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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

Twenty percent time from Google. I hope this gives you an overview of how students can make choices and pursue their passions in school. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Maker Movement. Or a genius hour. Or passion projects. Genius Hour.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

But what I haven’t seen is kids Googling anything to help them with this project. Cathy Rubin in her Global Search for Education has posed these questions in my inbox for this month’s global search for education column: “ What should we teach young people in an age where Dr. Google has an answer for everything?”

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

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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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. But what if we spend thousands of dollars on 3D printers, robotics, and other ephemera and it just ends up collecting dust?

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

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

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Part 2: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Technology

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success. In fact, how might your students think outside the box and Make!

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Virtual Valentines: The Global Valentine Project Sharing Love and Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. He’s the robot there. Micah: Yes.

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