<p>Ryan Straight shares ways to use EdTech to help students feel engaged, connected, safe, and productive on episode 308 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>Leave the LMS to deal with the management portion of things and bring the community elsewhere, because that is where the engagement comes from.<br />
-Ryan Straight</p>
<p>You have to be engaged first.<br />
-Ryan Straight</p>
<p>The number one thing that I want students to do is be a person rather than just a username.<br />
-Ryan Straight</p>
<p>Pedagogy comes first. The tool is just a tool.<br />
-Ryan Straight</p>
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<h2>Resources Mentioned</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHkT9CKqf-79BAQ1xb2IJ8w">Inkademic YouTube Channel</a></li>
<li>Slack</li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/thinking-outside-lms/">Episode 140: Thinking Outside the LMS with Steven Michels</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfmy6EYoM_Y&amp;feature=youtu.be">Steven’s video on organizing a class structure in Slack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/What-Best-College-Teachers-Do/dp/0674013255">What the Best College Teachers Do, by Ken Bain</a>*</li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/ken-bain/">Ken Bain on Teaching in Higher Ed: What the Best College Teachers Do</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hypervisible.com/">Chris Gilliard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/podcast/digital-redlining-privacy/">Chris Gilliard on Teaching in Higher Ed</a></li>
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