Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

They teach students how to think critically and solve evidence-based problems. the Ergobot to teach both Forces & Motion and Programming & Robotics. 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. Training and Workshops.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 9, 2018

I have had the chance to use Wonder Workshop's Dot, Dash, and Cue robots at various conference sessions. But these sessions were always guided by the presenter, so I never really got a chance to explore how to code with the robots. I was so excited when Wonder Workshop send me a Cue of my very own!

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Robotics Course Elementary Conference 72

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 8, 2017

CS for All: Teaching CS in Elementary Schools SXSWedu 2017 Workshop As the Computer Science for All initiative jump starts around the world, more students in grades 6-12 have the opportunity to take computer science courses. Ex: How to make a PB & J sandwich.) Program Robot Mouse to navigate a map of your community.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. And ChatGPT provides human-like writing, so what it creates won’t sound robotic. How to use ChatGPT as a Writing Assistant ChatGPT is a better writer when prompts are specific.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

I’ve come along way since then, moving from traditional library programming into the 21st century, with coding and robotics to match. Robots in the library. Students creating robot art Along with my new online curriculum, I also wanted to give the students real world opportunities to use their coding skills.

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Robotics STEM Libraries Software 109

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

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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Assessment Robotics Groups Study 264

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 16, 2019

I will be at Alan November’s BLC19 in Boston (July) presenting workshops and sessions to support educators and students. Checkout my conference half day workshops : Making Makers Mainstream and Project Based Learning Quick Start. Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Check out my Booking Page.

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Resources STEM Conference Flipped Classroom 94

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Amesse Elementary at Denver Public Schools. Amesse Elementary. Equity is not that everyone knows how to write a loop but that they understand why it matters and how a loop can help people,” says Wybrant. REPRESENTATION: SEEING PEOPLE LIKE ME SUCCEEDING IN STEM ChickTech January 2018 Kickoff, Java Workshop, Grades 9–12.

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Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 89

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Click here to participate: The deadline to be considered for the award is.

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Robotics Education Competency Based Learning Program Evaluation 120

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2018

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? s of workshops and presentations. Robot Basketball – This lesson comes from Try Engineering. Best of all, students learn how to make sense of the data they collect. I have done 100?s

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Resources STEM Conference Flipped Classroom 87

Tech Helpful

JUNE 29, 2017

Snapping, Gramming, and Scoping Your Way to Engagement- Shaelynn, Steven, and myself Educators Steven Anderson (@web20classroom) and Shaelynn Farnsworth (@shfarnsworth) created an interactive learning opportunity that challenged me in how to reach students, teachers, families, and constituencies with the use of social media.

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Social Media Robotics Edcamps Meeting 63

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I LOVELAND, Colo.

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Elementary Meeting Report Survey 145

My Paperless Classroom

JUNE 15, 2014

I want them to write blogs and play with robots. 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. Participants will design a robot supported lesson.

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Robotics iPad STEM Learning 73

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. The project that has caused the biggest splash came from the Innovation Center’s aquatic robotics team. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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My Paperless Classroom

MAY 29, 2014

We are in our second year of a 1:2 iPad program in the middle school, this is our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and this is our last year of having 2 labs of PC''s for the students to use, next year we will only have one lab. My first graders program a robot to fly to the planets in order.

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Robotics iPad Tablets Groups 111

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2018

They workshopped their experiences in formal weekly meetings and as an online community, cheering and critiquing each other’s work. A high school librarian collaborating with a local music mentorship program to teach youth in special education classes how to code music with assistive technology.

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Libraries Assistive Technology Robotics Elementary 42

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2018

These little ball robots have opened up so many possibilities. And the beauty is you can use this little robot in any lesson, in any subject, and with any age. Our thought was to use the robot to create recycling videos for our school. It was amazing how swiftly my students learned the basics of coding.

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Robotics Social Media Study Twitter 73

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Each week I post a new question that our connected teachers have posted on a shared Google Doc and the students record a video explaining how to solve the problem. Schuylerville uses the Units of Study Writer’s Workshop program and our students creating digital storybooks based on their narrative writing.

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Digital Divide Robotics Social Media Conference 58

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Rather than create dependencies and turn children into submissive robots, as many fear, technology may actually be leveraged to enable greater autonomy and develop real leadership skills among students. The research and evidence track will explore how learning science informs the work of educators and how to gauge the progress of your plans.

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Technology Personalized Learning EdTech Robotics 90

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

I chose what to work on and how to create it. Collaborating on Google Docs, they came up with a handful of gaming- and hobby-related topics, such as how to create video games with Bloxels, Scratch and Code.org. Other students wanted to tackle creating worlds in Minecraft and figure out how to build their own robots and computers.

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

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 ). You gotta do more than robots,” she said. ( MAKE’ing More Diverse Makers ).

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Maker Movement Robotics Social Media Analysis 120

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The irony was not lost on Luhtala and Burns when they rescued much-needed shelving from the elementary school. However, they began to think about not only the organizational part of these materials but how to get students to plan their projects before they come to the makerspace.

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Libraries Learning Robotics eBook 40

Adam Welcome

JUNE 13, 2016

The adult that’s facilitating the coding experience for kids at your school doesn’t even need to know how to code! With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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Robotics Khan Academy Android Elementary 40

Adam Welcome

MAY 15, 2016

The adult that’s facilitating the coding experience for kids at your school doesn’t even need to know how to code! With code.org and other resources, block coding is an excellent place to start, especially with Elementary students - check it out! Robots are cool. Coding isn’t some fad that’s here for now and will fade away.

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EdTech Robotics Khan Academy Android 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2017

How Alice finds new features. How to test Google Classroom without students. To celebrate the end of the first season of the Ten-minute Teacher podcast on June 16 th , we’re running a giveaway – the Dash and Dot Robot Wonder Pack from Wonder Workshop. Stay tuned to the end of the show for how to enter.

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Google Classroom Schoology Learning 125

MindShift

JULY 24, 2015

” Teenagers need creative outlets, just like elementary school children. Arduino For Total Newbies workshop at STGO Maker Space Santiago, Chile (Mitch Altman/Flickr). Arts integration is more often done in elementary schools, but high school teachers can do it, too. How to start a Fab Lab. Play Resources.

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How To Elementary Robotics Examples 28

EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

Since creating our school’s makerspace in November 2013, I’ve seen a small revolution start to grow within our elementary school and also across our district. Parents were emailing me stating how proud they were of their child’s efforts and creativity. Technology in Elementary Classrooms. MakerFaire. Come Learn More This Summer.

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Maker Movement Elementary Robotics Mobility 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

That could be giving social-studies students a tutorial on research skills; showing a French class how to make stop-action animation, short videos, or websites for presentations on Francophone countries; or helping a math teacher free up class time by creating sharable videos of introductory explanations and sample problems for students.

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Future Ready Libraries Software Advocacy 110

Graphite Blog

MAY 9, 2018

How is this relevant to my elementary school-level classroom? Schools often assume that design thinking is a "techie thing" and send their edtech coordinators and directors to design-thinking workshops. The prototype can be anything from a drawing, a script for a play, a how-to manual, or a Lego model.

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Industry Secondary Robotics Meeting 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2021

We create a list of creative writing prompts for kids to improve different writing styles and multiple topics that will resonate with a child in elementary school to a teen in high school. Write a story about spending a day with a robot, a dog, and a cow. Funny Writing Prompts For Elementary School.

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Social Media Smartphone Robotics Elementary 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. Steven Hightower, who graduated from North Star this spring, works on his robotic car; Hightower will attend Brandeis University in the fall, where he plans to study computer science. Photo: Stuart Miller.

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STEM Study Robotics Course 82

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

And how about this scenario for major writing assignments: students get assigned an essay to write that connects to the novel studied in class. Students engage in writing workshops, do some peer review, have mini-conferences with the teacher, write a draft, revise the draft, and hand it in. Don''t just be a robot following commands.

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Edmodo Assessment Conference Robotics 142

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Some students have started businesses, while others have designed apps or built robots.

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Industry STEM Education Survey 135

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

Erin and Ross are passionate about inquiry-based learning and have supported countless teachers in implementing it, through not only their school-based work but also through the PD and workshops they conduct. We’re also going to look at how to address some of the pitfalls that students face. So that’s one.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

In August 2017, Workbench began its initial pilot phase with a multi-day Professional Development (PD) workshop for teachers from Wildwood Elementary/Middle School (formerly Lyndhurst Elementary/Middle School). Height Elementary, Forest Park High, Ft.

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Future Ready Elementary Industry Education 48

EdTechTeam

JULY 21, 2017

Teachers and students were trying things that they never tried before, from robotics to coding, to creating and communicating on a more global scale. Teaser Video Slide Deck Presenting at conferences, workshops, and other area schools, allowed for tons of creating and exploring new resources.

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Adobe Survey Robotics Conference 51

EdTechTeam

JUNE 20, 2017

Teaching coding with robotics allows for that perception; toys in the classroom. While students are using iPads to program robots like the Wonder Workshop Dash , they do not recognize they are learning things like sequencing, problem solving, collaboration, and maybe even the robo-boogie. Enter Code Career Day.

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