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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

There’s tons of information on there, and if you want to know anything about it, please feel free to reach out to me on social media, through Twitter or my e-mail address. There’s another show that I’ll link to that actually shows that kids who are using Minecraft can improve in their social-emotional learning.

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Just share that love on social media. Level 1 gives your students the ability to create that Virtual Valentine with whatever digital tool that you’re most comfortable with, and then share with others via social media and Flipgrid. We love digital tools like Buncee and Green Screen , Adobe Spark. Level 1 and Level 2.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - It's All About the GEC (GlobalEdCon) - Amazing Keynotes - Announcing the Student Technology Conference

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This year''s strands include Making, Design and Innovation , Student Technology Clubs , Technology in Schools – Projects and Collaborations , Educational Technology Tools , Students and Social Media , and Entrepreneurship. The maker movement fosters a mindset and culture that can create a profound shift in K-12 STEM learning.

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A Framework for Meaningful Technology Integration – SULS003

Shake Up Learning

Please share the answers in the Shake Up Learning Community or on your favorite social media platform! [43:23] How the Maker Movement Is Moving Into Classrooms by Vicki Davis. [42:43] – Here’s today’s Podcast Question of the Week: what is one way that you can beyond in your classroom that you’ve never tried?

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Most Memorable Blogs Posts of the Year – 2016

Reading By Example

Here he writes about the importance of journalism in the era of the 24 hour news cycle and social media. Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind. My favorite quote from his post is: “What problems are we hiring edtech to solve?”

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education.

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7 Strategies I Use When Students Make Apps (or Do Any Genius Projects)

The CoolCatTeacher

Sometimes we’ll have Marketers doing something with social media. They’ll typically create a Twitter, Instagram, social media type platforms to go with it. Now, the third piece of this is that you want kids to have jobs. So we have PMs (Project Managers), APMs (Assistant Project Managers), and then Graphic Designers.

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