In this conversation, we talk about…

• Having fun at the Spooklemire party

• Giving a presentation to Morton Rotary Club about reConnect Morton

• Hosting a community film screening of Your Attention Please

• Planning a holiday recital spectacular

• Meeting a fan of the pod IRL

• Overviewing an open letter to American school districts and an expose on students' YouTube usage

• Planning a driveway movie night

• Doing simple fall craft to get outside

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On this episode, we speak with 23-year veteran high school Social Studies teacher, Dr. Samantha Serrano.

Samatha is a 23-year veteran high school social studies teacher in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. She has her bachelors in social science education from Illinois State University, her masters in geography and environmental studies from Northeastern Illinois University, and her PhD in Geographic Education from Texas State University. Samatha serves on the board of directors for the National Council for Geographic Education and is an active advocate for geography education in the K - 12 classroom, where she liaises for the American Association for Geographers. Her recent journal publications surround equity and access in education and critical GenAI literacies.

In this conversation, we talk about…

• Benefits and consequences of schools adopting devices and digital platforms

• How digital homework impacts homework completion

• What is AI literacy?

• The value of human input and evaluation

• How some teachers are going back to analog

• The impact on teachers when Google turns a feature on or off

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We start off talking about several interesting webinars happening the week we record this episode (more than one featuring author Natasha Singer) and thankfully Jordan’s massive Google Doc will house the links to the recordings. Jordan can’t handle the fact that her youngest is turning three, which prompts Helen to ask what age a baby monitor should stay in kids’ rooms. Helen attempts to get us a podcast sponsor by sharing how her daughter’s first three-syllable word was...Desitin! We then dive into the latest frustrating creation from Meta called Muse. Jordan’s social media feeds have been flooded with prompts to activate her personal AI Muse agent (she won’t be doing that), and though Helen had not seen it yet, something tells us she will after talking about it! Mark Zuckerberg recently debuted the “Muse Charm,” which is oddly (but also not surprisingly) reminiscent of the handheld millennial toy: Tamagotchi. We talk through the concerns of handing over access to all of your accounts. This leads us to talking about how our own relationships with social media have changed over time. Jordan shares how she feels conflicted with using social media for interacting with people she knows aka using the “like” button. And then we learn that even though Helen isn’t watching a dating show where people walk the plank (Jordan has never heard of it), she still knows all about it.

Find Helen on Substack at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Resonances⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Join Jordan in ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠reConnect Morton⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ through Four Norms.