User Generated Education

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For Halloween 2016, I did a version of Halloween Wars (a Food Network show) with my two classes of gifted elementary learners. To introduce and reinforce ideas, concepts, and skills associated with maker education, STEM, and STEM. Background Information. Principles that drive my instructional approach.

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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. She loves learning about cultures and her children were born on two different continents. We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

Also, learn about other projects throughout the year and how teachers design these projects to meet standards. You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. Now back in December you did the Gingerbread STEM Community in Maker Space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Something so simple ignited their excitement and learning. Catherine’s lesson for us today is worth sharing with curriculum directors, superintendents, principals, and teachers who are serious about improving learning. And every piece of their learning could be seen in these episodes. They were studying magnets in science.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

Aligned with the maker movement—which focuses on using hands-on activities like building, sewing, assembling and computer programming for learning—the kits provide a foundation that teachers can use for guided projects both in and out of the classroom. There’s kits and then there’s kits ,” says Martinez. “I

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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. Help Your Students Enter the U.S. How to Use the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Recently, I was able to participate in a Q&A Session with a few of the hundreds of people involved in this incredible undertaking to find out ways that you and your students can participate and also to learn their messages to students about this process. Learn about the Instruments on the Rover: [link]. Learn More: [link].

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Through engaging in this activity, teachers were able to learn more about sound waves and basic physics. Utilizing the approach of learning through doing, the teachers were simultaneously learning about one of the most innovative concepts in science education today, the Maker Movement.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 5, 2019

I am beyond elated – our PreK-6 elementary school received monies, through our district’s Computer Science Resolution 2025, to create a STEAM (science, technology, arts, math) makerspace. I never thought our Title 1 school would get the opportunity to create such a space.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 15, 2017

This year I have been focusing on design challenges and design thinking with my gifted elementary students, grades 2nd through 6th. Last semester I introduced a series of activities to have them explore, learn about, and interact with design thinking principles and strategies. https://www.destinationimagination.org/mission-vision/.

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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. For the past two years, I did Halloween Wars – based off of the Food Channel show. Standards Addressed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Audience: Remember that audience improves student learning—nobody wants to do wastebasket work. Call this a sandbox, and let them play there to learn about all of Book Creator’s features. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. From my high school classroom to this elementary classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Do you need safe, fun ways for students to connect and learn while keeping their distance in the classroom? Visit coolcatteacher.com/tournament to learn more and start voting! From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality apps might be for you! This is going to be fun! Blog: [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update November 12th, 2014 One learns by doing a thing; for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. Learn more at [link]. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

From Project based learning, global projects and steam to the biggest heartbreaks of second-grade teachers, Carol shares it all. Even if you don’t teach second grade, you’ll learn a lot. 2nd Grade Trend #1: Project Based Learning. She gives a pep talk for second-grade teachers that will get you excited to innovate!

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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. I think they are learning more along the way, and that’s what’s important.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

In today’s show, learn about Minecraft EDU and how it is being used to teach. So there are different learning levels and different learning environments for all these students. 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.

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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. View failure as an opportunity to learn; understand that creativity and innovation is a long-term, cyclical process of small successes and frequent mistakes.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

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. Hannah’s experience reflects the innovative ways educators across the country are drawing students into the Maker movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. They also have interactive — more learning type games — called Mr. Body, where you see a human body, and as you tap on different parts of the body, the organs will open up, and there will be some information about it.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

How can you find out what they’re learning? 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”?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

If a student learns quickly and is ready before the other students, we can easily export to Adobe Premiere Pro from Adobe Premiere Rush. During these casual conversations, we’ll discuss what we’ve learned. I appreciate how my students and I can now focus on storytelling because our tools have gotten easier to learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 19, 2018

For $295, this all-inclusive event (except for hotel and travel) is an amazing opportunity to learn. I’ll be speaking with other amazing educators like Suzy Boss, Janet Zadina, Jay McTighe, Dr. Brendan Ozawa de Silva, Scott Sanchez, Dr. Ayanna M Howard and more. www.stlinatl.com. Today’s episode is an encore episode.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. As I’ve discussed in past blog posts, I use several criteria to guide my lesson design: Instructional challenges are hands-on and naturally engaging for learners. There is a game-like atmosphere.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah LaCrosse shares six edtech ideas science teachers can start using today to improve learning and excite students about science. Legends of Learning has an amazing game based science experiences for students in 3-8 aligning with Next Generation Science and select state standards. And THEN start using it for learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Go to coolcatteacher.com/samsungsolve to learn more. Improving Schools By Killing Boredom and Promoting Deeper Learning. Now, Scott, what are some of the things that you think are preventing kids from learning? What is preventing kids from learning? READ: Learning in School and Out by Lauren B. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

Learn how she does it, what standards she teaches, and technical issues of working with drones in the classroom. There were grades associated with it, and I have a whole safety thing and a checklist of things they had to learn and all. One of the things I learned was that I was working too hard the first couple of days of the unit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Learn practical tips and ideas from Joe Brennan for making movies in the classroom. Joe: They have also learned the trick that you don’t have to get the dialogue. So making videos, making digital film is an incredible way to really enhance learning in every subject. Vicki: Wow! Well, how’s that for audio, though, huh?

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

In our interactive session for “ Makerspace in the Library: What it means for your Classroom ,” we really let our participants drive the learning. Then the rest of the learning was hashed out through lively table discussions. Valerie Jopeck , Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. Exhibition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

You can find her resources at Structured Learning ( [link] ). Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days (available on Kindle). Blog: [link]. Twitter: @askatechteacher. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

FutureFit aligns social emotional learning and character education with your traditional subjects of math, language arts, sciences and more for grades K-12. 5 Ways to Amp Up STEAM Learning in the Classroom. STEM Idea #1: Teach with Passion. They’re just learning, and they’re just exploring. Enhanced Transcript.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education. Materials Openly and Easily Available.

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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? Meg was a classroom teacher, school board president, and now she is an international keynote speaker focused on teaching and learning with digital tools. I love that!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? So the whole point of learning programming — it just sounds so daunting because people have to understand the logic as well as the syntax. Programming is daunting when you have to learn logic as well as syntax. Aditya: Hi Vicki.

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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 17, 2017

3: Find evidence of learning while on our feet. Angela: Number three is to stop relying our gradebooks so much and to start scooping up evidence of learning, on our feet while we’re teaching kids. We do a lot of this, particularly in elementary schools, where we have kids celebrate the writing that they’ve accomplished.

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