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How Can I bring Robotics Into My Curriculum? Programming Robots with SPRK Lightning Lab #AskTheTechCoach

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Lightning Lab will make it even easier to use the SPRK robot in the classroom because students can access te instructions and starter code inside of the app. Sphero makes app-enabled, teachable robots. To get started users download the mobile app to program their robot. https://sprk.sphero.com/.

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

Sylvia does a fantastic job of helping us understand the drawbacks, possibilities, and essential nature of tinkering in the classroom. Hummingbird Robotics Kit. Sylvia also headed product development for consumer software, video games, and educational games at several software publishing companies. Listen Now.

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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

Second, I’ll give you an example from my classroom happening right now. For our beginning of the year passion projects, some students chose to teach others about our robotic filming Swivl tool and app. Maker Movement. MAD About Mattering: Compassion-Based Engineering in My Classroom. Or passion projects.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit.

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No Begging Required: Teachers Share 5 Creative Ways to Fund Classroom Technology

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She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ellen Goodman Luckily for educators, there are ways to get tech tools into the classrooms that don’t involve panhandling. This is a process.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. This past week, I had students modeling processors, hardware, and software using play-dough. T eaching.

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. But what if we spend thousands of dollars on 3D printers, robotics, and other ephemera and it just ends up collecting dust?