The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. But if I’m teaching how to use Scratch Jr., app is designed to help people learn how to use it. I’ll spend about a month noodling around in Scratch, learning how it works, and then I’ll bring it to my fourth grade students. Enhanced Transcript. Vicki: Oh no!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2016

Businesses such as Pacific BioStorage specialize in providing support to pharmaceutical companies, universities, federal research labs, and hospitals across the nation. The Maker Movement In Education. It is hard to come across an area of contemporary society not connected to these themes in some way. 5 lesson plans on science.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply. Hint: he taught and developed over 200 courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to edit and post it. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored post.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Click here. .

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor host the Teaching Python Podcast where they share how to help kids of all ages learn this valuable language. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Stream by clicking here. Amy Burns’ Bio As Submitted. Maarten, and Australia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: This is intriguing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Marina: In early childhood is when we start learning how to read and write, the time when we develop our literacy. So I would say, how to choose? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: That sounds like so much fun!

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

How Does Book Creator Work? I made the above tutorial to show you how to set up Book Creator, but honestly, you don’t really need it. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How to Use the U.S. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. That’s what makes a great educational change and transformative teaching, as well as we learn how to use technology in a nonthreatening way.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list. She had a maker mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Vicki: Ok, so how can a teacher get started with FlipSnack without getting overwhelmed? How to get started. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. Through a program called SmART Schools (www.smartschoolsnetwork.org), teachers were able to come in and learn how to they could use the arts inside their classrooms. Below is an enhanced transcript, modified for your reading pleasure. All comments in the shaded green box are my own.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

That was a key area of focus at the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 7-10, and a number of ed-tech companies and organizations demonstrated possible solutions. That’s the experience her company is trying to replicate for students at all levels with the new STEAM Student Set.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

It’s like the maze of the Minotaur, where you need to put a string on someone’s toe and pull it so they’ll know how to get out. Now, you might wonder how to set up the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees. They’ve worked very diligently to build their own beehives offsite, and they collect data and manage that data to try and learn how they can help save bees and spread what they’ve learned to the wider community. Vicki: Incredible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

So, for example, here in Maine, we have one that provides free summer training to teachers about how to better integrate food production into their classroom. Being aware of where our food originates and how things are grown – this is an important part of just life literacy. Many states have a statewide Ag in the Classroom component.

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iLearn Technology

APRIL 10, 2017

What it is: Get Qurious is a company who’s goal is to keep kids curious, creative, and expressive by combining technology and play. The Get Qurious Maker Box is packed full of interactive play opportunities. Tips: While I love the intent behind Get Qurious, a few cautions: 1) It is called the Get Qurious Maker Box.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

In the process, they learn how to research, curate, and communicate. Self-starters are the ones who are going to navigate that maze and figure out how to build something new along the way.” Students learn how to play this game of school very early on. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. When students first open their device, a simple tutorial teaches them how to use Adobe Premiere Rush and gets them started. It uses film that was preloaded in the program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom. ”

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

These are the things that we have to teach — how to interact with these intelligent machines, how to program, but also how to do these other things. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Who in a career ever does any computations?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Big data, open spaces, employability, utilizing maker movements, balancing innovation and accountability, privacy, collaboration, closing the digital divide, personalized learning, and navigating the hostile political climate were just a few of the concerns the audience members brought up.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

Her talent won her an internship with a company in Atlanta (she telecommuted as a sophomore and junior in high school.) To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. We need to teach people how to think. Another group learned how to fingerprint with a CSI fingerprinting kit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Like have a really clear conversation about who is going to be in charge of what, and how you are going to make sure it happens, first? Marynn: Several of them, I actually led some conflict resolution workshops because they found out the hard way that they didn’t know how to do conflict resolution. Vicki: (agrees). Vicki: Yeah.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Schools were never designed to do that, so we basically have this massive paradigm shift that we’ve got to figure out how to go through. Other folks either don’t feel that urgency, or at least have some inkling that that’s the direction we need to go, but they don’t have any ideas of how to accomplish that. Vicki: We are.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. Vicki: Ohhhh! Pam: Teacher.

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