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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech. I personally have used FlipSnack as a way of creating more interesting workshops instead of a powerpoint or Google Slides. I’ve also seen it used kind of in the same way as a sports magazine, it was a sports literature course that was using it.

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What it Takes to Integrate Robotics and Coding into the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. Wonder Workshop, Sphero, Ozobots — they all have lesson ideas on their web pages. The students will build out a maze and teach the Ozobot how to navigate it.

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5 Ways to Build Real Teacher-Student Connections for the Year Ahead

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When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. Donald Graves, the father of Writing Workshop, said something similar, “If you don’t know 10 things about a child, you can’t teach them. If they don’t know 10 things about you, they won’t learn from you.”

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Alan November Shares A Mind Blowing New Idea in Assessment

The CoolCatTeacher

Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. He has delivered keynotes and workshops in all fifty states, across Canada, and throughout the UK, Europe, Asia and Central America. Stay tuned at the end of the show for how to enter. www.coolcatteacher.com/wonder.

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How Middle School Obsessions Can Shape Career Paths.

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I never thought that what I was doing would be considered “techy” or that this passion project could be setting me up for a future career as a computer scientist, software engineer, learning designer, research associate or UX designer—all jobs that I learned about much later in life by reading Careers with Code magazine.

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Making MAKEing More Inclusive

User Generated Education

Maker education spaces can be as large as full high school workshops with high-tech tools, or as small and low-tech as one corner of an elementary classroom. Making for All: How to Build an Inclusive Makerspace ). 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ). Changing Perceptions about What Activities Are Considered Making.

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In April, I will do Poetry.

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Consonance, assonance, dissonance and meter How to crystallize an image in the mind of your reader.… After 10 years as an elementary teacher, Suzy Brooks is a Director of Instructional Technology for Mashpee Public Schools in Massachusetts. So I continue to teach them…. Miss Brooks? May I share?” Choose your words with care.