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Best-in-Category Awards for 2016

Ask a Tech Teacher

To award this Best in Category badge, we looked for the uncommon resources (meaning: not the ones everyone knows about, like Khan Academy) most visited by our readers in each category. Winner: C-STEM — tools to learn math through robotics ( see my review ). Then we looked for the following qualities: how dependable is it.

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Need a New Job? Here’s What You Do

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Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below. Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Also mention the add-ons you can use such as robotics, Arduino, or 3D printing. . Here are examples. PorfolioGen. Here’s an example. What to include.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

Robot teachers. The idea of a robot teacher may seem like a too futuristic concept at the moment, but it’s really an ongoing project in many schools and colleges worldwide. Robot teachers are able to work 24/7 without taking a break and don’t need a salary. They are patient and unbiased.

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7 Things to Know About Coding in the Early Childhood Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Marina Umaschi Bers on episode 202 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. We work with robotics, because robotics are tools that allow them to learn coding and to learn abstract logic and thinking while not sitting in front of a computer screen.

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Innovation is More Than an Idea or Tool

A Principal's Reflections

From articles to blog posts to books, that subject has been covered in great detail. Now, this isn’t to say that everything in both of these categories is representative of a better means to accomplish a task or to improve professional practice. What makes something innovative? Take Uber and Airbnb for example.

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Review: LittleBit’s Code Kit Makes Programming Fun

EdTech Magazine

Each module is an electronic circuit or switch, grouped into one of four categories: power, input, output and wire. Each category is color-coded. MORE FROM EDTECH: How teachers can integrate robotics and coding into their classrooms. blogs and produces videos for EdTech magazine. by Buzz Garwood.

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Structured Space: littleBits-NXT Smash & the Robot Flamethrower.

Cycles of Learning

This year is my first teaching a Robotics class in the curriculum, rather than as a team, club or after school workshop. ​ Upon conclusion of the RC project, students then blogged about their process, and reflected on ways other tools could be combined to create, new, unusual and useful outcomes. Click here to read student blogs.