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Top Blog Posts of January 2016

The CoolCatTeacher

The Cool Cat Teacher Blog From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. January 2016 was an epic month here with a reach of over 200,000 views between this blog, my blogspot blog, and vickidavis.me. Top Blog Posts of January 2016. The Top 15 Tweets of 2015 New in January!

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How AI is changing special education

Neo LMS

This brings us to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the novel ways in which responsive, social robots have started playing a role in teaching ASD children social skills. The robot also has sensors, cameras, and facial recognition software to capture a child’s responses and evaluate progress. Here are a few examples: Kaspar.

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Finch Robots are Coming to Our Library Makerspace in Fall 2015

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

It is officially summer in the Barrow Media Center, so things will be a bit more quiet here on the blog for a few weeks. Our library makerspace will feature 12 Finch Robots by BirdBrain Technologies during the 2015-2016 school year. These robots will of course be a part of that as well. Finches Land at David C.

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Best Learning Apps of 2015

Graphite Blog

2015 was another great year for learning apps. The Robot Factory by Tinybop. This sandbox app lets students design robots, leveraging play to spark interest in engineering. Kids direct their own creation ideas and styles by choosing robot parts such as the torso, head, arms, legs, hands, facial features, and color scheme.

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#FETC 2015 Recap

The Electric Educator

Here are my top take-aways from the 2015 conference: 1. The 2015 Keynotes included the COO of Makerbot, designers of one of the top 3D printers in schools today. Swivl is a rotating "robot" that follows you while capturing video and audio. Thanks for subscribing to my blog. Do you agree with these trends?

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Team 4443 Sock Monkeys Once Again!

Dangerously Irrelevant

I am a part of Team 4443: Sock Monkeys and we are a robotics team through the FTC. Robotics teams start the competition season by learning what that year’s challenge is; they then immediately get to work on designing and building a robot that is best suited to that year’s challenge. Why are we blogging?

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FETC 2023: Networking, Learning, and Celebrating Education

edWeb.net

They have a great blog where you can learn about a variety of applications. She was attending MakerFaireNY in 2015 and needed to come up with a project. I had a chance to talk with Jason Innes, the Director of Curriculum, Training, and Management for KinderLab Robotics. They are currently partnering with almost 1,000 schools.