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The Maker Movement In Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

Here are his thoughts on ‘the Maker Movement': With so much of the emphasis in today’s education world focusing on the need for education reform, it can be easy to forget just what this means.

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7 Things to Know About Coding in the Early Childhood Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s sponsor: Metaverse is a free simple augmented reality tool. We work with robotics, because robotics are tools that allow them to learn coding and to learn abstract logic and thinking while not sitting in front of a computer screen. So robots have motors, they have sensors, they can move around. Listen Now.

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28 can’t-miss edtech innovations from ISTE 2017

eSchool News

The most popular topics, based on number of sessions, focused on creativity and productivity tools (113), innovative learning environments (108), online tools and resources (82), constructivist learning and the maker movement (77), and programming and robotics (70). Next page: 28 products from ISTE 2017).

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Sylvia Martinez: 3 Mistakes Teachers Make About Tinkering (and more)

The CoolCatTeacher

The risks of using reflection as your only tool for assessing making. Hummingbird Robotics Kit. 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.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. We taught really accessible tools that everyday classroom teachers could use in their classroom, and so that would be one level of arts integration and using the arts as a part of their toolkit to teach in the class. Record your own voice over. Vicki: Wow.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice. Tools to enhance student voice. Leah: Another way that I try to give students technology to showcase their science understanding is through like tools that help them to maybe build electronic books. Leah: We do.

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Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

The CoolCatTeacher

Fun, exciting tools and techniques can help very young kids understand math and learn computational thinking. Vicki: Steve, do you have any favorite tools that you like for the K-6 crew? Favorite tools to use with younger kids. I think it was Seymour Papert that said, “These are tools (or objects) to think with.”.