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Making Music with iPads and #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Technotunes and how to use them. Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen share awesome apps for iPads in the elementary classroom. Justin Kamp graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2013 with a degree in Instrumental and General Music Education. Some of his favorite apps and techniques. Music in Schools Month.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Ricky publishes and manages the content on BizTech magazine's website. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Customer Focused.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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Alan November Shares A Mind Blowing New Idea in Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. Alan was named one of the nation’s fifteen most influential thinkers of the decade by Tech and Learning magazine. is on the New York Times education best sellers list for 2013. www.coolcatteacher.com/wonder.

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In April, I will do Poetry.

techlearning

Consonance, assonance, dissonance and meter How to crystallize an image in the mind of your reader.… After 10 years as an elementary teacher, Suzy Brooks is a Director of Instructional Technology for Mashpee Public Schools in Massachusetts. So I continue to teach them…. Miss Brooks? May I share?” Choose your words with care.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. Students in the Math, Engineering and Science Academy earn an average of $24,000 per student in academic scholarships; the Health and Medical Sciences Academy became a Governor’s Regional Health Academy in 2013 and in 2015, a new Environmental Studies Academy began operations.

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

In 2009, just over 50 percent of children entering Immokalee’s six elementary schools were considered “kindergarten ready,” as determined by Florida’s kindergarten screening exam, the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading. By 2013, the last year for which data is available, the gap between the two groups had shrunk to just 10 percent.