The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

From coding to robotics and augmented reality and his favorite (which he saved for last), learn how a leading-edge K-8 program is using technology to teach all students the skills and thinking capacities they need to be successful in the modern era.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

These skills–often referred to as soft skills, but also known as durable skills for their importance in the workplace–are a focus of 21st-century classrooms. School makerspaces have emerged as centers of creativity, problem solving, collaboration, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Former secretary of education, William Bennett, says, “An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school that needs an infusion of soul. Catherine: And… I’m driving, three months later, hearing that they made robots like this. Vicki: Wow.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

There's no coding, just referring to the AI agent, so students design or enhance something like this AI tool. It is one of many activities from ISTE-GM AI Explorations Hands-on Guides for Elementary Teachers. They developed a pollination device using robotics to pollinate flowers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Naper Elementary School students could be the envy of their peers when it comes to a labyrinth for testing their robotic skills. Like many local elementary schools, Naperville acquired the robotic balls to teach the basic concepts of computer coding. Luke was looking forward to having a maze at his school.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2019

To best prepare our kids for a tech-driven future, here are five innovative ideas that educators are testing out: Highly-Specialized Elementary Teachers As it stands now, math and science teachers are forced to cover a wide breadth of topics geared towards preparing students for the future.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve been unlearning some of the restrictive practices of formulaic writing that students have been taught since elementary school. This format has trained our students to write in standardized formats, and we shouldn’t be surprised that a robot has suddenly turned into one of our most consistent students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

the Ergobot to teach both Forces & Motion and Programming & Robotics. to investigate frames of reference. in a robotics and programming application (with PASCO’s ErgoBot). to investigate frames of reference. in a robotics and programming application (with PASCO’s ErgoBot). bridge building kits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2019

code a robot to count stars). The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. The book series sets to inspire children (esp. Googleplex) and engineering problem solving (e.g. ”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero. We do use LEGO Mindstorms with like a couple kids here and there will LOVE to work with LEGO Mindstorms, and I have a robotics club that will use those. Leah: We do.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We’re going to finish up our robotics badge by making a toothbrush robot,” she announced to four fellow members of Mobile, Alabama’s Girl Scout Troop 8274 in June. Switching sci-fi references, she looked at her battery’s V-splayed wires and held up her hand in the Spock sign. MOBILE, Ala. Live long and prosper,” she said.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

There are endless examples, from games to robots to programming. There are valid reasons for using QR Codes in your classroom or as a teacher-author: High Capacity – they store a lot more data, allowing you to share real content and not just IDs or references. and are challenged to use the tools available to solve it.

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User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

Maker education (often referred to as “Maker Ed”) is a new school of educational thought [at least in terms of having an “official” educational label – JG] that focuses on delivering constructivist, project-based learning curriculum and instructional units to students. 9 Maker Projects for Beginner Maker Ed Teachers ).

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

acronym – make sure that you’re talking to a person first instead of some Russian robot that’s out there. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. That’s part of the Validate piece of my P.R.O.V.E. Vicki: Oh, and the bots and the A.I.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

He’s the robot there. in Elementary Education. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki, are you familiar with BrainPop? Vicki: Well, yes, but go ahead and share. The “Mobi” Effect. Bio as submitted. My name is Micah Brown.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In April, the NWEA, a nonprofit assessment organization, published research showing some students could start school this fall nearly one year behind where they would normally be , part of a phenomenon referred to as the “Covid slide.” There are plans for camps, possibly for fine arts, robotics or coding. “We

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

The saying, “If you build it, they will come” may have been referring to baseball stadiums, but it may also be the favorite mantra of makerspaces across the country. 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. MakerFaire.

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techlearning

JULY 31, 2018

Multi-language elementary math programs: New content in the series “Pharaohs and the Robot” is now available in English and Arabic in DE Streaming Plus Global. Students meet two young pharaohs in ancient Egypt who learn core math concepts from a time-traveling robot.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

For example, Tressa Norris, a library media specialist at Joppa View Elementary School, recently worked with second-graders on multimedia presentations about American symbols to bolster a unit about patriotism being taught by their classroom teacher. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics. If there is a non-tech way to do something, I will find it,” says Shanti Williams, a teacher at P.S. 34 Oliver H.

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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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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 1, 2017

One interesting method of communication, amateur radio, also referred to as ham radio, meets the criteria of a disciplinary core curriculum because of the many features and domains it involves. The Fox River Radio Club (IL) set up a program to get amateur radio into their local elementary schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. But I think expect that as a teacher, if all you're asking students to do is work that an AI robot can do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? That’s newspapers, evening news, and anything considered ‘mainstream media’ They prefer blogs, Twitter, and Facebook.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

This platform is designed to develop elementary writing skills through a world-building game environment. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. Wondering if there are any games out there that get kids writing?

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This platform is designed to develop elementary writing skills through a world-building game environment. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. Check out Boreal Tales. What's different?

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

This platform is designed to develop elementary writing skills through a world-building game environment. With a camera pointed at a map showing the location of Kai's Clan robots, students can work together using Blockly or JavaScript to solve challenges in real time. Check out Boreal Tales. What's different?

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

As they get older, their experiences narrow from elementary to middle school. Creating a common analogy that can be referred to later as the teacher covers the content later. If you decide to crash the robot into the wall, it doesn''t break the game. But their ability to begin abstracting is growing. Ex: photosynthesis.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

There was one answer I got more often than any other, particularly from the elementary teachers, and that is, a set of emergency sub plans. Kids are not robots who can be trained to behave the exact same way under any circumstance and under any type of leadership. There’s no reason to do that to yourself.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Starkville, in contrast, was regarded as a successful school system, offering opportunities such as Advanced Placement classes and robotics competitions through a career and technology center. Closing the school meant the district had to reshuffle students into existing elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Lau Elementary. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

No surprise news shows are littered with references to listener’s tweets and presidential candidates break stories via their Twitter stream. So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? Apparently a lot of adults.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. Jeff Livingston, founder of the Center for Education Market Dynamics “I say, ‘Have you watched Abbott Elementary?’” So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.” They’re engineers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 28, 2019

A friend of mine had posted, bragging on his robotics club, and some people called him on it and said, “Hey, there’s no girls in there,” and then he went and admitted, “You know what? We’re going to have girls in this robotics club. Now, I want to say something here. I didn’t even notice that.

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