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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

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Drones in the Classroom: Teaching Writing and Collaboration with Drones

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Some sort of obstacle course? The next day they came in to pre-designed obstacle courses, where they had to find the golden statue with the roving jumping droids, or fly through hula hoops with the flying droids. What standards are you meeting using drones in your classroom?” But droids are for computer programming.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

The Advancement Courses spring sale is happening now. They are sponsoring this post, and since some of their most popular courses are on the topic of classroom management, they asked me to create a resource for helping teachers with classroom management. (The Relationships take time. This lets us adjust our teaching. It will help.

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

So you’ve got the writing standard, but they may actually meet the standard without written expression? Vicki: And of course, if Ernest Hemingway can do it, we can do it too, right? You meet with your critique group to go over it, and you can do that virtually on Google Hangouts or Skype. Do you see where i’m going with that?

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) When students meet a problem that they can’t Google, they must venture forth with teamwork, creativity, and tenacity — all things that they need to be successful. We let kids work problems in math.

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Google Jamboard

The CoolCatTeacher

Tom: Yes, now of course, this is so new. That’s where you can also connect to a meeting and make it a Google Hangout, which takes place inside the jam, which is cool. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: Cool.

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Inventionland: A Transformational Design Course

The CoolCatTeacher

Curriculum Specialist Mandy Figlioli is excited about her school’s adoption of the Inventionland design and prototyping course. Mandy talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how students are being transformed, and shares how they are re-working the course based on what they learned the first year.

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