Fresh Ideas for Tech-Confident Teaching

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. […]

What does AI literacy actually look like in a kindergarten classroom? For Tara Menghini, it starts with no AI tools at all. Tara has built a hands-on progression for teaching kids AI literacy from Kindergarten through 6th grade. All without […]

Game-based learning and gamification are not the same thing, and in this episode, Lindy is setting the record straight with not one but TWO guests. Dan Ryder and Jacquie Gardy join the show to break down what game-based learning actually […]

Dr. Stacy Hawthorne shares stories from districts across the country proving that when technology starts with a learning problem instead of a device, students don’t just use tech, they lead with it. Lindy and Stacy also dig into data privacy […]

What if the screen time debate is asking the wrong question? Lindy sits down with Debbie Tannenbaum, school-based technology specialist at Saratoga Elementary in Fairfax County, VA, to talk about what meaningful tech use actually looks like in elementary classrooms.  […]

In this episode of Make EdTech 100, I sit down with Adam Sparks — former classroom teacher, Stanford-trained learning designer, and co-founder of the writing tool Short Answer — for a conversation that every educator and administrator making technology decisions […]

In this episode of Make EdTech 100, I sit down with Dr. Michelle Eckler, Director of Instructional Technology for Stratford Public Schools in Connecticut — and exactly the kind of voice the national screen time debate needs more of. We […]

In this episode of Make EdTech 100, I’m responding to the TikTok comments — and yes, there were a lot of them. “It’s too late.” “That’s on parents, not teachers.” “Banning is the only answer.” I get the frustration. But […]

In this episode of Make EdTech 100, I break down why the screen time for students conversation is missing the point — because a kid creating a digital book, clicking through a worksheet, and doom-scrolling at 10pm are not the […]