The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2016

How to Mix Problems, Passion, and Projects to Excite Kids From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Last year I judged a robotics competition for Wonder Workshop. Wonder Workshop robots make a fantastic addition to any STEAM Lab. Their robotics clubs make a great addition to any school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Here are ten of the top Math-and-tech tips according to Ask a Tech Teacher readers: C-STEM Studio — A Great Way to Blend Math and Robotics. How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields. How to Teach Students to Solve Problems. How to Teach Students to Solve Problems.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

When these “digital natives” show up in my classroom, they have played with iPads and their parents’ smartphones enough to know how to swipe, tap, squeeze, and shake, but they know none of the nuances required to morph the device from a toy to a productivity tool. Here’s how this works. Did I miss any myths?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Kindergarten — Human Robot. Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Click for a video on how to create macros. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a

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The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Each is aligned to the Common Core and has additional resources to help extend the lesson. All Grades: Texting -There are several lessons for all grade levels to help students (and adults) understand texting, how to do it appropriately and how to avoid the pitfalls as we grow older. There are so many more!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Differentiation.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 10, 2017

STEM has become easier to explore in the classroom thanks to makerspaces and Genius Hour –more and more kids are learning how to engineer, create, and experiment with new technology and engineering. However, one aspect of STEM can be a little more daunting for teachers to incorporate, and that’s coding and robotics.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 10, 2017

STEM has become easier to explore in the classroom thanks to makerspaces and Genius Hour –more and more kids are learning how to engineer, create, and experiment with new technology and engineering. However, one aspect of STEM can be a little more daunting for teachers to incorporate, and that’s coding and robotics.

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Robotics Common Core STEM Mobility 40

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

Students in many schools are now routinely engaged in constructing robotic-based equipment that works with devices like Raspberry Pi and, in so doing, are truly exemplifying what it means to be living as a creative 21 st century learner. They’re all about inspiring creative ideas in students and having them learn how to execute them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators! It will share and explain all Flat Connections global projects and answer any questions teachers or leaders may have about how to take their classroom global. See you online!

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EdTech4Beginners

JUNE 20, 2018

The website gives you videos, images, and articles related to the questions and aligned with Common Core standards. Still, you need to teach them how to write, and the lecturing process itself can be challenging. Who doesn’t like robots and cartoons that teach us something? Just read the question and let them think.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 23, 2019

I believe that inquiry really involves the art of knowing how to ask a question. Now, using advanced Google skills to find answers that create more questions fits the bill for common core skills. Educators are so often told to practice this methodology but are seldom told how to do it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Participants learn robotics and coding best practices as well as strategies to successfully leverage a graphic programming interface. The professional development program is strongly aligned to CSTA programming standards and gives teachers opportunities to connect to Common Core Math, NGSS, and additional CSTA standards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Discuss not just your years of experience, but the student groups you’ve taught, the philosophies you’ve followed (such as IB or Common Core), parent needs met, pedagogy you’ve rolled out, teacher groups you’ve led, and more. Also mention the add-ons you can use such as robotics, Arduino, or 3D printing. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Kindergarten — Human Robot. Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Click for a video on how to create macros. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Cayer knows how they feel. She felt the same thrill when she was a young girl and her doctor dad showed her how to dissect a frog. We believe in the idea of trying on different identities: ‘I’m going to be a photographer, robotics engineer, or actor in a Shakespeare play.’ ”. Photo: Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

In the article, Nellie Bowles discussed how “throwback” play-based preschools are trending in affluent neighborhoods; parents in Kansas City launched a program called Stand Together And Rethink Technology (START); and another group of parents in Missouri have joined forces to figure out how to reduce their children’s screen time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Kindergarten — Human Robot. Use yourself as a model of how to perform that activity and ask students for specific directions on how you would complete this task. Click for a video on how to create macros. Besides Math Standards, Alice supports these Common Core writing skills: 8.3a

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

I refuse to give them the answer for how to get an A. Don''t just be a robot following commands. We look at literary criticism, how to manage digesting large amounts of information, and how we think in general. Does it align with Common Core Standards? and settling for "good enough." Is it flipped?

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

Game #4 – Sphero the Robot. Harry Moore School of NJCU recently received a grant from Sphero, a company that makes ball-size glowing robots that teachers can use to o teach literacy, coding, STEM. They smile, laugh, and applaud as the iPad visually prompts them to shake the robot so it will change color over and over again.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 19, 2014

Designed in collaboration with the National Writing Project and NASA, Argubot Academy transports players to Mars in the year 2054, where they will live among people in the planet’s first city, and learn how to be an informed citizen and responsible leader. Can robots really understand human emotion and meaning?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I can attach custom rubrics to various assignments or choose pre-built ones aligned with Common Core standards. ” I author my own feedback codes, and when students mouse-over them, they’ll get my explanation of how to repair an error or replicate success. Related: Ten jobs that are safe from robots.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 25, 2023

Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans Coding Lesson Plans By Grade Level 30 K-5 Common Core-aligned lessons 110 lesson plans –integrate tech into different grades, subjects, by difficulty level, and call out higher-order thinking skills. Genius Hour, Google Apps, Khan Academy , Robotics, STEM, Coding, and more.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

As a teacher, I knew all about project based learning and how rewarding it could be for students, but I struggled to imagine how I would make it work in my 4th grade classroom. While some studied robotics and social media, others dived into different learning disabilities and schools around the world.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 26, 2016

Now, using advanced Google skills to find answers that create more questions fits the bill for common core skills. Educators are so often told to practice this methodology but are seldom told how to do it. DQ/IQ: How can robots provide automation and use computer programs and code to deliver a given task?

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 17, 2014

Back Pack Games - A wonderful site filled w/ lots of educational games aligned to Common Core Standards in the subjects of Math & Science. Historia - An excellent History game designed for MS students aligned to Common Core Standards. ** If. - bullying, copy right, privacy, etc.). time, money, etc.)

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Kathy Schrock

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

ONLINE RESOURCES 11 Activities to Help Students Understand Different Perspectives Marsha Rakestraw, on the The Institute for Humane Education site, offers a series of age-appropriate lesson plans, mapped to the Common Core State Standards, that scaffold the understanding of perspective from grade two through twelve.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 20, 2021

30 K-5 Common Core-aligned lessons. Genius Hour, Google Apps, Khan Academy , Robotics, STEM, Coding, and more. These are for the teacher who knows what they want to teach, but needs ideas on how to integrate tech. Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans. Coding Lesson Plans. By Grade Level. singles –for as low as $.99

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I Related: Parents, it’s not your job to teach Common Core math when helping with homework. Last fall, the students themselves explained new homework policies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2022

30 K-5 Common Core-aligned lessons. Genius Hour, Google Apps, Khan Academy , Robotics, STEM, Coding, and more. These are for the teacher who knows what they want to teach, but needs ideas on how to integrate tech. Let me review a few: STEM Lesson Plans. Coding Lesson Plans. By Grade Level. singles –for as low as $.99

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

It’s not a stretch to say that today’s educational paradigm is preoccupied with the “how” of learning. Educators are grappling — either by choice or decree — with how to incorporate digital devices, new learning standards, and more collaboration and critical thinking into the already-packed school day.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Whether educators need to learn how to use edtech tools, analyze student data or implement Common Core standards, online PD can offer educators support when and where they need it. But how can school leaders integrate online PD into their culture quickly and effectively?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Pixar senior scientist Tony DeRose was faced with a problem that animators had never solved — how to make the hand of an old man look lifelike. DeRose needed to figure out how to make a sculpture hand model with many angular planes look smooth and skin-like on the screen. Pixar in a Box).

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MSEDTechie

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Recently, I engaged in a conversation with a few parents on Facebook who expressed apprehension to this new approach to learning through technology, and how it impacted learning for their children. Most were striking it down, and calling for an end to Common Core, because in their opinion, it excludes the “basics.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 29, 2020

30 K-5 Common Core-aligned lessons –5 per grade level. Genius Hour, Google Apps, Khan Academy , Robotics, STEM, Coding, and more. These are for the teacher who knows what they want to teach, but needs ideas on how to integrate tech. They’re affordable, focused, and often completed in just a few class sessions.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 20, 2014

So, we spend our mornings designing tee shirts and key chains to print on 2- and 3-D printers, programming EV3 Lego robots, and creating speakers out of paper cups. The kids are most certainly engaged and the most common refrain I hear from parents is that my class is what motivates their child to get out of bed and off to school.

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