EduTechGuys - Conference Coverage

Storey Sitwala and Eric Swanson deeply dive into the Renaissance Next, a powerful new teacher experience that advances instruction and empowers educators with in-the-moment recommendations to support your most critical decisions. Renaissance Next streamlines your workflow by seamlessly bringing lessons, resources, and activities together—helping you to better personalize teaching

Todd Brekhus, Chief Product Officer for Renaissance and the General Manager for Nearpod shares the newest offering called Renaissance NEXT. This integrated interface brings together the family of Renaissance products AND provides a dashboard to allow educators to make informed instruction decisions in real-time regarding further instruction, small group assignments (or reassignment

Brian Johnsrud talks Creativity, Generative AI, and Teacher and Student Mental Wellbeing with the EduTechGuys. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2023/07/26/creativity-in-classroom-reduces-burnout-improves-teacher-student-wellbeing https://edex.adobe.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/support

Dave Grzesko and Carly Burton-Sallay discuss how to make technology changes in the classroom more positive and share how to create buy-in with IT, Admins, and Teachers. There’s also a focus on How to Adopt New Technology that Drives Systemic Change. https://www.benq.com/en-us/education.html --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conferen

Chris Klein, VP of Educational Services for Avantis Education, creators of ClassVR, brings the latest innovations in virtual reality for K-12 schools. He also shares the importance of taking a step back to evaluate where you’ve been and where you’re going. https://www.classvr.com/us/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/su

Audra Selkowitz shares how VEX Robotics is working to help students learn coding and more through SEL initiatives and programs. https://www.vexrobotics.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/support

Dr. Chad Stevens talks about his new role as CEO of TinkrWorks, a Hands-on STEAM platform - From projects such as Smart lamp, Pampered Plant, and Weather Station to TinkrBots, Planetary Pathways and more! https://tinkrworks.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/support

Brian Johnsrud shares his thoughts on Creativity, Generative AI, and Preparing Students for Career Success. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/02/22/how-digital-credentials-unlock-emerging-skills-age-ai https://edex.adobe.com --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/support

Michael Campbell and Ellen Cleary talk about how schools and districts can partner better to make sure the industry is providing quality edtech solutions. By Connecting the industry with educators, making sure there is an impact on student learning. https://www.frameworkconsulting.com/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/edutechguys-conference/sup

Hal Speed spends some time with the EduTechGuys to share new things happening at Robotical. Marty the Robot has grown up, making way for two new educational programs: COG, the early learner device that makes learning and coding easy and fun with a new hexagonal robot that it easy for smaller hands to manipulate, and AXIOM, with full color screen, input and output interfaces, plus c