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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

There’s tons of information on there, and if you want to know anything about it, please feel free to reach out to me on social media, through Twitter or my e-mail address. I am a self-proclaimed “tech nerd” and love to have my hands on all the latest and greatest products and software. It is a powerful tool.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

However, although the functional teaching objectives of this lesson are to onboard students as quickly as possible into the software and systems they’ll be using, the relational teaching objective is to help me know at least one thing they love. First, I work hard on social media to share my attitude and love toward the students I teach.

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Most Memorable Blogs Posts of the Year – 2016

Reading By Example

Here he writes about the importance of journalism in the era of the 24 hour news cycle and social media. Building poems, art, music, mathematical solutions and so on are all part of the ‘maker movement’ in my mind. Without further adieu… A tragic story well told by Father Tom Lindner ( Are We There Yet? ).

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What a Makerspace Can Mean for the Writing Classroom—Takeaways from NWP Annual Meeting

Educator Innovator

They discussed “student generated content that educators could share with stakeholders via social media and online platforms.” What makes this conversation even more important, is that lately many of us in the maker movement have been stressing the importance of process over product. Not the product.

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20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer

TeachThought - Learn better.

Lightbot – Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts. Take a picture as you enjoy these activities with your children, and share it with us on social media! Use a PC and an Android phone, tablet, or Smart Watch. Both must be connected to the same wireless Internet network. Feel the beat!

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Learning Revolution - Week's Events - AERO - National Geographic - Top Tech Stories - Rankin on Revolution - SAT Talk - More

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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. One Week Calendar All events are listed in US-Eastern Daylight Time. Attendees will discuss strategies for effective prompt setting.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

(Deliberate) Misinformation -- about what ed-tech can do, about the problems it will solve, about what sort of circumstances students and schools and society are now facing, about what sort of future new technologies will necessarily give us -- is picked up and wielded by far too many education leaders and decision-makers.