A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. To learn more in depth about the concepts associated with making be sure to purchase the book World’s of Making by Laura Fleming and check out her website. For even more information visit Arduino Classroom.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. More information about creating a physically safe makerspace can be found at [link].

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. It will come as no surprise to most teachers that studies have shown that students work better, and retain more, when information is compartmentalized, and spaced into “bite-sized” pieces. Microlearning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

I’ve been getting emails with people asking me where this information is online. You’ll get great blog posts, how-to articles and information here that you can get in your RSS reader. .” See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). No one assigned those books to me until much later.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 5, 2019

A few of use spent the past few weeks rearranging our library so that one side contains our books and the other our STEAM materials. Maker education needs to be intentional. I never thought I would get the opportunity to help create a fully equipped makerspace. We received the following items.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can investigate through a book. She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. Then they even started to go the library and find books for their friends. They even find books for their friends.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I promise you will find some great information coming your way in the posts that follow…So sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet. – Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Sign up soon.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

I promise you will find some great information coming your way …So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Information Technology. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can investigate through a book. She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. .” We’ve created a list of the different ways you can investigate your questions. You can ask experts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

I’ve been getting emails with people asking me where this information is online. You’ll get great blog posts, how-to articles and information here that you can get in your RSS reader. .” See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). No one assigned those books to me until much later.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

John Spencer, co-author of two different best-selling books, Launch and Empower , talks about the creativity (and test score) boosts his classes experienced when he began Maker Mondays. Maker Monday: Start the Week with Creativity and Purpose. How much structure do you need for Maker Mondays? Date: January 8, 2018.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

In today’s digital world, the school library has evolved from a place to merely check out books to one that offers opportunities for collaboration, project-based learning, and online access,” said Alliance for Excellent Education President Bob Wise.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. Only the … the difference between just a regular book and Flipsnack is that you can actually make the book interactive. It is an interactive flipbook creator. The students or the teachers or whatever.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

I promise you will find some great information coming your way in the posts that follow…So sign up now and please pass this on with a retweet. – Mike Gorman ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books. See my review of Book Creator for Chrome. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. You’ve talked about Book Creator.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 1, 2015

There are a LOT of great books for teachers out there. Picking just fifty is no easy feat but we’ve done our best to cover the best books for teachers from five different angles. Best Books for Teachers 1-10. Best Books for Teachers 11-20. Now all of these are exceptional reads. They are in no particular order.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Oh, and we’ve got 2 or 3 books in there as well. Explore their correlation with over 60 experiments in this fun, informative kit. Book: The Best Of Make. Book: Make: Electronics. Tinker Thinker: 21 Awesome Maker Kits. The post Tinker Thinker: 21 Awesome Maker Kits appeared first on TeachThought.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

I promise you will find some great information coming your way …So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! – Mike Gorman ( [link] ). Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

I would read books in isolation, peruse the resources available by myself, and have no one to push me professionally to become a better leader. If I want my staff to see the power of Google Sites to not only share information, but also as a way for students to collaborate, we need to use it together. Maker Movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2018

And she does have a series of books that we’ll mention here in a moment. I just wrote a series of five books with 26 practicing educators. There, we wrote about coding, all the way through… So the books go — they’re great books. There’s a K-2, a 3-5, a 6-8, a 9-12, and a leadership book. Meg: Awesome!

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

You can have a private ebook classroom and interact with your students inside their ebooks as they highlight, annotate, ask questions, and talk about the books they are reading inside their ebooks! For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

Today Donnie Piercey @mrpiercey , co-author of the Google Cardboard Book , shows how we can add simple augmented reality to our classrooms. You can have a private ebook classroom and interact with your students inside their ebooks as they highlight, annotate, ask questions, and talk about the books they are reading inside their ebooks!

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Multiple Means of Representation ( What ) is the recognition network how content is represented and how learners process information. Barbara co-authored two books on personalized learning with Kathleen McClaskey: Make Learning Personal and How to Personalize Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

For more information, visit stlinatl.com. Suzie Boss – Inspiring speaker, consultant, and author of several popular books including All Together Now: How to Engage Your Stakeholders in Reimaging School and Reinventing Project-Based Learning. You are invited to submit a proposal and to register for STLinATL.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

So if I remove that feature from it, then I can focus on the things that writing teaches kids, like my national standards for writing: Provide evidence and support of opinions, Examine complex ideas and information clearly and accurately. But they do all of the steps you would normally take in writing a book. You write it.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

It was like having a 21st Century version of wood and metal shop back in school with the main difference being the infusing of technologies for students to engage in informal, self-directed learning tasks. There is a great deal of content out there about maker education. Don't just take my word for it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

You can have a private ebook classroom and interact with your students inside their ebooks as they highlight, annotate, ask questions, and talk about the books they are reading inside their ebooks! For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. A lot of things are done in playful collaboration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

4 Cs and More The call for 21st century learning dates back more than two decades, when blue-ribbon committees, policymakers, business leaders, and education experts began sounding the same alarm: Yesterday’s focus on memorization and rote learning would not prepare students for a fast-changing, increasingly automated, information-saturated world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. 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. Check out TeacherVision today. Listen Now.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

Last, please check my Booking Page to see how I could be part of your school PD or Conference plans. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am now almost booked through April. Look for contact information at the Booking Site.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

More information and signup at [link] Connected Librarian Day 2.014. Check out [link] for more information, and be sure to share with the librarians in your schools! More information at [link]. Then tomorrow, Thursday, is a great full day of more keynotes and sessions. Check our the full schedule in your own time zone here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

MORE INFORMATION: The School of Information at San José State University is the founding conference sponsor, and additional support has been provided by Follett. network to be kept informed of future events. An event reminder and additional connecting information will be sent just prior to the event. and at the Library 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Classroom Management Tip #2: Harry and Rosemary Wong’s The First Days of School book helped me with workflow so very much! And while some students will still struggle, this method lets you help students who need it while more students use and retain the information. For example, I now share clearly how we enter and leave the room.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

But for the past year or so, I've turned my attention away from the day-to-day news as I've researched and written a book on teaching machines and the history of personalization and behaviorism. But we can't do so if we keep cultivating an ed-tech (information) ecosystem that fosters inaccuracies and inequalities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

See booking info and please contact me anytime at (mjgormans@gmail.com). It will be an informative and action packed PBL Splash for Teachers and Leaders. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. Look for contact information at the Booking Site.

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