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. I do encourage students to “sandbox” or play as they are using the app the first time and this is definitely something they can get creative with for that first video.

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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

APRIL 6, 2018

You definitely want to look at those enhanced Shownotes over on the blog. 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. Go to the website and look at the imagery, because it’s the imagery that is so exciting. Vicki: Awesome!

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

How to update Google Streetview Images. or a national park — definitely take that opportunity first, but you know school budgets are, you know, not always the (especially in a public school district like I teach) sometimes you’re kind of limited. Donnie: So they said, “Mr. This is so fantastic. Donnie: And that’s the best part.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But it’s definitely beyond the jobs. 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. You start to understand those algorithms, and I think it just makes you a “critical citizen,” I suppose… a critical thinker?

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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. But definitely, you want a storyboard. Joe: Well… Do they want to review? Do they want to introduce something? It depends on what class it is. I go right back to the writing process with this. Tell ‘em what you told them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Other than that, they said definitely work on your group collaboration at the front end. 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? So they would all be on a Remind group together so they could communicate when they were at home. 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. Scott: Cool.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

One challenge that persists in mainstream education is how to create truly authentic learning opportunities within the bureaucracy of schools. Professional Development: Another challenge being met in some places is how to incorporate technology into teacher-training programs. DEVELOPMENTS IN ED TECH.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Early Adopters: “Describe the value in it and how to do it and I am all in!” Innovators, by definition are risk takers, they accept failure in a ways that make some people uncomfortable. The Maker Movement’s Innovator may also be the Robotic’s Laggard, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

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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! Let’s not forget STEM education, unless if your school has initiated STEAM, STREAM, or even STEAMIE!

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The broad, inclusive Educause definition in 7 Things You Should Know about Makerspaces practically screams library to me: A makerspace is a physical location where people gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and build. Knowledge Quest maker posts. We are in a process to make it happen. Report (PDF).

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

How to Hook Students (without them knowing it – unless you tell them). laughs) Definitely not. Brent: Well, the way I see it, education is definitely changing every day. You have to work much harder, stay up later at night, and that’s definitely one of the things that I’ve learned. Brent: A joke, yes.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 30, 2015

As the maker movement continues to build in numbers, I’ve been particularly interested in the critical research that is scrutinizing the dynamics of interaction and learning within spaces of making. Meg’s insights were also invaluable for thinking about the aspects of our research that would be most useful for educators.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Translating that to a virtual environment has been a little challenging but definitely doable. And once taught the skills of how to invent, there is no stopping them ( Opinion: Every student can be an inventor ). Some have struggled with student-centric and hands-on learning. I have always been an experiential educator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

What they’ve been working on over the last seven or eight years was a way to teach students how to be innovative — and how to go through that design process to create an invention of your own. That would be definitely the way I would describe our student. So I had the opportunity to tour the facility. Mandi: Absolutely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? He was a bit older than me, and he actually learned how to program in 1’s and 0’s. Aditya: Oh, definitely. Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

Idea #1: Expand Your Definition of Writing. And she had the first graders from the previous year skype into the classroom and share informational pieces with the kindergarten students about what they could expect and how to take care of those chicks, based on their experiences the previous year. Transcript for Episode 129 .

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 29, 2017

The post How to Push the Boundaries of School with Dynamic Learning appeared first on Shake Up Learning. How to Push the Boundaries of School with Dynamic Learning #SUL #edchat #edtech #gttribe Click To Tweet. So here are some working definitions for you, definitions that are my own and still in development: Static Learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

To push it further, one definition of disruption might be a bottom-up cause that substantially effects the ecology it is a part of (e.g., Maker Movement. General insecurity or misunderstanding about how to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. Relative “normalizing” of computer coding.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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