The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, I had the pleasure of talking with Brian Page, a former Milken National Educator of the Year with 15 years of experience in the education field. Blog: [link] Twitter: @FinEdchat Instagram: @FinEdchat Linked In: @FinEdchat ?️

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 3, 2015

Blogging is a popular activity in classrooms today because it allows students to share their writing with a broader audience and teachers to communicate with parents. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections. Blogs as ePortfolio.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. Using See, Think, Me, We…at the Elementary Level Analyzing a Picture Book See: The teacher shows an illustration from a picture book and asks the children what they see.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Tara Bova is a second grade teacher at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. As a member of her school’s Trauma-Informed Team, Tara is a passionate advocate for SEL in classrooms and uses talking circles, restorative circles, and mindfulness exercises daily to refocus and help her students feel safe and grounded.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Carly Chillmon (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): My kids are active, very active. DeLisha Sylvester (Pre-K and Elementary School Parent): I am the mother of two children who are six and a half years apart. Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 5, 2014

Blogs - Teachers have blogs for student writing. I often post assignments for either in-class exercises or vacation homework. Many teachers use the blogs for such things as an outlet for student free-writes. In addition, some teachers aren''t comfortable editing a wiki, web page or maintaining a blog.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Financial Football.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. The AI assistant might generate a series of fun, interactive exercises where the student is asked to arrange scrambled words into a coherent sentence or identify and correct errors in a given sentence.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 31, 2019

I have the privilege of teaching my gifted elementary students for multiple years. I’ve blogged about the value of interdisciplinary units before – All Lessons Should Be Interdisciplinary [link]. Exercise flexibility and willingness to be helpful in making necessary compromises to accomplish a common goal.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2018

Education expert Matthew Lynch notes on his blog “The Tech Edvocate,” that data analytics tools in the classroom will also be increasingly used as a way for students to track their own achievement. Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Many educators, especially early childhood and elementary teachers, do not have a STEM background so the task of integrating those subjects into daily classroom lessons can feel overwhelming. The typical elementary teacher does not have a STEM background, which can create a level of anxiety. They call it their Monday Morning Circle.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 19, 2020

Louis Hanon became famous for designing piano exercises that train fingers using intervals. This reminded me of a hopscotch game we played on our elementary playground in the 1960s. If, as we so often do when texting on a cell phone, we look down at the keyboard and then up at the monitor, it slows us down.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 16, 2018

Luther College notes that there are many commonalities between literacy and music and especially so in early elementary-age children. Music to exercise the mind. The post Rhythm, blues, and reading cues: How music improves young students’ reading skills appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

I often discuss and blog about teaching content within a context, that learning needs a context. I teach gifted elementary level classes with a good portion of the students being English Language Learners. How I’ve done this is through projecting individual blog posts onto the Smartboard. Is Teaching Grammar Necessary? ).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. My hope is by being open about my own struggles and by bringing in the research that this show and blog post will help all of us teachers take better care of ourselves. It said you don't do this particular exercise before sleep. S he received her M.Ed

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. To help out all of our teacher friends, we are offering a series of posts focused on practical ways that you can use ChatGPT to assist with own lesson design! Check out our first tip here!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. This one is used by 10,000 schools each year and 350,000 individuals. Living Wage Calculator.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 6, 2018

Debi DePaul is ORIGO’s elementary mathematics consultant. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice reviewer, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. said DePaul.

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Digital Citizenship Blended Learning Exercises Elementary 182

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2018

Daily Fitness Challenges, a Fun Sweepstakes, and a Way to Link to Parents for Healthy Lifestyle Choices From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. MOVE: exercise, play, and physical activity. We need promote healthy lifestyles for our students. Influencers. MOOD: feelings and attitudes.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It is great to be back at the blog and have a chance to interact with my readers once again. Please feeel to subscribe to this blog and share with others. It can assist in practicing vocabulary, sentence construction, grammar rules, or even engage in conversational exercises. Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Hello everyone!

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For Halloween 2016, I did a version of Halloween Wars (a Food Network show) with my two classes of gifted elementary learners. I am sharing this lesson through my blog post as it reinforces how I approach lesson planning and teaching. Background Information. Principles that drive my instructional approach. 21st Century Skills).

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Neo LMS

APRIL 4, 2017

Exercise and its essential role in cognition is perhaps a topic for another post; today we will focus on posture, and how keeping an eye on your students’ posture in class can go a long way to improving their comfort and therefore concentration. The post How student posture can affect their learning outcomes appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Bulletin boards, classroom exercises, and catch phrases about the growth mindset are being promoted in lots of school settings. These tools can include reflective blogs, questions for discussion (like the ones included in my graphic), and personal assessments. It is understandable that some may be skeptical of this years buzz phrase.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Grace Adkins on episode 191 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I get up at 3:00, ride my exercise bike 10 miles, drive 18 miles to school. We have children in the elementary side through fifth grade. And you always exercised.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Struggling readers would be assigned reading materials and weak multipliers would be given more exercises to improve that skill. And how lost I felt in elementary school in geometry class, when everybody but me seemed to understand the Theorem of the Three Perpendiculars. Over to you! What do you think about adaptive learning?

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Back when I was in elementary school, I could only access the internet during Computer class. Activity suggestion: Google’s Be Internet Awesome: Mind your tone activity is a great exercise for interpreting emotions and practicing critical thinking in online interactions. This is far from the truth. The family can be involved.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. On a short written exercise students had no preference between the physical keyboard and the on-screen keyboard. engaging in an online bridge-building activity with written reflection.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 15, 2023

These activities aren’t just fun ice-breakers or team-building exercises (although there’s some of that too!) There are various online tools that can be used to create digital portfolios, such as Google Sites, Seesaw, or even a dedicated blog platform like WordPress.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn Fuini-Hetten on episode 259 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? Blog: sharetolearn.org. Twitter: @lfuinihetten.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 21, 2021

One week as Joe shared how entrepreneurship was an integrated part of the elementary experience Harshal, a parent at Design39 raised her hand to speak. I’ve had the pleasure of learning from their online content, their blogs, their posts and their videos and podcasts.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

This is a fun exercise for students who are already active on Twitter, and also a good counting lesson for younger students. Older students in a district could collaborate with elementary teachers to produce books for the younger classes, and could even visit those classes to read to the younger students. Turning Poetry Loose.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

” I always mention my friend, Christine Pinto, and direct them to her blog, ChristinePinto.com –do NOT pass go, do NOT collect $200 dollars, go directly to her blog. Exercises that build important skills, such as critical thinking and collaboration. This will take me all day.”

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Chromebook Digital Citizenship Google Exercises 74

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2018

Mike Lawrence on episode 287 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. And there we have two divisions, Elementary and Secondary. So it ends up being a bit of a training exercise where those judges and helps them improve their own use of media in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

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. As I blogged yesterday, you can output to CSV format.

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