Friends, we have an awesome pod for you today! Mike and Glen discuss whether Educators should join the new social media app clubhouse, debate whether teaching is still an appealing profession, give you some news about an EPIC educational partnership and our guest this week is Educator and Author Heidi Williams.

Guest: Heidi Williams

Our guest is a passionate coding and computational thinking advocate with over thirty years of experience in education. She has served as a language, science, and mathematics teacher for grades 6–8 and held roles as a differentiation specialist, technology integration specialist, instructional coach, gifted and talented coordinator, elementary principal, and K–8 Director of Curriculum.

She is a well-traveled speaker and the author of No Fear Coding: Computational Thinking Across the K-5 Curriculum which has recently been re-released in its second edition!

• Kristin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/heidi_STRETCh
• Website: nofearcoding.org
• BUY THE BOOK!: https://my.iste.org/s/store#/store/browse/detail/a1w1U000004LphgQAC

Notes:

• ASK FOR STICKERS: https://twitter.com/MsThornborrow
• Clubhouse and privacy: Disturbing privacy news
• Is teaching still an appealing profession?: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-03-04-is-teaching-still-an-appealing-profession-a-growing-teacher-shortage-worries-experts
• EPIC partnership between Games for Change and EPIC Games: bit.ly/G4C-Epic

• OnEducation is now on YouTube! Subscribe to the channel and listen to prior episodes as they are released!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu2fkhy9cnZZbggW8_K3FgQ
• Mike on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/misterwashburn
• Glen on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/irvspanish
• Participate on Twitch: https://twitch.tv/insideparticipate

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