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. Excellence in Physical Education, Coaching, and Athletic Development.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 27, 2014

This post originally appeared at Usable Knowledge at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The maker movement — think of it as “smart DIY,” a high- and low-tech approach to tinkering that turns users into inventors — is spurring excitement about the power of ingenuity in fields as disparate as robotics and design and agriculture.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

When they reviewed their work, the authors discovered a startling trend: “Instructors consistently refer to their male students using maker terminology—‘geek,’ ‘builders,’—and then overwhelmingly referred to their female students as ‘girls’, as a gender-specific identity,” says Kim in an interview with EdSurge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2019

Listen to the Stacey Roshan talk about 7 edtech trends Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. ” The post 7 Hot Edtech Topics #iste19 #notatiste19 appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

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. Previously, Sylvia was President of Generation YES, evangelizing student leadership through modern technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

California’s community colleges sit at the intersection of higher education, regional economies, and workforce development. the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs. the statewide network will be positioned as a strategic educational pipeline for high-value jobs.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Savas Savides (Publisher & Former Educator, Greece).

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User Generated Education

JUNE 14, 2016

Maker education is currently a major trend in education. But just saying that one is doing Maker Education really doesn’t define the teaching practices that an educator is using to facilitate it. Maker education takes on many forms. PAH within a Maker Education Framework.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them. There are many great ideas in education that are being discussed in the connected community of educators, but not necessarily the education community at large.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them. There are many great ideas in education that are being discussed in the connected community of educators, but not necessarily the education community at large.

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My Island View

AUGUST 12, 2016

They are admired, or for some revered in Business, Politics, and even Education. Most people follow trends; they don’t start them. There are many great ideas in education that are being discussed in the connected community of educators, but not necessarily the education community at large.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Today Carol McLaughlin @missmac100 second grade teacher from Alabama and #2ndchat moderator talks about the global trends in second grade. FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and character education with your traditional subjects of math, language arts, sciences and more for grades K-12. OK, what other trends. Carol: Yes!

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

I had the opportunity to attend the Future of Educational Technology Conference (FETC) in Orlando Florida this past week. The maker movement is growing I can''t tell you how many sessions there were on 3D Printing, makerspaces, tinkering, hacking, etc. Do you agree with these trends? We need them; they need us.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. Ellen Goodman Luckily for educators, there are ways to get tech tools into the classrooms that don’t involve panhandling. This is a process.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. If students had the most innovative tools to help them see the future, what would they see?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Many organizations have already created lesson plans: Scholastic , Education World , Read Write Think , and many websites have Olympic themes. (Or Get lessons from PBS (grades 7-12 ), New York Times , AES Education , or use the topic to teach English. See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.).

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 5, 2014

The recent Higher Education version of the Horizon Report highlights some interesting predicted trends for technology adoption. The Maker movement, user-generated videos, self-published eBooks, personalized domains, and other platforms have all seen steep increases in recent years. Unported License.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Many organizations have already created lesson plans: Scholastic , Education World , Read Write Think , and many websites have Olympic themes. (Or Get lessons from PBS (grades 7-12 ), New York Times , AES Education , or use the topic to teach English. See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 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. The great majority of these events are free to attend. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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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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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

As an educator, particularly one who is quite invested in the maker movement, I was captured by his conversations and transparency. Design Thinking is a process that has been widely adopted in education. In my second book , I offer suggestions on how educators can support students in being able to do so.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

To Mitchel Resnick, an MIT Media Lab professor and early pioneer of the maker movement for kids, this Hollywood’s portrayal is problematic, and part of a larger trend toward overly regimenting education these days. “I What demographics are you reaching with your free Scratch programming language? Is that still going?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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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.” One of the few recent trends in education that does so.” What a great group of educators!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

Two years ago I attended an edtech conference focused on the then up-and-coming trend of makerspaces. Fast-forward to a few years from now, and imagine a conference similar to the one I attended, with the same keynote speaker addressing an audience of passionate maker-educators.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 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. Brought to you by USC Rossier’s Doctor of Education online (EDd). This session is aimed at all teachers K-12.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

At conferences, librarians share with me that their administrators insist they devote significant library real estate to 3D printing and a variety of other maker equipment. Here are some resources to inspire you: Laura Fleming, World of Learning: Maker Education. Knowledge Quest maker posts. Martinez and Gary S.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

Assess existing curricula, programs, and offerings within your school community Consider global trends and best practices, which will then help you to develop themes. The key takeaway that I want educators to leave with is a focus on open-ended exploration. I try to emulate this when I conduct hands-on makersapce workshops.

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MindShift

MAY 3, 2016

The Maker Movement has helped spur renewed interest in hands-on learning and the value of spaces where children can explore their own ideas, be creative, and tinker. But also, “make that assumption that social injustices and educational injustices are ubiquitous and they’re happening everywhere. ’ Shirin Vossoughi.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Sandra Hirsh on 'Information Services Today: Essential Tools, Skills, and Competencies for Transformative Information Landscapes' 11:00am Disaster Recovery.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2016

As I’ve discussed in numerous posts, I am an experiential educator. I am excited about the current trend towards maker education but I believe it needs to embrace a full cycle of learning including engaging in reflection. I believe in and promote learning-by-doing and hands-on learning. creating a video.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century. Although some educators have grown weary of the term “21st century learning,” the drive to transform education “matters more today—a lot more—than when we started the conversation.”

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RafranzDavis.com

MAY 25, 2016

My mother was and is a “maker” and more than likely, so are you. Being a “Maker” Isn’t New or Necessarily Tech. In education, we have a way of taking a “thing” and reframing it to be something else…to fit our ideas or the latest trend of the moment but making isn’t new.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The post Inventionland: A Transformational Design Course appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

I’ve listed some examples of disruption in education below, and ranked them (though obviously the ranking is entirely subjective and only useful as a crude reference point to start your own thinking). Common Core standards (this one’s not sexy, but few factors impact education more than this index of academic content).

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 29, 2017

With tools like G Suite for Education that are available 24/7, the learning doesn’t have to stop when the bell rings at the end of class, or when the worksheet is turned in, or even when the school year ends. Education, just like anything else, is loaded with trends, buzzwords, and enough acronyms to create alphabet soup!

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