Videos
Digital Instructional Design - Discovery Design vs. Addies
How about leaving the Industrial Age behind when it comes to designing instruction? Digital Instructional Design holds great promise to drive vastly improved student agency. Curated resource lib...
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Digital Instructional Design - Workflow Logistics vs. Addies
An over 50-year-old model of instructional design doesn't make sense once you know what technology can do. Learn about digital workflow logistics and a model that detaches the assumptions of pla...
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Foundational Ed-Tech Leadership - What's Basic and Not-so-Basic
Just one of the definitions in this section deals with data literacy, so different than digital literacy. Other definitions help anchor your perception of the digital learning universe with term...
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What You Don't Know about Software Can Hurt Your School
There's a reason most websites are asking your permission to "cookie" you before allowing you to see their site. Other potentially hostile characteristics must be known for the sake of staying i...
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Instructional Qualities of Digital - Does it Cause Learning?
When you look inside a major system or an App, is what it is doing causing any learning? What are the instructional qualities of digital programming? The problem with choosing digial resources i...
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Customization of the Digital Learning Universe
Teachers love to customize/individualize and need to so that they can fit learning to the unique students in front of them. How could software help them do this rather than make it more work...
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Controlling Digital Learning
Some of your learning software gives teachers the ability to control some interactions, to "hold back" or differentiate, see analytics, and more. Some do not. Systems, as well, provide high flex...
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The Design of Digital Resources in Learning
Poorly designed software is just like poorly designed instruction. Now the two are very intertwined and data points to both learners and teachers missing key navigational cues and getting lost i...
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Intro to the Big Things on the Ed-Tech Landscape
What are the “Big Things” on the landscape of Ed-Tech and the nine major categories of digital curriculum characteristics? Are your tactics cloud-based or on-premise? Be grounded in the mental m...
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8 New Models of Schooling
Which one are you? Discuss the emerging models of school space and time use and the shift in teaching. Hybrid, Blended, even "HyFlex" are a thing now. What's it all mean for burdens on teachers,...
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Implementing New Digital Tools in a Cloud-Based Environment
Central Bucks School District is a long-time friend of the Learning Counsel, as well as a nationally known hotspot for technological innovation in education. In this educator session, you’ll hea...
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Pennsylvania - Digital Experience Standards: “New Model of Instructional Design and Dictionary Definitions Workshop”
Leading this workshop is Chris McMurray, VP of EduJedi Leadership at the Learning Counsel. In today’s session, you’ll learn different ways to look at your district’s digital resources, with an e...
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Fostering Connectedness and Promoting SEL
What are the programs you can use in your classrooms that will help get and keep your students connected? And how do these programs aid in the social emotional learning of your students? In this...
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Shift to Digital Learning - Considerations
The fantastic thing about the Learning Counsel’s Lunch and Learn presentations is they give us the opportunity to share hand-selected products and services that your school or district needs to ...
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Reading is for Everyone
Our special Lunch and Learn presentations are an opportunity for you to peruse education companies that you need to know about. These companies have all been vetted and come highly recommended b...
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Pennsylvania - Local Panel of Administrators: “Our Digital Transition”
It is simply amazing how much talent is in the state of Pennsylvania. In this Local Panel of Administrators discussion, these local administrators happen to be among the best educational minds i...
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Bricks to Bytes Instruction During a Pandemic
There is so much to be learned during a pandemic, as the Berks Career and Technology Center shares in this very informative video. According to Michael Stein, M.S.Ed, Technology Integration Coac...
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Three Things That Matter! One Portal Access, Measurement, and Digital Resource Management or Account Creation!
The wonderful thing about our Lunch and Learn presentations is that it gives the Learning Counsel the opportunity to recommend specific products and services that your district needs. In this sp...
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Pennsylvania - Motivation
Dr. Justin Aglio is the Senior Director at the new Readiness Institute at Penn State University, and formerly a teacher, principal and curriculum director. He has much to say about student agenc...
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Pennsylvania - Everything Changed: “Using Space & Time Today and Hybrid Logistics Best Practices”
Years from now, when we look back at this time, we will recognize it as the period in public education when everything changed. In essence, the pandemic was a catalyst for many of the changes th...
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