Love a good graph 🤓 #EduSky #Data

Love having a well-stocked prize bin! Few things are more motivating than a student fiddling with a well-earned fidget. #3D #EduSky #Fidget #Design

Reminder to take the sick day & it will all be okay. I've started phrasing student concerns as "this student needs support with ___" or "this student is great at ____." This time, it paid off! #EduSky #Substitute #Proud #SickDay

Time to change up my "How To" step by step guide for our Bambu printers!

Wellness day & I'm leading a 3D printing session. What do staff most want to print? Articulated dragons for their kids. #EduSky #3D #Dragons

This book includes struggling readers, non-traditional pronouns, varied strengths, diverse faces, grandparents helping, superhero librarians, & empowered children. Also, my 4 year old and I happily sobbed at the end. #BookSky #EduSky #Read #Books *From a book subscription Our Shelves 10/10

Reflecting on 2024, my classroom has focused on independence, choices, collaboration, & helping each other. I've been hearing, "I can help you," from new students all week. My new tip is to say, "I don't have a student Chromebook, just a teacher computer. What have you tried?" #EduSky #EduTech

Sometimes it's pajama day, and everyone needs a pick-me-up, so I'll pull out my eggplant onesie. #EduSky

Although this AI tool needs user interface support & beginner guides, the post did NOT deserve the nasty comments. AI is here to stay. Educators need to start the hard work of finding guardrails & adapting to change. We've done it before. We can again. #EduSky #Tech #BeKind #SupportInnovation

Yes! It's so important to have screening and guardrails on new tools for students and teachers. We need to be intentional digital citizens.

I much prefer using Claude for ideas, refinement, and most teaching tasks. Even email drafts feel more "human" or at least kind and concise. It is very hard to articulate why I love Claude, beyond the more ethical company Anthropic. This helps. (Gifted link: www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/t... )

I would like things to trend towards shorter films and longer books please and thank you so much

Shout-out to the tablet parenting my older child, while I wait for antibiotics to kick my pneumonia & my partner puts the baby to sleep. Thanks to #KhanAcademy she's studying carnivores, omnivores, & herbivores instead of the 90's version of TV, cereal, & pajamas. #Winning #EduSky #ScreenTime

To build the travel Vex Arena-w/no digital manual available: 1. Match the middle/top pieces (that say Vex Robotics) with the bottom pieces that have notches. 2. The checkered top pieces have numbers to line them up correctly. 1-12. The corners are 1, 4, 7, and 10. #Vex #Robotics #EduSky #Arena

We made up our own Vex Robotics game, for our local feeder schools, and finally set up the arena today. Such a fun day! 🥳 #Collaboration #EduSky #Vex #Robotics #STEM #STEAM #Competition #MiddleSchool Bonus: Everyone was picked up on time! #Celebration

I'm in a professional book club, and so far it's been great. For years I've been trying to pinpoint why groups are SO motivated or UNmotivated. This book gives practical input as to why, and how to help make sure a group is in the "successful" category. #BookSky #Read #Books #EduSky

Ways I have collaborated with colleagues this week: *Great tips for restorative conversations (Favorite: "I need only 1 more to ___" instead of public reminders). *A ride to PD & to auto shop *Shared author visit info www.thebookstall.com/author-visit... #EduSky #Teach #Collaborate #Kindness

I think it's time for us Book Lovers to change "Have a good day" to "Hope you get to read today!"

I can't decide if I'm more excited by the mess this will save me, or if I'm more excited to ask students if they want to empty the poop catcher. #MiddleSchool #EduSky #PoopCatcher #BambuLab #3DPrinting #HaHa P.S. Reminder to # with CamelCase & add alt text to images, inclusivity matters. #Progress

Reposting for those new here - "Bluesky Starter Tips for Educators" - creating your profile, connecting with the #EduSky community, following people, using Starter Packs, joining EduChats, adding custom feeds, refollowing Twitter friends & more! www.controlaltachieve.com/2024/11/blue...

Teaching means that being sick requires plans for a substitute AND hoping the job is filled by someone kind to Ss. Thankfully, having @vex.com VR lessons have been a win. Today's plan was Castle Crasher+. Ss have been emailing me "winning" code all day. #vex #edusky #stem #steam #tech #teach

Reminder: If you see your friend following the account of a terrible person, it's completely okay to DM your friend and say, "Hey, do you know that this person you're following/quoting/reposting/agreeing with, is terrible?" Rarely your friend will say, "Yes, I like terrible people!" But not often.

Kids learn by explaining concepts, not taking tests!

This time of year is always a struggle, so I do mini units. This week, I focused on an engaging Coral Reef virtual cleanup. 10/10! education.vex.com/stemlabs/vr/... Last day tip- start with the "wait" block, so that trash piles up. #vex #edtech #edusky #code What's your favorite mini unit?

Printing #fidgets for birthdays and my prize bin. Dinosaurs and axolotl are currently very popular. To fix the blob of death, I just reheated and pulled off the excess/stuck filament with tweezers. #edusky #stem #prusa #middleschool

Screen free activities #edusky #onted

Started the day with two (thankfully minor) blob of deaths from my Prusa printers, and ended my afternoon with two happy notifications by my #bambu printer (A1) finishing up a successful print. Fingers crossed for longevity. Today's class scoreboard: Prusa 3 Bambu 8 #teacher #stem #3d