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Makerspace, Standards, and a Look at Computational Thinking

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS, and give me a follow-on Twitter at mjgormans. Too often, I see wonderful activities that engages students… but also see important standards that could have been incorporated not present in the activity. We must assess them, and they must assess themselves.

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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Genius hour and passion projects are transformational. They are using time to research and create a presentation of what they know. Then we use that data to then inform our other programs and our other types of assessments to see how we can improve those.

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FETC Future of Educational Technology… Orlando Florida… Please Join Me!

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I will be providing five workshop and one FETC Featured Presentation. Before reading on, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. January 27 – 30.

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Building a Makerspace Culture to Support Standards and Learning … 10 Ideas and 16 Resources

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

In order to do so, I believe there are several ideas and concepts we must acknowledge in order to achieve the genuine education possibilities that the Maker’s culture can bring a classroom. Before reading, please take a moment to subscribe by email or RSS and also give me a follow on Twitter at mjgormans.

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Striving to be a Strong Digital Leader

Fractus Learning

We must constantly be thinking about why we use these tools available to us at this present time. Twitter, Voxer, and Your PLN. In the few years I have been on Twitter and then Voxer, I have built my PLN to be my go-to for on-demand professional development. Without Twitter and Voxer , a walkie-talkie app, I would be alone.

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Jacqui Murray on episode 235 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Another one I really like is this 140-character novel in Twitter.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam Moran on episode 241 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Kids Co-Creating Curriculum.