My Paperless Classroom

APRIL 23, 2014

As a teacher working with elementary kids I find myself looking for messages I approve of in media for kids. In this cartoon there was problem solving, cooperation, innovation and a strong m"maker" ethic. I opened the episode out of curiosity, and was delighted from the opening theme song on.

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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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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Both of the elementary schools where I work have general consumables for educators (and I believe it’s true for most schools): xerox paper, butcher block paper, crayons, scissors, tape, markers, rubber bands, papers clips. The same seems to be true for the maker movement these days. Materials Openly and Easily Accessible.

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. From my high school classroom to this elementary classroom. This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 18, 2016

Librarians in the Shawnee Mission School District are making way for “ the maker movement ,” and some worry where that story is going. The Ray Marsh Elementary School directory lists Bombeck as “librarian” because she is state-certified to be one. The movement, taking place nationwide, is more about robotics than reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Perseverance Rover will land on Mars this Thursday, February 18th at approximately 3:55 pm Eastern Time. The live landing commentary will began at 2:15 pm on NASA Television, the agency’s website , the NASA app , and YouTube.

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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. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. The Kids Discover online platform lets students enter discovery mode. Full Bio As Submitted. Stephen Ritz.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. Our teachers love them.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Currently, she teaches master’s level online courses in educational technology for Boise State, Walden, and Western Governors’ Universities as well as gifted elementary education where she focuses on STEM, STEAM, and Maker Education. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners.

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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. Cathy Davis Hayes is an elementary art teacher at Oakland Beach Elementary School in Warwick.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. She holds a MEd in Early Childhood Education, BS in Human Development and Family Science, and a minor in music from The Ohio State University. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @LindseyDanhoff.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I remember an elementary student seeing paper flyers with a caricature of Mr. South wearing one of his famous flannel shirts. When thinking of makerspaces today, our learning experience in his class was one connected to the guiding principles of the maker movement. However, Mr. South stood out.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Do you need safe, fun ways for students to connect and learn while keeping their distance in the classroom? Augmented reality apps might be for you! Remarkably, there are best practices you can use to teach math, ELA, and more using Augmented Reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

She subsequently served as a central office science coordinator and staff developer, elementary school principal, director of instruction, assistant superintendent for instruction, and adjunct instructor in educational leadership for the University of Virginia’s Curry School and the School of Continuing Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

She subsequently served as a central office science coordinator and staff developer, elementary school principal, director of instruction, assistant superintendent for instruction, and adjunct instructor in educational leadership for the University of Virginia’s Curry School and the School of Continuing Education.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 5, 2019

I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. I never thought our Title 1 school would get the opportunity to create such a space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 18, 2019

Michael Cohen "The Tech Rabbi" and author of Education by Design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Michael Cohen, aka the Tech Rabbi, and author of Education by Design talks about classroom design. We should design the classroom environment for learning. Michael has three sessions at ISTE 2019.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Episode 720 with Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teaching coding can be challenging and expensive, but our guests Sean and Kelly have a solution. We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Pearsall notes that this school year teachers are expanding their definitions of technology projects to include more maker centers and coding curriculum. As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Lee Graham on Episode 569 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lee Graham is working with teachers to teach them principles of game-based learning to teach writing. Her anecdotes of classroom behavior-changing results are – pardon the pun – game-changing. Learn more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

After teaching chemistry, physics, and computer science, I became an administrator for the next 30 years with experience at the secondary, central office, and elementary levels. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching in augmented reality (AR) for the past several years has been a bit of a challenge, in my opinion, as is often the case with new technologies. For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

We do a lot of this, particularly in elementary schools, where we have kids celebrate the writing that they’ve accomplished. Vicki: And we know authentic audience improves writing. What’s our fifth? Angela: The fifth is to think a little bit about exhibition instead of just celebrating writing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2018

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. 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.

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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. I''m all for it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 21, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dyane Smokorowski talks about Virtual Valentines, the Awesome Squiggles Project, and a fun trip with teachers to the San Diego Zoo this summer. Now is the time to sign up for Virtual Valentines where you’ll be paired with a classroom in another part of the world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2018

How many poster boards must die from these elementary years? You should have seen the body language! Vicki: Hmmmm. Meg: I had fifty people in this room. That is not the _ to make samples. So I am calling it the “Over Rubricked School.”. I think we are “over-rubricking,” and we’re forgetting about the creativity and the critical thinking.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. Aditya: So I personally find a beauty in learning computer architecture from the ground up, which I have done. But most programmers nowadays don’t practice that. Aditya: Exactly, exactly.

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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. Toy take apart and hacking is a high engagement activity that works for kids of all ages, including adults who haven’t lost their sense of kid, and both genders.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality (AR) programming app for classrooms. I first wrote about this app in December 2017 shortly after launch.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Hannah’s experience reflects the innovative ways educators across the country are drawing students into the Maker movement. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. Making can also help you understand a lot of things about the world around you. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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