The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

One of the most popular shows of 2018 was with Tom Mullaney on Google Jamboard so we’ve updated it for 2021! In this show, Tom shows us how teachers are using Google Jamboard, why it is so popular, and how you can use it to teach. Google Jamboard 2021 – Hot Tips with Tom Mullaney. Let’s Jam!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. . As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons. Build Your Lessons in Lumio.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan. assess success at completion. Elementary Math. Blended Learning. How to get started. Writing Prompts.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

I l ike Felicia Zorn’s summary of how that go-nogo decision really has become ‘get with the program’ Teacher Support in the Digital-Blended Classroom. Growing up, my generation did not use verbs like ‘Google’ or proper nouns such as ‘Siri’. Must-have Resources for Blended Learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

For the past year and a half, my team and I at ICLE have been assisting the district with doing Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) K-12, incorporating blended learning, and aligning sound pedagogy to the use of flex spaces. Shortly after arriving in the Houston area I was contacted by Cheryl Fisher , a local CFISD elementary principal.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 24, 2017

However, like many schools these days, our district is moving farther away from traditional teaching methods in which we teach specific subjects at specific times (which is what the curriculum publishers supply us with) and is instead encouraging us to teach in a more blended learning/project based learning approach.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

Universally designing blended learning presents educators with the opportunity to transition from designing a single experience that is teacher-paced and teacher-led to a more flexible experience that gives the students more control over the pace and path. 1 Student-Paced, Free-Flow Station Rotation Lesson.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The purposeful use of technology can innovate assessment, transform time frames around learning, increase collaboration, enable learning about information and research thanks to unprecedented access, and provide a level of student ownership like never before.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. Learn how she helps students learn and progress using technology. Idea #4: Google Expeditions. Leslie: My fourth one is Google Expeditions. They thought that was really fun!

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Jen took this program a step further by offering students an opportunity to podcast about their interests that they are learning about throughout this time. . Next, students started recording their own content using Google Slides. They each had a Google Slide to upload their voice recording. Jen’s students started simple.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One enterprising principal she knows created a Google folder for schools to share their virtual learning plans. They’ve been having calls on Google Hangouts, they’ve been having classes during the time class is in session, as well as asynchronous classes where they give feedback in different ways.”

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams for Education: Find the Blended Learning Tool that Works Best. However, none are more widely adopted than Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams. . MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools can get started with using blended learning platforms. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

With ideas for Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings for all subjects and ages, you’ll want to scroll down and follow the links in our enhanced show notes. Subscribe to the Show Want some other cool Google Tools ideas? That’s all these Google tools. So why don’t we start off with Google Docs.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

The post It’s Not About Google (Part 4) – SULS047 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Even when we love technology and Google tools, we have to remember that it’s NOT about Google. Our bottom line as educators is always about the learning and doing what’s best for students.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Tune in to learn more about Global Connections Week and other great ideas from Monica! Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Boost your student engagement on any devices wherever learning needs to happen. To conclude the lesson, teachers can assign formative assessments. About Monica Alicea.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers. But blended learning options are few and far between.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery. If you just even Google competency based learning, there's so many good organizations out there doing great work based learning. There's research.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We use Google Classroom a lot. We use Google Hangouts. We use Padlet. We use Skype.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Google Comments Mote ScreenPal Edulastic Flip Voicethread Talk & Comment Padlet Taut Floop Kami Parlay BoomCards Within any of the G Suite apps, it’s possible to leave a comment feedback, but rather than just typing a message share a video, slide deck, or any information that helps them to make an improvement.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Congratulations to Barbara Sutelan, a newly Level 1 Google Certified Educator. Barbara is also a graduate of the Shake Up Learning Google Certification Academy. You can learn more about the online courses and grab some free Google Certification resources at GetGoogleCertified.com. Elementary. Click To Tweet.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. Also, I’m able to easily assess and share their work in AR. Now, using 3DBear , I’m able to offer students a classroom where they can create and share. This blog post is sponsored by 3D Bear. All opinions are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 14, 2018

Co-host of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast. Author of The Teacher’s Guide to Google Classroom. Google Certified Innovator. Google Certified Trainer. . #3 3 EdTech and E-Learning Influencer on Twitter. Must Read EdTech Blog. Edublog Awards Finalist. and podcasts.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data.

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Education Superhighway

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Assessing Affordability and Beginning Modernization. The district upgraded its secondary schools first and then moved to the elementary schools. Now, after a considerable spike in demand for devices, the district does almost everything through Google apps, and staff members are beginning to explore Canvas as well.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Book Creator - A fantastic mobile (iOS/Chrome) app for creating stunning eBooks/presentations, that can be used for digital storytelling, project based learning, and more. Think Fluency - A wonderful iOS/Google Play app for assessing a student's reading fluency.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

From an instructional and assessment perspective, Olivia recommends considering the relative importance of teaching critical skills, developing mastery, and providing grades. Ashley holds current Google Level 1 & 2 certifications and is a Google Certified Trainer.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Battle of the Classrooms: Apple, Google, Microsoft Vie for K-12 Market The word “Classroom” has never been more loaded as it is now, with all three blue-chip technology giants each releasing a tool with the same name. Three students share how they’re still learning, and how schools can help.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Vicki: Help me understand the differences between web VR experiences and like, Google Expedition. Vicki: There’s some incredible things you can do.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This week, I began using Educaplay to make fun classroom learning games for my students. This week, I put my word bank in the description in my Google Classroom assignment.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

What is the ideal blended learning environment? Many ask me what the best device is for learning. Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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Tech Helpful

OCTOBER 29, 2017

first thought was to google what others see as best practice digital pedagogy but I decided that wasn't being true to myself so I am stumbling through this thought via this blog post and really hope for feedback to flesh this out further. This data also helps in the concept of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Unfortunately, it is often challenging to design a feedback mechanism to understand if the new initiative – whether it be a new curriculum adoption, device rollout, or new assessments - will really work. The foundational technology pieces – Chromebooks, internet, assessment platforms – are stabilized at most Oakland schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Kasey Bell teaches us eight great ways to use Google Slides. From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Kasey Bell’s 8 Great Ways to Use Google Slides. Date: May 29, 2018.

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