Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

What are the real benefits of a maker-centered approach to learning? It’s often described as a way to incubate STEM skills or drive technical innovation — and it is probably both of these. Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. 16 Resources to Build and Support a Maker’s Culture.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

See Halloween Wars: An Interdisciplinary Lesson with a STEM, STEAM, Maker Education Focus for more about this. Here is an example from one of my 6th grade students: Artifacts for the Day of the Dead Displays. Images of decorated Day of the Dead skulls can be projected via a whiteboard so students can see examples.

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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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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

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities! I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. Let me provide an example below….

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Vicki: Can you think of an example that you’ve seen lately? He is an expert in STEAM and STEM and science. He gave us great practical ideas about how to make every day STEAM activities and how to easily integrate it into your lessons. Not Just Visiting the Zoo – Collaborating with It. Carol: Yes!

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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

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

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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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. So I’m talking to these two kids, and they want to take me outside and show me how they’re able to fly this drone.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Schools were never designed to do that, so we basically have this massive paradigm shift that we’ve got to figure out how to go through. If lawmakers or policymakers ask us, how do we measure that? How can we adopt creativity standards that are scalable and translate between schools? We know, for example, say we did portfolios.

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NeverEndingSearch

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Some examples: Participative culture and the Learning Commons movement : For many years, school and academic libraries have been rethinking learner space to support participative culture. We did not need dedicated space for STEM in the library. Knowledge Quest maker posts. We are in a process to make it happen.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 30, 2015

As the maker movement continues to build in numbers, I’ve been particularly interested in the critical research that is scrutinizing the dynamics of interaction and learning within spaces of making. For example, working to solve a problem while an adult is observing might feel supportive or evaluative.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2015

’ “In many ways it’s very connected to the maker movement, but there is more of an intentional focus on some of the skills connected to engineering, electrical engineering and more of an intentional draw back to math concepts,” said Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy for the museum. LEARNINGS SO FAR.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 8, 2018

For example, in this app project that I’m working on now, I had one group of kids that was going to make a Dog Dictionary, about all of the different types of dogs that were out there and that sort of thing. For example, I have a boy who came and said, “Ms. We’re actually teaching about how to collaborate, how to work together.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Vicki: So if you could, you know, coach a teacher on how to pitch this to their administrator, what would be your elevator pitch if you were that teacher? And so, it was a chance to show, for example, that when they were doing the Tiny House Project. I mean that’s my first thing. It’s why are people still having to pitch this?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

Learn how to teach math with 3D design. These projects take beautiful ideas and make them affordable,” he says, citing the Bicycle Wheel Wave Machine as an ideal example. Circuit Tiles and Bottle Trees are but two examples. Write Instructables - this video will get you started. Enter contests with your own Instructables.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Now that in this information age content is freely and abundantly available, it is more important than ever to assist learners in the process of how to learn. It is a mistaken assumption that educators know how to do so. As such, I am learning how they work. Educator as Model Learner ). Educators as Lead Learners ). Iterations.

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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

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

How to Hook Students (without them knowing it – unless you tell them). Vicki: Brent is a great example to all you listeners of someone who really has taken the most out of my class. In general, just knowing how to use a program can save you a lot of time later. Brent: I was getting salt out of my pants for weeks.

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EdTechnocation.com

MAY 29, 2015

Get step-by-step, how-to directions on variety of apps, skills, and functions involving Google products and devices. For example, how to customize your Gmail inbox , or how to create a group calendar. Jayme's Dec provided workshops for teachers and Maker lessons for students. Read his blog post.

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User Generated Education

JULY 7, 2016

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Maker Movement: The maker movement, as we know, is the umbrella term for independent inventors, designers and tinkerers, a convergence of computer hackers and traditional artisans. Why the Maker Movement Is Important to America’s Future ). The Maker Movement Is About the Economy, Stupid ).

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 20, 2018

David Cole brings together key insights and resources on maker education from the 2018 Connected Learning Summit. This text originally appeared in Make: Education, a monthly newsletter exploring the intersection of education and the maker movement. Sign up for more at [link].

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Following Hack Your Notebook Day, a nationwide paper circuitry and applied STEM learning event held this summer that brought together makers from around the country, libraries and other connected learning spaces have continued “hacking” notebooks by holding independent events for diverse groups of learners around the country.

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