The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

I’ve uploaded these resources to the Adobe Education Exchange, a fantastic resource for educators looking to use Adobe products in the classroom. I’ve been teaching with the Adobe Suite for over fifteen years and it has helped inspire creativity in my classroom. See also, the Adobe Premiere Rush movie project.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Jaime Donally talks about all the ways kids can create and make inside Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) in the classroom. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections. My students are making apps in Metaverse.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This post is part of a series in which we frame maker learning in terms of three core values — Agency , Authenticity , and Audience — as the key components to creating the highest quality making experiences for learning. One way to embed audience in maker learning projects is through the practice of human-centered design or design thinking.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

The maker movement and maker education, in my perspective, are such great initiatives – really in line with what student-centric education should be in this era of formal and informal learning. 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ). Is the Maker Movement About Hacking Society—Or Just Hardware? ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2018

When educators first consider redesigning learning spaces, they might immediately conjure up mental images of free-flowing Starbucks lounges or something out of the Cult of Pedagogy blog’s Classroom Eye Candy series. A redesigned classroom at Hillbrook School. Louis and has served as a design consultant for various schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Marynn shares this innovative approach to teaching the Odyssey invented by her students along with their advice for using this method in your classroom. We have a very collaborative classroom, I let the students lead their learning as much as possible. They would say, “Oh, I’ve already done my chapters with my group. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

So this is past what they can do with Google Docs, sharing in Google Classroom? There’s no Google Classroom integration yet. There’s no Google Classroom integration yet, but there are ways to share. Another way you could do that is you could say, “Alright, this group has this project, that group has that project.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you want to join a group of teachers doing Virtual Valentines, you’ll want to listen to the show and sign up by February 2. We’re going to talk about Virtual Valentines and lots of other ways that you can connect and collaborate with other classrooms. Vicki: So what will classrooms be doing with the Virtual Valentines?

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I had a book on maker education published by ASCD. I really love the maker movement. The description of the book is: Transferring this innovative, collaborative, and creative mindset to the classroom is the goal of maker education. I am now in the process of doing it for a 3rd time with a current group of students.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Instead of lecturing to us about Mars he had us actually create Mars in the classroom. Students were broken up into teacher-selected groups that had different tasks to complete. The specific task of each group played a larger part in the Martian project. There was one project in particular that has stuck with me to this day.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The Maker Movement in Education (Erica R. Often, such work is guided by the notion that process is more important than results.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

See their article, Create Magic in Your Classroom. One group made an augmented reality tour of the school. You can also bundle experiences into groups to use in scavenger hunts as well. Using Metaverse for Pop Quizzes in the Classroom – Gamer’s Retreat (11:55). It’s important that we understand the difference.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. And when asked to take responsibility to teach a group of their peers, students tend to take the task quite seriously. Microlearning. For slightly greater depth on this topic start here. Privacy and safety.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. To join the celebration, tune into the Twitter chat with me, fellow teachers, and the CME Group’s chief economist on April 26th at noon Eastern Time, using #PowerofEcon. You and I were actually talking before the show.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Second, teachers must make sure that learners also feel safe emotionally— that they are willing to take risks and know that their ideas will be accepted and valued by everyone in the classroom. mak- ered, #stem); and online communities, such as Facebook groups. Process Facilitator. Relationship Enabler and Builder.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We discuss hiring, inspiring, and having conversations that inspire people to change and improve their classrooms. But also, I just remember for example, when Flat Classroom happened. So many of the projects in my classroom happened because I went to you, and we had conversations. You know, what’s going on in their classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

Host – the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast an author of Reinventing Writing and Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds. School groups of five or more will receive a discount. 2) Georgia Speciality highlighting classroom furniture, makerspace furniture and science furniture of the future. Included in the STLinATL Conference .

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

In deciding what resources you need based on the learners you have, you may first need to determine how your learners learn best, what projects you plan to do, how you can set up a makerspace in your classroom, and much more. This design can be pitched to another group for constructive feedback. The Design Thinking Process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

Classrooms need well-stocked maker spaces and creativity stations. One group of students used Bloxels to create pixel characters for a video game. Another group learned how to fingerprint with a CSI fingerprinting kit. We let kids work problems in math. 2 – Creative materials. 3 – Space and time to create.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Many other winners have done amazing things including: Classroom furniture for those with special needs. Colorado Students Engineer a Prosthetic for a Veteran. This blog post is sponsored by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

One of the past winners that really captured my imagination was a group of students who wanted to help a veteran. We talk about doing meaningful work in our classrooms. Teachers and students are invited to come up with a STEAM solution for a problem in their community. This veteran was unhappy with his prosthetic and how it felt.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Vicki’s classroom. You have to come together and make this big project using technology, work together as a group and make something that is successful. That’s not something that can just be taught in a classroom. In my District Project Achievement speech, I speak on the apps that I’ve made in Ms. Vicki: Right.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

In developmental experiences, problems are written in the very fabric of group dynamics and should be welcome teaching tools, not dreaded things we complain about in the teacher’s lounge. ” I consider creating apps an essential development experience in my classroom. In math, we write problems on the board.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Let’s talk about the focus groups and critical questions driving this transformation from a place where students “have to go” to a place where they “want to be.” The Results of Student Focus Groups About the Library. Vicki: So Josh, what shocked you the most about what the kids said in these focus groups?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 8, 2018

Each nominee and nominator will be entered to win a classroom technology package. You really have to observe the groups and make sure they’re working well together. Vicki, I want you to red light my group. No one person can run a Fortune 500 company by themselves, and we want kids to know how to work in groups like this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Teachers don’t have to be experts or “geeks” to use coding to improve literacy, use higher order thinking skills, and excite students in their classrooms. The best thing that changed when I brought code into my class was a different group of students rose to the top, as those that were most prepared to figure out the challenges of coding.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

In order to do so, I believe there are several ideas and concepts we must acknowledge in order to achieve the genuine education possibilities that the Maker’s culture can bring a classroom. We are now past the initial way of thinking, and the Makers movement allows people to finally use the technology to create and make.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I’ll be sharing the 7 Pedagogical Shifts That Make Interactive Displays a Key to a Student-Centered Classroom on the Cool Cat Teacher blog sponsored by SMART Technologies. Recent research shows that large interactive displays are vital to the classroom ecosystem. Shift #1 is that Students are collaborators. Listen Now.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 29, 2016

Relationship skills: The ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and groups. For many, design thinking goes hand-in-hand with the maker movement and maker education.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Accelerator Nation – It is time for you to bring aerodynamics to life in your STEM Classroom. While you are at the site check out all the other possible resources that might just work for your classroom. It is provided free of charge.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

From Mission to Methods How wide is the gap between lofty aspirations for learning and day-to-day classroom practice? Translating from vision to classroom implementation “is the journey we’re all on now,” says Ken Kay. Translating from vision to classroom implementation “is the journey we’re all on now,” says Ken Kay.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 1, 2016

Educators problem-solve the complexities of introducing a new concept to students by participating in new workshops centered around STEAM and maker movement practices. The group represented various contexts: public, private, and charter, and nearby Latrobe, Hempstead and Franklin Regional districts.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 18, 2014

Although almost any educator would agree these experiences are valuable, carving out space and time for them inside a traditional classroom is no easy feat. Experts say both teachers and students need to develop what they call a “maker mindset,” which Make Magazine’s Dale Dougherty defines as “what can you do with what you know?”.

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

An implicit bias, or implicit stereotype, is the unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group. If you aren’t sure what vibe your classroom or makerspace is communicating, ask some kids. Reduce competition.

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