The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, Jesse Lubinsky, a former classroom teacher and education evangelist for Adobe, shares 10 awesome free ways that teachers can use Adobe Express in their classrooms. I've gone through these lines like a cat chasing a laser pointer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today, Dean Shareski, the author of Embracing a Culture of Joy brings his perspective to the challenges of modern living and learning. On my blog, I recently shared 10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer. Can we have joy in schools?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’ve been tasked (or voluntold) to run this activity, here are six activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. They take evidence-based questions and look for information that will convince them which side is right. Have students break into two-four-person teams. analytical thinking. critical thinking.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms.

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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. Let me know what you think by leaving comments on the YouTube video.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 19, 2022

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. As its name suggests, this type of learning focuses on individual competency. Competency-based learning is easier to implement when you have the right tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She covers ten essential points for being a successful education technology coach based on her research and her personal coaching of instructional technology coaches and teachers. Blog: [link] Twitter: @Katie_M_Ritter. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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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. What's missing that we can add to the conversation? What is broken that we can improve upon? Is there anything of concern that we can stop?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Stay tuned at the end of the show to learn more about Advancement Courses. You’re able to concentrate on what you might want to do. And one of the things that I always liked to start with when I was an administrator is goal setting.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

was just emerging from months of lockdowns and all-remote work and learning, which had exposed and exacerbated huge inequities in educational opportunities. Kim Churches, president of The Washington Center, welcomes participants to an experiential learning program in Washington, D.C., It was the fall of 2021. It’s a prized commodity.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Take advantage of this by introducing pre-programming skills like creating macros. Students can use macros authentically in the classwork to do things like add document headings, closings, insert pre-designed tables, and more. Use a free program like Draw a Stickman to program a stick figure. Long list of websites by grade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Principal Meredith Akers shares how to motivate and encourage others From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Have you ever made the mistake of giving other people the kind of feedback you want to receive – but it just fell flat? Others like to hear a person’s voice.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 2, 2020

Each month on the MIND blog, we share stories of how our organization, our partners, and educators across the country are advancing the mission to mathematically equip all students to solve the world’s most challenging problems. Welcome to the MIND Blog Rewind! Or my personal favorite—unity—because it also has meaning in mathematics.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 25, 2019

As many educators are either on their summer break or about to enter it, I know many are looking for great books to read. If you are looking to read, how will you connect the information you consume and dig deeper? For this, blogging is a great tool not only to synthesize your learning but to also catalog it into a type of library.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 11, 2018

Kathleen McClaskey on episode 229 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Kathleen McClaskey talks about the research on learning styles and the alternatives for teaching and reaching every child. Throw out Learning Styles and Replace it with UDL.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 21, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Many of us like our classrooms to be student-centered and not as much lecture-based. First, let’s look at the research of why back to school activities are so important to us teachers. Advancement Courses Tournament of Teachers.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2023

What is Artificial Intelligence? AI is commonly associated with platforms or systems that present human intellectual capabilities, such as the ability to reason, solve problems, use language, or learn from past experience. What is Machine Learning? What is ChatGPT?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Imagine a world where every learner has the capacity and drive to learn for life. At the Institute for Personalized Learning , we focus on bringing this vision to life in our work with education leaders and practitioners. Muskego-Norway is also being intentional about having the voice of adult learners drive this process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 26, 2018

Day 23 of 80 Days of Excellence From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Children in a classroom depend on their teacher and school to help create a strong learning environment. As we get older, we become responsible for our own growth and learning. How are you promoting your own growth?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2019

Keeping up with national and international events was a lot easier when all the news came from one of three major TV news outlets and a few newspapers like The New York Times. What is fake news? What is fake news? Stories based on gossip as much as fact used to be designated Yellow Journalism. ” — Wikipedia.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Mindsnacks is a series of education apps on topics like geography, vocabulary, languages, and SAT. Though these are game-based learning, there’s no plot as you might find simulated games. Each app includes personalized learning, an enhanced review mode, and additional challenges to keep students motivated.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2017

Episode 124 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. What is digital leadershp?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2015

Q: I got an email that looks legitimate, but I’m not sure. ‘Phishing’ is an attempt to steal your personal information by posing as a trusted source (a friend, your bank–like that). Here are six suggestions: don’t open attachments –especially from strangers. How do I check?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2017

Episode 136 with Shelley Burgess on the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. And while we want to do what is best for students, how teachers and how they are treated is important too! LEAD Like a Pirate: Make Schools Amazing for Everyone (Even Teachers!).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2023

Would you like to stop having arguments with your child about schoolwork, chores, and screen time? This parent seminar is like no other. Understanding the learning process and the development of executive functions is a component of parenting that is often overlooked. You are not alone, and there is a better way!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah LaCrosse on episode 272 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. What’s another idea? Listen Now.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The following is a guest blog by Teacher Librarian Tyllie Corbin. Buncee has a wide variety of media features, so my students can experiment with using a combination of text, video, audio, and images to demonstrate their learning. Click here to see an example. Language Learning Flashcards. Click here for an example.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Vickie Morgado on episode 177 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Learn about global Kahoots, how she tweets with her class and more global collaborative techniques in this show. What Great Teachers Have in Common. Enhanced Transcript.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 29, 2023

Organizations like the Institute for Education Innovation (IEI) are working hard to reverse this trend through their IEI Lead initiative , which is designed to help mentor and coach the next generation of educational leaders. In addition to the demographical challenges, Dr. Joseph points out that the job of a superintendent is tough.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

based company announced it will be adding an entire healthcare vertical with 100 new courses and 30 new “Specializations,” or what the company calls its paid bundles of courses that students can earn a certificate for. But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical training. Today, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2018

Frank Buck on episode 227 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Automate what you can and save time. So Frank, what is your first tool? It is a great tool; it’s sort of like my brain, I couldn’t live without it. OK, what’s your second one?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We talk about what that means–problem solving, critical analysis, logical thinking–but often, that sounds hard to them–too hard. We talk about what that means–problem solving, critical analysis, logical thinking–but often, that sounds hard to them–too hard. They want an easier way. Why is that?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2015

The premium account offers a Windows Microsoft Office add-in and a choice of thirty writing styles like business emails and academic essays. Here is an example from a novel I’m writing using the MS Word add-in. Here is an example from a novel I’m writing using the MS Word add-in. I love their blog. plagiarism.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When students — and adults — think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you’re graded on speed and accuracy. There’s a better way to learn keyboarding: Blended Learning. Type to Learn –fee, aligned between home and school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Rushton Hurley on episode 166 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2016

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. No longer working for the teacher’s wastebasket, students across the world are connecting and sharing like never before. Let’s dive into ten ways teachers have used social media in the classroom to enhance learning. A hashtag.

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