eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Debuting as the brand’s first device for education, the Dremel 3D Idea Builder empowers students to master key STEM concepts through hands-on learning and creativity. A common challenge when educators are asked to use a new device is understanding its practical classroom application.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

I will be providing five workshop and one FETC Featured Presentation. I promise you will find some great information coming your way …So Sign Up Now and please pass this on with a retweet! Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Thanks for learning with me.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As I travel the nation’s schools I see wonderful experiences provided to students as educators provide opportunities for thinking and doing. Also, remember you can book me for a conference or your school district with workshops that are informative, engaging, and practical. Perhaps you might even attend my session or workshops.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Check out Tony’s “Classy Graphics” 6-week workshop. Website Twitter The post 5 Sure Fire Ways to Create Remarkable Graphics appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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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. 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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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

This coming year, I am doing several keynotes and workshops on the reflecting on the making process. Two elements from my training as educator lead me to really embrace this topic: Background in Experiential Education. Reflection in the Maker Process. Studying the Reflective Practitioner During Graduate School.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

but as with all use of educational technologies, I believe that it should be used intentionally to assist learners in developing and expanding their content knowledge and life skills. Learner-Centric – More of Them; Less of Us: At its heart, maker education and physical computing is about centering around the learner.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Digital Promise , a non-profit using technology and research to spur innovation and expand learning opportunities, has created Digital Promise Professional Services to provide personal help to educators as they transform their schools and districts. Educator Micro-credentials. Maker Learning.

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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. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page. My calendar is filling.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 1, 2016

Educators problem-solve the complexities of introducing a new concept to students by participating in new workshops centered around STEAM and maker movement practices. The paper circuitry workshop was led by San Francisco-based David Cole, of NEXMAP. and Catherine T.

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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. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

SMART wants to recognize educators across the globe who inspire greatness in their students, peers or community. Nominate your favorite educator at coolcatteacher.com/greatness. They are working once they have some of their work done for reader’s workshop where they are getting on their computers and investigating that way.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. Check out my Booking Page. 35 Resources For Makerspace.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Registration is now open for the first national academic 3D printing conference, Construct3D 2017 , which will bring together leaders and educators in the digital fabrication discipline of 3D printing for a comprehensive overview of this rapidly expanding area of research and development. will present the Informal Educator Keynote.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Watching them create trains, castles, superhero costumes and monster webs out of cardboard and duct tape made me realize that not only were they enjoying a childhood rite of passage when they commandeered the large boxes, but they were applying the 21st Century skills that all educators talk about.

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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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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia. Exploratory, hands-on learning is also known as “maker education.” That’s “iterating” in maker-ese. A rough draft? Same concept as a prototype.

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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. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page. Check out my sessions! General Session).

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

Today Angela Stockman @AngelaStockman gives our writing workshop a makeover. The author of Make Writing , Angela is passionate about creating writing workshop experiences that are relevant to today’s learners and accessible to even the most resistant writers. 5 Ways to Reach Even Resistant Writers with Writer’s Workshop.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Students worked on projects through open exploration, consisting of mainly free time in the makerspace; workshops, in which students work in groups to learn new skills; and design challenges, in which a group of students focuses on a specific challenge directed by a prompt. Join the Community.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have often wondered what John Dewey would do in today’s educational setting with our vast amount of knowledge from research and our rapid growth of technology. I thought I would examine a few Dewey Quotes and see wonderful possibilities for the 21st-century education might surface through reflection. Hope to see you there!

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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 It's more of an invention workshop. He's a real inventor. In fact, there are some real problems with Sid.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

I personally have used FlipSnack as a way of creating more interesting workshops instead of a powerpoint or Google Slides. What are the common mistakes that educators make when they’re trying to use FlipSnack? You know, I did have an educator say to me once I like to use it for student portfolios. Students absolutely love it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Marynn: Several of them, I actually led some conflict resolution workshops because they found out the hard way that they didn’t know how to do conflict resolution. So remarkable educators, I think this is a fascinating way to teach. Vicki: (agrees). Vicki: Yeah. It’s a teaching oddysey in itself, and we’ve just learned so much.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

COMBINE CRAFTSPEOPLE AND ASTRONOMISTS and you’ll likely arrive at the Chatbot telescope maker’s workshop at the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland. The free workshop meets every Friday, and Roche said it usually takes a dedicated maker about one year to complete from start to finish.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

He runs workshops for teachers designed to give them the experience of learning through making and inquiry, so they understand how the framework can help their students. He’s disappointed that the maker movement isn’t more diverse, but says when he takes his mostly African-American and Latino kids to Maker Faire each year, they hardly notice.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Other Workshop Leaders: Buffy Hamilton , Title I Writing teacher, former librarian; Atlanta, GA. 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.”

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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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

I try to emulate this when I conduct hands-on makersapce workshops. The key takeaway that I want educators to leave with is a focus on open-ended exploration. It is simple, yet so powerful in that educators (or in your case students) have to work collaboratively to come up with a creative solution to solve a problem.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I have always been an experiential educator. The ultimate goal is to get students at any level of education to become as mentally and physically engaged as possible in the learning process, regardless of the subject they are studying. Here is an sampling of student Flipgrids: Inventor’s Workshop.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

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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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Recently, Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) hosted the Digital Promise’s Maker Learning Leadership Institute, a professional development workshop for school districts looking to build their maker learning programs. Additionally, Giaramita specifically contacted reporters who he knows are interested in education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2018

You can take these courses for continuing education, salary advancement, or recertification. She’s been in education or 33 years, but for 21 years she’s been helping so many of us with our professional development, keynoting our conferences, speaking, and encouraging us to really use technology in the classroom. Enhanced Transcript.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Aaron Maurer @ coffeechugbooks gives us five ways to improve STEAM education for kids. FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and character education with your traditional subjects of math, language arts, sciences and more for grades K-12. So, sometimes as educators we are the biggest obstacle. Vicki: I love that.

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