The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades. Vicki: Steve, do you find that there are teachers that think that kids can’t really understand these concepts — like elementary kids really understanding XY coordinates? You just realized, “Perhaps we’re underestimating the abilities of our elementary kids.”.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2019

To meet this demand, there has been ongoing discussion on how to best educate our kids for a STEM-focused future. How can we best equip our kids with the necessary skills to face future challenges? Game-Based Learning Educators have long been using game-based learning strategies to boost student engagement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So there's all kinds of opportunities then to teach students how to coach someone in the answer. Help the coach know how to coach at the same time you're helping, helping both. So this is also from Kagan Cooperative Learning. So here's how it works. This obviously is going to work really well with something like math.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

A course to help support your learning goal of using social media effectively is Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning. This course will teach you how to plan and integrate social media into your classroom. You can best help your students implement these tech tools by learning how to use them yourself.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’ve included them on the image below as a quick reference. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. There are many more terminologies that I teach with Metaverse, but these are just some that we use at the beginning of the process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll include the video unboxing tour that I recently had with the team at the Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection, and I’ll share some thoughts on how you can effectively use this collection in your classroom. Plus, I’ll tell you how to get your free 30-day trial. Digital Learning Collection.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. She regularly contributes literacy insights at Dr. Kimberly’s Literacy Blog and has collaborated in writing classroom curriculum and language arts sections as well as chairing the Elementary Reading National Evaluation Preparation Committee for Pearson Education. FlashCard Stash.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Learning is a deep challenge. How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. For students, call a "test" a "game" and it changes their level of excitement and investment increases.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Learn how money operates in the real world. Learn how to read maps. Play lots of math games to reinforce. In-depth reports help parents know how their child is performing. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

And when you’re ready, consider how to bring your passions (and your students’) into the classroom with passion projects and student interest projects. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom. Personal interests engage students in learning. Personal interests engage students in learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted. Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. The Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection is here! She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

This Thursday, December 6 from 1-3 pm Eastern Time, Edweek is hosting an event about personalized learning. I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. But Alana, we are talking about how to end the school year. Well, what are some of those secrets you plan so that, especially this year, how are you going to end the school year well, this year? Alana Stanton - Bio As submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Additionally, when you launch a type of classroom games that you’ve not built before, Educaplay will share a short tutorial video to help you create that type of activity. ABC Games: For Comprehensive Vocabulary. This type of classroom game requires quite a few items because it goes through the alphabet to test knowledge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We showed them how to use the paint can tool to put color in the cells, and we told them to create a jack-o’-lantern. But they didn’t know how to spell the compound word. We showed them how to use the Voice Notes in the Speaker Notes to type the word. Check out the interview with Christine Pinto on episode 142.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

I did a study , several years back about some of the older children working with younger children, (pre-kindergarten), just very basic digital inking, starting with colors and talking to 3 and 4-year-olds about their favorite colors, showing them how to use the tool. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. and learn about it on their own. Did you know you could do this?”. They started discovering things. “OH, We can do that.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman – Edtech and Social Emotional Learning – talks about this research.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

His latest book, Hacking Classroom Management – How to be the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About, is scheduled to be released in December of 2017. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. We’ll talk about how we want to respond to our friends around the world, and what questions we have. Vicki Davis: Wow.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

He gave us great practical ideas about how to make every day STEAM activities and how to easily integrate it into your lessons. Carol has been an elementary educator in the primary grades for 26 years. Chris Woods — he is @ dailystem on Twitter – and he’s done our chat a few times. So, let me ask you this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Glen: I know that sounds crazy, but… I use the books now as a reference tool. We’re going to learn from that book, but then we’re going to put it back.”. Vicki: So how have the Next Generation Science Standards transformed your classroom? What would you tell your younger self as a beginning teacher? Vicki: Ohhhhh. Or have they?

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

For a quick reference -- and for those of you #NotAtISTE who want to share in the learning -- here's a quick summary of our lightning sessions with links to the tools and resources each session covered. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids . But what games are good for classrooms?

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

10 Keys to Purpose Driven Learning. Vicki: Michael Matera @mrmatera is my favorite game-based learning guru, but today we’re going to talk about keys to purpose-driven learning. I taught you how to live life.”. It’s really fun to see the students own their learning. Enhanced Transcript.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Williams may have never considered herself to be a "tech person," but she recognized the value of code and discovered how a supportive community could empower her and her students to learn. Roadblock: I am not a programmer, so I can’t learn how to code.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 29, 2016

One of the things shared was the list of "tried and true" technology usage by grade level at our elementary school. They are assigned a topic and divided into specific groups (as known as typical collaborative learning groups.) Students gather information using the web and are taught to reference and give credit to their resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? He was a bit older than me, and he actually learned how to program in 1’s and 0’s. Reference: Hamari, J., Date: February 27, 2018.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re interested in the possibility of video games for learning–that is, teaching and learning with video games to master both academic and non-academic content–than the following collection may be of interest to you. Inputs and outputs for elementary reactions. How to play Civilization V!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

I want every student to understand how they can share from every single electronic device or a photograph of physical objects on my interactive display. This is why, as part of my first and second day procedures, I teach students how to “throw” their screens (of all kinds) to my large screen at the front of the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Could you give us a thirty-second pep talk about how to progress and advance using Google with our kids? How can educators progress and advance using Google with our kids? If you expect to learn something, say, in a training, step-by-step directions and that would be it for the next year or two years? Kasey: Yes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2018

The goal of the game is for students to experience the types of decisions that you have to make just prior to college and through college that you don’t necessarily think about. We always think about, you know, how much to borrow, and interest rates, and on and on. Do you work and take time away from social life and enjoy college less?

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Listen to Jennifer Casa-Todd talking about how to help kids become social media leaders. Vicki: And this is so important!

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