The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

5 practical lessons for elementary classroom inclusion. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Listen to the show on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. Subscribe to the Show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

5- Create a Library of Maker Materials Make it easy to tinker and invent with a rich library of resources and materials. 5- Create a Library of Maker Materials Make it easy to tinker and invent with a rich library of resources and materials. This helps students understand who would use those materials.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. Students learn how to navigate challenging situations regardless of what career field they pursue. STEM learning benefits are invaluable.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2022

By Dr. Steve Albrecht I posted this Library 2.0 New attacks at an elementary school in Texas, a grocery store, and just recently, a factory in Maryland, show us this disturbing trend of mass shootings is continuing in the wrong direction. Social media postings and messages about our libraries or our employees need to be analyzed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

How Does Book Creator Work? I made the above tutorial to show you how to set up Book Creator, but honestly, you don’t really need it. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. From my high school classroom to this elementary classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. Then they even started to go the library and find books for their friends.

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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. Learn how to bring those in for students. PD Connection. PD Connection. PD Connection. Adventurous.

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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? But you’re not limited by these libraries.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2017

Browse or search the Owl Eyes library to see if your upcoming book is included. How Do Annotations Work? How to Use Owl Eyes. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Click to see Owl Eyes. A Quick Tour of Owl Eyes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

SplashLearn for Teachers and Schools – teachers can sign up for free and have access to the full SplashLearn content library. Learn how money operates in the real world. Learn how to read maps. SplashLearn has been used by 40 million students (and their teachers) in 150 countries already. Solve math quests. Solve Sudokus.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

She is a high school library media center director in Illinois and author of the book Digital Citizenship in Action published through ISTE. We talk about all sorts of things, from how to engage as a citizen in the United States to different laws and court cases that have an impact on them. Digital Citizenship that Works.

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MindShift

MAY 17, 2021

This school year, kindergarteners learned how to turn on and off their web cameras and mute buttons alongside spelling and reading fundamentals. Courtney Miller’s son is in kindergarten at Glen Cove Elementary in Vallejo, California. Parents told her they appreciated the online library provided by the collected videos. “It

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And then also from an elementary standpoint, I had a teacher use it in lieu of … she used to have her students write personal narratives and then they would bind the book together as a classroom set and put it in the library. It was a more authentic way to showcase the student work than just having it one spot in the library.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems. How to get started. Play around with it to see how the sensor works and how changing the position affects the appearance of the graph. How to use PASCO devices in your classroom. to investigate frames of reference. Homescreen.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Elementary think alouds.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

If there is a makerspace in your school, it may be down the hall, in the library, or in another building. Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

If you use my link to sign up for Edpuzzle , you’ll gain access to a curated library of 50,000 free videos to use with your school. You can get started by clicking this link and you’ll get access to the 50,000 curated videos in their library. This blog post is sponsored by Edpuzzle. All opinions are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to get started with Defined Learning, share some example ideas for each subject, and give you an overview of how Defined Learning can bring you to PBL excellence in your classroom. The library has over 2,000 individual products inside performance tasks. . All opinions are my own.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 23, 2018

Andy Plemmons shared a bounty of ideas for setting the right message in his Expect the Miraculous post, The Power of First Lines: Another New Library Orientation. School is back in session in Georgia, and I’m once again reorganizing what happens in the first visit to the library. What is that right message? Why did she steal a dog?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. We went to the local library and had these big presentations set up, and we actually published a book with all of their biographies and short stories with the heroes in them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

You just have to know how to “reveal” them by kind of trial and error. Vicki: So how do we know what happens, or what is going to be on there? You click Done, and then your annotations are saved right there on that image, which then you can use in a project, or share, or just keep there in your Photo Library. Tony: Yeah!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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iLearn Technology

MAY 8, 2017

How to integrate Check 123 into your classroom: Check123 is a great place for students to begin their research. Check123 is a great one to keep bookmarked on classroom and library computers for quick reference. The short format gives students just enough information to whet their appetites and encourage additional questioning.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace. Redesigning the Space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. 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. This is great news! It is a powerful tool.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is exactly what my district, Port Aransas ISD in Port Aransas, Texas, is doing: using the month of October to teach digital citizenship lessons at the elementary school, middle school, and high school. The posters are now on display in the library and the hallways. This led into such topics as copyright and fair use.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

I’d venture to say that most of us could stand to learn a little more about ESSA and its potential for school libraries and the communities we serve. Deb’s presentation ESSA: Every Student Succeeds Act: Implications for School Library Programs , shares critical background on the ESSA reauthorization and a plan for moving forward.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

I mean, how could you even say that? They’re learning how to be global citizens. You can’t be a citizen in this world without learning how to get along with others. Julie Hembree is a teacher-librarian at Cougar Ridge Elementary School near Seattle, WA. This is such a great project. So, this is just very exciting, Julie!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

A friend of mine jokingly refers to me a “Pryzbylewski,” referring to the cop-turned-teacher in “The Wire” who develops a strong relationship with the middle schoolers in his class—many of whom are affiliated with gangs. We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

And there seem to be a few go-to digital tools to support engagement, discovery and setting a fun and participatory tone for what library (and the librarian) looks like. Using GoosechaseEDU scavenger hunt platform for iPhone or Android , you can create a new game or copy and adapt games from templates in the Game Library.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 11, 2020

with Kyle Zegarac - Business Development Manager, PowerNotes | Wilson Tsu - Founder and CEO 12:00 PM - The Human Side of Exponential Change: How to Thrive with Julie M. 6:00 PM - Creating an Elementary School Virtual Learning Commons using Google Sites: Session 1 of 3 with Aaron G.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 13, 2020

with Kyle Zegarac - Business Development Manager, PowerNotes | Wilson Tsu - Founder and CEO 12:00 PM - The Human Side of Exponential Change: How to Thrive with Julie M. 6:00 PM - Creating an Elementary School Virtual Learning Commons using Google Sites: Session 1 of 3 with Aaron G.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 9, 2021

and Library 2.0 ) will be hosting an ONLINE version of the much-sought-after course: Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) This course is a five-part series of classes co-taught by Greg Smith and Chris Loper. I still have my notes and refer back to them periodically. Jenifer Dobson (More testimonials below.)

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Reading By Example

MARCH 30, 2019

This book would definitely work as a read aloud for upper elementary and invite students to explore more books by Snyder. Definitely a book to have in the secondary classroom library to build diversity and cultural relevance. A succinct and readable summary of how beliefs drive our actions and how people can change them.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 21, 2023

Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) A Six-Week Summer "Bootcamp" Are you anxious that your child isn't living up to their potential, but you're not sure how to support them? Do you worry that your child fell behind during COVID, but you don't know how to help them catch up?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The “Dream’” part refers to the username of a popular online gamer. This refers to the private Minecraft server that Dream launched in April 2020 so he and a few gamer friends could explore a new update to the game. It’s no longer just in the books they get from the library.”. “It’s almost 9 o’clock,” she said.

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