Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

.” We'll uncover practical, engaging strategies for integrating the four Cs — Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication — into your teaching. Click Here to Learn More This week's guest Nationally recognized educator and author with 16 years of experience as an educator. AIforEducators.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2022

The Academically Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Certified and Talent Development (TD) Catalyst teacher works with groups of gifted and advanced learners across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. She travels between two different school sites throughout the week. You have a teacher mode and a play mode.

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Cool Cat Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As a teacher committed to improving teaching and improving our professional development, I'm thrilled to share this conversation about how professional development can and is improving. Subscribe to the Show Anywhere You Listen to Podcasts This week's sponsor Modern Classrooms will help you teach better today!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2020

What I do worry about is running out of books so this year, I spent the last few months stalking efriends to find out what they recommend to kickstart the 2020-21 school year. See what you think: Bold School: Old School Wisdom + New School Technologies = Blended Learning That Works. And it paid off.

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CTE Learning

JULY 11, 2020

COVID-19 disrupted the 2019-2020 school year in a major way. When schools began to shut down, teachers, administrators, parents and students were left scrambling to figure out what the rest of the spring would look like. As a veteran teacher, he has seen it all, but never a school shut down due to a pandemic.

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Cool Cat Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As I review that article, all of the formative abilities from history to math and every subject are still there but now you have more making Screencastify an essential blended learning and flipped classroom tool that is easy and fast. I continue to have my students download Screencastify during the first week of school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2020

From our files, here are great articles about activities popular at the end of the school year: 5 Favorite Activities to End the School Year. The end of the school year is a time when both students and teachers alike are distracted by thoughts of vacation, sleeping in, and no deadlines. 10 Ways to Wrap Up the School Year.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 21, 2024

Our language around how we teach, live, and create successful businesses and governmental organizations needs to change. As I have been teaching with and using these newest round of AI tools since January 2023, I've also been interviewing experts and other educators and sharing the learning here on this show.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. He has taught at urban, suburban, rural, and private schools.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Tract can engage students and get them excited about learning. Every student needs a reason to come to school, and Tract will help you do that. Tract is a personalized Project-Based Learning (PBL) platform with rich, individualized projects for students that can be tracked and managed from a centralized teacher dashboard.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Recently, while discussing the next steps for schools this fall with two instructional designers in the webinar “10 Ways to Move Learning Forward”, we identified ten considerations for school. Many of the topics below were part of that conversation, including Social Emotional Learning (SEL).

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This podcast will explore Debbie’s key strategies for teaching digital literacy skills to our youngest students. Busy teachers use EVERFI’s standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons, recently awarded with the ISTE Seal for high-quality curriculum, to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world.

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CoderZ

JULY 10, 2023

As educators, we eagerly anticipate the start of a new school year while using our summer break to recharge and prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead. In this article, we will explore how embracing flexibility and innovation can enhance your robotics and computer science classes.

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CSTEM

APRIL 30, 2021

As we near the end of the first full school year affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, districts around the country are making decisions about the near future. That includes the availability of summer school classes and altering schedules to help students catch up on lost time and progress. The Importance of Summer School.

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Scientix

AUGUST 2, 2024

Students engaged in a blended learning environment, combining subjects like mathematics, physics, coding, engineering and environmental studies to propose solutions for real-world problems, and as such, promote their computational thinking and transversal skills. The students had prepared their own questions in advance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In order to be able to reach them better, teachers not only have to be up to date with the latest strategies and teaching methodologies, but also with modern technology and new ways of connecting with their students and engaging them, both inside and outside the classroom. Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Then, I'll treat it like a teaching assistant. (I It is like a Teaching Assistant for me. ” OK, now I want you to remember that I'm at a Christian school, so I want a biblical worldview, which ChatGPT can do pretty well. I teach this to students, and I always have them be my Alpha testers for anything before I share it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

Sheila Slawek teaches digital literacy & computer science. I’ve known Sheila a long time and am profoundly impressed by how she passionately and energetically blends technology authentically into the learning lives of her students. Ownership of not only the assigned laptops, but ownership of their learning!

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 26, 2023

However, if you need a science curriculum, now is a great time to test and review this as a potential for your middle school. If you’re struggling to reach every student in your science middle school classroom, this app is worth a test, especially because it is free for teachers and also aligned with NGSS Science standards.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

That's why I do innovate like a turtle, and twice a week I learn new things for 15 minutes, and any time I'm learning something new, I am taking those notes and putting them into my digital notebook. Remember, teaching is a form of art and a work of art. You can just go to the Cool Cat Teacher channel on YouTube.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Here is some of what you can expect The Emergency Home Learning Summit will cover a variety of topics from more than 150 speakers in both drop-in conversatinos and curated series. Topics include Balancing home and school Blended learning Classroom 2.0 Topics include Balancing home and school Blended learning Classroom 2.0

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 12, 2024

We discuss the transformative role of app-building, collaborative learning, design thinking, and the importance of authentic learning experiences. Alefiya shares how app building can enhance STEM education and how it also teaches essential skills like teamwork, problem-solving, and passion-based learning. That first step.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

Click for a free teacher account Free Science Investigations for Middle School Students ResearchQuest is a free set of investigations designed for middle schoolers that allow them to examine artifacts, analyze data, and create their own conclusions. How we can learn from the fossil record. All opinions are my own. Sign up today.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JULY 31, 2022

we don't usually have vendors on the show, but I was telling Al in the pre-show that I really feel like he's so grounded in schools. We need to look at ways to mitigate whether we want to call it learning loss rather than negative term or we want to bridge the gap. [00:01:32] He works with a tech company called Net Support.

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Trina Deboree Teaching and Learning

JANUARY 10, 2022

OTT: 152: Is Play an Essential Aspect of a Child's Learning Process in School? We are also often told that play in school is a bad thing. Kids are learning, thinking, creating, exploring, and yes, playing. We are also often told that play in school is a bad thing. Today we are talking about play.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 10, 2022

You'll learn about these and more on a special extended episode of the podcast with Teresa Magpayo Castro and Ricardo Recinos. You'll learn to empathize with students who struggle with English as a second language as Teresa and Ricardo tell their own stories. Help every student become included in learning and become empowered.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 5, 2024

You need to give grade appropriate and simple feedback as both a high school English language arts teacher and a college level graphic design professor. Now, the reason I was at college level was because the graphic design I teach is a little more advanced than most typical high schools.

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Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 14, 2023

The Problem of Plagiarism and Chat GPT is Acknowledge by Open AI If you listened to Steve Dembo in yesterday's post, you'd learn that Chat GPT is still not as good as a human in many cases. Talk to Your Students I've been teaching for twenty-one years. It is good to have conversations anyway about work as part of teaching.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 27, 2022

I teach digital film and continue to tell students and parents that if America were being formed today that our founding fathers wouldn't print pamphlets, they would make YouTube videos. I believe knowing how to make videos is an essential part of every school's curriculum.

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Ellipsis Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

I switched careers from engineering to teaching to help learners experience the success I had at UPS. I found out very quickly that a traditional teaching model did not empower learners to be problem solvers. I founded Magnify Learning to continue this work and spread it across the country. PBL worked! It’s our secret sauce!

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 15, 2022

In this blog post, I’ll share how Lumio is a great tool for classroom teachers everywhere, whether you’re reviewing for a tough exam like my Computer Science class or teaching a regular lesson. This tool will make teaching easier for you. I was able to edit the lesson I was teaching and didn’t lose my student data.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I’ve addressed this in Freedom to Learn : In order to facilitate these desired elements of learning, I believe it is important to focus on the process of learning rather than the products of learning. It reflects and models how learning occurs outside of school. Weibell, C. Retrieved from [link].

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CTE Learning

MARCH 12, 2013

PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release I Support Learning’s Virtual Internship Series selected as Career Themed Courses for World Virtual School Award winning Virtual Internship Series now has a growing international audience. Olathe, KS. – , March 12 2013 — I Support Learning, Inc. / I Support Learning, Inc.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In my first year of teaching, I was blessed to have a SMART board in my classroom. My SMART board’s projector was hanging on by a single screw, much like any hope that this fancy technology would improve my teaching and instruction. My district's purchase of a new blended learning software followed the same formula.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 24, 2018

30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS app that is ideal for digital storytelling 30hands Pro. While the mobile is being used in education for project based learning, digital storytelling, and more.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS apps that are ideal for digital storytelling ( 30hands Starter (free), 30hands Pro (paid)). For more info on how your school can participate, email info@30hands.com.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 29, 2015

30hands Learning is the excellent company for creating an innovative LMS (Learning Management System) as well as the popular mobile iOS apps that are ideal for digital storytelling ( 30hands Starter (free), 30hands Pro (paid)). For more info on how your school can participate, email info@30hands.com.

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