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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson

The CoolCatTeacher

Elementary and primary students can learn to code. For Hour of Code week this week, learn how you can go past the Hour of Code and use coding all year long! How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. Why code in the elementary grades? Programming in the Primary Grades Book Contest.

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Eduprotocols for Littles with Jon Corippo #kinderchat

The CoolCatTeacher

Eduprotocols for kindergarten and early elementary with the book’s co-author Jon Corippo. Jon Corippo on episode 375 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Then, it becomes about the content and not the tools.

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Legends of Learning: The Game-Based Science Platform for Grades 3-8

The CoolCatTeacher

Select the Standard and Start Playing (and Learning!). In Legends of Learning, it is simple for teachers to select the standard and find games that they can add to student playlists. Signing up is free. Understandably, we teachers always need to find new ways of reinforcing and reviewing concepts.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

They run on a desktop client, but they have the beta that runs on a browser, so you could run it, say on a Chromebook. Chromebooks only run stuff that’s on browsers. Another one, SineSpace — which is completely web VR based. Edorble.com — which is a virtual environment, a virtual world made for instruction.

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Removing the Limitations in a Digital Environment

Fractus Learning

Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

I love this idea of micro-credentials and having kids explore and learn on their own, so that you can focus on the content teaching as well, as they explore and learn more about the tools. As an elementary teacher, Lee Ann has a passion for teaching kids not only about content, but life lessons as well. Very remarkable!

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8 Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

It’s one of the most full-featured video editing products out there, and considering that it will work on a Chromebook is just amazing. If you really want to get creative and push the envelope, you can do some really mind-blowing green screen type things with the motion graphics. Vicki: Yeah. What else do you have? Tool #4 Kahoot.

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