00:00:00:00 – 00:00:03:10
John Davis, Producer
That’s the Ten Minute Coach podcast alongside together with your host, Vicki Davis.

00:00:03:14 – 00:00:32:10
Vicki Davis
The long term is now preparing our youngest college students for a digital world. Episode 860. On this current, we’ll sit down with Debbie Tannenbaum, the tech-savvy educator for early childhood coaching and author of “Transform Techie Notes to Make Learning Sticky.” Put together to search out progressive strategies for integrating experience into early coaching, setting up Pupil Firm, and why your expert finding out neighborhood may very well be a game-changer to your instructing career.

00:00:32:12 – 00:00:59:13
Vicki Davis
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00:00:59:14 – 00:01:25:07
Vicki Davis
So proper now we’re talking with Debbie Tannenbaum from Tannenbaum Tech, the author of “Transform Techie Notes to Make Learning Sticky.” And Debbie, you’ve got just a little bit little little bit of a story of your instructing career, the best way you might have been instructing and the best way you started finding out. Now you might be serving to colleges and districts and doing so many points. So inform us just a little bit bit about your journey.

00:01:25:09 – 00:01:50:19
Debbie Tannenbaum
That’s my twenty fifth 12 months in coaching, my sixth 12 months as a tech coach, and thru my first 12 months as a tech coach, I’m in elementary faculty. I was getting super aggravated on account of I felt like I’ll on no account help all my kids. And so it’s actually humorous on account of I was listening to your podcast once more in I suppose 2018, 2019, and in addition you might have been interviewing this girl, Pana Asavavatana, and he or she was talking about icon literacy.  (See episode 338)

00:01:50:21 – 00:02:11:22
Debbie Tannenbaum
And I reached out to her immediately after the podcast and stumbled on further about her. And this kind of started me on this whole journey. I help districts with loads of points, nonetheless my true passion helps our little learners, making certain that they develop firm, that they really understand how you should use digital items and the best way they alter into digital learners.

00:02:11:22 – 00:02:34:20
Debbie Tannenbaum
It’s change right into a extraordinarily large passion to me. A variety of what I see is for secondary faculty. A variety of what I share tends to take care of these littles, these youngest college students, on account of we truly should assure that our youngsters are ready. There’s quite a bit change occurring in experience correct now and coaching. And if we don’t make sure our youngsters have these experience, it turns into truly, truly powerful down the freeway.

00:02:34:21 – 00:02:58:02
Vicki Davis
Properly, I actually like that you just’re searching for help. You didn’t let your frustration get to you. You found any particular person who resonated with you by listening to podcasts. And I’m constructive you have acquired been listening to quite a few completely totally different podcasts, nonetheless you then positively’re like, “Oh, this confederate truly is superior.” You reached out to her and you then positively merely purchased excited. So setting up your PLN truly does make a distinction, wouldn’t it?

00:02:58:04 – 00:03:24:20
Debbie Tannenbaum
It utterly does. And I, over the previous 5 years since I joined Twitter, it’s maybe way more than that, turning into part of a PLN has utterly modified each little factor for me. I’ve had so many alternate options to be taught, so many alternate options to share that I would have on no account had if I hadn’t had these experiences. And I’ve gotten to actually really feel quite a bit richer in what I do because of these experiences.

00:03:24:20 – 00:03:35:10
Debbie Tannenbaum
So it’s truly been good as a result of the ultimate couple of years have gone. I’m doing points now that I would have on no account imagined doing 5 years up to now, and loads of that is due to the parents I’ve been associated with by the use of social media.

00:03:35:13 – 00:03:54:19
Vicki Davis
We are going to talk about making finding out sticky and really we want to focus proper now on the littles on account of you acknowledge what? Chances are high you may be any person that resonates with these which are working with attempting to realize and help the littles. So the place do you start? How do you help lecturers attain our youngest?

00:03:54:21 – 00:04:18:09
Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel it’s truly important to begin out simple. I always talk about after I first start working with my youngest learners as a result of work that I had expert talking to Pana and dealing collectively together with her, I truly try to contemplate these 9 icons that I actually really feel like are a really highly effective for my faculty college students to know, to primarily navigate these digital finding out environments sooner than we even contact a software, we truly start to be taught these.

00:04:18:09 – 00:04:34:17
Debbie Tannenbaum
And whether or not or not we’re talking about power or we’re performing some complete physique response and we’re using our arms, or we’re talking about username, which has seven digits or password, each little factor we do is de facto concrete after which we even play some icon bingo to primarily assure that the youngsters know these points.

00:04:34:18 – 00:04:39:18
Vicki Davis
Icon Bingo. Okay, I actually like that. Inform me about Icon Bingo.

00:04:39:18 – 00:04:59:02
Debbie Tannenbaum
Icon Bingo. There’s a truly good web site. I really feel it’s known as ESL Actions and it’s possible you’ll put footage on a bingo board and I put like, I’m attempting to remember all 9 of them, nonetheless like, power, username, image, textual content material, video, microphone. And so I put these ones that I’ll use with all of my faculty college students a lot on there.

00:04:59:02 – 00:05:21:14
Debbie Tannenbaum
And we play it. We play. I even had some educators play some icon bingo in a single amongst my playgrounds on account of it’s truly important to ensure that they understand what these icons are. After which, you acknowledge, as we assemble, we are going to get way more. Nonetheless there’s so many icons that go all through completely totally different platforms that, yeah, I want to make sure my faculty college students understand that.

00:05:21:14 – 00:05:42:05
Debbie Tannenbaum
And so I would love my faculty college students to understand it does not matter what program they’re in, a method to navigate that digital finding out setting. And I truly, as quickly as I’ve completed that with them, I do loads of points the place I reinforce these icons as we’re finding out and really try to hyperlink the digital literacy that they’re setting up with the tutorial that they’re engaged on as properly.

00:05:42:07 – 00:06:03:05
Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel that’s super important. I’ve one factor I title an edu Rubicon that has, you acknowledge, the icons on the left after which these requirements for entry on the becoming. And it is extraordinarily seen on account of I would love my faculty college students to know that they will do that stuff. I incorporate points like video inside it on account of I would love them to have that firm.

00:06:03:05 – 00:06:34:01
Debbie Tannenbaum
Sooner than this, I was spending loads of time participating in Whac-A-Mole and attempting to get my faculty college students all down and on no account being able to. And now what I’m truly my goal is, is now they’re calling me on account of they want to current me what they’re creating. And that is a gigantic shift. And I really feel that that’s so important. So after I am working with these, after I am working with, you acknowledge, our main educators and our youngest learners, I assemble on that, making certain that sooner than I even level out a tech software program, that I truly spend time to discuss strategies to promote that firm.

00:06:34:03 – 00:06:53:23
Debbie Tannenbaum
Because of far too often we go on to the tech devices, and as soon as we do this, we’re missing a bit. And so at any time once I share about littles, I always inform them the first half hour has nothing to do with tech devices. I can’t even level out a tech software program until that second half hour. Nonetheless then after I level out these tech devices, you’ll see these connections made.

00:06:54:03 – 00:06:58:05
Vicki Davis
Prefer it. So should you say littles, define the age.

00:06:58:07 – 00:07:03:16
Debbie Tannenbaum
With what I do, I truly take a look at like that pre-Alright to second. Nonetheless the stuff I share will truly work.

00:07:03:16 – 00:07:08:21
Vicki Davis
Pre-Okay and so have you ever ever. Have you ever ever completed this with three-year-olds or is it further like four-year-olds or five-year-olds?

00:07:08:21 – 00:07:09:15
Debbie Tannenbaum
4-year-olds.

00:07:09:18 – 00:07:24:20
Vicki Davis
4-year-olds? The Whac-A-Mole is a criticism that lecturers and coaches have with these four-year-olds. So that you uncover that participating in bingo truly helps them understand the icons and what they do and the best way prolonged the username is?

00:07:25:01 – 00:07:44:10
Debbie Tannenbaum
I’ve not carried out bingo with my four-year-olds. I carried out it with my kindergartners. Nonetheless merely that exact same idea of truly setting up it and making certain after I work with my youngest learners, I try to stick with purposes that are very, very seen. Certainly one of many ones I truly like is known as WPXI, they often have a serious view that’s super easy for our youngsters to utilize.

00:07:44:10 – 00:07:56:05
Debbie Tannenbaum
After which after I get to my older kids, then I’ll assemble on that. I’m so excited on account of we had iPads this 12 months that my pre-Okay kids, as soon as they get to kindergarten, this is not going to be the first time they’ve been on a software.

00:07:56:05 – 00:08:02:13
Vicki Davis
What are your favorites? You’ve got acquired purchased Wix. See, you might be excited regarding the iPads. Merely throw some out at us that your kids love.

00:08:02:14 – 00:08:09:12
Debbie Tannenbaum
Wix is perhaps one amongst my favorites. I moreover love eBook Creator. I really feel eBook Creator is an incredible software program. I exploit Flip a lot with my kids.

00:08:09:12 – 00:08:11:21
Vicki Davis
Oh truly? How do you put it to use?

00:08:11:23 – 00:08:29:11
Debbie Tannenbaum
Properly, I start truly simple. We start with the paper mannequin they often’ll start with my kindergartners and I’m going to say, okay, here’s a 5 show display, coloration it in two different methods. Do you want to keep it up in entrance of your face and report or do you want to keep it to the aspect? I make it so that they solely have the digital digital camera to begin out after which I merely permit them to observe each other.

00:08:29:11 – 00:08:50:04
Debbie Tannenbaum
And in truth, they love watching each other. And so we assemble on all of those points as we’re working small strategic steps to primarily assure that they understand how you are able to do these items one step at a time. And I like purposes that let our youngsters to share their very personal knowledge in quite a few different methods. So it’s not merely, “Oh, I’m drawing the picture,” nonetheless maybe I can create a video, maybe I can add my voice.

00:08:50:04 – 00:09:11:05
Debbie Tannenbaum
And so I like these points. And it moreover makes it less complicated for our lecturers. If our lecturers resolve a software program that has quite a few completely totally different picks, then the lecturers be taught one software program, the youngsters be taught one software program, after which it’s less complicated to help them swap over as soon as they really understand how all of that works collectively. So I can work with my kids on Wixie after which after I get to Flip, they understand how they’re alike and completely totally different.

00:09:11:05 – 00:09:12:18
Debbie Tannenbaum
We’re capable of make that swap.

00:09:12:20 – 00:09:23:19
Vicki Davis
So as we find yourself, might you merely give us a quick elevator pitch for right here is how one could make finding out stick with experience. With 4 and five-year-olds.

00:09:24:00 – 00:09:43:02
Debbie Tannenbaum
I really feel you could take a look on the alternate options the experience can present our faculty college students. And is it going to offer our faculty college students alternate options to share in methods through which they can’t with out the experience? And loads of situations having them doc their voice or having them make a video, you’ll get numerous issues than you might get must you merely have them draw a picture.

00:09:43:04 – 00:10:01:22
Debbie Tannenbaum
And so giving them these alternate options to do that, having it’s succesful to be taught to them, truly giving them real duties and being like, you might be actually creating one factor on the computer. With my 4 and five-year-olds, I do loads of stuff the place they’ve choice boards, the place they go. There’s just a few completely totally different actions they often get to resolve on what they’re doing.

00:10:02:00 – 00:10:16:02
Debbie Tannenbaum
I would love them to actually really feel like after I come to their rooms to do our experience, that it’s always linked to what we’re finding out. I on no account do one factor that isn’t linked to what they’re finding out, and I work with the lecturers to do that they often see the connection between us.

00:10:16:04 – 00:10:22:03
Vicki Davis
So are the choice boards projected on the board? Are they in a Google doc or Google slide? Or the place are these?

00:10:22:04 – 00:10:38:06
Debbie Tannenbaum
A variety of situations I’m going to make use of Wixie on account of it lets you hyperlink inside after which they get into Wixie using Clever they often know how to do that. I educate them that; we uncover methods to find the Clever icon. We uncover methods to find what they title the Rainbow hand. We’re truly intentional with these icons as we assemble.

00:10:38:09 – 00:11:09:07
Vicki Davis
Love that Debbie Tannenbaum and also you’re employed with districts all through serving to them use experience with the littlest to make finding out stick. And I actually like your methods. So many good ideas. Thanks, Debbie, for approaching the current.

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John Davis, Producer
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00:12:09:15 – 00:12:14:10
John Davis, Producer
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