The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 11, 2019

Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen on episode 512 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Karen Lirenman ( @ KLirenman ) and Kristen Wideen ( @ mrswideen ) have written the definitive book on using iPads in the elementary classroom, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

00:01:25:09 – 00:01:50:19 Debbie Tannenbaum This is my 25th year in education, my sixth year as a tech coach, and during my first year as a tech coach, I'm in elementary school. I incorporate things like video inside of it because I want them to have that agency. So tell us a little bit about your journey.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. . When you create a lesson, you’ll see that you can add PDFs, PowerPoints, Google Docs, Google Slides, YouTube videos, web links, instructional audio, or SMARTNotebook lessons (and more.) Now, the fun begins.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 25, 2016

Big, broad terms like “blended learning” and “personalized learning” permeate pretty much every corner of the K-12 landscape these days. Roots Elementary, a K-2 charter school in Denver; and ReNEW’s Dolores T. See also : Blended Learning: The 7 Studies You Need to Know.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

One can look at numerous companies and develop his or her conclusions. Not only did both of these companies disrupt their respective industries, but both have evidence in the form of users and revenue to validate that their solutions were genuinely innovative. Take Uber and Airbnb for example.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There are two primary ways I’ve found to engage students in learning and give them a reason to come to school each day: Find a task that is something they love (drawing, painting, making video). Relate to a topic or hobby that they love (pop culture, video game, or hobby). Tract helps you do both. It is a whole lot of fun!

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Well, she's got these videos. And she got through like three quarters of the content in a semester, and that's when Aaron and I began to say, “Well, what if we kind of did a mastery thing?” 00;03;03;05 – 00;03;23;09 Jon Bergmann Because I create cheesy videos about physics and chemistry content. How long was in the air?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

Both challenges have students designing STEM or STEAM solutions to our world’s problems and submitting their solutions via video and an online application form. These are two fantastic STEM education projects that will encourage design thinking, sustainability, and computational thinking as well as video-related presentation skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Left: A third grader works on adaptive software in a station rotation blended learning classroom; Right: A third grader designs her own company logo as part of an assignment from her Google Classroom playlist. There’s a learning curve for everyone when moving instruction online.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2019

In this episode, she talks about the revolutionary way she recently held teacher PD (using video instruction and face to face meetings) and what she learned. Let’s give teachers choice in their professional development about what they learn. I think this is important advice we can use.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

I wasn’t requiring teachers to include an instructional video or a voiceover audio for lessons,” says Boyle, who oversees about 450 students in grades 6-12. “No His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., No surprise, those first couple of weeks, teachers did email a lot of work and worksheets.”

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

They will instead have the comfortable expectation that it will be continuously necessary to incorporate new and challenging learnings about ever-changing situations. (pp. Principles of learning: 7 principles to guide personalized, student-centered learning in the technology-enhanced, blended learning environment.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 1, 2021

Much of this has to do with fluctuating learning priorities where critical thinking and problem-solving skills for a future-ready, tech-savvy student body are given precedence. These learning priorities are met with increased blended learning methods that combine in-person instruction with online experiences. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

Both challenges have students designing STEM or STEAM solutions to our world’s problems and submitting their solutions via video and an online application form. These are two fantastic STEM education projects that will encourage design thinking, sustainability, and computational thinking as well as video-related presentation skills.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I researched different management structures, such as Holacracy, and read about successful team cultures at companies like Netflix and MorningStar. We incorporated our company in Delaware, held meetings as a board and divvied up shares. My former self might have seen children simply playing video games.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. It can even be done in the elementary curriculum. Listen Now.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Planning Blended Learning for another year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can find some videos online on YouTube. She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. I have a picture of her to document that she was folding along as she was watching this video. Blog: [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. McGhee says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

That can free up the teacher to spend more individual time with students in small groups, facilitating the learning at that level. But you know, I found that I create so many of my videos, my curriculum, everything that I have. Let’s start watching the September videos. But they don’t all have to be your own videos.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Familiarize yourself with the introductory career video for each project so that you can relate their project to the real world. . 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 11, 2020

Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience. Most schools are completely unprepared – or, at best, woefully underprepared – for coronavirus and virtual learning. BrainPop, Kahoot!,

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2018

Sponsor: Read my review of the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset at www.coolcatteacher.com/vr and learn how to enter to win a STEAM Lab Makeover from Acer and Microsoft, who are giving away 10 Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headsets and 10 Acer Aspire 7 laptops. Listen to the Show. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Bio as Submitted.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Google Comments Mote ScreenPal Edulastic Flip Voicethread Talk & Comment Padlet Taut Floop Kami Parlay BoomCards Within any of the G Suite apps, it’s possible to leave a comment feedback, but rather than just typing a message share a video, slide deck, or any information that helps them to make an improvement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So, for example, as you can see in the simple holiday theme below, students “decorated our room” in AR as they were learning the features and tools of 3D Bear. Students created holiday scenes that they filmed and shared via video using 3D Bear. What Else Can You Do With 3DBear?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Getting Started in Metaverse: Use this Metaverse Studio tour video to get started whenever you’re ready. The instant feedback, ability to create multiple paths (or branches), embed videos, 3D characters, websites, and even 360 experiences make this tool immediately interactive and usable for students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

So they’re only going to one doc, but everything is hyperlinked the videos, the other activities they have to do, the choices that they have — whether they do an iMovie or a FlipGrid or they go to a GoFormative — everything is in one. You can embed video. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

As you can see in the video below from my VR China trip, it really looks like I shot the video in China. Participants are also encouraged to include photos or videos to prove their case. As the students take turns experiencing the 360 video, they also look at different things. The same thing happens in virtual reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Even if you don’t have multiple ages on campus, this can be accomplished through Skype or other video conferencing tools. And one of the beautiful things in that story is how Scout learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. Vicki: Cool.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Khan Academy’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California Khan Academy videos have long been used in K-12 classrooms of all grade levels, even though it was never expressly marketed to them. Three students share how they’re still learning, and how schools can help.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2021

And I just learned the other day that there is actually a whole TikTok series on learning about money. So we have courses, everything from the elementary level where it really intertwines how financial wellness and social-emotional skills are intertwined. This is one where it's blended learning in all the sense of the word.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

Read: Build a Snowman with Google Slides Idea #13: Pixel Art in Google Sheets VICKI: Now, all these hacks, you have cute little videos and tutorials and things to help us. You can use Google Drawings to make images and put hyperlinks on that branch out to videos and websites and additional information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

Technology has been a key component in the planting, fertilization, growth and eventually, the blossoming of new statewide initiatives including distance education and new professional learning opportunities for educators that have benefitted students in a variety of ways. I’ve got some experience with this from the past eight years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2018

For example, if they are doing a flip-grid assignment where they are recording a video and then they have to go on and give comments to other students, they stress the concept of “Would you like somebody talking badly to you? This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Well no, don’t do that.

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