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Unlock Your Second Brain: A Guide to Choosing the Best Digital Notetaking App

The CoolCatTeacher

Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. This is my replacement for Wiki spaces. So this is my recommended note taking system for students and for teachers through Microsoft Classroom.

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How to navigate the new device-agnostic classroom

eSchool News

Technology in the classroom is nothing new; most of today’s educators have embraced the ability to draw upon an increasingly diverse array of digital tools and programs to enrich their lessons. So how can schools ensure that they are creating effective, purposeful learning environments in a device-agnostic classroom?

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The Great Student AI Writing Experiment with Steve Dembo

The CoolCatTeacher

Prepare to be inspired, challenged, and equipped to navigate the future of writing in a world where humans and AI learn to work together to communicate in better ways as Steve Dembo takes us inside his classroom. But it's sort of like back when we were, you know, in the old days, we were talking about the value of creating a Wiki textbook.

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Why Not Invite TED Into Your Classroom?

The Web20Classroom

There are lots of things that TED can teach us in education and tons of ways we can use TED in the classroom. Not only can the content of specific talks add amazing content to the classroom, the techniques that the speakers us can also teach kids a thing or two. Here are just a few. Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good.

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MAD About Mattering 2017 Kickoff! #appsthatmatter

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve recommended all of the teachers and organizers grab a copy of Flattening Classrooms, Engaging Minds as I’ve found the principles Julie Lindsay and I outlined in that book to remain tried and true when it comes to global collaboration. The picture on this post is from our teacher kickoff meeting. Stay tuned.

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Summer Learning Series-It's All About The Hashtag

The Web20Classroom

This is the second in my Summer Learning Series, where I share "make-it, take-it" resources, ideas, tips and tricks for the summer and for the classroom. From The Twitter Fan Wiki : Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. What is a hashtag you ask?

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

A few years ago Peter John and I wrote a book entitled 'The Digital Classroom'. Everyone in the world of education it seems, has an interest in how technology is going to influence what we do in the classroom. Much more learning will be done outside of the classroom.