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What Is Your Why?: The Importance of Computer Science Education

Digital Promise

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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5 Ways to Participate in the Mars Rover Landing on Thursday, February 18

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, a small helicopter will fly on Mars from this rover which will be the first powered flight event on another planet. (The This time instead of a lower quality black and white camera, this Rover has nineteen (19) cameras and two microphones which will document the journey. Powered Flight. Collection of Samples.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Edchat Interactive shares best practices among educators through live online interactive events. Additionally, Mitch co-founded Academic Business Advisors in 2005, to help organizations reach teachers and students in the US. In 2014, Mitch co-founded Edchat Interactive with Tom Whitby and Steve Anderson.

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My Amazing Movie Poster: Free Project Plan to Teach Graphic Design

The CoolCatTeacher

Each audience member will have a limited number of movie tickets they can use to “purchase” to see the movies pitched at the event. Milestone 6: Oral presentation to Potential “Movie Goers” Students will present to an audience of peers. This integrates the project with the writing curriculum as well.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

STEM/STEAM Integration. which is an all-inclusive event that includes: Small, intimate workshops and sessions with nationally known speakers. This is going to be a fantastic event! THE STLinATL CONFERENCE WILL FOCUS ON THE FOLLOWING AREAS: Whole Child (e.g., Assessment for Learning. Contemporary Literacy.

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7 Hot Edtech Topics #iste19 #notatiste19

The CoolCatTeacher

Because ISTE begins over the weekend, I am airing this episode early to gear up for the event which starts on Sunday. See Stacey’s presentation at ISTE19.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

For $295, this all-inclusive event (except for hotel and travel) is an amazing opportunity to learn. I’ll be speaking with other amazing educators like Suzy Boss, Janet Zadina, Jay McTighe, Dr. Brendan Ozawa de Silva, Scott Sanchez, Dr. Ayanna M Howard and more. www.stlinatl.com. Today’s episode is an encore episode.