Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While being an entrepreneur may not be everyone’s destiny, the skills required to succeed as an entrepreneur are useful for almost any student, regardless of what career or course of study they choose. Understand how to start and run an organization. Entrepreneurs typically: Adapt and learn in changing environments. Value innovation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

The Advancement Courses spring sale is happening now. They are sponsoring this post, and since some of their most popular courses are on the topic of classroom management, they asked me to create a resource for helping teachers with classroom management. So I prefer to teach with methods that help build relationships as I teach.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2015

Of course I was beyond proud of him, but I also could not help but wonder if his schooling would allow him to carry and sustain that innate zeal for learning with him as he came to face the rigors of the Common Core and standardized testing. Featured on eSchool News How-to Innovation Corner STEM Top News makerspace'

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

Of course, there is! Mark says , “The project is a week-long experience with eighth-graders who try to solve a real-world global problem basically in four days, present their solution to an outside group of adults who then judge their performance. So this acts almost like a physical for the district, more than anything else.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He now has a Makerspace Master Course available. Here are some of the details: The Makerspace Master Course. John Spencer has designed a week-long Makerspace Mastermind Course. Supportive community of fellow teacher-makers? She had a maker mindset. They will need to have a maker mindset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How to Use the U.S. ” Real World with Imagination Integration Certainly , the future of automotive technology is a fascinating topic for technology courses. Before you start, check out winners from last year’s contest. Consequently , this contest will also spark practical discussions about the history of automobiles.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

This subscription-based tuition model doesn’t limit the number of courses you can complete during each 12-week period, enrolling in up to two courses at once, for one flat tuition rate. We’ve used it that way for teachers but of course I think our focus should always be on student content creation. How to get started.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about the ten ideas I have below.

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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. Handing them out is a highlight of the course.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Curriculum Specialist Mandy Figlioli is excited about her school’s adoption of the Inventionland design and prototyping course. Mandy talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how students are being transformed, and shares how they are re-working the course based on what they learned the first year.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Parents were emailing me stating how proud they were of their child’s efforts and creativity. Ethan taught himself how to use Sketch Up to make a 3D rendering of a fort he wants to build in his backyard. Creating Maker Spaces. View the Full Course Catalog at ettsummer.org. HExpo ‘15 will be the first of many to come.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

So that’s kind of how it started. Vicki: Of course, I’m in the middle of nowhere. 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. Did you get any of them, Vicki? Karen: Oh no!!!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

STEM educators will discover ways to integrate core curriculum in education, alongside other science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) courses, such as biology, physics, chemistry and algebra. Tech Rockets – Students ages 10 to 18 can create a Tech Rocket account and gain access to amazing tech courses.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

So I totally get how you can teach with Minecraft. Of course they do.”. But how would you teach a science lesson? 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.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Another group discovers that if they hit “repeat” multiple times, they can create a parachute-like design that they’ve figured out how to color in various ways. We still don’t know how to use [it] very well,” Guadalupe admits. He’s been coaching teachers on how to incorporate “making” into their curriculum when it’s appropriate.

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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. Of course, the very best thing is to have a chair that allows the user to turn around completely. It’s that immersive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. Listen Now.

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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. Vicki: And of course, if Ernest Hemingway can do it, we can do it too, right? But it’s not a lot.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. I live teaching as my doing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. So, Science Leadership Academy, of course, Chris Lehmann’s… Doug: Yes, Chris Lehmann… Vicki: …who was there for a while, and is now superintendent, I believe. Vicki: Of course. We’ll, of course, include this in the Shownotes. Vicki: (agrees).

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

This allows learners lots of choice in how to demonstrate their understanding of a new concept. One student created a village that teaches how arrays are used to store data, using chickens and pigs in a series of pens. Building to Demonstrate Learning. Students then present their designs before a panel and answer questions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

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. I can have shingles popping off my roof and a hammer and nail sitting on my kitchen table, but if I don’t know how to get on the roof and hammer in that nail, my roof is going to leak.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

I have had the good fortune to teach greenhouse management at the high school level, and I now teach a course about sustainable food production at the community college level. See Julie’s iTunes Course on Greenhouse Management. Julie: Oh, absolutely you don’t have to be in the country. There’s so much, because obviously we all eat!

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

He taught her how to code in her seventh grade Innovation and Design class at Redwood Day School. Hannah built a Whack-a-Mole game—and learned the invaluable skill of troubleshooting, the importance of asking for help, and just how far persistence, curiosity and creativity can take you. That was also fun.

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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. Where are the Administrators?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Tune in live at [link] or [link].

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I It's not just a course, but an ongoing learning community. Is that still going? That's our goal.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

How to update Google Streetview Images. I spent maybe five minutes just showing them how to use the app, and then they took it and ran with it from there. Once you take a couple of minutes to frontload and show students how to use the tool, then you’d be amazed what they can do with it. Donnie: So they said, “Mr. Donnie Piercey.

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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

AUGUST 30, 2017

Carol: Of course, STEAM is a big thing that teachers are wanting to do in Maker Space. He gave us great practical ideas about how to make every day STEAM activities and how to easily integrate it into your lessons. OK, what else? So we have Project Based Learning, we have Global Projects. So, let me ask you this.

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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.”. Pam: But his kids… he teaches an environmental course.

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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. Now we have of course the ESSA Act here in the US that lets states have different measures. If lawmakers or policymakers ask us, how do we measure that? Vicki: We are. Scott: I’m not hopeless.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

He is also listening to feedback on how to improve the design for future applications. As an educator, particularly one who is quite invested in the maker movement, I was captured by his conversations and transparency. Design Thinking is a process that has been widely adopted in education.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

Of course, there is still Flipped Learning, 1 to 1 Programs, Blended Learning, Maker Movements, Genious Hours, SAMR, Learning Targets, 21st Century Learning, the 4C’s, Personalised Learning, Digital Textbooks, and OER! Consider the initiative overload teachers are experiencing!

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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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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

COMBINE CRAFTSPEOPLE AND ASTRONOMISTS and you’ll likely arrive at the Chatbot telescope maker’s workshop at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland. The free workshop meets every Friday, and Roche said it usually takes a dedicated maker about one year to complete from start to finish. FIRE EATERS? Yep, they were there too.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

Embracing a Maker Culture can take the standards in our curriculum and make them come alive as students practice the 4 C’s, venture to the top of Blooms, and experience the real depth found in Webb’s. Of course, important 21st-century skills can also be assessed. Are your students aware of the assessment and how to perform?

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