The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 21, 2017

Twenty percent time from Google. Second, I’ll give you an example from my classroom happening right now. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Maker Movement. See Micki Uppena or Chad Lehman as examples.) Or a genius hour.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. Here’s one example of how 3D Bear can be used for a real world conversation. You could have a classroom design challenge, for example, where students suggest repositioning the furniture. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom.

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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. For example, we start off planning to make apps, but I guide them through the process of creating ideas for their app first. Problems to Solve. Problems are ok in math class.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the one thing that Flipsnack cannot do it … it cannot be worked on simultaneously like Google docs where two students can work on it at once. But, one of the other benefits of Flipsnack is that you can create the books in something like Google Slides. For example, the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 8, 2015

They “set an example of attachment to the purely disinterested activity of the mind and created a belief in the supreme value of this form of existence.” I can remember the genuine excitement of the movement to use Free and Open Source Software in schools. We may be seeing the same cycle play out in the maker movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

For example, we use in my 8th-grade science class Book Creator for students to develop everything from science lab reports to personal studies that they do — like individual investigations — and even just topic research. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software.

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