In this episode, Dr. Rhoads interviewed Alexander Deeb, who is the co-found and CEO of the EdTech platform Classhook on student engagement. As a company that thinks about student engagement constantly, our discussion outlined how bite-sized learning using relevant popular culture media is essential to help students build conceptual frameworks around the skills and concepts they are taught. Additionally, we discussed how bite-sized clips can help solidify retention and create more fun and interactive spaces for learning to occur. Last, we outlined several engagement strategies as well as how a tool like ClassHook can be utilized to not only help create more engaging lessons for educators but also helps cut down the time it takes to develop lessons as tools like ClassHook are great curators of content.
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Guest Bio: Alexander Deeb is co-founder and CEO of ClassHook, where he helps educators improve student outcomes by making learning relevant, engaging, and fun using popular TV shows and movies to teach. He has a passion to create positive social good in the world and believes that education is the way to better society and individuals. He’s personally gained many opportunities he otherwise wouldn’t have had by teaching himself to code in high school, and he wants to create opportunities for students through their learning. In his free time, Alex enjoys reading about science, playing video games, and reading.
Social Media/Website
Website: www.classhook.com
Twitter: @alexanderdeeb
