The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

Inside Virtual Reality and Predictions for the Future From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In this blog post, I’ll share my experience, tell you how you can enter to win your own headsets and STEAM lab makeover, and give my predictions for the future of virtual reality. A Valuable Tool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green on episode 284 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. Doug: Kids walk in there.They hand them a Mac laptop.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. Kindergarteners in Mrs. Shuler's classroom learning how to implement their learning stations! This has been this case for Brook Avenue Elementary School six years in a row.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

Jarrod Robinson, the PE Geek, shares on episode 70 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Twitter handle: @mrrobbo. Scroll down to read the transcript for how he uses these apps or listen now. I hope you enjoy this episode with Jarod Robinson! Team Shake.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 1, 2017

Episode 117 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. She shares essential tips on how to use Flipgrid. So maybe I’m a social studies teacher, I’m teaching middle school, I’m teaching high school, it could even obviously do it down in Elementary School as well.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 2, 2017

How to integrate Adobe Spark in the classroom: The collection of tools in Adobe Spark are perfect for students and teachers alike. If you have a class social media channel on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube- Adobe Spark is about to take it to the next level of awesomeness!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

As I sat at a giant table with 15 colleagues pondering how to make professional learning more personal for our teachers, my eyes drifted to my screen. I spun around my laptop, which was currently displaying Mancrates , a website that sends Valentine’s boxes to avid lovers of artisanal meats. That’s when it dawned on me.

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My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

Conferences and Topics June 11 SF Google Summit San Francisco Blogger for Elementary Ed – Setting up a private class blog with blogger can make it safe and easy to share work from your class or school with subscribed readers. Join us to learn how to get your students making videos to share their learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 5, 2018

Richard Byrne on episode 225 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. There’s many ways to read it that doesn’t require you to sit at your laptop or sit at your Chromebook and stare at the screen the whole day. It’s not just a “how to use the tool.”

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techlearning

MARCH 22, 2018

First, please take a moment to subscribe to this blog by RSS or email and join me on twitter at mjgormans. Math Basketball Games – Are you looking for a way to bring a little basketball into your elementary of middle school math class? Best of all, students learn how to make sense of the data they collect. Where Will it Go?

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

an article to read on their laptops. Bedley also teamed up recently with Todd Flory at Calamus Wheatland Elementary School in Calamus, Iowa, to do a fake news challenge via Skype. Bedley’s class Skypes with Todd Flory’s fourth-graders at Calamus Wheatland Elementary School in Calamus, Iowa.

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Tech Helpful

AUGUST 23, 2018

A few years ago a new family moved into our school community with a young elementary son named Daniel. Since that time, I have had brief flirtationships (one of the advantages of social media is the creation of words like “flirtationship”) with other social medias, most notably Snapchat and Twitter. Twitter lasted for only 4 days.

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MindShift

MARCH 26, 2020

.” Sadie’s teacher reminds her that they’ll be using the educational software that she is already familiar with from her face-to-face classes at Ortega Elementary School: “It’s iReady, so we’ve got that. And now you know how to meet me in the morning.” “Some of them have laptops.

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techlearning

JULY 19, 2018

Check out Twitter… use hashtag PBL along with some other keyword(s)… what might your tweet uncover? Perhaps there is an online competition that you have used or just come across… how can you turn it into a PBL? There are projects for elementary levels as well as project ideas for middle and high school. Please explore them all!

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Distict #1 : Principal of an elementary school shared that as part of their 1:1 initiative, they want to create a bank of lessons created by students based on [link] which Alan shared last time. District #3 : Next Generation Digital Classroom - moving away from laptops and desktops. Here is Mrs. Cook''s Twitter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Second, the Logitech Rugged Combo 3 Touch is made for iPads with a place to store a stylus and features a trackpad and keyboard allowing touch screen devices to turn into a laptop-like experience. Sometimes devices just help us. PT or June 29 at 11:30 a.m.

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The Thinking Stick

AUGUST 1, 2015

It’s 9am and everyone is slowly coming in and getting their laptops and iPads set up for the day. I too am getting set up, frantically trying to figure out the projector system, trying to link the two rooms together so that both projectors showed what was on my laptop. 43 future teachers sit in front of me.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2012

He was co-creator of the Twitter weekly discussion group #Edchat and he hosts the Web 2.0 Most recently he was selected to be a panelist at the #140 Conference in Los Angeles, organized by Vonage founder Jeff Pulver where he discussed the impact of Twitter and other social media on education. Connected Classroom blog.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Last spring, the district began transitioning its older laptops to Dell 3180 and 3189 Chromebooks. Some of the variables include grade level, teachers’ comfort with technology and how far along the district is in its one-to-one program. Your elementary teachers might be further along than your high school teachers,” she says. “We

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

During #KyEdChat, a Twitter chat for Kentucky educators I regularly participate in and sometimes moderate, I found myself in a conversation with some members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) about the need to play, and the difficulty and resistance we often face in trying to get teachers to buy into the idea of playing to learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Brian Friedlander on episode 157 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Start talking.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It’s not you, dear Twitter, it’s me. You know how to reach me if you want to talk… Note to self: When deleting tweets in bulk, remember not to delete my keybase proof. Tagged on: September 21, 2017 Hampton school making do without stolen laptops | Daily Press → After 100 laptops were stolen from George P.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Seven years ago, Walton was the first school in Albemarle County to give every student a laptop.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 22, 2017

Episode 132 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. How do conflicts start?” Why do countries decide to build walls?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

But the iPads will be discontinued next year in favor of the Dell Latitude Education Series (3160) touchscreen laptop computer. But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money. That's a lot of computers.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

We didn’t forget how to be teachers. It’s the same passion, engagement, and relationships — you already know how to do that. For elementary, it’s 2-3.5 So I was lamenting this idea of relationships and how would we develop in the fall, and those school districts that ran summer school were comforting to me.

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Just moved in to new elementary schools. Teachers have had Windows laptops. How do you keep a balance in the control without losing purpose? Tanna Fiske - @fiskeclass on Twitter - EdTech from Eanes ISD - Fully 1:1 K-12. Timn Yenca - @mryenca on Twitter - EdTech from Eanes ISD. 1:1 with Macs in HS.

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There is no box

OCTOBER 3, 2015

I was their first full time “IT Guy” And when I say full time, I’m stretching a bit, as I was actually farmed out to one of the feeder elementary schools for 2 days a week. Connect, make new friends, continue the learning through twitter, Google Hangouts and the Internet. That’s a hard proposition in isolation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

That piece is critical, and we need research-backed methods for teaching kids how to read and decode. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. . –Jean Eddy, CEO and President, American Student Assistance The term “science of reading” has become shorthand for phonics in many cases.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

He’s the head of the education team of the News Literacy Project , a national education nonprofit offering nonpartisan programs that teach students how to know what to believe in the digital age. Join me as I talk with Peter Adams. We’ll begin by talking about why information (and misinformation) is more prevalent.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

But at some point, we have to figure out how to clean up this mess. Should you ban laptops ? Executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress in October, responding to questions about the role these Internet companies had played in the election, particularly as related to allegations of Russian interference.

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