The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

Yesterday I demonstrated how to get AI feedback. I want to take those of you not using AI (yet) into what it looks like to interact with AI, both how I'm conversing with AI and how it responds. I want you to see my issues and how I proceed at each step of the process. But now I want to integrate AI feedback.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2019

Today, media specialist Amanda Johnson talks about the massive success of some new sections she added to the library last summer and how she’s going to improve her library even more this summer. Amanda strives to be an innovative educator in a 1:1 iPad school, embracing the wide array of technology available in the media center.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Even with tight budgets, it’s possible to repurpose your libraries or media centers into 21st century makerspaces. The challenge becomes how to make our services and programs truly stand out to stakeholders, so that we’re truly transforming what we’re doing to meet the needs of our students in today’s world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. What’s the elevator version of that?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha, from a small town in Massachusetts, sees stories about climate change on social media and in the news. Samantha’s parents are at a loss about how to help her. We can and must prepare them to be capable climate restoration champions who know how to preserve both our planet and their own mental health.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 17, 2018

Whether your school or district has officially adopted social media or not, conversations are happening in and around your school on everything from Facebook to Snapchat. Schools must reckon with this reality and commit to supporting thoughtful and critical social media use among students, teachers, and administrators.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 2, 2018

2, 2018 – Today’s modern media center design reflects a laboratory of learning, typically including areas for action centers, makerspace, research and design labs and video conferencing. Registrants receive a recording of the presentation along with research and resource materials. For more information, go to [link].

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Waterford

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Read on to discover what asynchronous learning is and how to determine if it is the right strategy for your students. Take texting or social media interaction, for example. Show students how to pace themselves in an asynchronous setting. University of Massachusetts Amherst Center for Teaching & Learning. Minero, E.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 24, 2024

and social media platforms such as LinkedIn. You can also contact your alma mater’s career center. How to transition out of teaching and into your next career Is teaching still the right career for you? The post How to transition into a non-classroom-based position as an educator appeared first on Truth For Teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2021

As we begin the new school year, students need to be at the center of learning and actively engaged in thinking, making, doing, discussing, and reflecting. An effective way to shift our students’ thinking about their role in the classroom is to teach them how to treat their learning like they are making a documentary.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

A poll of over 5,000 educators conducted in late March by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence in collaboration with the Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (CASEL) found that anxiety was the most commonly felt emotion. Double-down on communication and outreach to families. Jessica Hoffmann, Ph.D.,

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While some look to technology regulations to combat the scourge of fake news, the strongest defense may well be in building a citizenry with strong media literacy skills.[2] 2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. The Benefits of Media Literacy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But this big deal comes with big problems for educators, who must also help their students navigate the daily deluge of political media—especially in recent elections. But this big deal comes with big problems for educators, who must also help their students navigate the daily deluge of political media—especially in recent elections.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 7, 2023

Student-centered approach: Shifting the focus from the teacher as the primary source of knowledge to fostering critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration in students. Digital and media literacy: Teaching how to evaluate information and navigate the digital landscape responsibly.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments defines student engagement as: behavioral engagement. How to help : To combat remote learning loss, teachers need a way to guide students online through new concepts. Activities also need to be relevant to students’ lives and how they want to learn.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

Unfortunately, media depictions of people in STEM are often narrow and perpetuate false stereotypes , such as that scientists are eccentric, “nerdy” or “geeky,” obsessive and detached from reality. The post Here’s How to Encourage More Girls to Pursue Science and Math Careers appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 17, 2023

AI is at the center of Intellectual property debates everywhere. I started with QuickDraw, which recognizes doodling along with the curriculum from the MIT Media Lab on AI ethics. These could then be embedded in social media platforms to help us distinguish the real from the fake when it comes to new connections’ faces.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Creating a Highly Engaging Lesson Plan “In this course, you will examine how to develop and execute highly engaging lesson plans regardless of what grade or subject you teach.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 8, 2017

In comparison with a traditional classroom-based learning, a blended learning offers a teacher much more flexibility and shifts a teacher-centered classroom toward the student-centered one. How to make a good blend then? There is also a shift in the roles of a teacher and students. Let say you need to conduct the debates.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Be intentional to help parents know how to support your classroom. At the heart of the tool is a system for effortlessly showing parents how to give you the support you and your student need. Show Notes: What are some thoughts about how active shooter and “code blue” drills should be done? Bring parents in the loop.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When bullying or hate speech happens in person, on school grounds, taking disciplinary actions for the aggressors and knowing how to aid the victims can be obvious. It can be channeled through social media posts, while gaming, through direct messages, and much more.[2]. And most youth say adults aren’t doing enough to stop it.[1]

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

According to the National Center for Health Statistics , emotional dysregulation occurs in around 5% of students in the United States. If you don’t know how to respond, it can negatively affect your entire classroom. We teach the brain how to regulate itself by taking 60 seconds each day. Show notes by Lisa Durff. .

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital commerce : Teaching learners how to safely make purchases online and discover careers that they can pursue in e-commerce. Digital literacy : Teaching learners how to evaluate online sources and give proper credit to sources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). It includes not only websites, but cell phones, Nintendo, and Wii, as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites. Center for Disease Control, 2014 ). Why is this so important? Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, and Hanson, 2010 ).

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 5, 2021

To create truly student centered, personalized learning opportunities, teachers must design lessons with intention. In the descriptions below, I describe how four EduProtocols really allow for student centered experiences in communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Communication. Collaboration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In our digital age, social interactions are evolving as people increasingly turn to social media and other virtual spaces to connect. Researchers question if social media hurts or harms our ability to interact with one another, and so far the results are mixed. . How to Build a Community of Practice. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

led by Remake Learning in cooperation with national partners Digital Promise, PBS Kids for Parents, Common Sense Media, Learning Heroes, and Noggin. This awareness has also been critical in helping to galvanize communities as advocates for more youth-centered, powerful learning both in and out of school. Attend an event.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A lesson on how to create a podcast. A tutorial on how to create a paper circuit board that uses LED lights. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States. A virtual reality field trip. As the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Now, between the number of online information sites and the proliferation of social media apps, plus near constant mobile phone use, determining a story’s credibility seems to call for advanced detective skills. For her students, Whitehead uses definitions from the Center for News Literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

In this lesson plan, students will teach a group of seniors how to use common technology to help them manage their life and relationships better. Establish a relationship with a local community center ( try SeniorNet or Connected Living for local centers). Use technology and digital media strategically and capably.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

A big part of succeeding on the SAT essay is knowing how to use the right word and when it is best-suited for the conversation. High scores can be shared in the optional Game Center social network. The student dashboard shows what lesson they are currently playing, how many words they have mastered, and the number of lessons finished.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Then, discover five ways to boost student-centered learning through blended or hybrid learning. Both methods, while somewhat different in their approach, include student-centered learning in some capacity. Student-centered learning is here defined as curriculum and assignments that focus on a student’s unique needs and goals.[13]

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

3 Provide Alternative Forms of Media for Students to Choose From Some students may find it challenging to acquire information in the form of a video. It also requires that they complete a self-assessment to get them thinking about how they performed on this assignment. Check out my mini-course!

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