The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2017

Today Josh Stumpenhorst @stumpteacher is directing a library revolution and evolution to Learning Commons at his school. And yes, they’ll be flying drones in the library! ” He also discusses the importance of literature and creativity in the library. Why Reinvent the Library? Let’s do this!

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MindShift

AUGUST 15, 2017

In recent years, libraries have broadened their scope of offerings to the local community to involve more making activities like 3-D printing and sewing. Some libraries even have a facilitator for maker projects. So, she set out to build a bridge between making and reading by creating maker activities for children’s books.

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The Web20Classroom

MARCH 19, 2017

Educators are turning towards ideas like the Maker Movement and tinkering to foster creativity and innovation in their classrooms and to get their kids thinking and doing more. 6 Resources For Makerspaces If you need a great primer of Makerspaces there are several great books out there.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Learn from Jon Schwartz and Rockademix or read Simple Ways to Use Mood Music to Amp Up Learning. 2 – Help Kids Be Safer This Summer. (See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). 1- Enroll in a class to learn something new. Every teacher should learn something new each summer.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2014

Maker Movement 20% Time Genius Hour The idea of students looking away from ridged content focus all throughout the school day and giving them back some time to explore and make is gaining a foothold in many classrooms. Be sure to check out the post on the Maker Tools and how Problem-Based Learning can be enhanced through a Maker Lens.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Today Sylvia Martinez @smartinez co-author of Invent to Learn talks about tinkering today. Some teachers have a misconception that kids just pick up and play with materials and learn, but it is a little bit more nuanced than that. Today’s giveaway contest is Sylvia’s book Invent to Learn. Click here. .

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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. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You can ask experts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Erin Murphy, the co-author of Hacking Project Based Learning , talks about leading project-based learning. Book Creator for Chrome. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video.

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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. In this post, I am also including the following lesson plan template from my book, Learning in the Making that can help with integrating maker education activities into the curriculum :

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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. This is great news!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Learn from Jon Schwartz and Rockademix or read Simple Ways to Use Mood Music to Amp Up Learning. 2 – Help Kids Be Safer This Summer. (See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). 1- Enroll in a class to learn something new. Every teacher should learn something new each summer.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

As you are aware there is an amazing and powerful Maker Space movement going throughout the education landscape. This is a concept that I and many others want to see sustained because of the amazing learning opportunities it provides. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 29th, 2014 Teaching is not just a job. Dr. Ralph Tyler The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. Register here.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

Department of Education, announced Future Ready Librarians , an expansion of the FRS initiative aimed at positioning librarians as leaders in the digital transformation of learning. Similarly, librarians are now playing central roles in school leadership and working daily with students, teachers, and administrators.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

We're excited to announce our third Library 2.017 mini-conferences: "Makerspaces," which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 11th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). There has been a lot of talk about makerspaces in libraries over the past four years. and at the Library 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Learn how she uses this tool. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. So, if you can imagine reading a book on Kindle, the finished product you can actually flip through like a book. It is an interactive flipbook creator.

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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 Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update August 26th, 2014 If a child can''t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. Ignacio Estrada The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Library makerspaces, including members of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, offer students a chance to design, tinker, and build critical thinking skills. Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

” According to the Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) “We must deeply redesign curriculum to be relevant to the knowledge skills, character qualities, and met-learning students need in their lives.” In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. The focus was on learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 29, 2015

I asked our SXSWedu panel charged with sharing details about their Schools’ Vortex: Innovative Library Makerspaces. Much like that student’s creation, Makerspaces are sparking a transformation in the nuclei of a school—the library. The learning didn’t stop once the pumpkin made it inside the library.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

AJ Juliani, author of Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning talks about the empowerment of students. Book Creator for Chrome. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 15, 2015

I worry about libraries. There's a movement to take library spaces and turn them into proactive, creation-facilitating, "maker spaces." I like proactivity, I like creation, and I like the maker movement. Traditionally, libraries have gone to great lengths to protect the privacy of what books you check out.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. In deciding what resources you need based on the learners you have, you may first need to determine how your learners learn best, what projects you plan to do, how you can set up a makerspace in your classroom, and much more.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We are all about becoming empowered leaders who transform teaching and learning. But, there is NOT just one right way to do library. Informal learning is important. Connected learning is important. Project-based learning, problem-based and constructionism are important. Tinkering is important. STEAM is important.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Check out my Booking Page. I am now booked through November.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 17th, 2014 One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This is a GREAT week for library and learning conversations! While all the details of the 50+ conference sessions, keynotes, and distinguished speaker presentations are on the Library 2.015 conference site , a quick listing is below to get you thinking about which sessions you might be able to attend live.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 27, 2015

You’re in the library! As the great-granddaughter of a librarian, I was brought up to know that the quiet of the library was sacred space. Instead, makerspaces are bringing books to life, and the new mantra is, “Innovate, create, collaborate.” Fast-forward 30 years. The Purpose of a Makerspace. Advertise and train.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

For many students school has become an irritating experience grounded in boring lessons and learning activities. In the end, students, especially those most at-risk based on learning needs, have immensely suffered. All hope is not lost though for any school looking to create a better learning environment that works for kids.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Despite the noise on social media, Mr. Musk is incredibly transparent in his conversations, allowing us all to learn, grow and even participate and contribute. As an educator, particularly one who is quite invested in the maker movement, I was captured by his conversations and transparency.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2015

You’re in the library! As the great-granddaughter of a librarian, I was brought up to know that the quiet of the library was sacred space. Instead, makerspaces are bringing books to life, and the new mantra is, "Innovate, create, collaborate." Fast-forward 30 years. Advertise and train.

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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. General Session).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Trevor was hesitant to tag along with a class he didn’t know for the field trip, but was quickly persuaded by the promise of learning about new technology. Elementary and middle school students will be able to attend field trips and summer camp programs at the space to gain exposure to project-based learning experiences with high-tech tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Mandy talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how students are being transformed, and shares how they are re-working the course based on what they learned the first year. If you’re teaching design or making, you can learn from this show. Book Creator for Chrome. Inventionland Picture Book Giveaway.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2017

You, a babysitter, a grandparent, or even an older sibling act as virtual camp counselors, leading–and even learning alongside–kids and students. Start with a Book. For each theme, you get book suggestions (for all reading levels), discussion guides, hands-on activities, and related sites and apps. PBS Parents.

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