This week Jared and Dani connect with Justin Anderson, an educational technology team lead from the Canyons School District. As part of the episode they explore what digital citizenship looks like for today's students. We discussion issues such as: What it means to be a good digital citizen. Beyond cyberbullying, what else does digital citizenship entail. How digital citizenship has changed in 2020. How teachers can model digital citizenship and more...

This week Jared and Dani meet with Karen Sterling, Director of Student Advocacy in Canyons School District, as we continue with our Learn@Home series. We focus this episode on the equity issues brought up through the switch to distance learning. Our topics this week include: how to maintain relationships with parents and students while separated (including old school mail), how is the digital divide being addressed for those families who don't have access to technology, helping students with special needs cope with all the changes to their learning environments/schedules, and the importance to meet the social, emotional, and physical needs of students during times away from in-person education.

Kaite Blunt, Educational Technology Specialist from Canyon School District, drops by the Homeroom to share her insights from a recent educational tour of China. During this episode we discuss the impact of learning about culture through travel, the difference between classrooms in the US and China, and the need to expand your PLN globally.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Jared and Dani welcome SGEN host Katie Blunt to highlight how higher ed has been impacted this past year. We get to hear her interview with four student body presidents: Sione Siaki from USU Eastern, Penny Mills from Utah Tech University, Nouman Kante from Southern Utah University and Matt Griffin from Snow College.

In the next installment of our Back to School series, Jared and Dani talk with Katie Dewey Hill, an educator development specialist from the Utah State Board of Education. To help teachers get ready for a new school year, we discuss the impact the instructional coaching can have on improving teaching. Our conversation also addresses the relationship between an educator and their instructional coach, how teaching will be different this year, and Katie shares some resources to help teachers prepare for school.

In this episode of UEN Homeroom,we turn in house to talk with Kelleigh Cole, Sr. Manager of Strategic Initiatives at UETN. We discuss the need to extend internet to all students throughout Utah, the educational and social impact of lack of internet, and how to partner schools with local telecom providers to help strengthen connectivity.

Dani and Jared Fawson (Homeroom Super Sub) are joined by, Kelly Dumont from the Canyons School District to chat about personal growth as an educator. They share insights into how to stay relevant as a teacher, the importance of constantly learning, and how to pay it forward.

Kiera Beddes, Language Arts teacher extraordinaire from Jordan School District, joins us in the Homeroom this week to talk about networking. Specifically, we explore how building your Professional Learning Network (PLN) can help you grow as a teacher. We talk about maintaining an online presence, reaching out and learning from others, and how a PLN can help with transitions in your teacher life.

UEN Homeroom welcomes Kip Motta, Principal of Rich Middle School and North Rich Elementary, to discuss the response to COVID-19 in our latest episode in the Learn @ Home series. We discuss topics such as: how Rich schools prepared for distance learning in a 1 to 1 computer program for students, helping students by balancing the workload during distance learning, and facilitating teacher adoption of tools like Canvas to help students in the online environment.

Short Description:
Knowledge for Humans is a textbook aimed at introducing students to fundamental questions about knowledge and skepticism. Many topics often covered in epistemology textbooks are also covered here, such as radical Cartesian skepticism, phenomenalism, externalism, and naturalism. But the text also covers useful topics that are not usually included, such as the social conditions for knowledge, common fallacies, Bayesianism, the internet, conspiracy theories, and how we should go about arguing with one another. It’s written in an easy-going style with clear examples and funny diagrams.

Long Description:
Knowledge for Humans is a textbook aimed at introducing students to fundamental questions about knowledge and skepticism. Many topics often covered in epistemology textbooks are also covered here, such as radical Cartesian skepticism, phenomenalism, externalism, and naturalism. But the text also covers useful topics that are not usually included, such as the social conditions for knowledge, common fallacies, Bayesianism, the internet, conspiracy theories, and how we should go about arguing with one another. It’s written in an easy-going style with clear examples and funny diagrams.

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Jared and Dani welcome Dr. Ann Engar and Dr. Nora Wood, distinguished faculty for the LEAP program at the University of Utah, to UEN Homeroom this week. Our discussion focuses on helping students find a learning community that works for them. Topics include: how the LEAP program benefits diverse student populations, the biggest challenges for students as they enter college, why smaller learning communities are important to students, and the role that peer mentoring plays in helping LEAP students succeed.

On this episode of UEN Homeroom,Dani and Matt welcome founder and CEO, Jose Enriquez. They talk about Jose's organization, Latinos in Action, going national and how the organization has helped the Utah community over the past 20 years.

A student manual developed by the Utah State Board of Education, in cooperation with the Unified Police of Greater Salt Lake

In this video, Michael Hakkarinen teaches us how to add a Time to Climb game into your Nearpod lesson. If you haven't heard of Time to Climb, it's a game-based learning experience that students can join from any device.

In this video, Rob Bentley shares how PlayPosit is the perfect tool to edit YouTube videos to fit your students' needs. YouTube can be filled with unwanted content, change that and add interactive features with PlayPosit.

In this video, Michael Hakkarinen walks us through embedding a Google Docs Cloud assignment into Canvas. With this tool students can modify their assignments with the features of Google Docs but submit directly to Canvas.

In this video, Justin Brooksby teaches us some essential safety measures for Zoom meetings. When using Zoom for work or class related activities, it's important to know these tips to keep your room secure.

In this video, Jami Gardner takes us through the basics of Seesaw, a student driven digital portfolio. She shows us how this tool will let us customize assignments to allow for creative and personalized responses from students.

In this video, Shannon Ririe explains how you can help your students use Gale by embedding the database resource in Canvas. UEN provides many Gale database modules that you can use in Canvas and adapt to your needs.

In this video, Jared Covili, with the help of Jared Fawson, work us through the Google Meet video conferencing tool. This tool can be used to present slideshows, share screens, video chat and more!