#21: “Kids Can Read, They’re Just Reading Differently”: Teaching with Intention with Lisa Snow

purple-wave

Lisa Snow is closing in on 20 years in the English Language Arts classroom. Lisa and Lindy dig into the “kids can’t read” narrative and ask whether standardized tests are actually measuring the kind of reading students do every day. Lisa walks through how she decides when tech in her AP English classroom is helping versus just taking up space, what it actually looks like to teach digital and AI literacy in a high school ELA class, and why her answer to “can kids use AI” is almost always “it depends.” They also tackle the bigger question raised by proposed screen time restrictions in schools: is teaching kids to use technology responsibly a teacher’s job, a parent’s job, or both?

Connect with Lisa on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisnow/ 

EdTech tools mentioned in the episode:

Padlet: https://padlet.com/ 

Canvas: https://www.instructure.com/canvas 

Wayground: https://wayground.com/ 

Kami: https://www.kamiapp.com/

To listen to this episode on your favorite streaming platform, click here

smiling photo of Lindy wearing a blue blazer

Meet Lindy!

Lindy Hockenbary helps educators and school leaders bring technology and teaching together so every student thrives. With experience as a teacher, tech coach, and curriculum writer, she’s known for making professional learning practical, engaging, and fun.

Design Authentic Assessments AI Can't Fake

You assigned an essay. A student turned it in. It's polished, grammatically perfect. And you know in your gut they didn't write it. Worse? They didn’t learn anything.

Stop chasing AI detectors and start designing copy-paste-proof assessments. Get Lindy's latest guide, The Assessment Puzzle Toolkit!

Free Assessment Toolkit from LindyHoc

You may also like...

Catch Them in the Scroll: Short-Form Style Video in the Classroom

The world has spoken, and it has chosen short-form video as the format of choice. The format of engagement. So I have a question for you: why isn’t there more […]

Doom Scrolling vs. Productive Scrolling: Modeling Healthy Screen Time in a Short-Form Video World

Confession time: I do a lot of scrolling. Not exactly the opening you’d expect from a post about healthy screen time for students, right? Stick with me here. Yes, me. […]

Guide, Don’t Give: A Framework for Using AI as a Learning Tool in K-12

Is AI safe for students? Should you use AI as a learning tool? Should you be using it in your classroom at all?  I get some version of that question […]

Scroll to Top