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Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Creating Your Own Tutoring and Teaching Company with Megan Padden-Shin Megan Padden-Shin has successfully built a tutoring and teaching company during the past two years. Trilogy Mentors is THE all-in-one platform for tutors to manage your business online.

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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

If you're doing collaborative projects and design in your classroom, you'll get practical ideas for how you can modify your projects to encourage collaboration and real-world learning. I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me.

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AI in the Classroom: A Complete AI Classroom Guide

The CoolCatTeacher

Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. From budgets to banking to credit and savings, choose a topic and use it in your classroom with EVERFI’s free financial literacy lesson plans. Is it helpful? Should it be welcomed in schools?

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Can a Hollywood-Backed VR Company Make Science Labs More Effective?

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The university is building the course material as part of a partnership with a VR entertainment company called Dreamscape Immersive, which is led by Walter Parkes, who produced Hollywood blockbusters including “Men in Black,” “Minority Report” and “Gladiator.” That development is on a fast track.

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150+ Digital Activities for the K-2 Classroom Inside One Simple App

The CoolCatTeacher

Digital Learning Collection has over 150 apps for kindergarten to second-grade classrooms. The Really Good Stuff team has curated the best apps in education for the K-2 to classroom — all in one place. Unboxing Demo: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. Apps are organized in seven categories of classroom content.

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Alexa Goes to ISTE: Edtech Companies—and Teachers—Debut New Skills for Learning

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Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices. It’s brand new to use it this way,” Flowers says. It’s beautiful.”

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A New Essential Formative Feedback Tool for Project Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

The second thing that I need to give you is an important caveat when I am introducing this formative assessment tool in my classroom. 00:00:38:16 – 00:01:06:18 Vicki Davis It is a tool that we use in the classroom. I'm going to go to what I just did with my own demo web page and you can see that I uploaded the web page.

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