The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Listen to the Show. Related Shows.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

Julie Wilcott talks about how we can bring sustainable food systems and understanding into our schools with these five simple ideas. 5 Ways to Bring Sustainable Food Systems into Your School. Today we’re talking to Julie Willcott @WillcottJulie about five ideas for helping integrate sustainable food systems into our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

So when students are empowered, they learn how to navigate multiple systems and build even more efficient systems for themselves and for the people that they’re serving. They challenge “the system”. AJ: Alright, so fourth is that they challenge the system. But when you empower kids, they challenge the system.

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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. Global connectivity will continue to allow companies to outsource labor to other countries. They will need to have a maker mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

And meanwhile the sixth graders had a health unit where they had to learn about body systems, how a disease or an issue could attack the body, and what you could do – either medically or the body would do to defeat that health system. And all the way up. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. Your favorite thing is the solar system. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Obviously, schools as systemic structures need to change quite a bit. Those four shifts seem to resonate with folks because they have seen the power of those, at least in small doses within their systems. Unfortunately, systems change slowly. But getting while systems to move is a whole ‘nother matter. They make sense.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

As a change maker herself, she is passionately co-leading a grassroots movement in order to spark a systemic cultural shift towards an innovative model of education. 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 3, 2018

There was a 3-consequence system. 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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

After plugging in the headset, make sure you’ve chosen the right system settings to run it. You’ll probably need to update the Mixed Reality Operating System plug-in from Microsoft. For example, when you launch the system, you can choose a method in mixed reality that allows students to both stand and sit. Trace the area.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. 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

And also, you can take failure out of the system, because nobody ever fails anything that they haven’t finished yet. 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. And if I’m slower at one thing, give me more time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

However, although the functional teaching objectives of this lesson are to onboard students as quickly as possible into the software and systems they’ll be using, the relational teaching objective is to help me know at least one thing they love. I want them to join Google classroom. ”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. And rubrics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

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. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

We overloaded our system. 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. No one could get on.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Coincidentally, as part of another role I had with the district to develop relationships with the business community, I was organizing a field trip to a tech company. These companies were eager for qualified young candidates to fill positions. By the the second hour of the trip, he had connected with a programmer at the company.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Using this tip, you can create a sort of social sharing environment inside your classroom management system. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. You can use this format in your Google classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Created a low-cost wildlife detection system to alert drivers of animals crossing the road and mitigate accidents. Developed a drone-powered spraying system to target weeds and use fewer chemicals on crops. Snowflake, Ariz. Gulfport High School. Gulfport, Miss. Created a vending machine to supply free hygiene products to the homeless.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

One of the things that we really spend a lot of time doing is trying to help people “unlearn” some of what I think that we built into the system over time that people just came to accept. 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 29, 2018

Sometimes I’ll walk in, and I discover a teacher that I wasn’t even aware of in the system — because we’ve got, you know, over 1200 teachers in Albemarle. 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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User Generated Education

JANUARY 15, 2017

The company has a free app to go along with their set for the designs to be uploaded and described. Some learners had a little trouble getting started but once they did, their designs and inventions were fantastic. I think the fanciful nature of the cards helped engagement. This app did not do what was promised so I cannot recommend its use.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Some hot topics will be virtual reality, augmented reality, 3D printing, coding and the maker movement. The devastating conflicts in the Middle East and the refugee waves seeking shelter in Europe will soon effect education systems all over the continent. Russell Stannard (Educational Technologist, UK).

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind. Ben visibly shares his struggles with a teacher evaluation system that does not align with his professional philosophy. Makerspaces allow us to be “active creators of our own knowledge” in all disciplines.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Do you think our class – we use a blended classroom, where we have PowerSchool Learning as our LMS (Learning Management System). The operating system is almost the same through the way that we learned in Ms. So learning all of the programs and the operating system – and getting my stuff done on time in Ms. Brent: Oh, 100%.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

During the school day, our plants, our garden is indoors using aeroponic systems known as a tower garden, where the plants are literally growing themselves. 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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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This leads to the “innovator’s dilemma,” described recently in The Economist as “the difficult choice an established company faces when it has to choose between holding onto an existing market by doing the same thing a bit better, or capturing new markets by embracing new technologies and adopting new business models.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

People with knowledge of the school described it as “run like the company of WeWork, subject to constant changes or ‘disruption,’ sometimes without full consideration for the children these changes impact.” Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced a merger that would make the new company the second largest textbook publisher in the US.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’m interested not so much in how ed-tech (and tech more broadly) might change cognition or learning, but in how it will change culture and power and knowledge – systems and practices of knowing. The “maker movement.” Those have always been the promises. Promises largely unfulfilled. Collaboration.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

So we must, I think, look at the more insidious ways in which various technologies are slowly altering our notions of knowledge, expertise, and education (as practices, as institutions, as systems) – and ask who’s invested in the various futures that education technology purports to offer. The Maker Movement.

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