The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 29, 2019

Pat Hensley on episode 481 of the 10-minute teacher Preventing burnout, finding the right colleagues, communication, the struggle with perfection… these topics are just some of the encouragements that 30-year special education teacher-turned-college-professor Pat Hensley has for teachers everywhere.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

I’ve been collaborating globally since 2006 and have created more than 30 global collaborative projects in that time, co-winning the ISTE Online learning award with that first project in 2006. As I look for opportunities to collaborate, I look for simple, easy ways. These hands-on activities cross cultural and geographic barriers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Today, Made By Us, First Book and AMERICAN HERITAGE® Chocolate announced they are now accepting submissions for the Wishes For Books giveaway. The giveaway will remain open to teachers through September 21st for a chance to win a library of books based on the topic of their wish. by visiting bit.ly/wishesforbooks.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). I believe that educators do more counseling of children and young people than any other profession. Gilman, Dooley, & Florell, 2006). The goal, though, is for you to develop your own sense of hope.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Principal Brad Gustafson, author of Reclaiming Our Calling: Hold on to the Heart, Mind, and Hope of Education , inspires us to find our reason for teaching and being an educator again. This free tool helps educators around the world connect their students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How is AI currently utilized in higher education? We learned what we could from the books we had access to and memorized facts to regurgitate on tests. But the idea of the flipped classroom is credited to Jonathan Bergman and Aaron Sams in 2006. Boyer’s 1990 book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

For more on this, read my 2006 Post About How a Disney Cruise changed my views on education.) I've seen an educator on Twitter do Science Friday, and each Friday they either did a science demonstration, a science experiment, or a science an activity. Subscribe to the Show. Resources Mentioned in This Show.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Amidst the chaos of 2020 we lost a true leader in education in late August just as schools were trying to reopen. Like most of you that knew Sir Ken Robinson’s impact on education, I first learned about him through his wildly popular TED Talk in 2006. Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Kentucky.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. Get motivated today listening to Pam.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2017

Book Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way we Live, Love, Parent and Lead. Michelle Cottrell-Williams @WakeHistory has taught in the Social Studies Department at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA since 2006. The biggest mistakes teachers make that harms student trust. Defining vulnerability.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] What is Differentiated Instruction?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2020

Sir Ken Robinson is the author of bestselling books. But his biggest legacy may be the generation of educators he inspired with his clarion call to move schools away from becoming rigid test-prep factories and toward something more artistic and liberating. The result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

higher education system is fair had evaporated. Education as the great equalizer ? In 2006, journalist Daniel Golden exposed how President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, found his way into Harvard despite lackluster grades with the help of his dad’s $2.5 Transparent admission standards? million donation.

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PlagiarismCheck

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

one of the most watched TED talks of all time, creativity expert and educator Sir Ken Robinson stressed the importance of fostering out-of-the-box thinking back in 2006. Educators need to ensure they dedicate efforts to the actual student’s work, not the copied one. In “Do Schools Kill Creativity?”,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

George Couros is joining us for a series of shows on Every Classroom Matters where we talk about the eight characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset (George’s new book.) The post How to Create Meaningful Learning Experiences appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects. But he hasn’t given up on schools or education—far from it, in fact.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

There are, however, a few distinctions between the educational strategies that are important to note. It could involve digital media as well as offline resources like classroom makerspaces or library books. Computers & Education, August 2008, 51(1), pp. September 2006, Business Review Cambridge, 5(1). and Staker, H.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

George Couros is joining us for a series of shows on Every Classroom Matters where we talk about the eight characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset (George’s new book.) The post How to Embrace an Open Culture in Your Classroom appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Waterford

JANUARY 10, 2020

You could, for example, stock your school library with a few books in their first language or connect them with other students who speak their language. Educators thought for decades that learning two languages at once would hinder a child’s literacy development.[14] Bilingual (Immersion) Education: Cognitive and Language Development.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 27, 2017

I like that you can search by standard and topic (they have a ton of great books like A Wrinkle in Time, Beowulf , and Catch-22 as just a few listed this week. These podcasts aren’t a reading of the book, but relate the topics to the real world! Check Them out! . Learn about Listenwise. Today’s Guest: Tom Daccord.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Drawing from peer-reviewed research papers, I’ve made sure to include diverse and illustrative examples that showcase how blended learning is being implemented across different educational contexts. Stay tuned for further discussions and explorations in the realm of modern educational methods. Moore et al.’s

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Reading By Example

JUNE 16, 2017

In their book Literacy: Reading the word and the world , Freire and Macedo remind us “reading does not consist merely of decoding the written word or language; rather it is preceded by and intertwined with knowledge of the world (1987, p. As educators, we understand that literacy does not live in one place. Explore your place.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 18, 2018

Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act aimed to not only improve the quality of vo-tech education, but also shed its negative image. Then, in 2006, lawmakers revised the act, choosing instead to call it the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. Department of Education. But that’s all changed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2023

Many found a way to continue their studies through informal tutoring centers, but those too have come under increased scrutiny as the government continues to crack down on women and girls’ access to education. Like a walking dead”: Being a teenage girl who wants to study under Taliban rule By Mahsa Kosha I was born in 2006.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Friends and social media users began alerting her that images and material from one of her children’s books, “I Am Not a Number,” about a young Indigenous girl sent to a residential school in Canada and based on the experience of her grandmother, had made their way into paid lessons on the site that she had never seen before.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Dan grew up in a family of teachers and became one himself in 2006. With a nationwide teacher shortage, as well as a substitute teacher shortage, many educators are forced to give up their individual planning time to cover for these shortages. Many educators are feeling burned out in the current system. Time Boundaries.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2017

Lack of focus plagues almost every aspect of education. George Couros is joining us for a series of shows on Every Classroom Matters where we talk about the eight characteristics of the Innovator’s Mindset (George’s new book.) There are too many apps. Too many ideas. Too many initiatives. Too many jobs to do. Too many standards.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 9, 2019

EdTechTeam today announced that it has received the Google Cloud Global Partner of the Year Award in Education. We’re proud of our long history partnering with Google’s education programs over the past 13 years,” said Mark Wagner , CEO of EdTechTeam. This award was presented at Google Cloud Next ’19.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Started in 2006, it aims to educate and raise awareness of bullying prevention around the world and is supported by hundreds of schools, corporations, and celebrities. National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). Teaching students to recognize, avoid, and survive cyberbullying starts with you, the educator.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. According to Grauer, more than 30,000 college educators across the U.S. Another U.S.

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NeverEndingSearch

MAY 14, 2020

2005/2006) “The Virtual Library.” Educational Leadership , 63 (4), 54-59. . Virtual Libraries: Their Influence on High School Students’ Information Seeking and Use. Chapter in Mary K. Chelton and Colleen Cool. Youth Information Seeking Behavior. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow. Valenza, J.K. Valenza, J.K. In Laverna Saunders. (Ed.)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This vibrant educator community hosts teacher-authors who wish to sell their original lessons and ideas to other teachers, district administrators, homeschoolers, and unschoolers. Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4 Since its start in 2006 by a former teacher, it’s grown to over 3.4

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 13, 2013

Join me Thursday, March 14th, for a special FutureofEducation.com virtual book club conversation on Seymour Papert''s book Mindstorms : Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas. In fact, it was the impetus for starting Book Club 2.0 , and you''ll see some other education "classics" on that site for future discussions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Students and educators are encouraged to create a fun and interactive holiday ecard or “Holiday Hug” for children spending the holidays in a hospital. Between the years of 2005 and 2006, I spent many days at MD Anderson with my mother while she was undergoing surgery and receiving treatment for stage 4 Ovarian Cancer.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 2012

Join me Thursday, August 30th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Michael Strong, a pioneer in education and independent learning. on the Washington Post''s 2006 Challenge Index. He is a pioneer in innovative education models. He currently serves on the board of Consious Capitalism, Inc.,

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Waterford

DECEMBER 16, 2019

A survey of educators found that the majority lack enough information and classroom management strategies for students with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and that they don’t feel capable to help them.[2] What Educators Need to Know. Exceptionality: A Special Education Journal, 2006, 14(1), pp.

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