21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to number two in a series of four posts bringing you over 150 amazing resources for STEM education. I hope you enjoyed my thoughts of STEM being a Verb a few posts back, along with the 40 resources geared toward STEM Science in the last pos t. Technology – STEM Resources. Check out my Booking Page.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The Millvale site is part of a growing group of libraries that have opened up space, permanently or occasionally, for maker projects. Another practical tool for those thinking of building a makerspace in a library or elsewhere is the Youth Makerspace Playbook (PDF) from Maker Ed. A key takeaway from the playbook?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 27, 2018

Join me and other education speakers at Woodward Academy in Atlanta this summer From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. STLinATL is an exciting education conference hosted at Woodward Academy in Atlanta this summer July 26-27. STEM/STEAM Integration. Assessment for Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

A global search in education blog post From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Often schools who have arts, STEM or other enrichment choose to take one enrichment period and have a “genius hour” where students explore their talents to make and create. Maker Movement.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. Check out my Booking Page.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. Students make the following artifacts and then, in small groups of three students, decide if and how they want to use them in their Day of the Dead displays to reflect the stories they wrote.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

As a whole, STEM fields experience significant gender imbalances and makerspaces are no exception—despite being a relatively recent adoption for many schools. By contrast, adults never referred to groups of male students as “boys.” Making Culture" looked at 30 makerspaces in 12 urban areas.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

STEAM not only fosters do-it-yourself or DIY practices involving computers, electronics, and fabrication, but also a trans-disciplinary approach to artistic, cultural and academic production in digital media, and mutual concerns of the arts with STEM disciplines. Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D. is director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

They are uploaded to Adobe Education Exchange and make a perfect 16-day unit that you can adapt for your class. I’ve uploaded these resources to the Adobe Education Exchange, a fantastic resource for educators looking to use Adobe products in the classroom. Sponsored by Adobe. See also, the Adobe Premiere Rush movie project.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

As you are aware there is an amazing and powerful Maker Space movement going throughout the education landscape. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

If you want to join a group of teachers doing Virtual Valentines, you’ll want to listen to the show and sign up by February 2. You can make it as a whole group. So we’re really excited about the support in the Facebook group that we have going. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Who are the people spearheading maker education? Maker Education Initiative. Based on interviews with nearly three dozen community leaders, along with a survey of 492 people in Maker Ed’s online educator network, researchers found that nearly half of the respondents worked in a K-12 setting.

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

After the American Liaison to the Beijing Institute of Education, Doris Pokras, visited RYNJ this fall, she contacted me about visiting RYNJ with 17 of Beijing’s best science teachers during a four week trip to see best schools in the US. They then discussed the real world application of this Maker Movement activity to a classroom.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

As a group, learners watched the following video and reviewed the following webpage on the Smartboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOmaf2GfCY. Lessons are designed to get learners interested in and excited about a broad array of topics especially in the areas of science, engineering, math, language arts, and the arts. Simple Machines.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

You can also use and create breakout educational experiences. Vicki: Today we’re talking to Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers @ marinabers from Tufts University, where she is Director of the Dev Tech Research Group. The particular robots we have developed in my Dev Tech Research Group at Tufts are called Kibo. Students can program.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

When Diana first started her position at Stewart Middle Magnet School, a public STEM magnet school, there was almost nothing in the library for hands-on STEM learning. She is an international speaker on the Maker Movement and learning space design. Join the Community.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. They will need to have a maker mindset. The more they develop a maker mindset, the better they are at designing their own systems for their creative work.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

I thought it only appropriate to think about the idea of Making and Creating in education. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. C206: PBL, STEM, and Makers Dewey Meets Technology: What Will You Do? Check out my Booking Page.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

Cathy Rubin in her Global Search for Education has posed these questions in my inbox for this month’s global search for education column: “ What should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for everything?” One group of students used Bloxels to create pixel characters for a video game.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

First published in 1965, it tells the story of a group of children who run away and build their own village in the woods, with each house reflecting the personality and interests of its owner — just like Minecraft! in Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard. He holds an Ed.M.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. We''re really excited to have this amazing group of speakers participate at our fifth annual Global Education Conference.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. The process of bringing maker education into formal and informal educational settings involves different approaches and strategies than in a more traditional educational setting. Maker Educator as a Lead Learner.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. To join the celebration, tune into the Twitter chat with me, fellow teachers, and the CME Group’s chief economist on April 26th at noon Eastern Time, using #PowerofEcon. I found it to be really hard.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Project Zero’s Agency by Design team is developing documentation and assessment tools for maker-centered learning and “maker empowerment”, which they see as the key to ensuring that the maker movement secures a long-term place in education and pedagogy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

That was a key area of focus at the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 7-10, and a number of ed-tech companies and organizations demonstrated possible solutions. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”. I didn’t know that word when I was in the third grade.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Please be sure to check out and join the volunteer group and sign up soon for volunteer times. Student Entrepreneurship.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

But also on iPads and on Chromebooks that have the Play Store enabled, which is where education Chromebooks are going. And what I would do is say, “As we go through the unit, I want each group to continue creating and putting things into their jam for that topic. He is a Google for Education Certified Innovator and Trainer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

see the full rules ): During the Sweepstakes Period and during the Samsung® “Solve for Tomorrow” 2018 Education Contest registration period (starting at 12:00:01 p.m. One of the past winners that really captured my imagination was a group of students who wanted to help a veteran. How to enter the referral program. (

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User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2017

The final part of the activity is to have participants share their designs with the rest of the group. The specifications for the game need to be developed and written as a poster are – Name of the Game. Age Level Recommendations. How to Play. More Information. For more information on toy take apart and hacking, visit [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

You can also use and create breakout educational experiences. Vicki: Sam, what do you think are some of the most common mistakes that educators make when they start using coding with kids. He has a doctorate in literacy education and he isn’t afraid to use it. Students can program. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

You meet with your critique group to go over it, and you can do that virtually on Google Hangouts or Skype. The post 5 Ideas for Writing with Technology appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. Tip #4: Authoring eBooks. It could be fiction or nonfiction.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valerie Jopeck , Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. They discussed “student generated content that educators could share with stakeholders via social media and online platforms.” Maker Faire. “Girls Stem Nights” Writing and Making. What a great group of educators!

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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’re seeing that making really helps kids with that STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) piece of things if that’s something they’re excited about,” Vanderwerff said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. public schools can refer their educator colleagues to complete a contest submission and they will be entered for a chance to win a Samsung Galaxy Note8 or Samsung 65” TV. Colorado Students Engineer a Prosthetic for a Veteran.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2015

In contrast to a makerspace, which is a more free-form experience of making, the Fab Lab that museum educators are designing is explicitly connected to the ideas of design and engineering and connects to the Next Generation Science Standards. Rood said the space is designed with multiple age groups in mind. It doesn’t appear by magic.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

We did not need dedicated space for STEM in the library. connecting groups globally. Here are some resources to inspire you: Laura Fleming, World of Learning: Maker Education. Knowledge Quest maker posts. Stager, The Ultimate Guide to Bringing the Maker Movement to Your Classroom. cartooning spaces.

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