The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Sponsored by Staples From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This blog post is sponsored by Staples. Judith Kolberg’s Conquering Chronic Disorganization is one of my favorite books, but there are others that have also helped me come up with the following tips.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Did you know you can use a live translator app in PTA meetings, parent teacher conferences, and presentations — that actually works? Did you know there is a tool that will translate your parent newsletters? Click Here to see Readlee.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 30, 2018

Back-to-school time is often a hectic time for families; kids and parents alike are trying to get used to a very different routine than the one they were on during the summer. It’s also a good idea to set up a workspace for homework and to look into online lessons and classroom supplements that will help your child throughout the year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 31, 2019

as we discuss Back to School Tips! It’s the first step to establishing the parent-teacher partnership. Parents want to meet you. Don’t bemoan that parents can’t volunteer, can’t make parent meetings, don’t check on their child. What should parents be expecting from the experience? HD2 FM and on. Accept this.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 10, 2019

Time-saving tips and tricks for teachers. Let’s look at some of the tips, tricks and tools other teachers are using to get the most out of their day, and time. Alexandra Plans is a YouTube channel with a specific teacher video that has many great ideas for a teacher BuJo, including a teacher dashboard, and Bloom’s Taxonomy page.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It is great to be back at the blog and have a chance to interact with my readers once again. Please feeel to subscribe to this blog and share with others. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Hello everyone! Enjoy the read and please know you can contect me anytime at mjgormans@gmail.com or on my X(Twitter) Feed mjgormans.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 11, 2019

5 Tips for schools to harness the power of edtech in the classroom. Whether it’s an interactive board, robotics resource, parent communications app or a school LMS , ensure that all staff are clued up and understand the benefits to ensure that processes – both in the class and behind the scenes – run as efficiently as possible.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 26, 2020

We are so thankful for parents and their critical role in a students’ learning ecosystem. We’ve compiled helpful tips, STEM activities, and free resources to help you navigate remote learning during this time at home. Helpful Parent Tips for Remote Learning. Here are a 15 tips from my experience. Happy learning!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Tip: Press the ALT key. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. 10 Unusual Projects.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

With current distance-learning structures, many parents, students, and teachers are concerned with children spending so much time on screen – in some cases, 5 or 6 hours a day – for instruction. As we have historically seen in education, combatting one perceived problem can often cause many others. Less passive, more interactive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It has a tiny tip. That means parents whose kids love it can’t purchase it for home use. That means parents whose kids love it can’t purchase it for home use. In my classes, there are still a lot of technology skills that are difficult for students. Another–all those menus! A stylus minimizes those issues.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 21, 2017

All the while, students — who sit in their own part of the classroom, neatly aligned in rows, with equal distance between them — are supposed to pay attention to that lecture, do their homework, and later reproduce most of the new information in a standardized test. Take the classroom for example. Yet it has had an incredibly long tenure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

She’s a freelance writer who–in her free time–helps students with their homework. Riley wrote a great summary of the critical elements to consider as you make that homework helper decision: Online tutoring service has become very popular in recent years. Would it really benefit your child?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 21, 2022

Students are generally guided by the teacher and parents throughout their learning journey. However, to reach optimal results, students need several skills such as critical thinking, planning, self-monitoring, and problem-solving that they develop throughout their educational process. Organization.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

This type of data can help educators, parents, or policy makers better understand how students interact with technology, particularly how to create a healthy relationship with it. ISTE also has great standards for students , and Common Sense Education is helping teachers by creating a comprehensive K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 15, 2019

For many teachers, edtech conferences are a major highlight of the school year and a great opportunity to connect with fellow educators. So besides packing their bags, laptops, agendas and passports, teachers can do a little extra something: their pre conference homework. To improve communication with parents?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 20, 2023

On our blog, we’ve curated a list of heartwarming, inspiring, and relatable first day of school books that address a variety of back-to-school experiences. From study tips to organization hacks, from handling homework to fostering friendships, we’ve got you covered!

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2022

Students and parents learn from the syllabus what to expect from your class and you can give them more details about what you’ll include in your lessons. The anticipation of the new school year can cause anxiety for some teachers since we want everything to be up and running from the start. This makes lesson creation easier and faster.

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N2Y

AUGUST 26, 2021

The pandemic is not in the rearview mirror, but the great majority of schools have opened their doors and are welcoming students back to in‑person learning. With schools reopening (or reopened) across the country, families are easing into what can only be described as “the new normal.” Adjust Family Rhythms as School Starts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

In this post, I’ll share twenty-two of my top tips and ideas that have helped me have an awesome classroom. Classroom Management Tip #1: Build a Partnership With Your Students It’s true that you must relate before you can educate. While I won’t claim to ever be perfect, I have learned so much over the last seventeen years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Pascack Valley Regional High School District in northern New Jersey makes available lesson plans and assignments that can be accessed from home, on the Internet: Before the snow fell, teachers were prepped, parents were warned and students had received enough assignments to fill a snow day. Google Hangouts.

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 8, 2013

These are short posts with tools, tips and resources for you to try something new this summer or something you can take to the classroom in the Fall. Now we wrap up with a great way to keep your classroom in touch and on top of things with Remind101. Definitely explore their website and blog for loads of great information.

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N2Y

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) parent engagement in schools as “parents and school staff working together to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.” Check out my five tips below for meaningful parent support and collaboration at school. Assume the Best.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 29, 2016

Student activity is recorded to the teacher (or parent) dashboard, making it easy to focus on areas of difficulty. And parents are partners, having access to their child’s progress, right down to the minutiae of the skills they learned, like “knows the meaning of equal sign” Game categories include: Addition and Subtraction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Tip: Press the ALT key. Over the next week, I’ll share ideas that will get you ready for Hour of Code. This includes (links won’t work until the articles are posted) : Hour of Code? Here’s why you should participate. Long list of websites by grade. 15 Unusual Projects. The Easiest No-coding Way to Build an Education App.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Today, parents and students are going a mile a minute. But there’s one thing that hasn’t changed much over the years—homework and the way that some students feel about it. Thankfully, there are best practices that you can implement to make homework an important priority and a positive experience in your household.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, mentors and caregivers: thank you for all of the endless hours of support you provide the young people in your lives. Tips For Parents About Online Learning. By Jeremy Vidito, Chief Financial Officer at Detroit Public Schools. I hope you find it helpful. Can we solve that problem together?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Here’s how you start: Teacher creates an account on CanaryFlow, then sets up her/his class including assignments, due dates, homework, lessons, and more. Roughly 35% of homes don’t have access to either WiFi or internet for student homework. Insider Tips. Class set-up is intuitive, with guided instructions as needed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Tip: Press the ALT key. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. 10 Unusual Projects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Tip: Press the ALT key. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Grade level: 5-12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2016

Keeping parents informed about classroom activities is a challenge. But rather than laboriously calling every number on your parent list–or entrusting an important communication to a phone tree–DialMyCalls sends out a recording you make via phone or text message. Education Applications. What’s all this mean?

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The book is broken down into four general parts: Classroom Procedures, Classroom Rules and Expectations, Teaching Tips & Strategies, and Partnering with Parents - and it tends to lend itself as a reference. I post what we are “learning, doing, and homework” - a Visible Learning approach. This makes it tricky at times.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2016

The trick to getting more parents involved in what’s going on in the classroom: stick to video, social media, and other familiar tech. Teachers have become pretty adept at doing more with less, but in our efforts to offset funding cuts, we often overlook a very important, and inexpensive, resource: parents. It’s exhausting.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2015

For example, if you ask IFTTT to post all WordPress blog posts to Facebook, you’ll have to connect WP and FB to IFTTT. Insider tips. Here’s how it would look: More great uses: When you take pictures of class activity, have IFTTT automatically send it to your blog, class website, or class FB account.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Tip: Press the ALT key. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Programming a human robot is an unplugged approach to coding that is also a great way to teach sequencing–a critical skill for coding. Grade level: 5-12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2018

The past decade saw significant improvements in the application of technology to learning and 2017 became a tipping point where embedding technology into education finally moved from fringe to mainstream, remaking classrooms in the image of the future. This is the Chromebook’s sweet spot–it predominantly works in the Cloud.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 30, 2020

And the hope is that we -- parents, caregivers, teachers, and school leaders -- are now better prepared to support kids in their social, emotional, and academic growth during the pandemic. And in order for distance learning to be successful, parents and caregivers need support. Parents aren't trained teachers. Set a routine.

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