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Part 2: Over 150 STEM Resources for PBL and Authentic Learning… Technology

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

This post is dedicated to Technology. I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, Makerspace, Inquiry, Computational Thinking, and the 4 C’s. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking!

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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

I hope this gives you an overview of how students can make choices and pursue their passions in school. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project.

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Part 5: STEM, STEAM, Makers: 35 Resources For A Makerspace

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Welcome to this fifth post in a series that brings STEM, STEAM, and Maker Space together with Project Based Learning and proper technology integration in the classroom. You will discover around one hundred resources in this series along with some great ideas for finding student success. Check out my Booking Page.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

eSchool News

How can schools prepare students to be the designers, innovators, and entrepreneurs our economy needs for future success? We want to unleash the inventor in everyone,” Bdeir said. I studied engineering, and almost on a weekly basis I wanted to quit,” she said. “We Every week was a new project, a new learning challenge.

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Increasing Engagement, Creativity, and Innovation with Minds-On/Hands-On Activities

User Generated Education

Some have struggled with student-centric and hands-on learning. The ultimate goal is to get students at any level of education to become as mentally and physically engaged as possible in the learning process, regardless of the subject they are studying. This is especially true as students enter higher grades.

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Inventionland: A Transformational Design Course

The CoolCatTeacher

Mandy talks about how the course is structured, gives a story of how students are being transformed, and shares how they are re-working the course based on what they learned the first year. If you’re teaching design or making, you can learn from this show. Book Creator for Chrome. This is great news! Listen Now. Listen Now.

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Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program

The CoolCatTeacher

Aditya Batura, Programmer and Entrepreneur, talks today about the concept behind helping every student understand computational thinking. This week I’ll be sharing the 7 Pedagogical Shifts That Make Interactive Displays a Key to a Student-Centered Classroom on the Cool Cat Teacher blog sponsored by SMART Technologies.