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Awesome Atlanta Education Conference: STLinATL – July 26-27, 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

STEM/STEAM Integration. Proposals are due by 12 noon EDT on March 30, 2018. All accepted proposals will be notified on or before April 15, 2018. THE STLinATL CONFERENCE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS: Whole Child (e.g., Assessment for Learning. Contemporary Literacy. For more information, visit stlinatl.com.

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Foster Social-Emotional Learning through Making

Digital Promise

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Maker learning is more than just making “stuff.”

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Maker Monday: How Start the Week with Creativity and Purpose (ENCORE)

The CoolCatTeacher

The top Monday Motivation episode of 2018 so far with John Spencer 276 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. John Spencer, coauthor of two different best-selling books, Launch and Empower , talks about the creativity (and test score) boosts his classes experienced when he began Maker Mondays.

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Webinar: Teaching with Augmented Reality with #ARVRinEDU Classroom Enthusiasts

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: Wednesday, December 19, 2018 Time: 9 pm – 9:45 pm Eastern Time Location: Zoom Webinar Room [ Register Here ] Hosts: Jaime Donally and some AR enthusiasts from the #ARVRinEDU Chat Moderator: Vicki Davis How am I using AR in my classroom?

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Maker Culture Has a ?Deeply Unsettling? Gender Problem

Edsurge

As a whole, STEM fields experience significant gender imbalances and makerspaces are no exception—despite being a relatively recent adoption for many schools. Among their findings: a troubling lack of women in makerspace leadership and a pronounced tendency to see boys as more tech-proficient.

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: January 23, 2018. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space. Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. Like you just mentioned, in December we did the Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. She just finished up the Gingerbread STEM Community, because that was a December project.

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Makerspace, Standards, and a Look at Computational Thinking

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I am taking dates for spring, summer, and fall of 2018… Mike Gorman ( [link] / ). The idea behind the Makers Movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, formatively learn, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. The idea of making is not a new concept.