The CoolCatTeacher
JULY 27, 2020
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we prepare to learn this fall, we need to consider some teaching best practices. As a STEM school, we were proud to have the 2017 Northwest Iowa STEM Teacher of the Year, as well as a state of Iowa Teacher of the Year top five finalist.
The CoolCatTeacher
JUNE 15, 2020
From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter We educators need to rest and recover this summer. But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. So many of us are exhausted.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 31, 2016
Take this piece from New Mexico, which offers suggestions for how to best onboard students in relation to online assessments. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator. Edsurgechat : the Fifty States edition. Cheers to the new school year.
Educational Technology Guy
OCTOBER 29, 2015
Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Here are some tips and links to web apps: Remember - we shouldn’t teach software (ie Word, Excel) we should teach skills, like writing, using spreadsheets and graphs, etc. to Teach Literacy Strategies to Struggling Readers Students can write, create blogs, collaborate on writing projects and more.
NeverEndingSearch
DECEMBER 20, 2017
All three are outstanding (and free), but perhaps the most immediately useful to readers of this blog is Civic Online Reasoning or COR. Claims on Twitter : Students read a tweet and explain why it might or might not be a useful source of information. News Search : Students distinguish between a news article and an opinion column.
Graphite Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges. " Whether they're harvesting honey or building a circuit , kids post their creations online, get helpful feedback, and practice expressing thanks. Celly is a mobile social network, like a private version of Twitter.
Graphite Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2016
Students take online assessments to measure their strengths and challenges. " Whether they're harvesting honey or building a circuit , kids post their creations online, get helpful feedback, and practice expressing thanks. Celly is a mobile social network, like a private version of Twitter.
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