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‘Learn’-Launching the 2017 Edtech Conversation With Cautious Optimism

Edsurge

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Seven Things That Happen When Kids Embrace a Maker Mindset

The Principal of Change

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list. She had a maker mindset.

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Different Schools for a Different World

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: November 9, 2017. Schools were never designed to do that, so we basically have this massive paradigm shift that we’ve got to figure out how to go through. How can we measure and encourage and create an environment where we have creativity? These could be used for assessment purposes. Enhanced Transcript.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. Formative assessment is key.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Stream by clicking here.

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15 Ideas To Go Beyond Makers Space… Building a Makers Culture

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Perhaps you need to think about summer conference dates or PD needs, and it is not too early to think about the 2017/18 school year! As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about going beyond space and think about culture. Please contact me soon if you have an interest.

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5 Things That Happen When We Empower Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Friday, October 6, 2017. In the process, they learn how to research, curate, and communicate. Self-starters are the ones who are going to navigate that maze and figure out how to build something new along the way.” Students learn how to play this game of school very early on. It can be choice in their assessment.

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