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Conversations from ISTE Live with Stevie Frank · Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast

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  Hey, welcome to the integrate this at tech podcast.
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  I'm David burner joined today by Stevie Frank
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  See be happy to have you on the podcast today.
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  Oh my goodness. It's so exciting to be here So
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  thank you so much for having me. I appreciate
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  it Yeah, I think this is actually the first time
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  we've met in person it has been but it feels
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  like we know each other Yeah, and that's the
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  magic of online right linkedin. Yeah everything.
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  So how's is he going so far for you? Oh my gosh,
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  it's going so well. It's always so big. So I
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  always like to tell people, if you've never gone
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  before, just take what you can and manage your
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  time. Don't let other people take your time.
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  Say yes to the things that bring you joy and
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  try to keep it manageable in that way. So this
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  morning I kind of made myself a little bit slower
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  of a morning so I could kind of ease into the
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  day. Because you can't go all day, every day,
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  by any means. So I think keeping it a little
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  bit manageable. But because I've been doing them,
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  I've been doing these for a little while, I'm
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  like, I'm great. I'm refreshed. I'm a morning
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  person, so this works out great. Awesome. So
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  we've got to ask you, how many years is this
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  for you? For ISTE, I think this is only like
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  four or five. I go every other year typically,
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  so I find myself going to these conferences,
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  so they're pretty big. And so I always like to
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  go every other year and then I'll sprinkle in
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  FETCs, TCAs, IdeaCon I went to a couple of times,
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  and then a lot of local conferences in Indiana.
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  Yeah, can you talk about that actually for a
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  second? Because I see it all the time, like the
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  Spark Summit. Yes. Yeah. Can you talk a little
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  bit about that? Like, because how was that about
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  a month ago or two months ago? Yeah, it was about
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  a month ago. Yeah. OK. I'm like, wait, where
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  am I at? But yes, no. So it's wonderful. Nadine
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  Gilkeson, she puts it on and that's for her district.
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  And she does such an amazing job with that. And
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  Nadine and I were on NC is our ISTE affiliate
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  board member convention that we put on conference
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  for Indiana. And so she and I were board members
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  on that together. We put together that conference
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  too. So I really got to know her well and like
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  the ins and outs of how she does the thing, she's
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  phenomenal. And she's also an SD Featured Voice,
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  so you should definitely check her out. But it
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  was such a fun conference, good people, and Hoosiers,
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  Indiana Hoosiers are just like good people, like
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  good Midwestern people, so it's good. Yeah. We
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  could relate. We're from Minnesota, so we know
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  what's up. So you mentioned Nadine, but she's
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  come up a couple times, actually, about having
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  a podcast, because one of our questions for you
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  is, like, who should we have on the podcast that
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  we have yet? So that would be your... Your answer?
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  Oh my gosh, I'm going to shoot her a text as
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  soon as I leave here and be like, okay, you might
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  be, you might be looped into this amazing group.
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  So yes, absolutely. That would be awesome. Um,
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  what do you, what do you feel like, um, educators,
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  like what should, what is the thing that you
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  hope they take away from a conference like this?
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  I hope they just take away that we are truly
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  better together and don't be afraid to say hi
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  to somebody. reach out to somebody online like
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  we are all in education and none of us have gotten
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  into it to make the big bucks or to be famous
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  like that's just we're we're here for kids we're
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  here for students and that's my number one goal
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  so there's sometimes people are like kind of
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  nervous to even approach me and i'm like no no
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  like i'm a tech coach in my school like i can't
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  even fill a room in my own school district for
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  pd sessions like i've you know so All of us are
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  like that. So I would just have to say if you
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  have a question, reach out to anybody. And I
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  think it would be that would be worth your while,
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  if you will. Yeah. And it's super refreshing
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  to hear. And I know I can attest to that because
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  like for us, we started reaching out to people
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  and everybody is accessible and super kind, like
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  really easy to talk to. So, yeah, don't be intimidated.
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  You can go to people and talk to them. And so
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  as far as. Looking at like your upcoming sessions.
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  What can you preview for us a little bit? You
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  have two sessions today Gosh, okay. So I have
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  that's a hot question and I can't I'm not gonna
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  look at my phone So I think I have four booth
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  sessions today. Okay, and then I am volunteering
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  at the Microsoft AI Innovation hallway experience
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  that they have to end my day out today And then
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  tomorrow I have I'm part of Adobe student ambassador
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  pilot group. And so I'm on a panel for that tomorrow
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  And that'll round out my ISTE experience. OK.
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  And with the Adobe stuff, is there any projects
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  and things that you want to highlight? Oh my
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  gosh. So first of all, Adobe Community Professional
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  Learning Network community, phenomenal. Like
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  honestly, I get asked by other companies, they're
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  like, OK, how is Adobe doing it? Because they're
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  doing it well. They're just a great group of
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  human beings. They were former educators. They
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  get it. They reach out. But I'm a part of like
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  a student. ambassador program and so I had like
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  a group of pilot kiddos and we did all the things
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  in Adobe and like they actually came and did
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  a site visit so they actually people from New
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  York City and Seattle like came to Indiana and
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  came to visit the students and take a look at
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  their work and showcase them and they make really
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  big deals of kids and their creativity and their
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  work and so to me that's been such an amazing
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  community because like I'm like I want the spotlight
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  to go to my students and they do a really good
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  job at that. That's awesome. And we can we talk
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  about is Zionsville. Yeah. Right. We talk about
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  that for like, what can people expect when they
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  walk into that school? Okay, well, first of all,
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  I love Zinesville Community Schools. I was just
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  on the shuttle on the way here and I'm like,
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  I can talk to you all for days about Zinesville.
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  So I live in the district that I work in. My
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  kids go to the district I work in. And I mean,
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  I'm like, we are in Zinesville until at least
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  our youngest is 18. So that's my like, that's
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  our goal. But it is such a human driven school
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  district. And I've worked for three different
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  school districts, and I had two different student
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  teaching experiences. And this is like the only
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  one. Like I honestly I'm like, I have found like
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  the perfect district because they're truly human
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  centric. One of the best examples, I think, is
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  whenever they have, like, back -to -school breakfast
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  for staff, the principals and administrators
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  and superintendent are literally scooping your
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  breakfast and putting it on your plate for you
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  with, like, the hair nets and every... And I
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  just... I don't know. I think that speaks volumes,
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  and they're just... They care about the kids.
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  And the parents know that. I mean, it's just...
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  We haven't had a lot of noise, I think, that
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  a lot of other districts have gone to because
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  our community members and everybody knows, like,
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  we're doing what's best for kids and we're raising...
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  human beings first, and then making sure that
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  they're academically sound as well. That's extremely
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  important. But I don't know. I think I can't
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  speak best about it. I could keep going. We can
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  keep going. Our schools are like that, too. We're
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  in rural areas. There's minimal resources. It's
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  just making the most of what you've got and that
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  kind of thing to serve the students. And I wanted
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  to mention, too, I remember from the podcast
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  that you did with us, probably a year ago now,
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  honestly, it was the Indianapolis 500 project.
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  They did. Can you talk about that again? Because
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  I haven't forgot about it. Well, of course I
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  did it again. Because part of the Indy 500, if
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  you're an Indian, it's a big deal. So we had
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  students create an animate to audio project inside
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  of Adobe Express. And kids can use their voices.
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  And then AI moves the mouth of whatever figure
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  that the kids decide to be in. They can be an
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  avocado. They can be a unicorn. They can be anything.
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  But they turned themselves into AI race car drivers.
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  And then they recorded everything that they had
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  learned about their favorite race car. car driver
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  in their voice into Adobe Express. And so then
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  I did this with every single fifth grader. And
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  so I had like a hundred, no, we had like nearly
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  300 of these projects all in one area. And we
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  were just like one quick pit stop along their
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  reading or along their journey of Indy 500 day
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  in fifth grade. So that was super fun. And that's
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  always cool too, because you're like bringing
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  local stuff or things that are relevant to students.
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  It's like, well, we know about this. This is
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  where we live, right? And it's like layered in
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  with like rigor. So I think sometimes like when
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  you see tech and I hate doing tech for tech's
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  sake. I won't, I've actually. turned away coaching
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  cycles because I was like, this isn't a good
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  fit. And I was like, go, go get the kids in person
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  and have them like, no tech, like, that's okay.
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  And I think sometimes people think like, Oh,
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  Stevie's all about tech, but like, My master's
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  is in reading, so I've always been very curricular
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  based. And so I think when we start to lead in
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  with like, yes, that was like a cute prop, but
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  no, it was like highly rigorous because we were
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  one pit stop and the pit stops right before us,
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  they were researching in the library of what
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  their race car driver was. And then the next
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  pit stop, they wrote a script. So like we have
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  all of those components and then this was just
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  their assessment. So if we did take a grade.
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  So I don't know, I wanted to kind of call that
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  out too, because... I know we're all feeling
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  here at SD, like tech is kind of on fire. But
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  I think when we can start having those meaningful
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  conversations and highlighting how academically
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  sound that these projects are, like we're really
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  starting to move in transformational ways. Yeah,
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  and it's a pretty common refrain too. Like as
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  we were here, right, everybody echoes that same
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  thing. It's like we're not just pushing tech
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  to push tech. It's like the students come first.
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  If tech helps with what your pedagogy is trying
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  to accomplish, then great, and implement it that
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  way, as opposed to just like, here's a computer,
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  that kind of thing. I have one more question
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  for you, and this is just about what kind of
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  things do you have that you want to highlight
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  that you have coming up? Conferences, potentially
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  something with, we had... friend of the show,
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  Manuel Herrera on. Is there anything that you're
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  doing with him, maybe that you could give us
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  a... I don't know. We don't know yet, but Manuel
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  and I are working on a project and I love working
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  with him. He's so fun. His creative brains are
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  amazing. But yes, there are some things that
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  are in the work with him. But honestly, what
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  I'm looking forward to is... So I think it's
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  also important that we find time to recharge
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  when you're especially in the edtech space. So
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  actually in two days, I am leaving for a two
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  week vacation with my family and we are traveling
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  the country of France. We are going all around
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  the entire country. And that is I'm looking forward
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  to filling my cup. And honestly, it's my last
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  round. You probably won't see me again until
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  after back to school, to be honest. Going off
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  grid for a little bit. I am. I am. I'm still
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  going to post to things, but like, yeah, this
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  kind of rounds out my time. It'll be France related,
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  it won't be like education. Definitely, so I'm
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  excited to recharge. And then one other thing,
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  where can people follow you, check out the work
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  that you have on any of the websites you have?
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  So can you just mention that too? I would love
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  to so yes, so my website I post all of my presentation
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  and all of my resources like again We in education
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  aren't trying to like I'm not trying to make
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  big bucks here But I do have all my resources
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  on my website at Stevie Frank calm and then on
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  Twitter. I'm at Stevie Frank 23 It will forever
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  be Twitter. And then on LinkedIn, you can just
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  look up Stevie Frank and I'm there too as well.
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  So I have personal accounts on Instagram and
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  Facebook, but you don't want to see pictures
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  of my kids. That's for the personal side of me.
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  But those are the two places that I post regularly
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  on the professional work I do. Great. Well, make
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  sure you follow Stevie. Go to the website and
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  check out the Integrate This podcast as well.
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  Stevie's been on there with the episode together.
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  So Stevie, thanks. Well, thank you so much for
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  having me. I appreciate it.