Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

They are most often associated with STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math). They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. They had opportunities to collaborate, plan lessons with colleagues and do their own making.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Read information about this landing and watch related videos: [link]. NASA updates a “teachable moments” blog on their site and has an excellent overview of the teachable moments that will come with the Perseverance Rover Landing. Resource: [link]. Learn about the Instruments on the Rover: [link].

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I am going to search the internet to find how-to tutorials, preferably with images, drawings, and/or videos. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project? This should be thought out and factored into your maker program from the beginning to develop a healthy sense of community. Relationship Enabler and Builder.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

But Pauline, today you have for us five ways to amp up STEM in middle school. At the middle school level, teachers tend to become more isolated as content experts, and in order to make your STEM activities more powerful and engaging, I would highly recommend that you connect in any way possible with those expert colleagues.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

Relevant and Authentic Learning: Physical computing is often perceived by learners of all ages are relevant to their lives especially with the current push towards learning STEM and coding. I gave them an outline of the brain with lobes outlined for them to color and rubber cement onto a pizza box (see video below).

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. Video is the modern essay. Here’s how.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can find some videos online on YouTube. Lindsey: What I did was I told them, you’re going to have a chance to learn anything that you want to, and then we watched a video from Kid President about how the world needs you. I have a picture of her to document that she was folding along as she was watching this video.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. Vicki: Yeah.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They’ll be adding photographs, videos, audio and text about their hero. Interactivity: Book Creator is different from many other tools because you can actually record your voice with it, as well as linking to videos in these fully interactive books. Students are loving writing their own books for the world with book creator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Like a regular video game or program, it can ask you to input a name that it will call you throughout the experience. There’s a curated list of tutorial videos from teachers about how they are using this tool, but here are some of my favorite highlights. Tutorial Video about Programming in Metaverse – Richard Byrne (5:07).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. Pause the video and add your voice just in certain spots. In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration. I’ve embedded videos below. Record your own voice over.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. I’ve even seen contact lenses that take photographs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun. Just short videos in class, or short labs, even lectures where there are just a couple of points being made.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage. The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. And it also has, within the apps, the ability to take photos and to take videos. So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. So some of them just put a lot of videos and pictures and clips in.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. 16 Resources to Build and Support a Maker’s Culture.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Sometimes they were things like Sketch videos. But we would always start every single Monday morning of with a Maker Monday. Sometimes they were kind of rapid prototyping and making things with cardboard and duct tape. Sometimes they were digital products that they made. Does it put you behind on content?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

So all of this type of discerning and analyzing information for the best method to convey — whether it be via a picture or a video. We do an introductory safety montage video for the kids, and then we get them to say the phrase, “Watch out for flying drones.” I broke my own rule, which is, “Watch out for flying droids.”.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents. That would explain what that is.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2016

To recognize educators pioneering the maker movement in STEM education, Dremel , manufacturer of tools for life and learning, announces 10 Dremel Idea Builder Ambassadors for the 2016-17 school year. Idea Builder Ambassadors will generate multimedia content sharing their teaching and learning experiences with 3D printing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Each school receives $25K in technology and a technology kit to produce their presentation video. Second Round (Dec. 22): Samsung announces 51 state winners (total including the District of Columbia). Third Round (Mar. 1 – 25): Samsung announces 10 national finalists to receive $50K in school technology and a trip to the Pitch Event.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The young visitors are encouraged to tinker with the materials and create anything they dream up, be it an animated video or a collage. The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

To learn more about Stephen’s revolutionary program, see this powerful new two-minute video via Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

There’s video, there is an absolutely gorgeous book and gallery of artwork for this Lexicon of Sustainability. The Lexicon of Sustainability. Julie: Well, our first idea is called the Lexicon of Sustainability , and this is actually a PBS web series that you can access through the internet.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. Cardboard Tube STEM Activities and more! This is a Mommy blog that has lots of great STEM ideas! Now.having said that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. You just download it on Google Play or iTunes and use it with your touch Chromebook or iPad after listening to Tom Mullaney share how it works. Enjoy this fun, free tool. Listen Now.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities! I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. Hope to see you there!

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2016

Submissions must also include an image or video of the tech project, as well as a description. Tom Coughlin, Chair of the IEEE Public Visibility Committee, IEEE Senior Member and lifelong advocate of the maker movement, will serve as the host of this competition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

I guess some people don’t like the fact that there are videos that they have to sit through and watch. Vicki: But I know that the hard part about it – and the reason that a lot of teachers say, “Oh, I don’t want to blend my classroom,” – is that there is some pushback. Talking about Blending. Brent: Oh yeah.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. This is great news!

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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. Get Inspired by Videos About Student Makers. Making can also help you understand a lot of things about the world around you. I thought that was really cool. Now, I'm learning new things every day.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 19, 2015

Enter the "Maker" movement. STEM- and STEAM-focused makers should check out Science Buddies , especially for science fair ideas, and use MoMA Art Lab to get the creative juices flowing. Even with so much technology at our fingertips, the instinct to build stuff with our hands hasn't disappeared.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer. To combat summer learning loss and keep those STEM skills fresh over the summer, Project Lead The Way put together a list of super simple (and fun) STEM activities you can do with your children over summer break. by pltw.org. In fact, it is vital that it doesn’t! Create a discovery jar.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

Here is a link to a video showing a prototype of the new school learning commons: A nice literature connection is the classic book “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” by Doris Burn. I asked students to create a short video showing their creations in action, and asked them to talk about what the designs are teaching. He holds an Ed.M.

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