The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Video and Infographic From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teachers are moving from face to face classrooms to online classrooms quickly. She left the classroom to support K-12 teachers nationally by creating professional development. in Secondary Education from Ball State University.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

Right now, many of us are looking for high-quality, easy-to-use materials that can reach students both at home and in the face-to-face classroom. We talked to educator Alyssa Lyons about how to bring real-world skills to your classroom with some powerful curriculum. Episode 753, Six Ways to Help Kids Learn Real-World Skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2019

Urkund integrates with most learning management systems, online, or by email. I tested Urkund inside Google Classroom, however it integrates with most modern Learning Management systems including Blackboard, Moodle, and more. Urkund only partners with secondary districts and post-secondary education institutions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. My career began in Arlington Heights, IL, where I taught 3rd and 4th graders English as a Second Language in a self-contained classroom. Today’s Sponsor: Advancement Courses.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 30, 2020

You’re going to have to choose some kind of learning management system before you move forward, and most of your decisions from there are going to depend on the choice you make regarding your LMS, anyhow. In this article, I’ve done my best to layout for you the two main choices for secondary LMS, since I myself am a secondary teacher.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 19, 2019

A manifesto for effective classroom collaboration. Having many collaboration issues is not the standard for all classrooms. When done right, learning as a team works. That is why the flipped classroom, blended learning, PBL, and many more teaching styles require a high degree of social learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As learning in the digital age progresses, online platforms, interactive simulations, and virtual classrooms have become essential tools, promoting and supporting self-directed and personalized learning experiences. Digital learning provides personalized education, catering to individual learning styles and pacing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Use should be appropriate, tied to classroom content areas, and guided. Interactive, game-based lessons designed by experienced educators help you engage students at all grade levels and bring critical real-world skills like financial education, early literacy, character education, health & wellness, and more to your classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Get an overview of the framework everyone is discussing and understand how it impacts learning in your classroom on today’s show. It also includes vetted resources that you can download and use in your classroom immediately. Learning First, Technology Second, and Learning First, Technology Second: In Practice.

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Hapara

MAY 19, 2022

When learning objectives are clear, and students are allowed to engage in organized and meaningful activities to help them become proficient at a targeted skill, it will lead to a productive classroom where learners are focused on achieving academic goals. Pinpoint the learning objectives, starting with the desired outcome first.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

She has spent ten years in secondary English, and now her research focuses on teaching and learning of literary interpretation and writing in under-resourced urban high schools. The first book I coauthored with a with another person, Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds. 00;00;33;28 – 00;00;55;29. Twitter: @ s_r_levine.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

At a minimum you want to consider school leaders, teachers, students and parents but there may be more audiences to think about or more ways to split them up (for example you might want different messages for your secondary vs elementary teachers). Capture testimonials, go into classrooms and videotape what you see.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

That means that, according to Hattie, peer collaboration and discussion results in students learning more than twice what they would learn in a traditional classroom with a traditional teacher. Peer collaboration results in students learning twice what they would learn in a normal year’s growth. No copying, folks.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 11, 2015

At Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, faculty in the School of Education have developed pathways to help teaching candidates gain experience exploring, evaluating, and applying methods for online and blended instruction. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 11, 2020

Luckily, there are ways to make your students feel connected during the back-to-school season, even if you can’t be physically together in the classroom! In today’s post and episode, you’ll learn 8 awesome ways to make back-to-school online fun and engaging for students. Quick Tip of the Week (Google Classroom). Todd Hausman ??

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2018

It turns out it’s actually a great place that educators meet and share what they’re doing in their classrooms. Tell us a story about something that’s happened that you found out about on Twitter, and it improved the classroom. To me, Twitter is more than a place that celebrities and politicians can share their thoughts.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

As a classroom teacher, instructional coach, and now site administrator, I have curated several easy-to-implement tips to help teachers effectively implement and manage the station rotation model with even the most energetic classes. Seating charts help create an effective and positive learning environment and foster student collaboration.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

as you continue to amplify formative learning with digital technology. In this post you will find some wonderful information on using back channels and games in the classroom. The back channel in the classroom is powerful and your LMS (Learning Management System) may serve this quite well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? So, in summary, why is personalized learning essential? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I’m always amazed at how Mike innovates in his classroom. Mike attended UW Madison where he received his degree in Secondary Education in Broadfield Science and Biology with additional certifications in chemistry and physics. But we all have stories to tell, and at every grade level and subject area.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A portfolio is a collection of artifacts that demonstrate learning and growth over time. There are many different types of portfolios, and many different ways to use this strategy in the K-12 classroom and beyond. I’ve using portfolios in the classroom for the last five years. Portfolios are nothing new. by Mike Mohammed.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. SHEG also offers two other fabulous portals filled with resources to help classroom teachers and teacher librarians inquiry and historical analysis. You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! .

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EdTechSandyK

JUNE 8, 2012

Below, I am posting the questions Dave sent me, and the notes I made for myself to refer to during the interview. Another teacher may learn from and enhance what I just tried today in their classroom tomorrow. How has the increasing use of digital technologies changed the K-12 classroom in your opinion?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

In part four, Kasey explains how we can go BEYOND the walls of our classrooms, and how to go BEYOND the due date and encourage students to continue learning about the things that interest them. BONUS : Get the Dynamic Learning with Google Toolkit to help you find the best tool to support Dynamic Learning in your classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It is burdensome and takes big chunks of time away from learning. At conferences on education policy and innovation we have heard the system referred to as an “albatross” and the “tail that wags the dog.” Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was one of the first models, along with the flipped classroom, that I could employ in my low-tech classroom. In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. I have a soft spot for the station rotation model.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

At least 10 states now permit students to take classes part-time online (and sometimes in other in-person classrooms), instead of being limited to their local course offerings; eight adopted or considered laws in just the last four years. They want them at school learning. Read more about blended learning.

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