Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

These days, schools are trying to figure out how to bring making into every facet of the school day, with mobile kits, clubs and more. Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Integrating with the Maker Movement. Districts are also finding a natural integration between computational thinking and maker learning. For instance, Indian Prairie School District held a four-hour Maker Day to garner community support for computational thinking and maker learning in elementary schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

How Does Book Creator Work? I made the above tutorial to show you how to set up Book Creator, but honestly, you don’t really need it. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. From my high school classroom to this elementary classroom. Book Creator is an awesome tool for classrooms of all ages.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 22, 2017

One of these connections was between Mundaring Primary School in Mundaring, WA, Australia, and Skyline Elementary School in Solana Beach, CA, USA. They quizzed the students from Skyline Elementary School with multiple-choice questions such as, “What country attacked Britain in 1518?” (the the answer: a Cygnet).

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. I was blown away by the topics they were wondering about.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Former secretary of education, William Bennett, says, “An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school that needs an infusion of soul. Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. All comments in the shaded green box are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. We are a whole school program that really teaches children in food-insecure communities how to grow food, get the parents involved, brings parents in and aligns it. We are not an add on. Stephen Ritz.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. That’s what makes a great educational change and transformative teaching, as well as we learn how to use technology in a nonthreatening way.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor host the Teaching Python Podcast where they share how to help kids of all ages learn this valuable language. We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. Her roots are as an elementary classroom teacher where she utilized technology as an integrated part of the learning environment. Vicki: Yeah!

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And then also from an elementary standpoint, I had a teacher use it in lieu of … she used to have her students write personal narratives and then they would bind the book together as a classroom set and put it in the library. So that was a great way from an elementary standpoint to use FlipSnack. How to get started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

And she had the first graders from the previous year skype into the classroom and share informational pieces with the kindergarten students about what they could expect and how to take care of those chicks, based on their experiences the previous year. Vicki: And we know authentic audience improves writing. What’s our fifth?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2019

She wants her students to develop a love for culture, communication and technology, but also to understand how to use that love and passion to advance their own future, as well as that of the global community. Smoke to design over 75 projects for teachers and students around the world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? He was a bit older than me, and he actually learned how to program in 1’s and 0’s. Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program. Date: February 27, 2018.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

He gave us great practical ideas about how to make every day STEAM activities and how to easily integrate it into your lessons. Carol has been an elementary educator in the primary grades for 26 years. Chris Woods — he is @ dailystem on Twitter – and he’s done our chat a few times. So, let me ask you this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

If I pick their teams, they don’t develop the opportunity to learn how to form groups, how to negotiate, how to determine which students are like minded in their desire to improve the world. Students need opportunities to negotiate, share ideas, experience failure, and setbacks, and learn how to work with others.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2017

I have done it multiple times during my summer maker camp for elementary level kids, my gifted students, and at conferences as part of teacher professional development. How to Play. Here is a description of this activity from the tinkering studio at the Exploratorium: Do you ever wonder what’s inside your toys? More Information.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

How to update Google Streetview Images. I spent maybe five minutes just showing them how to use the app, and then they took it and ran with it from there. Once you take a couple of minutes to frontload and show students how to use the tool, then you’d be amazed what they can do with it. Donnie: So they said, “Mr. Donnie Piercey.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

He taught her how to code in her seventh grade Innovation and Design class at Redwood Day School. Hannah built a Whack-a-Mole game—and learned the invaluable skill of troubleshooting, the importance of asking for help, and just how far persistence, curiosity and creativity can take you. Alexis Lewis —inventor. That was also fun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. When students first open their device, a simple tutorial teaches them how to use Adobe Premiere Rush and gets them started. It uses film that was preloaded in the program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

It’s like the maze of the Minotaur, where you need to put a string on someone’s toe and pull it so they’ll know how to get out. Now, you might wonder how to set up the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset. It almost feels intrusive to have someone tap on your shoulder to get your attention. It’s that immersive. A Valuable Tool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids. So I just took that world and I worked with the teachers as to what they were doing in their normal classroom. It is a powerful tool.

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 29, 2014

I must confess, I myself am really into the whole maker movement. While I certainly don''t think we can spend a great deal of any school time teaching kids how to knit, I do think the new technologies like robotics and 3d printing are under tapped in elementary schools. Makerspaces are all the rage right now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Schools were never designed to do that, so we basically have this massive paradigm shift that we’ve got to figure out how to go through. Other folks either don’t feel that urgency, or at least have some inkling that that’s the direction we need to go, but they don’t have any ideas of how to accomplish that. Vicki: We are.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. Joe: Well… Do they want to review? Do they want to introduce something? It depends on what class it is. I go right back to the writing process with this. Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em. Tell ‘em what you told them.

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MindShift

AUGUST 15, 2017

For example, in the book “Wemberly Worried” by Kevin Henkes, Peters developed and attached instructions on how to make a Guatemalan worry doll. A maker project pasted inside the book “Little Roja Riding Hood” by Susan Middleton Elya. Courtesy of Nora Peters). Courtesy of Nora Peters). MAKING IT AFFORDABLE.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. For example, if the big goal is student-led inquiry, teachers might brainstorm “how to see if a kid is curious. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies? The more concrete, the better.

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