The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

SMART wants to recognize educators across the globe who inspire greatness in their students, peers or community. Nominate your favorite educator at coolcatteacher.com/greatness. They have been using the ChromeBooks in our classroom to do Google searches. Then they even started to go the library and find books for their friends.

Libraries 234

Libraries Chromebook Video Company 234

The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

When we have testing in our Library, I put all our Makerspace stuff on an AV cart and roll it into our server room. 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. Just like new!

Maker Movement 74

Maker Movement Robotics Libraries STEM 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Join this free Library Journal webcast covering the highlights of each one and offering key takeaways. Register here.

Libraries 52

Libraries Maker Movement Conference Learning 52

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the one thing that Flipsnack cannot do it … it cannot be worked on simultaneously like Google docs where two students can work on it at once. But, one of the other benefits of Flipsnack is that you can create the books in something like Google Slides. You said it’s not collaborative. Students absolutely love it.

EdTech 173

EdTech Tools Libraries Google 173

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. From there, students have been using time in class, and we’ve also partnered up with our media specialist. It’s really happening organically. It’s time.

Assessment 303

Assessment Case Study Data Maker Movement 303

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

As you are aware there is an amazing and powerful Maker Space movement going throughout the education landscape. The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities.

Resources 112

Resources Maker Movement Conference Learning 112

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Book Creator has long been a favorite app on the iPad, and now it’s available for Google Chrome. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. Sponsored by Book Creator, All Opinions My Own From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Post sponsored by Book Creator. All opinions my own.

eBook 205

eBook iPad Elementary Chromebook 205

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. In fact, you can see Maker Spaces finding room to serve the surging Maker population in both small and large towns alike. It can be in a dedicated space, or room, or in the library. 35 Resources For Makerspace.

STEM 60

STEM Resources Maker Movement Robotics 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Volunteer at Library 2.014. Big thanks and a special shout out to our Library 2.0 Student Entrepreneurship.

Maker Movement 46

Maker Movement Libraries Conference Common Core 46

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to number two in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! My calendar is filling.

STEM 151

STEM Resources Technology Robotics 151

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

I thought it only appropriate to think about the idea of Making and Creating in education. Each time I see this I am impressed by the educator, or group of educators, trying to make such a space possible for their school. Keep in mind that Maker’s is a way of thinking, and not just the place or space.

STEM 60

STEM Conference Assessment Maker Movement 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events that we hold and from our over 200 partners, and provides valuable links to learning conversations taking place in the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Nominate your favorite keynote speakers for Library 2.014.

Conference 65

Conference Digital Citizenship Maker Movement Common Core 65

Graphite Blog

MAY 2, 2016

I weeded my library like crazy and made mock-ups using Google Drawings to help them envision the new space. At conferences I went to everything with the word "maker" in the title. I set up a filter on TweetDeck to see everything posted on #makered and #makerspace. I spent a solid year planning my makerspace.

Maker Movement 40

Maker Movement eBook Libraries Robotics 40

Graphite Blog

MAY 2, 2016

I weeded my library like crazy and made mock-ups using Google Drawings to help them envision the new space. At conferences I went to everything with the word "maker" in the title. I set up a filter on TweetDeck to see everything posted on #makered and #makerspace. I spent a solid year planning my makerspace.

Maker Movement 40

Maker Movement eBook Libraries Robotics 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Don Buckley - Co-Founder, Tools at Schools - "Is it Possible to Innovate in Education?" This is a great opportunity to share your work or ideas!

STEM 47

STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” Maker Movement.

Examples 40

Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

EdTechnocation.com

MAY 29, 2015

Google has 88 things to teach you, powerful results from a parent survey on the "digital classroom", a blog post of Jaymes Dec's visit to my school's FabLab, another inspirational TEDx talk, and a call to join the Maker Ed cause! Did you know you can get your very own Google Doodle on your birthday? Check it out!

Maker Movement 28

Maker Movement Survey STEM Google 28

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

As a legal fight simmered this week over the legality of creating working guns on 3D printers , libraries and other groups offering access to the technology faced questions from local officials and reporters : Can community makerspaces now be turned into impromptu weapons factories? They declined, and cited their policy.”

Libraries 64

Libraries Maker Movement Policies Report 64

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. This is about the stories we’re told about education, about technology, and about education technology. (No

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

In the midst of all this enthusiasm, Apple has released a new resource for app developers—the ARKit—that has supercharged augmented reality for fields like entertainment, gaming, advertising and, of course, education. There are other libraries of 3D objects available, but JigSpace has made those objects more realistic using ARKit. #6

Classroom 161

Classroom Video Social Media Company 161