The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen Voglesang on episode 209 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Collaboration.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

That iconic backchannel chat platform for classroom teachers and learners, the one that for ten years was the first name thought of when discussing feedback and collaboration, one that quickly became a staple in classrooms and conferences. I went to my PLN for thoughts on what they’ll use in its stead. polls, forms, or surveys.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2020

Next are two examples, one primary and one secondary, to show how this structure could be utilized in classrooms, online or in-person. All activities are possible within video conference applications such as Zoom. Secondary Level. All activities are possible in video conference applications such as Zoom. Primary Level.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today. With PBL, kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. It’s pretty complex stuff.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The 7th Annual Global Education Conference (GEC) Starts Sunday! The Global Education Conference Network's seventh annual global collaboration "extravaganza" will take place around the clock starting this Sunday, November 13, and continuing through Wednesday, November 16. Truly, the volunteer moderators are the HEART of the conference.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Mike Gorman.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. ATTENDING: The sessions and links will appear in the regular conference schedule pages for each time zone. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

DATE: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 COST: Free REGISTRATION: To register for the mini-conference, join LearningRevolution.com. ATTENDING: The sessions and links will appear in the regular conference schedule pages for each time zone. PLATFORM: The mini-conference platform is Zoom. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Sponsor: The STLinATL Conference will be at Woodward Academy in Atlanta July 26-27, 2018. She has a blog on Education Week. Blog: [link]. Doug: There’s a woman called Starr Sackstein.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

Kyle Pearce is a secondary school math teacher and Intermediate Level Math Coach with the Greater Essex County District School Board in Windsor, Ontario, is on a journey to student perception and understanding in mathematics. It is my hope that within 6-months we will have a game changer for math assessment.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

We have had such an enthusiastic response to this event that we have expanded the conference this year: we will start Wednesday afternoon/evening and go through Friday mid-day (US Time). Tell a Friend / Colleague The conference is open to ALL, so please tweet, blog, email, or shout at your friends and colleagues to let them know about us.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

The rest of this post contains secondary rationale for why I am not attending the International Society for Technology in Education convention in Denver this weekend. I would be blogging from Denver if the convention committee thought my proposal was worthy. That’s the big reason. Why the concerns?

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Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2016

The rest of this post contains secondary rationale for why I am not attending the International Society for Technology in Education convention in Denver this weekend. I would be blogging from Denver if the convention committee thought my proposal was worthy. That’s the big reason. Why the concerns?

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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. Setting the Course for Secondary Students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean Nank on episode 228 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2015

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Upcoming Opportunities: Are you traveling to Learning Forward Conference in Washington DC in December? Learn more at this link. Mike Gorman.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

In case you missed the big email announcement with information about this year''s growing list of events, please visit my blog to see the news. The conference details and call for proposals can be found at [link]. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here. Reinventing the Classroom - Correction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Updates Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Updates ISTE Virtual Conference. The Learning Revolution will be holding both virtual and physical conferences in the spring. Thursday, February 13th at 6pm ISTE Virtual Conference , Join us online Feb. Click here to join.

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 7, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Connecting 2 the World Connecting ideas, cultures, and disciplines Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Learning Theories: In support of Connectivism I was first introduced to the idea of Connectivism through an online conference hosted by George Sieman s group at the University of Manitoba.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. I first met her at a conference in Italy several years ago, and we have been friends ever since.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This new weekly blog post / email is replacing the regular email I have sent out for the last couple of years for the now-defunct Host-Your-Own-Webinar program (I still have hopes of resurrecting that near-to-my-heart program, and when that happens we''ll wrap it into this weekly missive). November 2 - 4, all online, all free.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She teaches courses in educational technology for the undergraduate elementary, undergraduate secondary, and Masters and Certification programs. What is the Triple E Framework, and how is it being used (and misused) in education today?

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The Daring Librarian

JULY 20, 2018

I occasionally get emails from followers, readers, and conference audience members asking for advice. Recently, I spent so much time answering, linking to past posts, and giving paragraphs and paragraphs of advice I thought - This would be a good blog post! Some of these topics, I've blogged about before. It's lovely!

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

episode 134 with Karen Voglesang on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. Today’s sponsor is Kids Discover Online.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

At the beginning of March, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend and present at the KySTE conference in Louisville -- the first time the conference was back in person since the pandemic started. (I in Secondary Education Language Arts. Editor's Note: for more on the value of digital discourse, read this previous blog entry.]

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 1, 2015

He spoke on the purposes of assessment and exposed the roots of the examination regime that many of us in schools, colleges and universities are oh so familiar with. What do we assess for? For Mazur, assessment today is simply to give grades, for as he pointed out, students don't study to learn, they study to earn their grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well. Start your own blog. Read and follow other teacher’s blogs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site. For updates on the other major LMS providers – or at least, dispatches from their annual conferences, read Mindwires’ Consulting on Instructure , Blackboard , and D2L.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). The Global Education Conference is a collaborative, inclusive, world-wide community initiative involving students, educators, and organizations at all levels. but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too!

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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. In short, this is a conference that will do more than inspire you, you will be empowered to launch in your own classrooms, schools and districts! There are a lot of options for professional development.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2019

This is most commonly done in grades 1-5 but kindergarten can also follow the model and it works well at the secondary level. There might be some literature circles and I’m usually hosting reading conferences at that time, as well. Yes, and I absolutely love reading conferences.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 29, 2019

You can learn just about anything on YouTube: how to fix your dryer, how to create a blog, or how to use Google Docs. Follow her blog and her channel! One of my favorite videos: State Assessment for Politicians.). The International Society for Technology in Education is a world-renowned organization and conference.

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