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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

Classrooms need well-stocked maker spaces and creativity stations. Others built robots or drove my Dash Wonderbot. The post Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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4 exciting trends that will define the 2018 education industry

eSchool News

On top of that, there is promise for continued education outside of the classroom; just look at Google’s recent $1B pledge over the next five years to help train Americans for jobs in technology. Considering how robots could replace 38 percent of jobs in the U.S.

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Integrating the Arts into Every Subject

The CoolCatTeacher

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. We all need arts in every classroom, in every subject, in what we do as educators. Record your own voice over.

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How to Help Kids Innovate From an Early Age

Digital Promise

They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. A Maker Mindset. Having a maker mindset is key. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools.

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Top 4 microtrends in e-learning

Neo LMS

As career opportunities in traditional professions and large public and private organizations, decline — think automation, AI and robots — young people need to assimilate skills that enable them to make the most of the opportunities and challenges in their own economic environments. Microlearning. Privacy and safety.

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Why Tech Doesn't Just Mean Computers and How It Can Be Used in Alternative Ways to Change Classroom Dynamics

Saving Socrates

In fact, at one point, a tractor, train, light bulb, and even a pencil were radical technology. For years, I''ve been working in schools where they have attempted to implement "tech" in the classroom. It asks the teacher or administration to place more computers in a classroom and increase their use during classroom instruction.

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

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NASA Robotic Lesson Plans – Some wonderful lesson ideas that cover all grade levels to engage students. Accelerator Nation – It is time for you to bring aerodynamics to life in your STEM Classroom. While you are at the site check out all the other possible resources that might just work for your classroom.

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