The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

In today’s show, we’ll discuss: How to make time for tinkering. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide. Click here. .

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

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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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. Teach, learn, and make with Raspberry Pi’s free learning resources.

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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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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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

As you can see in the video below from my VR China trip, it really looks like I shot the video in China. Participants are also encouraged to include photos or videos to prove their case. As the students take turns experiencing the 360 video, they also look at different things. The same thing happens in virtual reality.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Here’s insight on how this works. You’ll get great blog posts, how-to articles and information here that you can get in your RSS reader. YOU could be the superhero in an awesome welcome back to school video that you could shoot NOW in post-planning.). See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.).

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

You can find some videos online on YouTube. .” In Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade , Lindsey says, The students have generated their wonderings and from there, we have started to look at “What does research look like? What does it mean?” We’ve created a list of the different ways you can investigate your questions.

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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

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom.

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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. Now.having said that. WARNING: Controversial Opinion Ahead.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So you can put in things like video, and the video can be videos taken from YouTube so the video can actually be created by somebody else. Like your videos, you have to later go into Flipsnack and put your videos in but the basic content can be created in slides and then uploaded as a pdf to Flipsnack.

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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. I’ve embedded videos below. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. Record your own voice over.

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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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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about the ten ideas I have below.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Here’s insight on how this works. You’ll get great blog posts, how-to articles and information here that you can get in your RSS reader. YOU could be the superhero in an awesome welcome back to school video that you could shoot NOW in post-planning.). See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.).

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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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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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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 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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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). How to make almost anything: The digital fabrication revolution.

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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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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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EdTechTeacher

MAY 6, 2015

How will you learn it? and How will you show what you know?” They are researching, documenting (through writing, sketches, photos and videos), interviewing experts in their field of interest and creating something so meaningful that no testing agency in the world could measure. Construction on his 46 sq ft fort begins next week.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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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.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

National STEM Video Game Challenge – You and your students will enjoy this site inspired by the Educate to Innovate Campaign to promote a renewed focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Halverson and Sheridan tease out the complex nature of the maker movement in education (2014). They define it through three lenses: “making as a set of activities, makerspaces as communities of practice, and makers as identities of participation” (501). How to make almost anything: The digital fabrication revolution.

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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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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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]. The directions for how to make these can be found at [link] , Edible Slime. Getting Started – Gaining Attention. What is Day of the Dead? Tissue Paper Marigolds.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. In fact, you can see Maker Spaces finding room to serve the surging Maker population in both small and large towns alike. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

But you know, I found that I create so many of my videos, my curriculum, everything that I have. Let’s start watching the September videos. And it wasn’t long before they were refining and refining and refining their videos. But they don’t all have to be your own videos. There’s no point in kids listening to lectures.

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Learning With Lucie

APRIL 22, 2015

These tools are becoming more and more accessible to students with the growth of the maker movement in our communities, not only in terms of cost and availability, but also in terms of people who are sharing their knowledge and experiences in how to use these tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2018

We have fifth and sixth-grade students in a middle school setting who are working on how to save the bees. They’ve worked very diligently to build their own beehives offsite, and they collect data and manage that data to try and learn how they can help save bees and spread what they’ve learned to the wider community. Vicki: Awesome.

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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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