The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Kimberly Tyson @ tysonkimberly and Dr. Angela Peery @ drangelapeery share their advice for helping students learn blended vocabulary. An overview of the framework in the book. How modeling vocabulary acquisition is important. Book: Blended Vocabulary for K12 Classrooms by Dr. Angela Peery and Dr. Kimberly Tyson.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Linda has authored two books and also created many online courses such as Classroom Management 101 (www.teach4theheart.com/cm101) and Reclaim Your Time 101 (www.teach4theheart.com/reclaim). So there's all kinds of opportunities then to teach students how to coach someone in the answer. So this is also from Kagan Cooperative Learning.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 22, 2020

Book Creator All About Me Activity Descriptions. The following Book Creator of descriptions and examples of all about me activities is shared with my learners, grades 3 through 6, via our district’s Open Access website: All About Me: Getting to Know Our Students Click to read this book, made with Book Creator [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

And when you’re ready, consider how to bring your passions (and your students’) into the classroom with passion projects and student interest projects. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom. Personal interests engage students in learning. Personal interests engage students in learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. But Alana, we are talking about how to end the school year. Well, what are some of those secrets you plan so that, especially this year, how are you going to end the school year well, this year? Alana Stanton - Bio As submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted. Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. The Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection is here! She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While I have not read Marie’s book, and have so far avoided the guilty pleasure of her Netflix series, I do know that she uses a simple, definitive technique at the “decluttering” stage – of every item in your space, ask yourself, Does it spark joy? We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Additionally, when you launch a type of classroom games that you’ve not built before, Educaplay will share a short tutorial video to help you create that type of activity. ABC Games: For Comprehensive Vocabulary. This type of classroom game requires quite a few items because it goes through the alphabet to test knowledge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When Roanoke County Public Schools gathered educators for their first training in how to teach with Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE), “you could hear the rumble in the room,” says Jeff Terry, the district’s director of technology. And they’re learning history without even knowing it. That was early 2018. Kids open up with Minecraft.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In today’s show, learn about Minecraft EDU and how it is being used to teach. Book Creator for Chrome. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

This Thursday, December 6 from 1-3 pm Eastern Time, Edweek is hosting an event about personalized learning. I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 29, 2015

It would not be a complete piece about the history of iBeacon technology without mention of Paul Hamilton, Head of Learning Technologies at the elementary level within Mathew Flinders Anglican College. The post How to Use iBeacons in the Classroom – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe appeared first on EdTechTeacher.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Automatically transfer grades into any digital grade book. I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. How do we be respectful? (We Listen Now. Vicki Davis: Wow.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

D2L's Resources for Teaching and Learning. Blog Posts —advice about ESSA, the buzz about VR, and how to teach with Snapchat. Webinars —covering topics such as using video in K-12 classrooms, game-based learning, and journaling. Videos —featuring blended learning, virtual high school and other success stories.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 7, 2020

Game Based Learning is a great way to integrate technology into the classroom as well generate excitement for students. 50 Sites/Apps for Educational Games ABCya - A great site for games and mobile apps for elementary students. Gamequarium - A popular site w/ lots of games in a wide variety of subject areas.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Get a 45-day free trial of SmartLab Game-Based Learning Software. SMART Learning Suite is today’s sponsor. Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. He is one of the Lead Organizers of edcampNJ. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

PHARRELL TEACHES GARAGEBAND: Apple has a new book on the shelf: Tuniversity , a project co-founded by Pharrell Williams that aims to “reinvigorate” music education by helping teachers use Apple’s Garageband in the classroom. The book costs $4.99 the game-based learning platform, is going mobile. WHO GIVES A KAHOOT?:

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Book Creator - A fantastic mobile (iOS/Chrome) app for creating stunning eBooks/presentations, that can be used for digital storytelling, project based learning, and more. Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

It can be as simple as just solving a math problem with each other, or doing a science project, or doing a whole chapter book that we are sharing books and ideas with. We all read the same book at the same time, but we each shared ideas throughout it, and we had different things we talked about in the book.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

And one of the things about the book is I know a lot of schools differ in how much technology they have, so I tried to incorporate ideas that anybody can use. His latest book, Hacking Classroom Management – How to be the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About, is scheduled to be released in December of 2017.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Learn more about gaming while at ISTE—and beyond: Book a meeting at ISTE 2018 to learn about Classcraft’s Engagement Management System for schools and districts, and the Quests Marketplace featuring partners like Google Education, Discovery Educator Network, Newsela, LRNG, Breakout EDU and OER Commons.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. and learn about it on their own. Did you know you could do this?”. They started discovering things. “OH, We can do that.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Those who are doing it passively — either watching a teacher do something or reading a book or watching a video — tend not to be as motivated to enjoy the subject.”. How would you define active learning? Glen: Number one, I’d say, “Put the book on the shelf.”. When they’re hands-on? When they’re into things?

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

Here are some of the activities I am doing with my students during the first weeks of school: Bio-Bags Toss and Talk Balls All About Me Posters Vision Statement Family Picture Book Kahoot Selfie Fake Instagram Mask of Symbols Comic – the Change I’d Like to See in the World. Please try to include a variety of written works.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

For a quick reference -- and for those of you #NotAtISTE who want to share in the learning -- here's a quick summary of our lightning sessions with links to the tools and resources each session covered. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids . But what games are good for classrooms?

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The reason for this as not as many new learning tools came out this year compared to years past, while more current tools focused on regular updates. Code Kingdoms - One of my favorite sites for learning how to program (Javascript) by drag-n-dropping blocks of code (i.e Xtranormal) by typing a script. .

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 29, 2016

One of the things shared was the list of "tried and true" technology usage by grade level at our elementary school. iPods - Tons of audio books downloaded on them. Epic app (free) works on multiple platforms - https://www.getepic.com/ students have individualized e-book libraries based on their interests. She rocked it!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

x11” page size, so if I want it to look like a real book or possibly print it as a real book, and then you just go to Download As… and you can download it as a PDF. Could you give us a thirty-second pep talk about how to progress and advance using Google with our kids? So I can create an 8.5”x11” Vicki: Very cool. and podcasts.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re interested in the possibility of video games for learning–that is, teaching and learning with video games to master both academic and non-academic content–than the following collection may be of interest to you. Inputs and outputs for elementary reactions. How to play Civilization V!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Read How to Use Padlet. It’s sort of the reason why it doesn’t seem new and sexy to talk about blogging or to evangelize blogging anymore or show people how to use EduBlog , or how to use WordPress. technologies in connecting educators and creating professional learning communities. Tool #7 & 8 WordPress and Edublogs.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. We are fortunate to have many innovators in education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 30, 2017

How to get started. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University. Louis, Missouri, she began her teaching career at Buder Elementary within the St. with us and she has done a previous episode with us on game-based learning that was awesome.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

Go behind the scenes with game designers from the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, makers of the GameUp title Code Fred, for an inside look at their creative process. See how they identified the goals of the game and what went into the development and evaluation of teaching resources. More About Game-Based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Listen to Jennifer Casa-Todd talking about how to help kids become social media leaders. Vicki: And this is so important!

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MindShift

JULY 29, 2015

“They are thinking about how to best integrate the innovation with content.” ” Rather than picking an app and trying to find a place for it in the classroom, Luhtala is hearing educators and their students describe what they want to do and then how they chose a tech tool to make that happen. The basic version is free.

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