The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 30, 2017

Build a better classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Bloomz is my parent-teacher communication system. Last year we implemented it school wide. It has been a great decision. We’ve gotten more compliments on Bloomz than any app we’ve ever used for parent-teacher communications. In this blog post, I’m going to share three things: Comparison with Other Apps – How does Bloomz compare to other tools?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 30, 2017

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” – Charlie Munger. A new school year is here! You are about to meet many new faces. With so many minds to inspire you need to make sure you are prepared. Learning helps our students break generational cycles, lead better quality lives, and make a positive mark on the world.

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EdTech4Beginners

JULY 30, 2017

​In PYP, just like in life, it’s the journey which counts much more than the destination. Reaching the destination is but a small event, amidst the ups and downs of the process of how it was attained. And of all the journeys of learning, the PYP Exhibition is, by far, the most important experience. At our school, year 5 is involved in the ‘PYPEx’ and starts the process at the end of Yr4, when they are taken through the six trans-disciplinary themes with their descriptors.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2017

I get a lot of questions from readers about what tech ed resources I use in my classroom so I’m taking a few days this summer to review them with you. Some are edited and/or written by members of the Ask a Tech Teacher crew. Others, by tech teachers who work with the same publisher I do. All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, w

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 30, 2017

[I’m one of five Digital Pedagogy Faculty Fellows this year at the University of Colorado Denver. I’ll be sharing my thoughts all year on this experience, starting with my time at the Digital Pedagogy Lab in Vancouver, Canada.]. Just a quick thought… In K-12, we struggle with access. Most schools are trying to get more technology into their classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2017

Don’t doubt it: Machine learning is hot—and getting hotter. For the past two years, public interest in building complex algorithms that automatically “learn” and improve from their own operations, or experience (rather than explicit programming) has been growing. Call it “artificial intelligence,” or (better) “machine learning.” Such work has, in fact, been going on for decades.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 30, 2017

July , 2017 After posting about iPad apps for librarians, we are featuring another equally important visual comprising some of the best web tools to help librarians in their everyday work.read more.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2017

Promoting good oral language and communication skills is perhaps the most important thing parents, caregivers and educators can do to prepare children to enter kindergarten. Having just completed my 17th year of teaching at Oak Grove Primary School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with over 800 students in kindergarten and first grade, I see children daily who have been exposed to models of good oral language.

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MiddleWeb

JULY 30, 2017

Writers get better by writing, says author and ELA teacher Marilyn Pryle. "It's our job to have students write regularly, genuinely, and with ownership." She shares three fun writing tasks (including directions, a model and a prewrite activity) that get the job done!

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Tech Helpful

JULY 30, 2017

It seems we all have a Plan A that we expect from life, expectations that we really want to happen and that we really want to achieve, but sometimes life has other plans and all of a sudden we are living Plan B. Sometimes Plan B looks similar to Plan A and we adjust readily. Sometimes Plan B feels as meaningful and wanted as Plan Z. Life throws these crazy curve balls at us that we didn't see coming and all of a sudden we feel all we are doing is dodging bad pitches and wildly swinging back in h

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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Adjusting Course

JULY 30, 2017

I was checking my Twitter feed yesterday intent on catching up on a few of my favorite educational blogs. I'm usually pretty efficient at scrolling through my feed, but decided to take the time to explore a link that didn't seem to relate to education (at the time). The link contained a couple unbelievable videos from a Sports Illustrated article. What initially caught my attention was the impossible headline: Remember the kid whose dad surprised him with a bat?

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MiddleWeb

JULY 30, 2017

Amid a near-universal celebration of collaborative, interactive work as a 21st century reality and ideal, teacher Sarah Cooper investigates something we so often forget in our classrooms and our schools: the need for quiet space and the challenges of achieving it.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 30, 2017

Check out this #IamMe interview with Laura Henderson where I discuss topics such as: Why school is a waste of time for most students, how we can change that, and school resources and models that work. The importance of loudly, publicly, and fearlessly sharing our dissatisfaction with the school system and go beyond opinion. Have the facts and research to back such views.

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EmergingEdTech

JULY 30, 2017

Inspiring, informative, useful, or just plain fun tweets posted on Twitter over this past week … collected here to share with our blog readers. This week in the wrap … we start with a great new. [Please click on the post title to continue reading the full post. Thanks (and thanks for subscribing)!].

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This white paper examines and proposes revisions to the "Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education" introduced by Arthur Chickering and Zelda Gamson in 1987 for today's technology-driven world.

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Cycles of Learning

JULY 30, 2017

It's absolutely no secret that I'm a huge fan of leveraging the MakeyMakey circuit ( [link] ) as an instructional device. While there is an obvious connection with such things ha as inventions during a youth science camp, or more creative solutions such as challenging high school chemistry students to create titration "drop counters", the ease of entry and almost limitless potential of this device is incredible.

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Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2017

Teachers have a lot to juggle: state standards, district expectations, literacy assessments, reading and writing workshop, STEM, social studies, RTI, and math. I haven’t included the unwritten titles of counselor, manager, and child advocate. Who said teaching was easy?? I offer my support in helping teachers make sense of all things curriculum and assessments.

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techlearning

JULY 30, 2017

Celebrate World Wide Web Day (8/1) and learn more about the Internet by exploring this website.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is full of twists and turns as well as ups and downs. In my opinion, it is a never-ending test that determines the trajectory of our career paths. It is not about passing or failing, but rather taking what we have learned to improve our position in life, whether that be professional or personal.

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