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At 45 pages and approximately 30 minutes to read, I am embarrassed how long I have carried Steven Anderson's "The Tech Savvy Administrator" around in my book bag waiting to get a chance to read and review it. I settled into the coffee shop this morning, closed my laptop and started reading. I timed myself. The whole book cover to cover in 30 minutes with at least 5 minutes playing games and refilling coffee. It is not a long book, but it might be just long enough to change the way an administrator imagine technology usage in schools. Like other texts in the Aria series, Anderson aims to level up his audience's holistic understanding while giving clear direction for their learning. On some level I was thinking of not only my principal, but all of the non-teaching staff at my school while reading this text. Anderson writes for the administrator that does not know what they do not know. He focuses on general tasks and talks in broad terms about how to use some popular tools to move that task into a context of modern connected tools.
For example, his discussion of social media will not turn the reader into a twitter superstar, or demystify hashtags, but it will help someone who believes Twitter is silly begin to understand how social media can support a school’s communication and community.
ACSD provided a copy of The Tech Savvy Administrator for review. The whole series can be found here
Pure Genius from Don Wettrick is a great orientation text for anyone new to Innovation time in the middle to high school classroom. I love the fact that he mentions important factors, but doesn’t write a step by step guide. Pure Genius talks about what innovation is and why if is a great learning context, but Wettrick leaves the heavy lifting to Daniel Pink, encouraging the reader to watch the
video referenced in the text. This type of learning and teaching requires customization. Wettrick trusts his readers to find outside information, infact he provides a great guide to social media in the mid chapters of the book. This is another awesome book for teachers written by a teacher and published by Dave Burgess Consulting.
Don writes from his own experience and shares his best practices. Personally, I would lift up the knowledge that many small projects work better than one big project. The text holds a great deal of context, Wettrick reveals his own missteps, like inadvertently alienating other teachers when he started teaching innovation class.
Don Wettrick’s Pure Genius (Dave Burgess Consulting 2014) is a great balance of inspiration and best practices for supporting a community of innovation at your school.Wettrick’s honest evaluation of his own learning models the process honestly, and makes this work accessible even for teachers who have not yet begun to dream about a choice based learning environment.
If you want to know what my number one ed tech wish is, close your eyes and listen to second grade learning, and then tell me how to support video creation in that room. If my former supervisors are reading this they are laughing. I LOVE noise in the classroom. I believe it is generated by the friction of learning, like heat from a light. But even loving the noise, I am challenged when I want them all to make a video. They ask if they can go some where quiet, but there simply are not enough quiet spaces. I first tried to solve this problem with REALLY CHEAP ear buds. Seriously I think we paid 3 dollars per pair. The mics were ok, but my first grade kids cannot use earbuds, their ears are too small and the ear buds fell out. At CUE I got a chance to talk with ThinkWrite, and I like the quality of the headphones. This week I had a chance to test them against no mic and the inline earbuds mic. Check out the 40 second video below and judge for yourself. I think we will be ordering a "cart set" of the ThinkWrite headphones, while they don't cut the background noise, they do amplify the foreground much more than the other set ups. ThinkWrite did provide the sample headphone for this review

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Raising hands is a waste of time! There it has been said. Nothing brews boredom faster than the time it takes to get quiet and listen. Do you want to support literacy skills, typing instruction, and student voice? If you do, and you teach in a 1:1 environment, I want you to consider the possibility of text-supported discussions. Teaching your kids to type their discussion increases the depth of learning as well as finding time for applied typing practice.
Looking for a controlled way to have kids show what they know? Want a snappy formative assessment? Try Kahoot.
Want to get a full on chat room going? Use Today's Meet to make sure you can control the content and the archive of the chat.
Checking in with my second grade team, I discovered they are on the cusp of 3 long experiments about stages of life. They will be growing beans, hatching chicks, and watching caterpillars become butterflies. In class, they record daily observations in a science notebook writing a description as well as sketching what they see. In tech class we got started with Paper and Skitch. The kids were creating detailed and annotated digital sketch in under 30 minutes. To prep for this I loaded Paper on the ipads, and gave thanks that all the drawing tools are free now, and made sure Skitch was also in place.
There is something beautiful that happens when great apps are no longer locked into one platform. I am super excited that all my android wielding friends will now get to use Scratch Jr with their students. Why is Scratch JR awesome? This brings the power of content supporting programming to grades K and 1. The camera import function means you can transform seat work style worksheets into interactive programming lessons. Once you get your students creating presentations, dialogues, and skits in Scratch JR, you will be amazed at the power of programming as a formative assessment tool. Still not convinced? Check out these videos about Scratch JR and lesson ideas. If you have been lamenting your device and feeling left out of the most exciting thing to hit coding for the pre-reading crowd, get off your apps and install this amazing tool!
From the perspective of a K-5 tech teacher, this is an exciting time. Everyday new tools come to market. The newest robot I know of is Codie.
Codie looks like it will be easy for kids to program and one of the first functions they highlight is the ability to program it to dance.
Overall, I am pretty excited to see how Codie can support learning in technology and other classes. With the accelerometer and gyroscope I wonder if the data is exportable. If it is I could see using Codie in science and math class.
The coding interface looks like a flow chart, and I wonder how quickly my kids will take to it.
Checkout their Indiegogo campaign and be the first to get your hands on the wood-trimmed robot!
If you have an Ipad and a Sphero, download this free app now.
Tickle brings the power of block-based programming to the world of connected toys and this is great news for teachers. As a K-5 programming teacher, I want my students to study programming in a variety of contexts and Tickle puts programming in the middle of my classroom, flying through the air, rolling on the floor, even controlling the lights in the room. Tickle is a powerful programming studio that lets students control robots using a visual language that is familiar to them. Resembling Scratch, Hopscotch, and Blockly, Tickle is a quick start app for my students. I really enjoy seeing students develop a greater understanding of programming and the world around us as they experiment with robots, discover variables, or learn about the "magical" use of broadcast to launch a quad copter. Tickle is brand new on the app store, so please give them some love, write a review, and connect with the Tickle team on social media. Tweets by @tickleapp!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");

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I am excited to be presenting at the annual CUE conference in Palm Springs. I have a pretty full speaking schedule, with 4 great group presentations. If you are at the conference, join the conversation about creativity, learn how making puppets changes lessons, or just stop by to get some hands-on time with robots. Whether you are looking to add new tools to your tool kit, or a sure fire way to avoid Burnout and boredom find time to talk with us, we will get you making more than a difference.
Wokka, my dear friend from the Edupuppets was hard at work this week while I worked on my rank in Star Wars Commander. He wants everybody to dream big for Digital Learning Day! Get off you Apps and do something spectacular!
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I am so excited to be presenting at SVCUE this weekend. We are talking about progressive pedagogy and programming. We are also playing with Robots. Why progressive? We are cutting with both edges of that one. We will talk about building skills year over year with spiraling skill based lessons. We will also be talking about how coding as a mode of expression can empower students to become creators, not just consumers of digital texts.

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Here is a lesson we did in 3rd grade. WE have made puppet pals movies before and used Skitch before, so I am hoping this is a smooth experience focused on science and not tech!
Today we think about FORCE. We are going to use these photos to make diagrams of force using SKITCH.
Steps.
1. Choose one of the below images and save your image by clicking and holding on the image.
2. Open Skitch
3. Select image
4. Put arrows on the image to show where forces are
5. Save image to your camera role
6. Create a short Puppet Pals movie explaining the forces
Import your image as a background and use a character as narrator
7. Upload it to the blog.
Here is a sample
This is a challenge we are working on in fourth grade. The gold rush was an exciting and dangerous time. Fortunes as well as lives were made and lost. Your challenge is to design a simple 2-3 screen game that captures the drama of the real history of the gold rush. You will be programming in Scratch and you will share your final game in our class studio. The game should be some sort of a historical simulation. Let's consider a game that was first produced in 1974. (The was the year Sam was born). Spend a LITTLE time and play the game below. While you play I want you to think about what the game is asking you to do and how it is teaching you things about the Oregon Trail. You can create or design backgrounds or characters in other programs if needs be. Be mindful of the time you have and make it a priority to finish a playable game. If you think you could successfully remix another Scratch game, you may.