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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. The unit concludes with a lesson about insurance and how it helps students manage risk. Grade level: elementary grades.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “I used to think…Now, I think…” routine. Part IV: Thinking About Thinking This is part four of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As I was grading my student’s web pages today, one student’s goals struck me. Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. Insurance – Understanding how to make wise insurance decisions.

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Why Bloomz is the Best Parent-Teacher Communication System for Me (and Probably You)

The CoolCatTeacher

Build a better classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this blog post, I’m going to share three things: Comparison with Other Apps – How does Bloomz compare to other tools? See a full comparison of every feature. This is a sponsored blog post.

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Blended Learning – How to Make it Work in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

In comparison with a traditional classroom-based learning, a blended learning offers a teacher much more flexibility and shifts a teacher-centered classroom toward the student-centered one. How to make a good blend then? To practice writing, a line of thoughts and arguing encourage students to blog online.

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Compare Google Bard and Chat GPT

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter For me, this eighty days of AI journey is about looking at every AI tool that might be helpful to teachers. I haven't yet evaluated BingGPT, but I will take a look at that in a later blog post. How to join the waitlist.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Read a book, blog, or magazine. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. Give them guidance in how to make their work relevant for your students. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours).