83: Finding the BEST Tools that Work for Our Learners, Marybeth Harter-Schultz, School Partnerships Manager, Edpuzzle

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The meaning in life is to find
your gift, and the purpose in

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life is to give it away.
Hello everyone.

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And welcome to another fantastic
episode of Ed up.

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Ed Tech.
You are going to be so excited.

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When you hear about the guests
that I have on today, we have

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Mary Beth harder Schultz.
He is the school Partnerships

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manager at edpuzzle Marybeth.
Welcome to the show.

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Thanks so much for having me
holly.

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It's great to be here.
I'm really excited to get into

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all the things that you're doing
a Ted puzzle.

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I love that puzzle.
I love using it.

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I my sister uses it at her
school, I use it with my grad

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students, but before we jump
into all the things edpuzzle,

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tell us a little bit about
yourself and your journey into

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the Ed Tech space.
Sure.

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I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, I
have over 23 years in the field

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of Education.
I started my career as a

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classroom teacher with Rocky,
River City Schools, which is on

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a Lakeside Community.
In Ohio.

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I did a variety of leadership
roles reading and literacy was

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really my passion and still
really is to this day and from

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those roles I went on to become
an assistant principal People

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and principle in the Ohio area,
and then my husband took a job

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in Orlando, Florida.
So I transition there and have

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held various positions
leadership positions in Florida.

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And then the pandemic hit.
As we know, I started my

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doctorate degree which was also
sort of on my bucket list of

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things to do.
And during that time, I really

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needed some time to do some
action research as part of my

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Doctorate and I dove right into
edtech, as kind of my

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dissertation action, research of
how to keep teachers in the

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classroom and in the profession
overall and decided.

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I really wanted to experience
the Ed Tech side of things

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because I had really been
looking for a product that I had

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used and that I was familiar
with and decided to work.

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There was an opportunity to
work.

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With an amazing team at edpuzzle
right in Orlando in the Florida

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area and I jumped on board.
So I have been with edpuzzle for

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the most part of a year right
now and I'm really enjoying the

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journey and using my expertise,
both as a school administrator,

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and as a teacher to really work
with those schools and districts

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that edpuzzle serves.
So, I love your story.

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We have a lot in common and I
think it's great that you found

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edtech through your
dissertation.

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I know what, what was your?
Let me just ask a question.

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What was your dissertation on
and what kind of research?

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What did you find out?
Well actually I'm looking into

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the teacher retention issue and
what we found is a lot of

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younger teachers that join the
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Leave within the first five
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They are overwhelmed because
even Even though they have a lot

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of background in educational,
strategies and classroom

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instruction, they really lack
some of the communication

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skills.
Soft skills.

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They just those haven't been
developed, they're looking for a

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streamlined process and when
they get in the classroom in

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front of a whole group of
students, it becomes really

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overwhelming because they have a
tool for grade books.

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They have a tool for lesson
planning, they Tool for

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communicating with parents and
all of these tools don't work

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together and then the human
resource side of it, they're

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still doing things.
A lot of the times in some

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schools, not all with paper and
they're not.

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They haven't moved forward into
the electronic space.

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So I feel like there was a
disconnect and what we found in

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our research is there was a
disconnect between what they

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were expecting students to do,
or what we're expecting, our

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students to achieve.
And the teachers were still

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using, you know, paper and
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And and there obviously is never
a replacement for the teacher.

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The teacher is always the most
important person in the

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classroom, but I think with
technology we've evolved and we

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can use things to work, smarter
not harder and we can really get

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these tools that are streamlined
now.

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It's like there's so many things
out there.

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Schools need to be strategic and
what they choose for their

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students and for their
communities.

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What is the best fit?
And so I think a lot of my

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research has really looked at
how can we make a platform or a

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menu of different tools that
really get people talking

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amongst each other and working
together and collaborating in a

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more convenient space and
instead of having these teachers

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be so overwhelmed with anything
and everything.

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After they've worked the entire
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Face with students.
Yeah, that's a lot to take in,

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for sure.
I can't wait to read your

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research and I love it that
you're doing own a very, very

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prominent topic right now that
teacher retention that's going

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on is, you know, some people say
it's not happening.

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Teachers aren't leaving the
classroom, some people are like,

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yes, it's happening.
It's a big deal but I want to

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know what is truly going on.
So Mary Beth in your journey.

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Do you have any particular
education?

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In quotes that or any other
quotes that you've you've

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referenced back to along the
way.

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Of course, my mom was a second
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She also taught sixth grade.
So my mom is still a big part of

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my inspiration and from my early
years of just being around

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classrooms and being on the
school calendar, I think she is.

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Also, my biggest cheerleader, of
course, both of my parents are

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but my mom My dad is in the
medical profession and my mom

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was in the education space.
So one of the big things was I

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think and it's one.
I've always shared with my

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students and even my staff that
I've been fortunate enough to

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lead the meaning in life, is to
find your gift.

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And the purpose in life is to
give it away.

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And I think education is always
one of those tools where the key

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is really to unlocked each
student's gift.

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Because every student you meet
And I've been in this, you know,

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23 years of everyone I've met is
completely different and

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completely unique and so
different people have their

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strengths.
They have their weaknesses or

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challenges, and it's how can you
help them along the way?

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What can you do to inspire them?
And to lead them to be their

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best self and it sounds sort of
cliche?

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But I really do believe it's
sad.

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I love it.
It's not cliche, it's not

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cliches too.
Many people say that I love

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this.
It's not clear.

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It's awesome.
And I think that quote

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originally it's been said by
other people that I think it was

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definitely from Pablo Picasso,
who was an artist and, and I do

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believe that teaching is as much
an art as it is a science.

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I mean, every teacher has a
different approach to the

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curriculum, a different approach
to how they run their classroom.

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And I think that's what makes it
special.

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And that's when you think back
to like your favorite teacher or

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your favorite grade in school or
your favorite project, There are

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those key memories and moments
that make up your journey and

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that have really, you know,
changed you or transformed you

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in some way.
And and each teacher has made,

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they're made their impact on
you.

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So I think that's what's really
special to me.

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Absolutely.
I love it.

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And I do love that quote as
well, so and I know that res

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that one definitely resonates
with a lot of educators.

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You're doing research in the Ed
Tech space and now you've jumped

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into the Ed Tech space with
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How would you personally?
Define educational technology?

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I think with edtech, I mean,
just like I said before, these

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are tools, these are resources.
There's a lot of great ones out

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there and I think it really is
used to supplement the

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curriculum.
You know as a tool or resource

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the teacher is always Weighs one
hundred percent going to be the

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most important individual in the
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Technology doesn't replace
teaching, doesn't replace

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anything, but I think it just
enhances it with edpuzzle.

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It's a video platform.
So when you're using video in

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the classroom, it can just be
used as that accountability

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piece and how students process
things and how you can

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personalize The Learning
Experience and Taylor.

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Each individual so I think like
just like with anything attack

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is always evolving there are
always new things to learn a new

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things to add and I think that's
why it's so exciting because it

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does give the education space
just to refresh and it gives it

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a new chapter, a new platform in
which to communicate and like

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increase the rigor for all.
All students to get that great

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educational experience that we
want, for all of our students

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and all of our kids.
Absolutely.

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And I love, I mean, Ed Tech,
pretty much changed my life when

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I was a teacher way back in the
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And I remember using a tool to
my students took, it was a

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Clickers.
They took a test.

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Absolutely.
Yeah, they took, they had the

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paper test with them.
They took the test in the

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clickers and by the time, the
Bell from periods, Three the

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five minutes that they had, I
had it all synced in my grade

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book ready to go which is
awesome.

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And that's so like life-changing
when everything integrates so

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well, like a puzzle integrates
with all platforms and Google

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canvas.
Schoology.

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And because it does those things
sink right into their Gradebook.

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So it eliminates a lot of the
extra steps that teachers are so

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used to doing right?
Well, let's get into it for the

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people who've been living.
Being under a rock tell us about

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add puzzle and the product and
the services that you offer and

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how you help institutions in
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Well, sure, edpuzzle has been
around, almost 10 years, believe

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it or not.
It was founded in 2013, actually

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create it.
And a lot of people don't know

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this.
So this is a fun fact for

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today's episode.
It was founded by a teacher,

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keeps a Bria.
A classroom teacher and he

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needed a way many of us
students.

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I believe I have the story.
Correct, many of his students

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missed class often and he needed
a way he felt that despite them

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missing class.
I mean, of course, he wanted

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them to be there, but if they
were going to miss what is a way

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that they could still get the
instruction and keep the

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learning process moving forward.
And so, he decided he would talk

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to some of Of his friends who
were in The Tech space and said,

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what tool can I use in my
classroom where I can present a

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lesson, a video Lesson and
upload it somewhere?

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Where if this student misses
class he or she can still see

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the instruction and the lesson
and the curriculum right then

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and there they don't need to
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They can actually see and feel
like they're part of the class

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and and that's how edpuzzle was.
It the Mantra of edpuzzle is

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every learner is just one click
away from an excellent

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education.
I believe, you know, edpuzzle

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was really used a lot when
remote learning and the whole

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world shut down and was affected
by the global pandemic.

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But I'm just butley obviously
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when people started to really
get introduced to it, they knew

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about it in certain places but
now at puzzle isn't 190

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countries, it's available in
several languages and more

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coming.
It's impacted 2.6 million.

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Teachers, there's 30 plus
million video lessons for

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million hours of videos, watched
monthly and basically almost 10

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years of helping students, and,
and Ed puzzles, that tool where

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you can easily input.
Embed a video and a like embed.

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Some It's can be multiple
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Can be open-ended and the
students cannot skip through the

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video all the way to the end.
They have to watch the entire

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thing.
So it's increasing the

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engagement in the
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We have a fabulous new
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with YouTube.
So there's a Google Chrome

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extension.
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So there's ad free and we really
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the safety compliance.
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pledge in terms of the data that
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a phenomenal tool for teachers
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classroom model where you know
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on an edge puzzle assignment.
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is if the video can be edited
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some of the middle, you can take
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can take out some in the end.
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10 or 15 minutes, As long, but
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students to watch maybe five
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One day, five minutes the next
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like, and there's so many
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continuing to add every day.
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compliance.
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captioning audio responses, and
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teachers can give audio
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library of Standards aligned
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set up to your standards by
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kindergarten, and they're
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up through 12th grade.
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students are needing financial
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those are modules that are Ready
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so an administrator can go in
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nowadays when we're looking at a
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figure out what tools are being
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to analyze and see the Excellent
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and the student I've been in
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engagement in the excitement, by
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because they can re-watch
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read a chapter.
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video, they can do it again and
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third chance if they need it.
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personalized approach to
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these things and I feel like I
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I love it so much so I was going

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to ask you.
Do you know coming into the Ed

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Tech space and knowing you know
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technology in the classroom.
What is your favorite feature of

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edpuzzle?
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the spot, they're putting you
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take any video and make it your
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things out there that you can
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any Source National Geographic,
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Discovery, Ed, you can go on
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Take a video.
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trip.
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make it your own, you can embed
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resource or give them a link to
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that roadmap.
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and they actually We are trying
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it's so much more than that.
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increasing the engagement and
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So, I think it's kind of that
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many great tools and features.
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all these resources because
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administrator, it was so
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so many things with it and I've
seen so many great lessons from

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our community that have taken
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and and that alone where we can
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terrific.
Not only just within a school

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but see what other edpuzzle have
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where everywhere everywhere
that's the I can even I'm doing

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a Duolingo with French right now
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with some French videos that are
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Designed that interns.
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So you described a lot of
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does wonderful features.
Building an ADA compliance.

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Is there anything you can share
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coming up on the road map for
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without violating any NDA
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Can you share some of your goals
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excited about what's next?
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globe and so we're continuing to
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I think The great thing is,
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company and hiring so many,
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I have a region.
I'm part of region for, which is

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led by my manager, Jordan
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And I have so many amazing
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helped me because they come from
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they also come with sales
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problem-solve and strategize.
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continuing to expand into
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Schools, private schools, public
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looking at other organizations
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training to deliver or some
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deliver?
How can we Using videos in

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modules and things like that,
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training streamline that process
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evolve as a company.
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there's a suggestion if we learn
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take those suggestions to our
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management and have they have
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Roundtable which is, Wonderful
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Anyone can join, they have
regular curriculum calls to

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share like upcoming curriculum
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because believe it or not, a
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hours of work by so many
different talented people about

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just making it just so making it
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many edits and seeing the
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way to the end.
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the employees to Really feel
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one thing.
I noticed it allows many voices

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at the table and many opinions
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figure out the best path forward
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And I think gosh how how amazing
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and work together and and
problem-solve and look for new

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Solutions and oh if you didn't
if you tried something and it

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didn't work, what can we do
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To make it more successful.
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It's okay to make mistakes.
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kids.
The reason you're in school is

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because you don't know
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think that edpuzzle is great
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lifelong learner.
I mean, we don't pretend to know

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it all we don't pretend to know
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We feel like we are better when
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we're doing it together and I
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And the culture that they've
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sounds like a great place to be
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Absolute culturally, it sounds,
wonderful.

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And definitely I'm going to put
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Notes to all the jobs.
You have internationally, you

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know, domestic and
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There's a lot.
There's a variety of roles that

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people really need to check out
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Absolutely.
That would be great.

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Yeah, yeah, I'm putting it.
I, I highlight edpuzzle quite a

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bit in my job, postings on
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But I'm definitely gonna put
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people can access it there.
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So we are coming up on the end
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really three final questions for
you Mary Beth.

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All right?
I want to know if there's

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anything else you'd like to
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Did we miss anything?
And then I want you to put your

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fortune teller hat on.
And I want you to tell us what

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the future of Ed Tech looks
like, oh gosh, that's a tall

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order.
Yeah, I've think I've shared

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some of the biggest features of
that puzzle right now.

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Now, in terms of, you know, the
admin panel, the introduction of

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edpuzzle Originals.
We also have, you know, a big

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push on ADA compliance and
really increasing the Safety and

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Security of our platform.
That's always been the highest

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priority to us of making sure
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Security things in place for all
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teachers and everything like
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I think the biggest thing.
Thing about Ed puzzle is that

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like I said, they're continuing
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we expand, we take the feedback,
very seriously, from our

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teachers and our students about
what do they want to see next?

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So, some of these suggestions
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are basically, it was basically
someone saying, hey, we really

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think closed captioning should
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audio responses.
It would be great for our

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youngest Learners, who aren't
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And yet to be able to just speak
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answer because they know the
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They just have a hard time
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we are really responding to what

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you know that it's almost like
the tool is getting created, you

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know, and involving as needs are
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And that's I think the exciting
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my fortune teller hat on and I
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You know, I there's so many
things that who knows, you know?

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Yeah, every that this point with
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Exactly.
But I think that the future of

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Ed Tech is really bright that
everybody's talking about Ai and

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chat GPT and how that's going to
enter into it.

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So that's something that, I
guess, keep an eye on because

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there's so much chatter about
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be important for technology, and
even for schools, there's going

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to be so many.
Many things out there.

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So you really have to be the
consumer and somewhat of a

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researcher where, yes, there's a
lot of tools out there but it's

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like a menu when you're going to
a restaurant and there's

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different categories, you may
prefer one thing like a soup or

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a salad over something else.
So it just like that.

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If there's a whole bunch of apps
out there, there's a whole bunch

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of tools out there.
You pick the tool that works

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best for you.
And so I think it's funny.

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Is going back to education.
We're always talking about

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adding tools to our toolbox and
I can tell you that in over 23

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years of education.
I'm always adding more and more

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tools because you'll always come
upon a situation or circumstance

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or even a student of somebody
needs something that you didn't

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have exposure with yet or
experience with.

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So, you need to find that tool
that works for that particular

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group of students or Learners.
And so I think just like

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everything if the human
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You know, we're we're recruiting
teachers and new people to the

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profession, we need to grow and
attract the best of the best.

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And in order to grow the
students to be the best of the

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best in the Future.
Leaders of Tomorrow.

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We have to find the tools that
work best for them.

456
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And so I think it's really about
looking at all the tools and

457
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what they're doing and figuring
out.

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What is the best one for me?
What is the best fit for our

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school or our district?
And I think that's where it's

460
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exciting.
Because there's always going to

461
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be calm.
There's always going to be new

462
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things on the horizon, but it's
how do we make the best

463
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decision?
The best information, informed

464
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decision for us at that time and
I think tools like anything are

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providing more and more data and
providing more and more

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accountability factors.
So you need that tool that

467
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really responds to that and
gives you the information that

468
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you need to make that informed
decision.

469
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:09,400
Yes, I was just listening to it,
like, finding the best tools and

470
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a common theme throughout this
episode especially is that

471
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adaptability and the
customizability and the

472
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personalization of education.
So I definitely see that

473
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becoming something even grander
and more popular as we continue

474
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into the future of Ed Tech.
And I think for sure, you know,

475
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,400
the Safety and Security piece is
always front and center.

476
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You need to make sure that The
tool you're using is safe and in

477
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,600
compliance with everything else.
So I mean we want to make sure

478
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:43,400
that our students are as safe as
possible with anything we're

479
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:45,900
using.
Yes, yes.

480
00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:49,100
Well, Mary Beth we're at the end
of the episode.

481
00:29:49,100 --> 00:29:51,800
I can't believe it went by so
fast.

482
00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:54,800
That always have.
I know, I know, I know.

483
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,300
Yes, it always happens when you
have a great conversation so I

484
00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:01,700
can't thank you enough for
coming on the show and talking

485
00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,500
about your journey into the Ed
Tech space.

486
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:05,900
But also sharing all the
wonderful things that you and

487
00:30:05,900 --> 00:30:09,600
your team are doing at edpuzzle.
So thank you so much.

488
00:30:10,300 --> 00:30:12,800
Thank you so much for the
opportunity to share more about

489
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,600
a puzzle and about my journey.
I really appreciate it coming on

490
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:18,600
your show.
It's really exciting for me.

491
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:23,800
It's my first podcast to no way.
I would have never known that.

492
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,200
I was like she's an old pro at
this.

493
00:30:28,100 --> 00:30:33,900
Well, thank you so much.
You've just experienced an

494
00:30:33,900 --> 00:30:36,700
another amazing episode of Ed
up.

495
00:30:36,700 --> 00:30:40,200
Ed Tech.
Be sure to visit our website at

496
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:45,500
Ed up, edtech.com to get all the
updates on the latest edtech

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00:30:45,500 --> 00:30:48,400
happening.
See you next time.