The Electric Educator

JANUARY 26, 2015

The maker movement is growing I can''t tell you how many sessions there were on 3D Printing, makerspaces, tinkering, hacking, etc. The vendor hall was filled with products and companies supporting and connected with the maker movement. Google Glass, smart watches, etc aren''t being touted as the next educational frontier.

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Maker Movement Chromebook Trends Conference 40

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

SIMPLE TEACHING So, whether they have an iPhone, iPad, Android, PC, or Mac – students have a consistent view as they work on their video. I find this helpful for uploading to Google Classroom or Airdropping the file to my Mac for display to the whole class. You can use this format in your Google classroom.

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Adobe Classroom iPhone Video 213

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I have one iPad per two kids, so they’re working together on one iPad, figuring out the incomplete instructions. Under-instruct and under-deploy. I do what’s called under-instruct. I don’t tell them quite enough to get the thing done. Then I under-deploy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Project Pals connects with Google Classroom but also lets me see detail on which students are contributing and participating. Right now, my students are creating and managing a project as they are creating a podcast to record powerful stories from the recent storms in our area.

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Elementary Classroom Twitter Company 283

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. You meet with your critique group to go over it, and you can do that virtually on Google Hangouts or Skype. It could be fiction or nonfiction. You write it.

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Technology eBook Twitter Chromebook 184

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

But as successive refinements improve them to the point that they start to steal customers, they may end up reshaping entire industries: classified ads (Craigslist), long distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), research libraries (Google), local stores (eBay), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).” Maker Movement.

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 8, 2018

I create a template or a hyperdoc in Google Doc. Complete the Google Doc. So I see which kids are coming into class, I’ll pull up the four or five Google Docs for all those kids. Well, the first stage is to get past the Google Doc, and then you have to get past me, and then I give you a green light. What’s going on?”.

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Strategy How To Social Media Company 164

My Paperless Classroom

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Now when the science class experiments with roller coasters, we use the iPad as a high speed camera and take measurements from the images. miles from Google HQ that we are on the leading edge of technology instruction. When the 1st grade was learning about clouds, tech class used sonic pics to record some information about clouds.

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STEM Maker Movement Robotics iPad 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Wednesday, March 12th at 9am PDT in Seattle, WA Maker Movement at NCCE 2014 with Sylvia Martinez, Join colleagues for a day of hard fun and problem solving — where computing meets tinkering and design. Education Revolution Google+ Community Speaking of games: The secret to effective e-Learning games. Google Science Fair 2014.

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Conference Digital Citizenship Maker Movement Common Core 65

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

When Google Docs came out, I stopped everything and let all of my classes experience it. A sponsored review of a tool I'm using to teach programming From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality is here. Also, I learned about Twitter, I did the same thing.

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Examples Video Company Twitter 238

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

is a free App available on both iPad and Android tablets that allows even the youngest students to learn to code. Sky Map , built by a team of amateur astronomers who work at Google, helps Android users locate stars and planets in the night sky. PLTW’s computer science curriculum developers recommend these resources: Scratch Jr.

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