E145: "I Got My Students Back" — ...
E145: "I Got My Students Back" — What Happened When One Teacher Went Analog - With Drew Walters
Teaching Restored by Kevin Jones
S1 · E149
Sep 21, 2026
01:09:22
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Kevin and Julie sit down with Drew Walters, a seminary and institute teacher of 25 years from Sterling, Alberta, who did something most teachers only think about: he stripped every piece of technology out of his classroom. No slides. No devices. No accompaniment — they sang every hymn a cappella. What he wanted to know was simple and a little uncomfortable: if the power went out and everything crashed, would he still have the skills to teach students from the word? The answer surprised him, and the stories he brought along — the back row of boys scrolling through a devotional, the girl whose paper scriptu ... 

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