How do we make more time in the classroom?!?!? We are constantly asked to encourage students' application of concepts and developing understanding but we don't have enough time because we are busy building up the students' knowledge of these concepts and vocabulary needed to communicate about them! Its quite a pickle. In this episode I address my vision for making this happen. This vision is completely conceptual and does not prescribe specific digital tools that you must incorporate. Instead I am discussing the idea of replacing manual tools we use everyday in the classroom, with automated ones we can generate ourselves, in order to specifically build the knowledge base within our students!

In this episode of Credit for the Non-Credentialed, I review some books written by authors that were at the Texas Library Association's Annual Conference in Dallas Texas. Including: 1. Alan Gratz's "Refugee" 2. June Jo Lee and Jacqueline Briggs Martin's "Chef Roy Choi and the Street Food Remix" 3. Dan Santat's "After the Fall" 4. Mac Barnett's "Triangle www.noncred.com Visit My blog to find the post that has the Mac Barnett's Ted Talks video and other links from this show. https://noncred.wordpress.com/ Works Cited: Sturgill Simpson. "Living The Dream." Rec. 13 May 2014. Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Dave Cobb, 2014. MP3. https://twitter.com/hashtag/manon%C3%A9 https://texasbluebonnetaward2019.wordpress.com/refugee/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZuxT4SxviX7LOWkUK_pztcBZqH3_AyRM/view https://www.alangratz.com/writing/refugee/ https://www.alangratz.com/about/ https://texasbluebonnetaward2019.wordpress.com/chef-roy-choi-and-the-street-food-remix/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TVWARbP1c3looo85ClFxA3qnU1MvBIVS/view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj62eDkElw8 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31851771-chef-roy-choi-and-the-street-food-remix?from_search=true https://youtu.be/qawchrVFq00 http://www.txla.org/groups/2x2 https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1251403.Dan_Santat https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33376257-after-the-fall https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18295821-the-adventures-of-beekle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPrS7-kx9Y0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgq4hlZEpYw https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31247841-triangle?from_search=true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22509955-the-terrible-two?ac=1&from_search=true https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35340580-hi-jack?from_search=true

Discussing the name of the podcast and telling the story of Chad, the high school drop out and non-credentialed code monkey. In this episode I give my background as a media specialist, I discuss what I am going to be talking about in future episodes. I tell the story of Chad the high school drop out who became a very successful computer programmer.