The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. I am passionate about technology and its effects on teaching and learning. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Learn more by clicking on the link below. To get started, a student will just scan the room using his or her digital device (like an iPad, iPhone, or Droid) before starting. 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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

Rising kindergarteners through second graders at North Rowan Elementary School in Rowan Salisbury Schools participated in a three-week STEAM camp to jumpstart learning in the weeks before school. Students were also exposed to careers through company tours and guest lecturers from the field. Adjusting the academic calendar.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. Where LAUSD's iPads were used at all, they were used for whole-classroom instruction, just like whiteboards of old.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 12, 2018

Select the Standard and Start Playing (and Learning!). In Legends of Learning, it is simple for teachers to select the standard and find games that they can add to student playlists. 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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

The company prohibits most third parties from selling new devices to school districts, so Miller couldn’t place a bulk order with Best Buy as a district official. A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Apple backed down.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

I used to have kids take a picture with their phone or with their iPad of the board of what they were supposed to do for FlipGrid that night, and they’d then have to access that at home. 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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Read more about Blended Learning. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2017

The Magik Play is a beautiful blend of digital and physical. Students download an app on their iPad and use wooden blocks that interact with the iPad screen to build structures that interact with the illustrations on the app. What it is: Magik Play sent me a Starter Kit to review, and boy am I glad they did!

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Every year, space agencies, companies, museums, schools, and more hold space education and outreach events to commemorate World Space Week. Lessons for the app are accessible for free via Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. Here are 5 TimePod Lessons to try (elementary, middle, and high school). © Shake Up Learning 2023.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 29, 2019

In addition to his work in schools, Richard has been a consultant to some of the largest companies in the educational technology industry. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 25, 2017

Our Commerce ISD Google Expeditions adventure began in the spring of 2016 when the Google Expeditions Explorer Program came to Commerce Elementary School. I wrote the grant and was awarded $6,600 for 2 sets devices, travel case, iPads, and router to run the application. Funding pilot programs can always be a struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

They have to learn early.”. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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