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

The CoolCatTeacher

Download this episode to listen offline by right-clicking here and choosing “Save As.” Download the Transcript. 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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Doing More With The Classroom Makerspace

The Web20Classroom

Educators are turning towards ideas like the Maker Movement and tinkering to foster creativity and innovation in their classrooms and to get their kids thinking and doing more. Coding should be a part of any maker space and bringing coding in is actually very easy. Download the post image here: [link].

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The New Self Published Book That I Co-Authored That is Trending on Amazon

The CoolCatTeacher

If you would like an encouraging book, feel free to download the book and join us on Facebook. Download the book if you’re curious, we’d love to see what you think. I’ve learned so much in this experience. Great editing is a must which is why I think many people struggle with self-publishing.

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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

The CoolCatTeacher

First, 3D bear is a free download for smartphones and tablets. How Students Get Started with 3D Bear Augmented Reality Design Download the App Go to [link] or your app store to download the 3D Bear Augmented Reality app. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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How Can I bring Robotics Into My Curriculum? Programming Robots with SPRK Lightning Lab #AskTheTechCoach

TeacherCast

SPRK Lightning Lab hub uses CWIST’s online platform to offer a free virtual community that allows educators, students, makers and parents to communicate about their projects. To get started users download the mobile app to program their robot. CWIST is a leader in providing content and an online platform for the maker movement.

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What We Learn from Making

Digital Promise

AbD’s four downloadable thinking routines [available as PDFs from the educator resources page ] are short, deceptively simple strategies that can be used in a variety of classroom settings to encourage these capacities. offer more maker-related professional development experiences for educators.

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5 Ideas for Friday: Ideas for Teachers In and Out of School to Try Today

The CoolCatTeacher

See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). Listen to her show and download the apps she recommends. .” Follow the tag on instagram and Twitter and feel like you’re there. Students could be virtual reporters about what is happening or could dig deeper into making. If you can go, tickets are complimentary.

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