The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

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: Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool. Adding those formative assessments in and preparing for those. Let’s look at it. Vicki: Yes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

The kids come in, I say, get out your phones, or get out your Chromebooks or your iPads; boom, we’re going to do the test. Now, based on how many they got right, I’m going to give them a mini lesson and I’m going to hit them again. What grade? Any grade, realistically. I can do this with human children in under 15 minutes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. They run on a desktop client, but they have the beta that runs on a browser, so you could run it, say on a Chromebook. Chromebooks only run stuff that’s on browsers. Make it more immersive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. Digital puzzle boxes — breakouts Teachers can create activities similar to those in BreakoutEDU, but instead they configure a set of challenges on a computer, and students engage with these challenges via a smartphone, tablet, or Chromebook.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

That’s actually got some real evidence there to drive your assessment and drive what they’ve been able to achieve in your classroom. VICKI: So Jarrod, as we finish up, what do you think is the most transformational thing you’ve ever learned that really made you a better phys Ed teacher? So I think it’s tremendous.

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