Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Elizabeth Forward School District leaders, for example, knew it was time to innovate when local employers informed them the district had hundreds of entry-level coding jobs that needed to be filled. Integrating with the Maker Movement. These efforts excite students and provide them pathways to further develop their passions.

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The Web20Classroom

JULY 31, 2014

Maker Movement 20% Time Genius Hour The idea of students looking away from ridged content focus all throughout the school day and giving them back some time to explore and make is gaining a foothold in many classrooms. My friend Nick Provenzano did 20 Time with his students last year. And they did some pretty amazing things.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. Teach, learn, and make with Raspberry Pi’s free learning resources.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Understand how to start and run an organization. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Value innovation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. For example, things like “taking students on field trips vs. hosting classroom parties” or “fire drills derailing your lesson vs. a broken air conditioner.” Currently, this year’s “Remember When.

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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. Examples of Integrated coding projects: [link] (Genetics and Microbits). We can start teaching the second most popular coding language – Python – in our schools. kellypared.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Traffic lights, heating and cooling systems, and ATM machines are just a few examples of the mechatronic systems that help make many of our everyday activities safe and seamless. I think there is a great partnership possible between the Maker movement and California’s community colleges,” says Dale Dougherty, Founder and CEO of.

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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. Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear?

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TeacherCast

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Activities include learning how to program Sphero robots to simulate the atomic composition of liquids and solids, the motion of orbiting planets , and over 75 other activities built by Sphero and educators around the world. “It’s CWIST is a leader in providing content and an online platform for the maker movement.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started. To move the field forward, interested stakeholders should work to: support efforts to document and assess maker-centered learning and teaching, through the development of frameworks and assessment practices that capture the most compelling benefits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. For example, since I started teaching moviemaking with my students in 2006, I have used a Storyboard Dictionary of shots that I originally adapted from the American Film Institute.

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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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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Example Lesson: Using Minecraft to Teach Science. But how would you teach a science lesson? Give us an example. 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. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. Give me an example. I was blown away by the topics they were wondering about. Another student was wondering about albino animals. Vicki: This is intriguing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 5, 2017

For example, if you have a faucet in the bathroom that has a sensor, and you put in your hands, water comes out. That’s just an example of one of the SMART objects that we have all around us. For example “Move Forward” or “Move Backward” or “Turn the Red Light On” or “Turn the Blue Light On” or “Sing” response to a sound.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

For example, if I took students on a field trip to the set of a Star Wars shoot, they would all be looking at different things. It’s like the maze of the Minotaur, where you need to put a string on someone’s toe and pull it so they’ll know how to get out. Now, you might wonder how to set up the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

So what’s an example of something it might look like? How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. They had to give some examples. Karen: It doesn’t. OH, we can download this.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

For example, we start off planning to make apps, but I guide them through the process of creating ideas for their app first. If I pick their teams, they don’t develop the opportunity to learn how to form groups, how to negotiate, how to determine which students are like minded in their desire to improve the world.

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MindShift

AUGUST 15, 2017

Nora Peters developed low-cost maker project instructions based on books (in this example, “Snow White and the 77 Dwarfs”). For example, in the book “Wemberly Worried” by Kevin Henkes, Peters developed and attached instructions on how to make a Guatemalan worry doll. Courtesy of Nora Peters).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about the ten ideas I have below.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). For example, consider the verbs we use to describe writing.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

Here are some examples of building projects, and what students can learn from them. Punahou School campus in Minecraft: an example of students building something that already exists. An example of students building as a form of creative expression. Building to Recreate Something. Building as a Form of Creative Expression.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. So, for example, if there’s a math concept and you can bring in geometry shapes, creating artwork that uses the concepts, fractions, all the time observing proportions, and point out how much math they’re using in art, just by making the art. Enhanced Transcript.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Here is an example from one of my 6th grade students: Artifacts for the Day of the Dead Displays. Students make the following artifacts and then, in small groups of three students, decide if and how they want to use them in their Day of the Dead displays to reflect the stories they wrote. Writing a Story About Day of the Dead.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

Do you have any examples for us of something you’ve done at your school? We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees. For example, who would be the best project manager? I would teach students about emotions and how to manage them and teach active listening skills.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). For example, consider the verbs we use to describe writing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Vicki: Give me an example. What would be an example of a video you’ve seen in math or in history? Give us an example of a video in an unlikely subject. Whichever model your school uses to teach kids how to write, I always boil it down to the “Tell ‘ems” method. Give us an example of how you coached some video projects.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Another group discovers that if they hit “repeat” multiple times, they can create a parachute-like design that they’ve figured out how to color in various ways. We still don’t know how to use [it] very well,” Guadalupe admits. He’s been coaching teachers on how to incorporate “making” into their curriculum when it’s appropriate.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Example of Tip #1 Use Minecraft to Scaffold Story Writing. Jacqui: I do it even more than that.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

He taught her how to code in her seventh grade Innovation and Design class at Redwood Day School. 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. That was also fun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

For example, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Vicki: Ok, so how can a teacher get started with FlipSnack without getting overwhelmed? How to get started. And, I have seen it used in some really awesome ways. What would the newspaper the next day look like when it was released?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

Julie: For example, my students took a picture of an apple orchard, and it was their kids picking apples in an apple orchard. So, for example, here in Maine, we have one that provides free summer training to teachers about how to better integrate food production into their classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 15, 2017

How to update Google Streetview Images. Vicki: Now you’ve authored the Google Cardboard book, so I’m assuming this is one of many examples. You know, how can we as educators use this brand new technology to really kind of change the learning in our classroom? Donnie: So they said, “Mr. And vice versa, too. Donnie: Yeah!

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Vicki: Steve, you’ve given us one example of a seventh grade girl. Do you have an example for us where the light bulb went on? These are the things that we have to teach — how to interact with these intelligent machines, how to program, but also how to do these other things.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Read through the descriptions below with one type of emergent technology and see how you fit. For example if the topic was gaming in the classroom: who do you think you are? Early Adopters: “Describe the value in it and how to do it and I am all in!” Innovators: “Lets do this!”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. 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.

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