Educator Innovator

JULY 17, 2017

For the past 17 years, Techbridge Girls has been working to break down barriers that often keep young women, particularly those of color from low-income communities, out of STEM careers and the maker movement. We’ve found that it can be especially empowering for our girls to share their STEM expertise with their community.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 27, 2014

The maker movement — think of it as “smart DIY,” a high- and low-tech approach to tinkering that turns users into inventors — is spurring excitement about the power of ingenuity in fields as disparate as robotics and design and agriculture. Even the White House has hosted a Maker Faire.) ” Agency by Design: In Action.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

STEAM not only fosters do-it-yourself or DIY practices involving computers, electronics, and fabrication, but also a trans-disciplinary approach to artistic, cultural and academic production in digital media, and mutual concerns of the arts with STEM disciplines. Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D. is director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. Use a model to test interactions concerning the functioning of a natural system. Science: Brain Science.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 20, 2017

Through training and outreach, maker programs aim for greater diversity among future innovators. The maker movement is everywhere it seems. Kids tinkering with sewing machines or laser cutters, designing their own cookie cutters to “print” in a 3D-printer at libraries, museums, maker camps, or classrooms across the country.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In this case, we asked teachers to specifically choose math or science because we wanted to do a STEM-to-STEAM arts integration. They might come up with a language arts content area, or a math concept, or a science concept. So each grade level, each classroom at each grade level, picked a content area. And all the way up.

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Saving Socrates

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

The first session focused on having teachers build a satellite and in doing so, answer the question, “how do GPS systems work?” Utilizing the approach of learning through doing, the teachers were simultaneously learning about one of the most innovative concepts in science education today, the Maker Movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 22, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

He has a bachelor’s and master’s degree in information systems from [Carnegie Mellon University]( [link] ) in Pittsburgh, PA. Sean is the founder of [Red Reef Digital]( [link] ), a digital marketing consulting firm and is a certified [HubSpot]( [link] ) partner.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. They will need to have a maker mindset. And when this happens, they take this maker mindset outside of school as they initiate their own projects at home.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 23, 2016

I have some great posts coming your way involving PBL, STEM, tech integration, and a continuing series on Professional Learning Communities! I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. Hope to see you there!

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 15, 2017

The Destination Imagination program is a fun, hands-on system of learning that fosters students’ creativity, courage and curiosity through open-ended academic Challenges in the fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), fine arts and service learning. Destination Imagination offers similar design challenges.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

Julie Wilcott talks about how we can bring sustainable food systems and understanding into our schools with these five simple ideas. 5 Ways to Bring Sustainable Food Systems into Your School. Today we’re talking to Julie Willcott @WillcottJulie about five ideas for helping integrate sustainable food systems into our schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. Your favorite thing is the solar system. Vicki: So here’s the question. Karen: Absolutely.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2015

With the maker movement in schools in full force across the country, it seems like students everywhere are excited and interested in learning about programming, electronics, robotics, and more. Using an iPad to control the small Raspberry Pi is easier than you think. [

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Listen to the Show. Related Shows.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The “maker movement” can play an important role in getting kids interested in innovation and design, and littleBits —which makes easy-to-use electronic building blocks—is finding itself at the center of this movement. I didn’t know that word when I was in the third grade.”. Here are some of the highlights from the Playground.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Obviously, schools as systemic structures need to change quite a bit. Those four shifts seem to resonate with folks because they have seen the power of those, at least in small doses within their systems. Unfortunately, systems change slowly. But getting while systems to move is a whole ‘nother matter. They make sense.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Do you think our class – we use a blended classroom, where we have PowerSchool Learning as our LMS (Learning Management System). The operating system is almost the same through the way that we learned in Ms. So learning all of the programs and the operating system – and getting my stuff done on time in Ms. Brent: Oh, 100%.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Participatory, hyperlinked library services; DIY and maker movements; emerging technology in academic and research libraries; Google Glass—our Library 2.014 conference covered a broad range of topics and these were among the most notable. Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. The Maker Movement. STEM Education’s “Sputnik Moment” The Higher Education Bubble. and the scaling back of investigations into civil rights violations in schools. Data vs Privacy. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Using this tip, you can create a sort of social sharing environment inside your classroom management system. You can use this format in your Google classroom. Then, let students look at them on their phones. It guides you through the publishing process without all of the “geek speak” required in most filmmaking programs.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

I’m interested not so much in how ed-tech (and tech more broadly) might change cognition or learning, but in how it will change culture and power and knowledge – systems and practices of knowing. The “maker movement.” Those have always been the promises. Promises largely unfulfilled. Collaboration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

As a change maker herself, she is passionately co-leading a grassroots movement in order to spark a systemic cultural shift towards an innovative model of education. She believes that the creativity in all of us can lead to world changing ideas and agency and works to unleash the creative talents of her students and colleagues.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

So we must, I think, look at the more insidious ways in which various technologies are slowly altering our notions of knowledge, expertise, and education (as practices, as institutions, as systems) – and ask who’s invested in the various futures that education technology purports to offer. The Maker Movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

There was a 3-consequence system. So the balloon would actually be at eye level so that we could see it. We did drill safety the first couple of days. But we did drill safety the first couple of days. So they had a lot of tips to do the right thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

But then also giving them a couple chances at maybe making a few of those beginner mistakes and getting a little goofy, and then, “Get it out of your system, because this is for a grade.”. “This is the proper way to create your video,” or “This is the proper way to set up your Book Creator book that you’re making.”. Sandboxes and rubrics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2018

We overloaded our system. Our first experience, the very first time… I was so excited to get these students in the Open SImulator. We sat there on laptops in a classroom, and I tried to get all 25 students online at the exact same time. No one could get on. Everybody was raising their hands and kind of whining, “It’s not working.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Sometimes I’ll walk in, and I discover a teacher that I wasn’t even aware of in the system — because we’ve got, you know, over 1200 teachers in Albemarle. And you know, I see that all over with what I call — it’s almost like a pop-up mentality. And I’ll run into somebody that is maybe newer on the scene.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Created a low-cost wildlife detection system to alert drivers of animals crossing the road and mitigate accidents. Developed a drone-powered spraying system to target weeds and use fewer chemicals on crops. Snowflake, Ariz. Gulfport High School. Gulfport, Miss. Created a vending machine to supply free hygiene products to the homeless.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

During the school day, our plants, our garden is indoors using aeroponic systems known as a tower garden, where the plants are literally growing themselves. So the outdoor garden is done after school, and not that I am anti-soil, I’m actually pro-soil and pro-garden-time but I’m actually very pro-instructional-time.

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