The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 21, 2017
Twenty percent time from Google. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. For our beginning of the year passion projects, some students chose to teach others about our robotic filming Swivl tool and app. Maker Movement. Or a genius hour.
The CoolCatTeacher
AUGUST 19, 2017
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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eSchool News
NOVEMBER 29, 2017
On top of that, there is promise for continued education outside of the classroom; just look at Google’s recent $1B pledge over the next five years to help train Americans for jobs in technology. Considering how robots could replace 38 percent of jobs in the U.S.
Neo LMS
NOVEMBER 9, 2017
As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning.
The Daring Librarian
APRIL 13, 2019
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?
The CoolCatTeacher
MARCH 13, 2018
It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc. Now, do you use robots? What about robotics? In my class, we use the Sphero robot quite a bit. See Top Tips for Teaching with Robots Using Sphero. So that’s my Go To robot. “If this is your Go To for sharing your notes, keep using it. Whatever works.
21st Century Educational Technology and Learning
DECEMBER 4, 2018
NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students. Maker Camp – Here is an opportunity for students to join other young inventors and artists from around the world on Google+ to make awesome projects, go on epic virtual “field trips,” and meet the world’s coolest Makers.
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