The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2019

His most recent project is Build and Program Games with Arduino, a curriculum that introduces students to Arduino by walking them through how to make an electronic Tug-o-War and Simon Says game. In addition to creating curriculum, Michael also writes software to make life easier for teachers.

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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. But despite the work of on-the-ground educators like Day and Taylor, the maker movement in K-12 schools is far from perfect. It’s not solely about having a “makerspace” anymore.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2019

Steve Hullfish on episode 462 Steve Hullfish is a film editor and has also interviewed many of the world’s top film editors about the craft. He shares his story in Art of the Cut , a must-read for anyone editing films.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Having a school-based team participating in this cohort has helped the administration and faculty better understand how to use all available maker tools and skill sets. Ashli Detweiler, Duquesne Elementary’s STEAM coach, believes that focusing so deeply on maker learning has shifted mindsets in and around Duquesne.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

This blog post is the first in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. Maker learning is more than just making “stuff.” NCASD students have joined the maker movement, and they are doing more than just making “stuff.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. Another app called Stop Pollution is trying to help kids know how to stop pollution and how they can all help. A while back, librarian Chad Lehman talked about how to equip a maker space.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

In these spaces students are learning how to tinker collaboratively with a problem and keep trying until they find a solution. They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. The post How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

” e The post How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 7, 2014

Instructional methods like Genius Hour , the Maker Movement, and STEAM allow teachers to meet high learning standards while supporting innovation. We have the opportunity to implement problem/project based learning and teach our students how to use web tools and social media to solve real world problems.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2014

Maker Movement 20% Time Genius Hour The idea of students looking away from ridged content focus all throughout the school day and giving them back some time to explore and make is gaining a foothold in many classrooms. It''s actually easier than you think and there are tons of resources out there to help you out.

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Learn how you can get your students involved in STEM Education and the Maker Movement in this great podcast featuring a fantastic New Jersey Educator. Learn how you can get your students involved in STEM Education and the Maker Movement in this great podcast featuring a fantastic New Jersey Educator.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 23, 2018

each and… The post The Maker Movement: Learning How To Bring Maker Spaces Into Your Classrooms appeared first on TeacherCast. Welcome to the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members … for NJEA members.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

How can I motivate teachers in my district to introduce making to their students? What are examples of maker learning projects in my subject area? As the maker movement continues to expand, more and more educators are asking these questions. Where can I learn about what making is from someone who is doing it?

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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. The district has also held coding nights where parents learned how to code along with students. These efforts excite students and provide them pathways to further develop their passions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Click here. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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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. The two I discuss in this post are: Maker movement initiatives are often driven by more affluent white males.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

This micro-credential focuses on how Future Ready Librarians “encourage and facilitate students to become increasingly self-directed as they create digital products of their learning that engage them in critical thinking, collaboration, and authentic real-world problem solving.” With teacher librarians across the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2016

The Maker Movement In Education. In her spare time (translation: the time spent doing what’s most important), she enjoys soaking up the sunshine with her husband and two kids. More on science and engineering classes: Lesson plan on bridge building. 5 lesson plans on science. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 1, 2021

Successful Self Publishing: How to self-publish and market your book by JoAnna Penn has been my self-publishing guidebook. We co-wrote the book in Google Docs over several months. Certainly, the proofreading process was extensive, and we did use Grammarly Pro with some mechanics of the book but also proofread one another.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Students can be filmmakers in this fun, engaging project that teaches graphic design, photography, the prototyping process and more.

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My Paperless Classroom

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Learn how you can get your students involved in STEM Education and the Maker Movement in this great podcast featuring a fantastic New Jersey Educator. Learn how you can get your students involved in STEM Education and the Maker Movement in this great podcast featuring a fantastic New Jersey Educator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Here’s insight on how this works. You’ll get great blog posts, how-to articles and information here that you can get in your RSS reader. See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). 3 – Learn How to Take Epic Pics with your Phone. 4 – Learn How to Sketchnote.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 22, 2017

Keira, one of the Year 5 students at Mundaring Primary School, observed, “[The Americans] had a completely different perspective on how to make board games than we did. Learning Studios support advanced blended learning, international collaboration, and the maker movement in education.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. It has finally been released for sale!

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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

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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Vicki: So if you could, you know, coach a teacher on how to pitch this to their administrator, what would be your elevator pitch if you were that teacher? I mean that’s my first thing. It’s why are people still having to pitch this? John: (laughs). Vicki: But they are. John: (laughs).

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. Teach, learn, and make with Raspberry Pi’s free learning resources.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

“I think there is a great partnership possible between the Maker movement and California’s community colleges,” says Dale Dougherty, Founder and CEO of. Maker Media. This movement brings tremendous opportunities to students who discover a passion for learning and meet the challenges of turning new ideas into something real.

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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. I was blown away by the topics they were wondering about. If I hadn’t asked this question, I never would have known that someone in our classroom was wondering about Braille.

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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. Ability to add video and audio (Note: these won’t be interactive when you print, but they’re powerful additions to the 21st-century book.).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You know the maker movement has hit the big leagues when even the President is talking about it. Earlier this year, for the National Week of Making, President Obama issued a call to action to educators, designers, and makers of all stripes. How do I integrate design, modeling and 3D printing into an eighth grade U.S.

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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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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I had a book on maker education published by ASCD. I really love the maker movement. She also shows how to seamlessly integrate these activities into your curriculum with intention and a clearly defined purpose ( [link] ). For more about this, see Stephen Brookfield’s book, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Understand how to start and run an organization. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Value innovation.

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