The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence in schools should present educators, parents, and policymakers with many concerns but there are also opportunities. EVERFI - Free Digital Lessons for All Ages Want to prepare your students for career and life success but short on time?

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JULY 12, 2021

Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students. Over the past year teachers have been bombarded by colleagues, administrators, and social media pundits on which platforms can best serve them and their students.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Changes to daily instruction have become the norm as students were absent due to illness, teachers were absent due to COVID-19 exposure or their children having been infected or exposed, in-face instruction shifting to online and then back to face-to-face. . Choices for how work is submitted, paper or digital.

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Hapara

JANUARY 14, 2022

Luckily there are edtech experts who are sharing strategies and tools through blog posts, social media, books, courses and podcasts. Lindy Hockenbary is a K-12 trainer, speaker and author who specializes in integrating technology into instruction. The website offers strategies to help educators effectively use digital tools.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Somehow, as lives for both the adults and children have gotten busier, as digital devices have taken over, as parents turned to TVs or iPads to babysit kids while they do something else, we’ve gotten away from this most companionable of activities. These can be both print and digital, to fit all children’s reading preference.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 24, 2021

The post How to “Fake” Blogging in the Classroom (FREE Template) – SULS0124 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Lisa shares a great Google Slides template and lesson idea — The Fake Blog Post! I know what you’re thinking…why would you want or need to fake a blog with students?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

New students, new parents, new rules at school–but there’s one more piece that shakes up my education ecosystem: new webtools. It’s online assessment, practice, and instruction for K-6 students with a tagline: Curiously fun, amazingly effective, refreshingly affordable. I give new webtools about two minutes.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Somehow, as lives for both the adults and children have gotten busier, as digital devices have taken over, as parents turned to TVs or iPads to babysit kids while they do something else, we’ve gotten away from this most companionable of activities. These can be both print and digital, to fit all children’s reading preference.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I had to learn on the job, which often felt like building a plane as it was flying with missing or mislabeled parts and tools. There had to be a better way; after all, learning strategists and instructional coaches can have an exponential effect on student outcomes if they are effective.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

The focus is now on students and making classes interactive by encouraging student participation. What matters the most is to equip students with future-ready skills to become well-rounded adults ready to thrive in their lives and careers. Competency-based learning is easier to implement when you have the right tools.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 10/16/2018 - 11:44.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As educators, one of our primary goals is to make learning as effective and engaging as possible. To achieve this, understanding the foundational knowledge that students bring into our classrooms is crucial. Prior knowledge acts as a lens through which students view and make sense of new learning opportunities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code. The 200,000+ teachers involved came away believing that, of all their education tools, coding was the best at teaching children to think. Tools, toolbars , icons, images all represent something bigger.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This blog post includes a full transcript, a pinnable (or printable) graphic, and the podcast episode. from Vanderbilt University in December 2021, where her research focused on instructional coaching in K-12 schools. Lumio sponsored this episode.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Sam Fecich runs a virtual co-op program for her preservice teachers. They offer over 200 graduate-level courses in 19 different subject areas covering both foundational topics and emerging trends in K-12 education. What a great idea!

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Black, Indigenous, students of color make up more than 50 percent of the K-12 student population, yet the number of non-white teachers in schools is only 20 percent. Malliron Hodge Program Development Manager, Digital Promise. In the district, students of color makeup 44.4 percent of the staff.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Somehow, as lives for both the adults and children have gotten busier, as digital devices have taken over, as parents turned to TVs or iPads to babysit kids while they do something else, we’ve gotten away from this most companionable of activities. These can be both print and digital, to fit all children’s reading preference.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 24, 2017

K-6 math curriculum (with a separate program for pre-K) is versatile, easy-to-use, and nicely differentiated for varied learning and teaching strategies. Its unique system of scaffolding lesson-to-lesson and circling back on important concepts not only reinforces learning but enhances student higher order thinking skills.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are the BEST Blog Posts and Podcasts of 2021! I have put together a list of the BEST and most popular Shake Up Learning blog posts and podcast episodes from 2021. And thank you for dawning your superhero capes to carry our students through ANOTHER tumultuous year! The Top 20 Posts of 2021. Y’all rock!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot topic in schools around the country. My focus is on both ChatGPT as well as the new Notion AI tool and the practical ways I'm using them in my everyday classroom activities. What is broken that we can improve upon?

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MAY 9, 2018

You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom.

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MAY 30, 2017

Its format is colorful and engaging, music lively, and layout intuitive. Students direct their learning with a unique space-themed avatar (called a ‘mathling’) that identifies their work and keeps them engaged. The Education account includes a student report card so all stakeholders can track student progress.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Modern teachers and educators need to adapt and keep up with the trends because that’s what their students are doing. Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. Digital Leadership is essential reading for any education leader trying to figure out how technology can strengthen schools—and what pitfalls to avoid.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Yet, despite efforts over the last 20 years to improve the performance of our schools, the U.S. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing. In the old model of education, the job of schools was to teach students everything they needed to know for life and work. It’s lack of equity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

data on parents and students. collection of student projects. sign-ups for student class presentations. quizzes that are automatically evaluated providing students with their score and you with metrics. Besides the ease of use and their digital nature, students love forms because they are anonymous.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the metaverse, anyone can join or create interactive digital spaces. It signifies a radical change in the way we engage in virtual spaces and interact with other humans. In these environments, metaverse users can interact with each other, build things (in groups or alone), play games and interact with avatars and 3D digital objects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray on episode 235 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Listen Now.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). These new additions bring the League to 102 members in 33 states, representing almost three million students. The Digital Promise team that supports our networks has grown to NINE! 11 States Visited.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

As a busy teacher, I want resources that are clear, easy-to-use, accessible by all types of students, scalable, and fun. I give potential new sites the seven-second test: If I’m not engaged and excited in seven seconds, I move on. If you’re a teacher, set up a group code so students can easily join. I found that.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code. The 200,000+ teachers involved came away believing that, of all their education tools, coding was the best at teaching children to think. Tools, toolbars , icons, images all represent something bigger.

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OCTOBER 28, 2019

One topic I always ask students is how they manage cell phone usage in their classes. For example, most students have them but not all students. Too often, school digital devices can’t connect, or can’t connect in the volume required to run a class. Third, high school students are preparing for their future.

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JULY 10, 2019

Of all the gifts students receive from education, passion is the greatest. If students are taught that learning is difficult, that math and science are boring, that history is a waste of time, they miss out on life’s most exciting, most meaningful motivator: passion. Why passion is important for students. Think about it.

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DECEMBER 3, 2019

Last year, almost 300,000 students (age 4-104) participated from over 180 countries and wrote almost 20 billion lines of code. The 200,000+ teachers involved came away believing that, of all their education tools, coding was the best at teaching children to think. Tools, toolbars , icons, images all represent something bigger.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Students whose parents have not attended college, or even high school, can also be at a disadvantage in school due to the lack of recognition of academic language. students fail to achieve proficient level on the NAEP reading test by eighth grade. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all U.S. Academic Language Support for Each Learner.

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APRIL 13, 2015

You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Give students a list of 10-15 webtools that are age-appropriate. Need ideas on web tools? Invite parents.

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Doug Levin

MAY 27, 2015

Department of Education on the one hand and USA Today’s national K-12 education reporter Greg Toppo (who recently wrote The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids Smarter ) on the other. Image credits. While both the content of what is being viewed/played and the context in which it is being used (e.g.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 7, 2016

You want to shake things up so students are excited and motivated and feel interested again. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom. Provide some games, simulations, student presentations–whatever you don’t normally do in your classroom.

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