The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Website: www.theaieducator.io Twitter: @ danfitztweets Amanda Fox Amanda Fox, is the Chief Content Officer for Teachergoals.com and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Is it helpful?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Britt Watwood on episode 327 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. Twitter: @bwatwood.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I But students need to know, from the beginning, that this personal assistant is a robot and that their instructor is a human.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Sponsored by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Selected 2016-2017 National Finalist Schools and Projects. All opinions are my own. Project Overview.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Through a five-year radical book-weeding process from 2011- 2016, the NCHS library had eliminated all of the library’s free-standing bookshelves. At end of year three, still finding that coding, robotic and circuitry workshops were a little bit elusive, they started experimenting with augmented and virtual reality and robotics.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 26, 2016

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. DQ/IQ: How can robots provide automation and use computer programs and code to deliver a given task? DQ/IQ: Can we program a robot to …. ? As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( mjgormans ).

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ASIDE

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

For our middle schoolers, who are often nervous about recording their own voices, the choice of a “robot” narrator was a blessing in and of itself. They then easily uploaded their class creations to YouTube , to share via Twitter and in digital portfolios.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school. Robots are cool. Fun can be leveraged and channeled. Drones are awesome.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

1 we have a coding class in our 6th grade rotation and all students participate in the #hourofcode #mdusdchat — Kevin Honey (@mrkhoney) May 11, 2016 Coding Unwrapped: Coding is fun, but that doesn’t mean it should be relegated to one hour a year in school. Robots are cool. Fun can be leveraged and channeled. Drones are awesome.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 11, 2016

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. First Robotics – This involves teams of professional and high school students to solve engineering problems. As always, I invite you to follow me on twitter ( mjgormans ). Check out my Booking Page.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Comprehensive, cross-curricular lesson plans range from a look at the history of manufacturing to STEM-based interactives on robotics, and are designed to stimulate insightful conversations between educators and students. Established in 2016, Arconic Foundation is active in 26 countries around the globe.

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techlearning

JUNE 19, 2018

Tuesday, June 19, 2018) – The accelerated advancement of technologies like 3-D printing, robotics and artificial intelligence welcomes a new realm of career possibilities in manufacturing for K-12 students. Established in 2016, Arconic Foundation is active in 26 countries around the globe.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 9, 2015

Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. These words include foreign terms such as twitter, blog, wiki, Skype, web 2.0,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. These words include foreign terms such as twitter, blog, wiki, Skype, web 2.0, Some say that someday robots or some kind of two-way wireless radio will take over education. Let’s all keep up the wonderful painting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. Sphero – Not only is this robotic ball a lot of fun, be sure to check out the included SPK Lab. The SPRK Lightning Lab app is your student’s hub to create, contribute and learn with Sphero Robots.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 28, 2017

Does this short-term recognition do anything long term for individuals other than providing a nice recognition in their twitter bio? We are more than robotic bookshelves, conditioned to blurt out facts we were taught in school. I am not against awards, but I struggle when we lose focus on doing the hard work. We are all very special.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teachers Report Sharp Growth in Game-Based Learning by District Administration (July 2016) – reports that 48% of classroom teachers report using games in classroom instruction in 2015.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

But Posterous, if you’ll recall, was acquired by Twitter in 2012 and shut down one year later. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. They’re amazing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Follow the Twitter conversation with #globaled16 Dream Flags ‏ @ Dream_Flags 5h 5 hours ago Great session with educators from Israel, Mexico, Colombia, Canada, Nepal and USA. If the conference site should experience any difficulties, a back-up site with session calendars and links is at [link].

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 18, 2017 FBI arrests Twitter user who sent seizure-inducing GIF | CNET → This is terrifying: Kurt Eichenwald, a journalist who writes for Vanity Fair and Newsweek, tweeted Friday that the FBI had arrested a man suspected of purposefully sending him a GIF that triggered an epileptic seizure.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2018

But as recently as 2016, a Gallup research poll conducted by Google found that only 40 percent of U.S. Within District 36, Burleson explains, “We have buckets of technology: construction, robotics, circuitry and electronics, and coding. Robotics and coding: Robot Turtle board game, Sphero, NAO robot.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I suspect the spark for them was Bernie Sanders’ proposal during the 2016 presidential campaign, as that clearly resonated with many voters, especially younger ones, and was soon revised and taken up by Hillary Clinton’s team. If we look back on 2017 in educational technology, some of the biggest surprises were political and cultural.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

But he’s still welcome on college campuses and Twitter. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. The company, which makes educational and entertainment robots, has raised $520 million total. ” More via The NYT : “Uber Hid 2016 Breach, Paying Hackers to Delete Stolen Data.” What a time to be alive.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. Robots are coming for education jobs, the Brookings Institution insisted in January. Read Mindstorms. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 “‘Eton for all’: will robot teachers mean everyone gets an elite education? Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. 2 Post at Ed.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

” That’d be Glenn Reynolds , @instapundit , who also briefly had his Twitter account suspended. pic.twitter.com/k6CIPOlD3G — Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) September 18, 2016. ” weaponized minecraft — Ed-Tech Weaponized (@weaponizedu) September 15, 2016. ” “ 2016 E-Rate Trends.”

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. From the HR Department. Don’t do this.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

” More on teen social media usage, this time from Buzzfeed : “‘Tweetdecking’ Is Taking Over Twitter. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Geek Dad : “Little Robot Friends Teach Kids to Code With Empathy.” Via The Outline : “Pyramid schemes target Snapchat teens.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” The school recently announced that it would end its attempts to regain accreditation after the Department of Education withdrew recognition for the for-profit in 2016. Perhaps it should go in the “robots” section. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

As CNN reporter Andrew Kaczynski noted on Twitter Tuesday, Eck, who is now a special assistant to Secretary DeVos, tweeted last November that Hamill should ‘stick to playing Han Solo’s short little b—-’ after Hamill tweeted criticism of the Trump administration.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Don’t mess with her on Twitter. ” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. More on legal settlements with for-profits in the for-profit higher ed section below. " No s**t. ” Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 10, 2017

A hacked school Twitter account in Florida. Some 280 incidents since January 2016. Immediately following the 2016 elections, I tweeted that “Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students.” million scammed from MacEwan University.

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