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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. And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun.

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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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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. You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. You can do that in any classroom.

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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. Listen on iTunes.

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Why Making and the Arts Need Each Other to Survive and Thrive in Schools

Edsurge

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning. Peer-to-Peer learning. Privacy and safety.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. They had opportunities to collaborate, plan lessons with colleagues and do their own making.

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