The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. First, I work hard on social media to share my attitude and love toward the students I teach. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

Classroom 378

Classroom Course Report Maker Movement 378

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Here he writes about the importance of journalism in the era of the 24 hour news cycle and social media. His honest reflections coupled with his prior experience as a journalist makes for an insightful article. Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind.

Maker Movement 28

Maker Movement Comparison Social Media Course 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

Examples 40

Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Wishful Thinking.

Technology 58

Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Deliberate) Misinformation -- about what ed-tech can do, about the problems it will solve, about what sort of circumstances students and schools and society are now facing, about what sort of future new technologies will necessarily give us -- is picked up and wielded by far too many education leaders and decision-makers.

Technology 67

Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Each Friday, I gather all the education and education technology and technology-related news into one article. (I I also gather articles that I read about the same topics for a newsletter that I send out each Saturday.) Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. The Maker Movement. Standardized Testing.

Trends 40

Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40