The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

We have a very collaborative classroom, I let the students lead their learning as much as possible. I did tell them, “I can’t find anybody else who’s done this before, so you are learning for all the schools in America, you might be, so who knows.”. It improved my comprehension, I learned a lot out of my comfort zone.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Fun, exciting tools and techniques can help very young kids understand math and learn computational thinking. Sponsor: FREE MATH RESOURCE The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. They quickly learn it that morning. Today’s guest, Steve Floyd, tells us how.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. coolcatteacher.com/earth Check out their NGSS aligned Science games for grades 3-8. And so they basically were learning to use the technology themselves, which is what they’re going to have to do for the rest of their lives.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

From Project based learning, global projects and steam to the biggest heartbreaks of second-grade teachers, Carol shares it all. Even if you don’t teach second grade, you’ll learn a lot. 2nd Grade Trend #1: Project Based Learning. Today’s Sponsor is TeacherVision. We can do this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 29, 2019

Listen to the show and learn how it is used and follow the links in the show notes below. In addition to his work in schools, Richard has been a consultant to some of the largest companies in the educational technology industry. Listen to the show and learn how it is used and follow the links in the show notes below.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? So the whole point of learning programming — it just sounds so daunting because people have to understand the logic as well as the syntax. Programming is daunting when you have to learn logic as well as syntax. Aditya: Hi Vicki.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Also, I learned about Twitter, I did the same thing. Let’s augment our reality and learn! The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Augmented reality is here. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored blog post.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

That’s why stories about the golly-gee-whiz prospects of learning to code, game-based learning, social emotional learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain transcripts, and tutoring — by chatbots or by gig workers — still fill the pages of these publications. Something about "learning engineers".

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