Preparing Our Youngest College students for a Digital World

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John Davis, Producer
That’s the Ten Minute Coach podcast alongside along with your host, Vicki Davis.

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Vicki Davis
The long term is now preparing our youngest college students for a digital world. Episode 860. On this current, we’ll sit down with Debbie Tannenbaum, the tech-savvy educator for early childhood coaching and author of “Transform Techie Notes to Make Learning Sticky.” Put together to seek out progressive strategies for integrating experience into early coaching, establishing Pupil Firm, and why your expert learning group might be a game-changer to your instructing career.

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Vicki Davis
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Vicki Davis
So proper now we’re talking with Debbie Tannenbaum from Tannenbaum Tech, the author of “Transform Techie Notes to Make Learning Sticky.” And Debbie, you’ve got slightly bit little little bit of a story of your instructing career, the best way you have got been instructing and the best way you started learning. Now you might be serving to colleges and districts and doing so many points. So inform us slightly bit bit about your journey.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
That’s my twenty fifth 12 months in coaching, my sixth 12 months as a tech coach, and thru my first 12 months as a tech coach, I’m in elementary school. I was getting super irritated because of I felt like I’ll certainly not help all my kids. And so it’s actually humorous because of I was listening to your podcast once more in I suppose 2018, 2019, and in addition you have got been interviewing this girl, Pana Asavavatana, and he or she was talking about icon literacy.  (See episode 338)

00:01:50:21 – 00:02:11:22
Debbie Tannenbaum
And I reached out to her immediately after the podcast and came across additional about her. And any such started me on this whole journey. I help districts with loads of points, nevertheless my true passion helps our little learners, making certain that they develop firm, that they really understand how you should utilize digital items and the best way they alter into digital learners.

00:02:11:22 – 00:02:34:20
Debbie Tannenbaum
It’s change right into a extraordinarily huge passion to me. Plenty of what I see is for secondary school. Plenty of what I share tends to take care of these littles, these youngest college students, because of we really should assure that our youngsters are ready. There’s so much change taking place in experience correct now and coaching. And if we don’t ensure our youngsters have these experience, it turns into really, really robust down the freeway.

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Vicki Davis
Properly, I actually like that you just’re in the hunt for help. You didn’t let your frustration get to you. You found any particular person who resonated with you by listening to podcasts. And I’m optimistic you have bought been listening to quite a few completely totally different podcasts, nevertheless then you definately positively’re like, “Oh, this confederate really is superior.” You reached out to her and then you definately positively merely purchased excited. So establishing your PLN really does make a distinction, wouldn’t it?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
It fully does. And I, over the previous 5 years since I joined Twitter, it’s maybe way more than that, becoming part of a PLN has fully modified each little factor for me. I’ve had so many options to be taught, so many options to share that I would have certainly not had if I hadn’t had these experiences. And I’ve gotten to essentially really feel so much richer in what I do on account of these experiences.

00:03:24:20 – 00:03:35:10
Debbie Tannenbaum
So it’s really been good as a result of the ultimate couple of years have gone. I’m doing points now that I would have certainly not imagined doing 5 years previously, and loads of that is due to the parents I’ve been associated with via social media.

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Vicki Davis
We are going to discuss making learning sticky and really we want to focus proper now on the littles because of you acknowledge what? Likelihood is you will be any person who resonates with these which can be working with attempting to attain and help the littles. So the place do you start? How do you help lecturers attain our youngest?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel it’s really important to start out out straightforward. I always discuss after I first start working with my youngest learners because of the work that I had expert talking to Pana and dealing collectively along with her, I really try to think about these 9 icons that I actually really feel like are a really highly effective for my school college students to know, to primarily navigate these digital learning environments sooner than we even contact a software, we really start to be taught these.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
And whether or not or not we’re talking about vitality or we’re performing some complete physique response and we’re using our arms, or we’re talking about username, which has seven digits or password, each little factor we do is de facto concrete after which we even play some icon bingo to primarily assure that the kids know these points.

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Vicki Davis
Icon Bingo. Okay, I actually like that. Inform me about Icon Bingo.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Icon Bingo. There’s a really good web site. I really feel it’s known as ESL Actions and it’s possible you’ll put footage on a bingo board and I put like, I’m attempting to remember all 9 of them, nevertheless like, vitality, username, image, textual content material, video, microphone. And so I put these ones that I’ll use with all of my school college students a lot on there.

00:04:59:02 – 00:05:21:14
Debbie Tannenbaum
And we play it. We play. I even had some educators play some icon bingo in a single amongst my playgrounds because of it’s really important to ensure that they understand what these icons are. After which, you acknowledge, as we assemble, we are going to get way more. Nonetheless there’s so many icons that go all through completely totally different platforms that, yeah, I want to ensure my school college students understand that.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
And so I would really like my school college students to realize it does not matter what program they’re in, a way to navigate that digital learning setting. And I really, as quickly as I’ve completed that with them, I do loads of points the place I reinforce these icons as we’re learning and really try to hyperlink the digital literacy that they’re establishing with the academic that they’re engaged on as properly.

00:05:42:07 – 00:06:03:05
Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel that’s super important. I’ve one factor I identify an edu Rubicon that has, you acknowledge, the icons on the left after which these requirements for entry on the becoming. And it is extraordinarily seen because of I would really like my school college students to know that they will do that stuff. I incorporate points like video inside it because of I would really like them to have that firm.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Sooner than this, I was spending loads of time participating in Whac-A-Mole and attempting to get my school college students all down and certainly not being able to. And now what I’m really my goal is, is now they’re calling me because of they want to current me what they’re creating. And that is a gigantic shift. And I really feel that that’s so important. So after I am working with these, after I am working with, you acknowledge, our main educators and our youngest learners, I assemble on that, making certain that sooner than I even level out a tech software program, that I really spend time to talk about strategies to promote that firm.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Because of far too often we go on to the tech devices, and as soon as we do this, we’re missing a bit. And so at any time once I share about littles, I always inform them the first half hour has nothing to do with tech devices. I cannot even level out a tech software program until that second half hour. Nonetheless then after I level out these tech devices, you will see these connections made.

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Vicki Davis
Prefer it. So in case you say littles, define the age.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
With what I do, I really take a look at like that pre-Alright to second. Nonetheless the stuff I share will really work.

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Vicki Davis
Pre-Okay and so have you ever ever. Have you ever ever completed this with three-year-olds or is it additional like four-year-olds or five-year-olds?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
4-year-olds.

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Vicki Davis
4-year-olds? The Whac-A-Mole is a criticism that lecturers and coaches have with these four-year-olds. So that you uncover that participating in bingo really helps them understand the icons and what they do and the best way prolonged the username is?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
I’ve not carried out bingo with my four-year-olds. I carried out it with my kindergartners. Nonetheless merely that exact same idea of really establishing it and making certain after I work with my youngest learners, I try to stick to functions that are very, very seen. One in every of many ones I really like is known as WPXI, they often have a serious view that’s super easy for our youngsters to utilize.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
After which after I get to my older kids, then I’ll assemble on that. I’m so excited because of we had iPads this 12 months that my pre-Okay kids, as soon as they get to kindergarten, this is not going to be the first time they’ve been on a software.

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Vicki Davis
What are your favorites? You’ve got bought purchased Wix. See, you might be excited regarding the iPads. Merely throw some out at us that your kids love.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Wix is likely to be one amongst my favorites. I moreover love eBook Creator. I really feel eBook Creator is an amazing software program. I exploit Flip a lot with my kids.

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Vicki Davis
Oh really? How do you put it to use?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Properly, I start really straightforward. We start with the paper mannequin they often’ll start with my kindergartners and I’m going to say, okay, here’s a 5 show display, coloration it in two different methods. Do you want to keep it up in entrance of your face and report or do you want to keep it to the aspect? I make it so that they solely have the digital digicam to start out out after which I merely enable them to observe each other.

00:08:29:11 – 00:08:50:04
Debbie Tannenbaum
And in truth, they love watching each other. And so we assemble on all of those points as we’re working small strategic steps to primarily assure that they understand how you are able to do these items one step at a time. And I like functions that allow our youngsters to share their very personal information in quite a few different methods. So it isn’t merely, “Oh, I’m drawing the picture,” nevertheless maybe I can create a video, maybe I can add my voice.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
And so I like these points. And it moreover makes it easier for our lecturers. If our lecturers determine a software program that has quite a few completely totally different alternatives, then the teachers be taught one software program, the kids be taught one software program, after which it’s easier to help them change over as soon as they really understand how all of that works collectively. So I can work with my kids on Wixie after which after I get to Flip, they understand how they’re alike and completely totally different.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
We’re capable of make that change.

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Vicki Davis
So as we find yourself, might you merely give us a quick elevator pitch for right here is how one could make learning stick to experience. With 4 and five-year-olds.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel you have to take a look on the options the experience can present our school college students. And is it going to supply our school college students options to share in methods wherein they cannot with out the experience? And loads of situations having them doc their voice or having them make a video, you will get varied issues than you may get must you merely have them draw a picture.

00:09:43:04 – 00:10:01:22
Debbie Tannenbaum
And so giving them these options to do that, having it’s succesful to be taught to them, really giving them real duties and being like, you might be actually creating one factor on the laptop. With my 4 and five-year-olds, I do loads of stuff the place they’ve choice boards, the place they go. There’s a couple of completely totally different actions they often get to determine on what they’re doing.

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Debbie Tannenbaum
I would really like them to essentially really feel like after I come to their rooms to do our experience, that it’s always linked to what we’re learning. I certainly not do one factor that isn’t linked to what they’re learning, and I work with the teachers to do that they often see the connection between us.

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Vicki Davis
So are the choice boards projected on the board? Are they in a Google doc or Google slide? Or the place are these?

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Debbie Tannenbaum
Plenty of situations I’m going to make use of Wixie because of it lets you hyperlink inside after which they get into Wixie using Clever they often know how to do that. I educate them that; we uncover methods to find the Clever icon. We uncover methods to find what they identify the Rainbow hand. We’re really intentional with these icons as we assemble.

00:10:38:09 – 00:11:09:07
Vicki Davis
Love that Debbie Tannenbaum and also you’re employed with districts all through serving to them use experience with the littlest to make learning stick. And I actually like your methods. So many good ideas. Thanks, Debbie, for approaching the current.

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