Cool Cat Teacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. We need to get practical, past the hype, and work to do that in this show. Teach students the things that matter during financial literacy month and beyond! Is it helpful? Should it be blocked?

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 26, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. In the real world of teaching, answers aren't always easy. So, it is fitting that today I discuss the reality of teaching with another teaching veteran. So, take care of yourselves, teachers, this one's for you. Click Here.

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Cool Cat Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter What do you do when award-winning teachers tell you there is a way to save time? Mary won ISTE's 2018 “Virtual Pioneer of the Year” and was a New York State Teacher of the Year finalist in 2018 and 2020. I'd love to hear from you!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2019

As a teacher-author who relies on technology to bring my dreams to life, even I am surprised by how often technology can be applied to life. If students don’t do what they need to in preparation for a test, they won’t get the result they hope for. 2: I don’t have enough bandwidth for that. 3: Drill Down. 5: I need to optimize.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Reading instruction can be challenging when a teacher has many different ability levels in her classroom. Robb has written more than 25 books on reading but also takes 3-4 months each school year as a classroom teacher. Stream by clicking here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 12, 2019

As a teacher on a mission to infuse technology into my classes, I’m often surprised how often technology can be applied to teaching and life. If students don’t do what they need to in preparation for a test, they won’t get the result they hope for. 2: I don’t have enough bandwidth for that. 3: Drill Down.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Teacher professional development needs to be practical, fit your schedule, and improve your classroom — and I’ve found professional development from Advancement Courses that does just that! Advancement Courses Teacher Professional Development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

So why the disconnect among teachers and parents when applying gameplay to learning? The great thinkers of our time understand that everyone is capable of finding solutions : “Failure isn’t falling down; it’s not getting up.” Worse, you’re either right or wrong with no gray areas. ” — Voltaire.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 3, 2023

Cue Robot is a small robot that was designed to help people learn coding, robotics, and artificial intelligence in a fun and interactive way. Cue Robot is an innovative coding robot that offers a fun and interactive way for children to learn crucial STEM skills such as coding, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

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CTE Learning

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Tracy Curry is the Technology Teacher and Yearbook Advisor at S&S Consolidated ISD in Sadler, TX who is teaching the course to her students. The Web Game Design course teaches students about all aspects of game design including game-level design, game mechanics, game story, game music, sound effects, asset creation, and more.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 16, 2023

First off, let me say that as someone who has personally used Cue Robot ( 1 ) in various educational settings, I believe that it can be a fantastic tool for teaching kids about robotics and coding. After all, when it comes to working with cutting-edge technology like robots, safety should always be a top priority. Well, wonder no more!

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Teachers are Terrific

JULY 14, 2023

I have ready-made resources that will get you started and take some of that beginning-of-the-year anxiousness away! Kids will groan and cheer and get frustrated. After completing a task students use the clues they found to determine a lock code to open a box. TIPS : Read through the teacher’s guide. Engagement!

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 3, 2023

Are you wondering where to find Cue Robot, or are you on the lookout for a cool robot that can teach you how to code and play games? Cue Robot was created with people like me in mind – those who want to learn coding in a fun and interactive way. It is a great tool for learning coding, robotics, and engineering.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2015

After twelve years of teaching K-8, I know as sure as I know August comes earlier every year that kids will try harder if its fun. The challenge for us as teachers: How do we make a the geeky side of technology ‘fun’? Shortkeys are one of the teacher tools that scaffold differentiation. Students learn in different ways.

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Computing Education Research Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

Sometimes as a reviewer, you get to read a paper that you wish was published immediately. Eliane and Marcia offer a solution to a problem that teachers face when they want to teach about computational models, but they don’t want to teach programming. It was published in ACM TOCHI in April (see link here ).

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Carly and Adam

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Without organization, the STEM lab can become very messy, making it hard to truly teach and help students learn and grow. I also use color to code my carpet areas so when students go from the red table, they must find the red line or the red dots on the floor. The following is a guest post from Ashley Priest.

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CoderZ

AUGUST 30, 2021

Why not use our template right here to get started? Pursuant to Iowa Code Section 8.11, all grant applications submitted to the State of Iowa have to include a Minority Impact Statement. Number of teachers expected to participate in this professional development? Step 1: Pick Your Grant and Fiscal Manager. Budget Categories.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 14, 2021

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Jeremy Keeshin, is the CEO and co-founder of CodeHS , a leading coding education platform for schools, used by millions of students. He believes educators must focus on teaching students the building blocks of technology–coding, problem-solving, and the vocabulary that clarifies both.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Every teacher I know understands it’s not the 3R’s or science or even history that provides fundamental skills for thriving in life. If you doubt that, read the quote below from a Harvard professor about the half-life of learned skills. How, then, can we take action to teach our students how to learn?

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Stephen Wolfram

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

How Did We Get Here? And as a kind of graduation gift when I finished (British) elementary school in June 1972 I arranged to get those books. This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. It all started when I was 12 years old.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Programmer of the Universe “OK, so let me tell you…” And so it would begin. A long and colorful story. An elaborate description of a wild idea. In the forty years I knew Ed Fredkin I heard countless wild ideas and colorful stories from him. He always radiated a certain adventurous joy—together with supreme, almost-childlike confidence.

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