The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

However, although the functional teaching objectives of this lesson are to onboard students as quickly as possible into the software and systems they’ll be using, the relational teaching objective is to help me know at least one thing they love. I want them to join Google classroom.

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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. So that was a great way from an elementary standpoint to use FlipSnack.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I like to use Kanban Boards and Agile Software Development principles (something outside the scope of this article). Ideation and Planning The top student mistake in a larger build is starting without first ideating , or generating ideas, for their app or experience. Then, after they ideate, they have to plan what will be in the experience.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

Students need people problems, design problems, software problems, communication problems, and all kinds of issues to develop problem-solving abilities. When students form teams based on their ideas and plan and create apps to bring those ideas into reality, they are being given a developmental experience that is transformative.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2017

Economically disadvantaged students tend to lack exposure to experiences that nudge them toward building future stories as say, a software engineer or an inventor of the next biomedical innovation. Our situation is not that unique for rural communities—neither is the story of one youth getting lost in the system.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Hardware and software choices? I think it’s just when we start with video — and I made that mistake early on — I guess it’s kind of ignorance, in some ways. We just don’t know better. Once you know better, you guide your kids through the scripting, through the storyboarding, or use Jason Ohler’s storymap idea.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. 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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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind. Dr. Brad Gustafson, an elementary school principal, shares his debate on whether to host an all schol picture using a drone for his building’s 50th anniversary.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Valerie Jopeck , Elementary Library Education Specialist, Fairfax County Public Schools, VA. 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. Then the rest of the learning was hashed out through lively table discussions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

I’m a software developer by my formalized profession. Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. Most programmers who are just starting out, or anyone who is just jumping in to learn programming — this could be any age, from a 6-year-old onward up to an adult. Aditya: Exactly, exactly.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work. ” (1). Which is bad.

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