Every year Tim and Brent dig into some possible gifts for the techie teacher in your life. Whether you're looking to treat yourself, or just can't find something that will make the teacher in your life a little happier, we've got some ideas for you to check out. Listen in to hear the suggestions and thoughts about how teachers might use them.

Show notes: www.TheHigherEdTechPodcast.com

Companies like Google, Microsoft, Canvas, and many more have positioned themselves as solutions to education problems, but they're making very few moves to protect what we know about the learning process? It wouldn't be hard for them to make things work in much more pedagogically sound ways, but they seem to be uninterested in doing much beyond the status quo.

In this episode, Tim and Brent discuss what Google (and all of the other corporations, too) can do to actually help teachers and students through the learning process.

Warning, some of these ideas could lead to slippery slopes, so it's worth thinking them through.

Show notes: www.TheHigherEdTechPodcast.com

Millions of people, including teachers and students, were affected by the recent outage of AWS as it took almost all EdTech, including Canvas, out of commission. While we may not collectively learn not to put all of our eggs in one basket, we can individually prepare ourselves for when this (inevitably) happens again. Listen in for ideas on how to deal with tech outages.

Show Notes: www.TheHigherEdTechPodcast.com