A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

I remember an elementary student seeing paper flyers with a caricature of Mr. South wearing one of his famous flannel shirts. Students were broken up into teacher-selected groups that had different tasks to complete. The specific task of each group played a larger part in the Martian project. However, Mr. South stood out.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Idea Generation: Learners, typically working in small groups, generate lots of ideas and questions to ask to solve the design thinking problem or challenge. This design can be pitched to another group for constructive feedback. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners.

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Utilizing the approach of learning through doing, the teachers were simultaneously learning about one of the most innovative concepts in science education today, the Maker Movement. They then discussed the real world application of this Maker Movement activity to a classroom. It was a very great collaborative day!

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For Halloween 2016, I did a version of Halloween Wars (a Food Network show) with my two classes of gifted elementary learners. For this Halloween Wars lesson, the goals included the following: To work in a small group to create a Halloween scene using food items, cooked goods, LED lights, and miscellaneous materials.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

And then when they’re in class with the teacher, the teacher can work with one student or a group of students or even the whole class — depending upon what they’re trying to get at — to help them better internalize the direct instruction they’ve been watching. The essential element is one-to-one computing. Doug: Yeah.

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User Generated Education

APRIL 8, 2017

I have done it multiple times during my summer maker camp for elementary level kids, my gifted students, and at conferences as part of teacher professional development. The final part of the activity is to have participants share their designs with the rest of the group. Age Level Recommendations. How to Play. More Information.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham, Mass. These days, however, they’re learning it with an IoT-meets-maker movement twist. “We One group of students actually did design a lunchbox that could be monitored using a mobile app. Davis’ re-imagining of IoT for a new context is nothing new.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. As a group, learners watched the following video and reviewed the following webpage on the Smartboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvOmaf2GfCY. There is a game-like atmosphere. Simple Machines. v=fvOmaf2GfCY.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 27, 2015

Indian Knoll Elementary School’s Jennifer Lewis struggles with the time factor; her students are mostly able to come to the “make room” during recess, so projects have to be organized and fast. For her little ones, she groups the materials into kits that students may check out after they attend a mini-class for training.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

These let the teacher: View all student experiences in one place Edit and View Experiences in one place Share Student Experiences as a group Metaverse is free for teachers and students to create as many AR experiences as you want. They have a new classroom management tool called Collections.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

I have the privilege of working with gifted kids at two elementary schools with over 80% Hispanic students. See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. For the past two years, I did Halloween Wars – based off of the Food Channel show.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 4, 2015

Indian Knoll Elementary School’s Jennifer Lewis struggles with the time factor; her students are mostly able to come to the "make room" during recess, so projects have to be organized and fast. For her little ones, she groups the materials into kits that students may check out after they attend a mini-class for training.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

We''re really excited to have this amazing group of speakers participate at our fifth annual Global Education Conference. See the Conference Schedule and mark your calendars for presentations by this great group of presenters. Join the Volunteers Group for details. We really do hope you''ll join in the fun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

Mark says , “The project is a week-long experience with eighth-graders who try to solve a real-world global problem basically in four days, present their solution to an outside group of adults who then judge their performance. The winning teams get to Skype their solutions to real experts in the field the following day.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2018

Parker Elementary School. Build in time at the conclusion of each Kid Camp to reflect together as a whole group. You can gather together on the rug, turn and talk or do a whole group share out of the “glows” and “grows” of the experience so the next time can be even better.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

In developmental experiences, problems are written in the very fabric of group dynamics and should be welcome teaching tools, not dreaded things we complain about in the teacher’s lounge. Problems are the canvas upon which we paint a masterpiece of developmental learning that matters. In math, we write problems on the board.

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MindShift

MARCH 8, 2017

The maker movement has expanded greatly in recent years and much of the attention has focused on cities with high population density and large well-funded school districts. They’d change the code and run it and show other groups.”. But when maker spaces are new to a school, schools might experience some growing pains.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

When Jopeck worked as an elementary school librarian in Annandale, Va., Jopeck, along with K-Fai Steele, Colleen Graves, and Buffy Hamilton led a session at the 2016 National Writing Project (NWP) annual meeting in Atlanta in November with a diverse group of educators. Still, there are hurdles. Photo/NWP.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

While humor is something that you have to use carefully (jokes making fun of individuals, groups, or those with disabilities just aren’t funny), humor can make a difference in your classroom. Have Fun and Laugh A day in the classroom without a good belly laugh is a missed opportunity.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 29, 2015

Our schedules, carefully crafted and refined, often resemble a flight schedule at a busy airport: whole-class math lessons here, reading groups there, and one-on-one conferencing/counseling/cheerleading sessions squeezed in everywhere else. For more than six hours each day, we aim to seize every teachable moment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

So, I invited Cheryl Nelson and Wendy Goldfein of Get Caught Engineering to share how they’ve managed Makerspaces in their own classrooms and helped other elementary and middle school teachers get started, too. What exactly is a Maker and what happens in the “space”? Thank you, Cheryl, for sharing your experiences below!

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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. Tip #4: Authoring eBooks. It could be fiction or nonfiction. But they do all of the steps you would normally take in writing a book. You write it. Review the writing. Edit it and refine it.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valerie Jopeck , Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. We also discussed the importance of revision and debugging as a group project. What makes this conversation even more important, is that lately many of us in the maker movement have been stressing the importance of process over product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What we’re trying to do is introduce it to larger group of people. Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. I think there are always going to be proponents of both these views. But what I think, I guess… Some people will always say that. We’re trying to achieve breadth instead of depth.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Book group discussions can jumpstart conversations among colleagues. When tech giant Amazon announced its search for a second headquarters site, cities across the country scrambled to produce persuasive pitches.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

One group made an augmented reality tour of the school. You can also bundle experiences into groups to use in scavenger hunts as well. But even better, students can create their own breakout experiences. Breakout Tutorial Playlist for Metaverse. Programming in augmented reality. Metaverse has many different “triggers.”

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