The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Also note, and ironically so, that due to the extended nature of this episode and that we have four speakers, the AI tools I use to write the transcript had a bit of a meltdown, and I've had to apply a significant amount of human intelligence to the transcript which delayed this episode to Thursday. Should it be welcomed in schools?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Therefore, as we wrap up the year and enjoy our holiday festivities, I invite you, the remarkable teachers and educators listening to the 10 Minute Teacher, to pause and reflect on self-care and your approach to our noble profession of teaching. That is what you get with Modern Classrooms so go to coolcatteacher.com/modern today and sign up.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Sergio Flores, the school’s competitive engineering coach, signed up his school and joined five other schools in the area to compete in this 2018 event sponsored by Bell Helicopter, an aircraft manufacturer whose headquarters are in Fort Worth. It was up to the team to figure out the best design for each of the competition’s events. .

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Lorena encourages members of their congregation to “step outside of their comfort zones and open their minds to learning new things in new ways.” Lorena encourages members of their congregation to “step outside of their comfort zones and open their minds to learning new things in new ways.” Language and Communication Literacies.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and educators have been tasked with shifting teaching and learning online, and many are seeking resources to support learning in this new environment. Micro-credentials are online and on-demand, supporting professional learning while adhering to public health decrees.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 16, 2022

Understand the concept of situational game design and how it can open up conversation in the classroom. Understand the concept of situational game design and how it can open up conversation in the classroom. First, games are an excellent tool in the hands of a trained educator. Find some games to try with students in class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

I, Vicki Davis (the show host) have made some mistakes in self-care in the past year, and open up about what I've learned from those mistakes and how I'm moving forward to teach better and take better care of myself. Plus, their courses are self-paced with up to six months to complete. We're supportive of our colleagues.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

Step 1: You Have to Start Somewhere. I had been podcasting for about a year already supporting the Apple community as one more podcaster talking weekly about their iPhones and favorite apps. I bring this up, not just for self-reflective reasons, but because I truly believe that if you have a dream, you should take the first step.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2023

Thank you for supporting the show! She leads the sales teams supporting the adoption and sales of Microsoft’s solutions across K-12 organizations and higher education customers in the United States. Her organization supported Oracle’s channel ecosystem with an emphasis on driving partner profitability and satisfaction.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2022

Learning in an online course is built in such a way that you plan a training program and combine several interaction formats to improve engagement – text, video, images, tests, gamification, open-ended questions, and other interactive elements. Online teaching is trending right now, but only a small part of courses is of real value.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

We checked in with them this month to see how they’re doing, what they’re up to and where they are now. Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education. In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. Read the original story, from August 2020, here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

Undoubtedly, much of this was due to the fact that teachers had limited time to move their entire curriculum online, and few were trained to carry out what was essentially emergency remote instruction. If your first step in technology integration is making a list of apps to download, you may want to reconsider your approach to technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

For Wiese, it was all a big, expensive gamble — and, in one form or another, is one millions of people with criminal records take every year as they pursue education and workforce training on their way to jobs that require a license. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

So the big push in 2024 will be finding ways to support building capacity and awareness around the potential benefits and effective use of these tools, and finding equitable funding models to ensure free access for all, so it doesn’t become yet another tool that further entrenches the advantages of those who already have the most.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You might think that your first step is to attend conferences. You set a goal to attend local conferences and sign up to attend a national conference such as ISTE , FETC , or TeachBetter. You might spend your time standing behind a booth or, perhaps, setting up a series of 1:1 meetings with district leaders. Congratulations!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 30, 2020

Welcome to a post that has taken be a while to write. Over seven years ago I worked with our District Technology Director and Superintendent to create a 1:1 e-learning program that would be used to make up snow days. Some of the ideas in this article were part of our discussions and writings. – Mike.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 17, 2019

While there are always new products being introduced into the market, schools have started to become wiser in the ways they make their decisions. However, with the sheer amount of technology available, it can be challenging to identify those resources, products, or tools that tick all the boxes. Keep your software up-to-date.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

In August 2016, the tech team at the East Baton Rouge Parish School System in Louisiana was loading up new Acer Chromebooks to be delivered to the district’s 87 schools when the area was hit with a catastrophic storm. . SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This is a huge step forward, given AI’s potential to do harm through the use of biased and outdated data. This is a huge step forward, given AI’s potential to do harm through the use of biased and outdated data. Legislators must begin regulating AI now. The data generated helps educators tailor their lesson plans and instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

In higher education, the proposition of valuing skills but not necessarily degrees has gained support among influential leaders from the White House to the C-suite of major employers. For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock.

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TeacherCast

JULY 18, 2022

Step 1: You Have to Start Somewhere As the legend goes … It was the middle of the night on July 11, 2011. Step 1: You Have to Start Somewhere As the legend goes … It was the middle of the night on July 11, 2011. But the important thing is that you should always take the first step and pursuing your dreams and your goals.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As schools navigate the challenges ahead—and with parents and guardians stepping in as learning coaches and facilitators in remote and hybrid environments—communicating with families is playing an outsized role in successfully adapting to this nontraditional school year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter For me, this eighty days of AI journey is about looking at every AI tool that might be helpful to teachers. I know too many teachers who spend too much time creating their own materials. So, as we teach with additional materials, it helps.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

Sandra comes into the classroom before you can step outside to greet her, and she immediately starts telling you all about her weekend as she hangs up her backpack. When you pick students up from lunch, however, there are a whole host of other issues. You walk over to Jordan to ask, “How’s your day going?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 10, 2022

You might think that your first step is to attend conferences. You set a goal to attend local conferences and sign up to attend a national conference such as ISTE , FETC , or TeachBetter. You set a goal to attend local conferences and sign up to attend a national conference such as ISTE , FETC , or TeachBetter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. CoSN members have been turning to each other for advice and support about how to approach coronavirus and virtual learning. The data just don’t support optimism. For some schools, that’s a small leap. But the fact is, these schools are rare. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

A pile-up of frequent, stressful situations redirects attention from long-term goals and focuses it on crisis management, overloading the brain systems involved in decision-making and impulse control. A lifetime without financial security, a stable home, or a reliable support network lays a huge amount of stress on people.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

But that’s what we do—we remove support structures from them so that they’re learning on their own. The students handle everything—invoicing, project management, quality control, shipping, communication with customers—and learn the importance of things like showing up on time. Then they are told: Build a robot that draws.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 3, 2020

How children are brought up in their culture impacts their ability to learn, experience content, and master understanding. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. “No No significant learning occurs without a significant relationship.” This quote by Dr. James P.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Capitol Building and just steps from the Supreme Court of the United States, is a popular spot in D.C., teacher to spend a year at the Library of Congress researching, writing and seeking out primary sources that K-12 teachers across the country could use in their classroom lessons.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

So the big push in 2024 will be finding ways to support building capacity and awareness around the potential benefits and effective use of these tools, and finding equitable funding models to ensure free access for all, so it doesn’t become yet another tool that further entrenches the advantages of those who already have the most.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 6, 2021

What skills and training do businesses want from the next generation of workers? The goal is to have procedures that are proactive rather than just reactive and making it up for each situation. The first step was adopting data standards for all of their programs and informing the vendors of this new requirement. By Stacey Pusey.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 14, 2019

Far too often, deeper inquiry is squeezed into assembly line learning simply because the architecture and furniture of our learning environments fail to support the process. Introduce the vocabulary of the habits you most want to support your youngest learners. How often are we forgetting to take off the training wheels?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

We need to minimize the amount of work we do to keep systems up and running, and spend more energy innovating on things that matter to people," he says. We need to minimize the amount of work we do to keep systems up and running, and spend more energy innovating on things that matter to people.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I am lucky that these five are not just colleagues but dear friends, and the love and support they have shown me and the solidarity that all of you show today give me great hope that we can build better educational practices and that we aren't stuck with snake oil or fascism. And I should add that it was designed rather poorly for even that.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 22, 2022

What does authentic, genuine support look like for teachers? I believe change can happen when policies are put in place, systems are established, and teachers receive the support they need to do their jobs well. Nor did they always feel included or supported by those making decisions that put their health and livelihood at risk.

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