The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

But Pauline, today you have for us five ways to amp up STEM in middle school. Pauline: I think the first thing to consider is how you can collaborate with your science, engineering or math teaching colleagues. We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. Pause the video and add your voice just in certain spots. Arts in Every Subject: How to Make It Happen. In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. You can take that step and share your Valentine either live or with video messaging so that you can learn about each other’s community. Vicki: And we will put the link to that in the Shownotes for how to sign up.

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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. Big or small, lavish or little, it's all about the maker mindset. How about lightly spraying all the cardboard rolls with Lysol?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. Video is the modern essay. Here’s how.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

You can find some videos online on YouTube. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. How does that work? Lindsey: What I did was I told them, you’re going to have a chance to learn anything that you want to, and then we watched a video from Kid President about how the world needs you.

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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. To introduce and show students the traditions related to Day of the Dead, they are shown the following videos: Day of the Dead- Flavor and Tradition – [link]. Getting Started – Gaining Attention.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. And it also has, within the apps, the ability to take photos and to take videos. So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. How did you do that?” They had to tell what they learned about how to use it.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer. To combat summer learning loss and keep those STEM skills fresh over the summer, Project Lead The Way put together a list of super simple (and fun) STEM activities you can do with your children over summer break. Maybe it is why grass is green or how space travel started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They’ll be adding photographs, videos, audio and text about their hero. Interactivity: Book Creator is different from many other tools because you can actually record your voice with it, as well as linking to videos in these fully interactive books. How Does Book Creator Work? So excited! Each classroom gets 40 free books.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. This is a perfect idea for special ed teachers and parents who want to use today’s show and make books Book Creator will let you record audio and video AND share the link with parents. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. Instructional videos? She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. We need to teach people how to think. But it shouldn’t be.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 31, 2017

Here is a link to a video showing a prototype of the new school learning commons: A nice literature connection is the classic book “Andrew Henry’s Meadow” by Doris Burn. This allows learners lots of choice in how to demonstrate their understanding of a new concept. Building to Demonstrate Learning. He holds an Ed.M.

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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. And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks.

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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. Hope to see you there!

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The “maker movement” can play an important role in getting kids interested in innovation and design, and littleBits —which makes easy-to-use electronic building blocks—is finding itself at the center of this movement. When I went to school, there were no self-driven cars,” she said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

We have good news to share -- the video recordings from the event are now available in a special playlist on the NMC YouTube channel! And walk away with real classroom project ideas, links and resources, and a plan for bringing the maker movement to your classroom. (Teachers, you can take the free classes as well!)

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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. Get Inspired by Videos About Student Makers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

There’s video, there is an absolutely gorgeous book and gallery of artwork for this Lexicon of Sustainability. 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. The Lexicon of Sustainability.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. It has finally been released for sale!

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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. This felt generative, so we continued including pictures (screenshots taken from video) in the field notes for subsequent activities.

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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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Sometimes they were things like Sketch videos. But we would always start every single Monday morning of with a Maker Monday. 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? Does it put you behind on content? John: (laughs).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

Take an online maker class - free to teachers and students. Write Instructables - this video will get you started. Learn how to teach math with 3D design. Haynor and his colleague hosted 100 events, taught 100 classes, and made 100 videos in 100 days. Enter contests with your own Instructables. A little bit of everything.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. What they’ve been working on over the last seven or eight years was a way to teach students how to be innovative — and how to go through that design process to create an invention of your own. This is great news! Vicki: Oh, that’s such great advice.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

How to Hook Students (without them knowing it – unless you tell them). In general, just knowing how to use a program can save you a lot of time later. Vicki’s class, we would have all of our assignments on one pane, where to go to the assignment, how to turn in the assignment, and all that. I think the point is here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Updates Next week: CoSN Conference in Washington DC. The call for volunteers will go out this week, so be on the lookout for how to get involved! Learn more here.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

We are a whole school program that really teaches children in food-insecure communities how to grow food, get the parents involved, brings parents in and aligns it. To learn more about Stephen’s revolutionary program, see this powerful new two-minute video via Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. We are not an add on.

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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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