The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Elementary and primary students can learn to code. How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. Why code in the elementary grades? So, Sam, why do we even want to code in the elementary grades? When I first heard about coding in the elementary grades, I was really put off by it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades. We do a lot of work with Scratch Junior , a free app on iPads and things. Vicki: Steve, do you find that there are teachers that think that kids can’t really understand these concepts — like elementary kids really understanding XY coordinates? And its free! Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 8, 2017

Today Tom Davidson @trdvo shares how he uses iPads in his math classes to teach. If you’re using iPads or want to compare how math is being taught somewhere else, this is a wonderful classroom Wednesday that you don’t want to miss! Listen to the episode “ Building Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw “ Aurasma.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 10, 2017

STEM is the acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Technology includes the iPads toddlers play on, the smartphones we use to guide our days, the apps that turn our lights on and off–or start our car. Department of Commerce, STEM occupations are growing at 17%, while other occupations are growing at 9.8%.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Now, that’s good stuff for every K-2nd grade iPad or Google Play enabled tablet! Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning – One of my favorite books for teachers who use iPads with young children. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Related Resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Device rollout—when students in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive their initiative-provided iPads or Chromebooks—is an exciting time in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, especially for schools new to the program. But rollout looks a bit different in 2020. Applications are now open for the 2021-2022 school year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Eduprotocols for kindergarten and early elementary with the book’s co-author Jon Corippo. Now, that’s good stuff for every K-2nd grade iPad or Google Play enabled tablet! iPads to Differentiate Instruction in K-2 Classrooms. Then, it becomes about the content and not the tools. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Data collection and analysis are cornerstones for many STEM and STEAM programs but they’re not just about math. Their products are wireless, Bluetooth- and/or USB-connectable, and their SPARKvue software runs on Mac and Windows platforms, Chromebooks, iPads, iPhones, and Android. STEM modules. bridge building kits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Book Creator has long been a favorite app on the iPad, and now it’s available for Google Chrome. Students who use Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, iPads, or any other device can now create books with this versatile, easy-to-use app. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. Post sponsored by Book Creator.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

I currently teach elementary art at Parkway Elementary in the Bryant School District in Arkansas. I previously taught in the regular elementary classroom for 13 years. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Lindsay Fell Bio As Submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2017

How kids can explore and create in STEM with ease From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. These Wonder Workshop robots make it easy to learn to code in my STEM lab. STEM labs, STEAM labs, and FAB labs. Any elementary classroom. Scroll down to enter the giveaway contest!

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Behind strong school-based leadership, the schools built sustainable systems in professional learning and IT logistics and have created innovative ways to leverage their iPads to increase student engagement, communication, problem-solving skills, and critical thinking skills. STEM Culture of Innovation.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Since then, “Teachers are really embracing the iPads and have figured out ways to naturally integrate them into their classrooms,” said Annamarie Rinehart, the VILS coach at Sayler Park. Sine Elementary School held its own celebration a few days later. “We After helping at Challenger Middle School’s event on Sept. 4, Melvin E.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. And we forgot to mention that you’re actually an Elementary Teacher of the Year in Texas for Region 15, so these are elementary kids doing these really cool projects. Vicki: Oh, fun! Vicki: Cool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 24, 2017

Today Carrie Willis @carriewillis18 talks about how kindergarteners in her STEAM lab use their iPads. In today’s show, Carrie Willis talks about the workflow in her kindergarten classroom with iPads: How they use Seesaw. The challenges of kicking off an ipad lab. Episode 27 – Using SeeSaw for Elementary Portfolios.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Coral Zayas Coral Zayas is the new elementary instructional support specialist for science in Crowley ISD’s iNetwork of schools. Then, they can develop their interest in taking other STEM courses as they continue in middle school and high school. We were piloting and exploring a STEM course for sixth grade students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw. Seesaw in the Elementary Music Classroom with Amy Burns. Stream by clicking here. Merge Cubes ( Merge Cube Mania in Middle School ). Cospaces ( 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom ). Breakout EDU Kits. #08: Breakout EDU Digital is Awesome (and Free) #breakoutedu.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Complete Heart is an incredible free app for your iPad. I’ve tweaked the lesson for my elementary students who are learning about spreadsheets. Here is an awesome free printable for elementary students to learn about math and color in the numbers to reveal a mystery picture (a heart owl). My students love Tynker!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 27, 2019

Kindergarten – lower elementary 4. Upper Elementary – Middle School 7. You just need iMovie trailers on iPads or your phone. Host a STEM Smackdown. Let kids share their quick memories on a video that you pull together into a quick video to share with parents. Parents like to see their children having fun.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Often when people come to visit our lower school STEM lab they ask "how did you know what to put it in?" The first thing I would suggest to a school system wanting to create a STEM lab is not to try to buy everything in the beginning. These are our "go to" robotics for elementary students. Buy as you see needs and desires.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Steve Jobs said in his final Apple keynote introducing the iPad 2, “It’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing.”. In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

When you scan the cube with your mobile device — it will work with an iPhone, an iPad, and it works with Android, but you have to have the Merge Cube app on it. Engaging Kindergarteners with Technology: Augmented Reality, iPads, QR Codes and More. You’ve got a bunch of apps on your iPad. Those codes serve as a trigger.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. STEM gives me challenges to think about. It’s more engaging.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

So we use the Paper 53 app on our iPads. So when I first got my iPad, I was asking my fifth graders to create cartoons and create books and do things that were more literacy based. Then I had some success there and started to break out using iPads more in the lab setting. I really got into that. Blog: leahlacrosse.blogspot.com.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Or it uses an iPad. It displays something on the iPad, and then you use building blocks to recreate what you’re looking at on the iPad. The iPad is getting it’s content from a little device that you put on top of the iPad that has a mirror. And it changes the color of the note on the iPad.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. With the purchase of so many iPads, Apple also included four days of training each month during 2015-2016.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Joe: The quickest, easiest thing to do is shoot and edit on the computer, iPad, whatever your device is going to be. We use iPads and iMovie. So actually shooting on the iPad, and then pulling it right into iMovie, huh? How do you help them get ready to shoot? Are you big on scripting? Storyboarding? The big thing is preparing.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2024

Virtual field trips and STEM learning Hands-on STEM subjects are challenging to teach when students aren’t in the classroom all the time, and student engagement remains a challenge even after COVID. These trips can help students get a front-row look at STEM outside of the classroom. For them, information comes instantaneously.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 13, 2014

All of the toys the students listed were electronic iPads, gaming systems, computers. This #STEM lesson, spent a great deal of time on writing and even keyboarding. So much learning is naturally cross curricular in elementary. When the students arrived, and they said down at the table they immediately all claimed a toy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 12, 2018

So, whether you teach elementary or middle school earth science, life science, or physical science, you’ll find fun, exciting games for your students to play and learn. Select the Standard and Start Playing (and Learning!). Signing up is free. Understandably, we teachers always need to find new ways of reinforcing and reviewing concepts.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 14, 2021

What to Look for in STEM Toys Engineering Toys Compared Best Engineering Kits For Kids Reviewed Building Sets Circuits and Electronic Games Robot Toys. The best engineering toys for kids are STEM toys that blend learning engineering concepts, having fun, and combining kit pieces to create exciting engineering projects. Children Ages.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Aimed at school-age children, categories include, earth, animals, STEM, family, create and play, know and learn, technology, and more.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments. We’ve become a leader in STEM Education by changing the way we structure schools.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Good for: Reading, writing, creativity Grades: 1-5 Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android. Good for: Reading Grades: K-12 Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android. Good for: Math, literacy, social and emotional learning Grades: Pre-K-2 Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire. Libby, by Overdrive.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

A few years ago, while working as a teacher librarian at Templeton Elementary School in Oregon, I had the opportunity to redesign the school’s library website to include digital resources for the students to use as part of a shift to 1:1 iPad learning.

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