The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Thom Gibson on episode 575 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Thom Gibson has fun ways to greet students as he walks around campus. He shared them on Twitter recently and I started using some of them and it adds a whole element of fun and engagement while interacting with students.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2018

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools and companies are partnering to prepare their students for a digitally driven workforce! It’s a culmination of robotics and programming being taught at every grade level. That’s because today’s schools are preparing students for careers we haven’t yet imagined. DeQueen (Ark.) by Ryan Petersen.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

“We also melded the missions of coding in education with AR for this exploratory study to see if we could get favorable results in timing tests and user experiences,” said Nathan Dass , a researcher and software engineer at Google AI. “We Technology Companies Invest in AR and VR Education Apps. by Eli Zimmerman.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

Thomas School near Seattle hopes to encourage students to develop a passion for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) by starting them young and engaging them with cool, new learning spaces featuring robots and 3D virtual reality computers. If that works at companies like Google and Apple, the same mindset should be in schools.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

5 Ways to Teach Students to Think From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. But what I haven’t seen is kids Googling anything to help them with this project. Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.)

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TeacherCast

JULY 14, 2015

I was instantly charmed by Dash and Dot, the cute blue robots from Wonderworkshop. I was lucky June came along with them because after saying hello the robot just glanced around awkwardly. Check out this great conversation and share your Ideas about what you could do with robots in your classroom. Twitter: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

An Epic Guide to Wearables From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. My students take “virtual field trips” on the inexpensive Google Cardboard headsets. In the movie, moviegoers often see the world through “the terminator” robot’s vision.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

New technologies like artificial intelligence, 3D printing and robotics are emerging with the potential for having a transformative impact on industry, the economy and society as a whole,” reports the conference’s website. We are living during a time of unprecedented and rapid change. CDW Segment. Original or Curated. Customer Focused.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah LaCrosse on episode 272 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. So that’s my Go To robot.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2014

This message is then delivered by a polite robotic voice basically telling me that I can sleep in if I wish or spend the day slaving over my snow shovel. Here are a few tips and ideas that have worked well for NMHS over the years: Create a school Twitter and Facebook page. Talk about convenience.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Website: www.theaieducator.io Twitter: @ danfitztweets Amanda Fox Amanda Fox, is the Chief Content Officer for Teachergoals.com and currently resides in Louisville, Kentucky. Is it helpful?

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Facebook, Google, Microsoft have pulled out of annual industry conferences, and called off events of their own. Some companies are electing to not send staff. Twitter and Facebook have already pulled out of the main SXSW event.) Instead of scrapping an upcoming developer conference, Google recently moved its program online.

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Educational Technology Guy

MAY 29, 2014

These externships pay teachers to spend the summer at a local manufacturing company learning about their industry and coming up with ways to get more students involved in engineering and manufacturing. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. They have a lot of great programs, including the Engineering Challenge.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, Twitter, SpaceX, and an investor in Open AI and Chat GPT, is now building a new competitor to Chat GPT. A quick Google search will reveal many other warnings and predictions he has made about AI. Right now, tech companies own AI. Robots will move so fast that you need a strobe light to see them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Britt Watwood on episode 327 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Britt: In my classes, I’m using strictly a Blackboard LMS and I’m using Twitter, which I felt was a less onerous use of social media for classroom conversations. Britt: Thank you.

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techlearning

JULY 16, 2018

Bird Brain Technologies is an incredible company, and they have some impressive new tricks up their sleeve. Bird Brain makes both Finch robots, and they make Hummingbird robotics kits. It means students can make almost anything with them including some awesome robots.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Dan Meyer on episode 513 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today Dan Meyer @ddmeyer gives us tips and advice for helping kids who hate math learn to love it. VICKI: Teachers, I will give you the link to the Google spreadsheet that has so many amazing 3 act math problems.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Micah Brown on episode 237 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

With that, I think it's worth taking a look at where each of the three big companies stands in regards to Ed. The online portal might work, but it is going to have to be a simple as Google Drive with an easy tie to email for it to work. The pain points are just too high for that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How do kids learn and remember? Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

She describes what she experienced as “cyborg jobs,” meaning they often treat employees more like robots than people. Listen to this week’s podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen, or in the player below. It just prints out and you're really not sure how it came up with that.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2018

But some companies are jumping the gun. Below are the finest collection of stories you’ll never see on any other day, and which have been brewing in our heads over the course of 2018 in between too many cups of coffee, indecipherable email pitches, 1:1 meetings, product sprints and the occasional but unavoidable sparring on Twitter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 13, 2017

Engage and Organize from Day 1 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Some algebra teachers are using the emoji insert feature in Google Docs to replace the x or y in Algebra with an emoji. Great teaching starts on the first day. Emojis are images that express emotion. MakerSpace Pro Tip.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Just beneath the surface, however, Burlington has become home over the last few years to an invisible economy of people who work remotely for the world’s biggest technology businesses, including Apple, Google, Twitter and IBM, hundreds and even thousands of miles from these companies’ chic and sprawling headquarters.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 31, 2023

Starting Point – What are AI and ChatGPT, and how is it different from Google? I was thinking of how I would answer this question and went into ChatGPT and asked, “What is the difference between ChatGPT and Google?” ” So maybe, this wasn’t the best question to ask. That is a good thing.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Even though test-proctoring companies like to sell themselves as providing an exciting, new, and necessary technology, this software has a long history that's deeply intertwined with pedagogical practices and beliefs about students' dishonesty. On the other hand, robots will still administer students multiple choice tests.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2019

First, know that the folks who were #NotatISTE or #NotatISTE19 and those who love them, shared quite a bit using the Twitter hashtags. Among the MANY items in my own digital tote is Denise Henry-Orndorff’s Periodic Table of Google Extensions. Be sure to also connect with the ISTE Librarians Network on Facebook and Twitter.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

Respondents to a Twitter poll leaned slightly in favor of “yes.” Jaime Casap, chief education evangelist at Google To get a broader perspective, I also posed this question to professionals from different industries, working in film, writing, teaching, museums and technology companies big and small. Here’s what they said.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 18, 2018

Once focused, the students capture the image and insert it into Google Slides and label the image on the slide. Students can also install one of many chrome apps that can record video from the microscope camera, which can then be inserted into a google slide for sharing and viewing later on. Imagine the possibilities!

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

Via The Verge : “US denies visas to Afghanistan ’s all-girl robotics team.” Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Go to “file” and make a copy to save it to your Google drive to remix or assign as is to your students. It is completely free and you can start setting up your classroom by logging in using your Google account! Robots are cool.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

Most of the kids at my school won’t be programmers or work for a tech company.” Go to “file” and make a copy to save it to your Google drive to remix or assign as is to your students. It is completely free and you can start setting up your classroom by logging in using your Google account! Robots are cool.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

The vendor hall was filled with products and companies supporting and connected with the maker movement. Unlike consumer shows like CES, there wasn''t a whole lot of buzz about wearables in the classroom (just one session on Google Glass - may it rest in peace). Who wouldn''t want with a company called "Air Squirrels?"

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EdTechTeam

MAY 19, 2017

Using Google Docs to help record their notes and the aid of research mentors to build their research skills, the students researched aspects of the classroom that interested them most while focusing on our three lines of inquiry: how kids learn best, types of learning technology, and the organization of space.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Not 3D Printers On a panel with edtech executives from Microsoft, Google and IBM, Jonathan Rochelle, product management director at Google, reflected fondly on his past obsession with 3D printers, noting that the tool never reached the level of usefulness in homes and classrooms that he hoped for. “The Edtech's Next Big Thing?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 They’re amazing.

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RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

This was a perfect start for me as a graduate from a program that empowered us to be creators of experiences instead of taking on the robotic like lens that many first year teachers were forced to do. Time and again, with every tech company that I encounter, the feedback is real. It is extensive and brilliant.

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