The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Toyota Dream Car Art Contest From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter STEM, STEAM, and design thinking are buzzwords in education today. In addition to true STEM projects, we also work to include the arts in all subjects. How to Use the U.S. Help Your Students Enter the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space. Gingerbread STEM Community Challenge. Micah: Yes.

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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. Book Creator is an awesome tool for classrooms of all ages.

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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. The directions for how to make these can be found at [link] , Edible Slime. Tissue Paper Marigolds.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. I was blown away by the topics they were wondering about.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Kelly Schuster-Paredes and Sean Tibor host the Teaching Python Podcast where they share how to help kids of all ages learn this valuable language. We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools.

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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. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

He is an expert in STEAM and STEM and science. 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. The Biggest Heartbreak of 2nd Grade Teachers. So, let me ask you this.

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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. Her roots are as an elementary classroom teacher where she utilized technology as an integrated part of the learning environment. Vicki: 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. How to Play. Here is a description of this activity from the tinkering studio at the Exploratorium: Do you ever wonder what’s inside your toys? More Information.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

He taught her how to code in her seventh grade Innovation and Design class at Redwood Day School. Hannah built a Whack-a-Mole game—and learned the invaluable skill of troubleshooting, the importance of asking for help, and just how far persistence, curiosity and creativity can take you. Alexis Lewis —inventor. That was also fun.

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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. So I just took that world and I worked with the teachers as to what they were doing in their normal classroom. It is a powerful tool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. When students first open their device, a simple tutorial teaches them how to use Adobe Premiere Rush and gets them started. It uses film that was preloaded in the program.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Schools were never designed to do that, so we basically have this massive paradigm shift that we’ve got to figure out how to go through. Other folks either don’t feel that urgency, or at least have some inkling that that’s the direction we need to go, but they don’t have any ideas of how to accomplish that. Vicki: We are.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. Joe: Well… Do they want to review? Do they want to introduce something? It depends on what class it is. I go right back to the writing process with this. Tell ‘em what you’re going to tell ‘em. Tell ‘em what you told them.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valerie Jopeck , Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. Maker Faire. “Girls Stem Nights” Writing and Making. 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

MARCH 9, 2018

The high school students walked down the street, and they did an afternoon STEM collaboration. How many poster boards must die from these elementary years? They didn’t know how to think, because we…. How about that? We’ve got to figure out how to be able to use our technology to teach this computational thinking.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2017

And she had the first graders from the previous year skype into the classroom and share informational pieces with the kindergarten students about what they could expect and how to take care of those chicks, based on their experiences the previous year. Vicki: And we know authentic audience improves writing. What’s our fifth?

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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. Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program. Date: February 27, 2018.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. We are a whole school program that really teaches children in food-insecure communities how to grow food, get the parents involved, brings parents in and aligns it. We are not an add on. Stephen Ritz.

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