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What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year

The CoolCatTeacher

We all need to help be realistic about a very unrealistic, unusual year as we help meet students where they are and we move forward. Listen to Tennille Johnston Share What Really Happened in Hybrid Classrooms This Year. Johnston’s classroom at [link]. Sponsor: Advancement Courses. Stream by clicking here.

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A Very Useful Guide to Virtual Classroom Collaboration

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter In this episode, we welcome Billy Krakower, a nationally recognized educator with 16 years of experience and a passion for bringing technology and creativity into the classroom. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher Stream by clicking here.

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How robots and our school’s buddy program bring computer science to life

eSchool News

Coding and robots are both natural tools for encouraging collaboration in the classroom. From Reading to Robotics Recently, our PreK through Grade 12 independent school has been working to include more computer science opportunities across all grade levels. Because we have 10 robots, the classes had to take turns.

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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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Sphero Announces Acquisition of LittleBits to Expand K–12 Robotics Tools

EdTech Magazine

Sphero Announces Acquisition of LittleBits to Expand K–12 Robotics Tools. Sphero , one of the leading companies in K–12 classroom robotics, announced its acquisition of littleBits , inventor of the electronic building blocks for science, technology, engineering, art and math learning, on Friday, Aug. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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A plan for teaching coding and robotics from home

eSchool News

As the technology teacher in our district, I felt I was adept at communicating with my students online (we are a Google Apps for Education school, and I’ve been a Google Classroom user since its beginnings), but I knew others in our district weren’t quite as tech savvy. Related content: 3 key parts of a coding and robotics program.

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At Louisville Summer Camps, Robots Meets Literacy to Support Vulnerable Students

Edsurge

Shawnta Spencer sits in a tall chair at the front of the classroom, the projector set up behind her. video from California’s Salinas Valley , where giant robots roll through crops of lettuce and use high-pressure water knives to harvest vegetables. The 25 kids in her classroom at. She’s getting ready to show her students a.

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