096 | Interpersonal Communication Skills & Slack

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095 | Ungrading: Where Do I Start? & Explain Everything

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094 | How Do You Assess Ungrading? with Dr. Timothy Shea & Twitter for Education

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093 | Ungrading in an LMS & TechSmith's Snagit

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092 | Why Do Ungrading? with Dr. Justin Harbin & ResearchRabbit

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091 | What Is Ungrading? & Adobe's Frame.io

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090 | Dr. Charles Illingworth: Online Acupuncture? & A Manual of Acupuncture

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089 | Justin Phillips: Teaching Art Online & Google Jamboard

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088 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 2 & Sutori

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087 | Motivating Your Students, pt. 1 & Asana

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086 | Plagiarism Pandemic: ChatGPT & Diigo

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085 | Casey & Things You Wish You Knew (as a first time teacher)

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084 | Philosophy of Technology & Code.org

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Season 3 Trailer

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083 | Smartphones in the Classroom & Snipd (End of Season 2)

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082 | The Roastery: Big Publishers & Topia.io

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081 | Stevie Frank & OneNote

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080 | Tutoring & Readwise

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079 | The Roastery: Large LMSs & Screencast-o-matic

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078 | Maker Spaces & SteamHead

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077 | Does every lesson need an assessment? & Honorable Mentions

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076 | Fink's Taxonomy & fan.school

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075 | Kirkpatrick's Taxonomy & Zencastr

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074 | Webb's Depths of Knowledge & Zotero

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073 | Gagné's Taxonomy & Remind

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072 | Bloom's Taxonomy & Untools.co

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071 | Learning Designers React: LinkedIn Learning & Soundtrap

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070 | Learning Designers React: Assignments & Susannah Simmons

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069 | Learning Designers React: Wendy's & Lynée Sanute

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068 | Robin Jeffers: Taxonomies & Dotstorming

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067 | College: Jobs or Learning? & LinkedIn

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066 | Accessibility & Equatio

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065 | User Experience & Microsoft Office Lens

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064 | Absence in Online Courses & Airtable

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063 | Academic Integrity & (Don't) Turnitin

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062 | LMS as Surveillance, pt. 2 & Miro

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061 | LMS as Surveillance, pt. 1 & Mentimeter

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060 | Cognitive Dissonance & Around

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059 | Robin Jeffers: Instructional Design & Gimkit

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058 | Micro Learning & EdApp

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057 | CREATE & ThreadIt

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056 | Game-Based Learning Series: Game Away & Construct 3

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055 | Game-Based Learning Series: Dr. Justin Harbin & Notion

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054 | Game-Based Learning Series: Chris Morris

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053 | Reflection & Reflection.App

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052 | Sean at iorad

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051 | Cognitive Load & Otter

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050 | Talk Time & Adobe Rush

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049 | Accelerated Learning Series: Our Breakdown

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048 | Accelerated Learning Series: Alex Wissler

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047 | Accelerated Learning Series: Casey Bonner

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046 | Accelerated Learning Series: Dr. Justin Harbin

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045 | Should we use portfolios? & Milanote

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044 | Chris Morris: VR for Education & SyncSketch

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043 | Testing for Learning & Socrative

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042 | Teacher PD & Calendly

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041 | Standardized Online Courses & iorad

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040 | Podcasting for Education & Anchor

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039 | Dave at Equity Maps

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038 | Should we use proctoring software? & FlipGrid

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037 | Glen Irvin: K12 v. HigherEd & Nearpod

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036 | Should We Use Teachers Pay Teachers? & Wakelet

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035 | How to Create a Virtual Classroom, Pt. 2 & Gather.Town (End of Season 1)

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034 | How to Create a Virtual Classroom, Pt. 1 & Twitch

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033 | How Can a Course Site Enhance Learning? & Wizer

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032 | How to Use Gamification, Pt. 2 & Video Games

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031 | How to Use Gamification, Pt. 1 & PollEverywhere

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030 | How to "Make the Technology Disappear", Pt. 2 & Top Hat

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029 | How to "Make the Technology Disappear", Pt. 1 & Excalidraw

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Interview 5 | Steve at VoiceThread

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028 | How to Design for Learning, Pt. 2 & Rise 360

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027 | How to Design for Learning, Pt. 1 & H5P

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026 | How to Incorporate Collaborative Learning & Flat

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025 | How to Create Short Form Instruction & AutoDraw and WordClouds.com

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Interview 4 | Bobby at Parlay

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024 | How to Foster an Inclusive Classroom & Equity Maps

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023 | How to Use Audio/Video for Skills-Based Instruction & VoiceThread

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022 | What Is Digital Storytelling & Adobe Spark

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021 | What Is a Wiki & Notion

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Interview 3 | Brian at Perusall

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020 | How to Use Short Form Assessments & Twitter for Education

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019 | How to Teach Language Online & Duolingo

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018 | How to Cultivate Interactivity for Engagement & ThingLink

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017 | How to Cultivate Interactivity for Assessment & EdPuzzle

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016 | How to Find Good Apps & Mendeley

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Interview 2 | Don at MathWhiteBoard

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015 | Student Engagement & Nearpod

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014 | Online-Hybrid-Face-to-Face & MathWhiteBoard

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013 | Discussions & Parlay

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012 | Digital Annotation & Perusall

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Interview 1 | James at Coggle

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011 | Multimedia Lectures & Loom

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010 | Interactive Syllabus & Google CMS

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009 | Freemium & Zoom

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008 | Formative and Summative Assessments & AnswerGarden

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007 | Third Spaces & Discord

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006 | How to Pick an App & Hypothes.is

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005 | EdTech Frameworks & WordPress

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004 | Mind Mapping & Coggle

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003 | Collaborative Document Tools

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002 | Digital Whiteboarding & Background

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001 | Canva & Conversations

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000 | Trailer for HiTech Podcast