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Seesaw in the Elementary Music Classroom with Amy Burns

The CoolCatTeacher

Amy believes this pedagogical shift is a game changer in the music classroom Learn more. She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. Amy believes this pedagogical shift is a game changer in the music classroom Learn more. Maarten, and Australia.

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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? app is designed to help people learn how to use it.

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Book Creator for Chrome: Product Review, Tips and Tricks for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

Students who use Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, iPads, or any other device can now create books with this versatile, easy-to-use app. Audience: Remember that audience improves student learning—nobody wants to do wastebasket work. Call this a sandbox, and let them play there to learn about all of Book Creator’s features.

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Simple and Rube Goldberg Machines: A Maker Education, STEAM Lesson

User Generated Education

Recently I facilitated a simple machines leading into Rube Goldberg machines lesson with my gifted elementary students. Via their own Chromebooks, they played the following online game: [link]. They used their Chromebooks to go on a scavenger hunt both inside and outside of the school to take photos of example simple machines.

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

The CoolCatTeacher

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. Vicki: Awesome, so then they share what they learned.

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. You can find her resources at Structured Learning ( [link] ). Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days (available on Kindle).

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Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard with Donnie Piercey

The CoolCatTeacher

Now what did they learn as they did this, besides all of the incredible technology? You know, how can we as educators use this brand new technology to really kind of change the learning in our classroom? Donnie has run a 1:1 iPad, Chromebook, and Macbook classroom over the course of his ten year teaching career.

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