The Teachercast Podcast

Helping Students Solve Real World Problems: Featuring Travis Allen

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Synopsis

In this episode of the https://www.teachercast.net/episodes/teachercast-podcast/ (TeacherCast Podcast), Jeff welcomes Travis Allen from https://www.ischoolinitiative.com/ (iSchool Initiative) on the program to discuss why it's important for teachers to allow students to have the opportunity to solve real-world problems in the classroom. I had the privilege of meeting Travis this year at http://teachercast.net/iste (ISTE) where he and his team at iSchool Initiative partnered with http://www.cisco.com (Cisco) to create an immersive, gamified, breakout experience that had 20,000 teachers buzzing during the entire conference.  In this interview, you will learn how Travis took his first steps at becoming an entrepreneur during his teenage years, and how he is turnkeying those experiences into helping other students create their own paths through a program called https://www.studentled.com (SLED: Students Leading Education.) In this episode, we discuss: From Student … to Edupreneur Teaching students to impact