Podcast appearances and mentions of karen lirenman

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Karen Lirenman inspires K-2 teachers to reach their students. She teaches us her secrets to innovating and staying positive. www.coolcatteacher.com/e371   Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection The Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection is here! (Read my review.) This app is a digital supplemental curriculum solution for K-2nd grade - aligned with standards it includes over 150 curated apps inside their one simple app to install. I was blown away when I took a recent tour and saw that you can customize a playlist of games for each student based on standards and the personal needs of each student. Finally, we get the feedback that we need on apps for young children and meet content standards. You’ll want to sign up for your free 30-day trial at coolcatteacher.com/reallygoodstuff and remember - it is only one app - all of the other apps are inside this one simple digital learning collection from Really Good Stuff. Now, that’s good stuff for every K-2nd grade iPad or Google Play enabled tablet!

In this episode, we learn about education in British Columbia. On the west coast of Canada is Beautiful British Columbia, one of our ten provinces. From a new provincial curriculum, emphasis on coding and many more, exciting things are happening in education there and we wanted to dig deeper. Join us as we interview our guests: Trevor McKenzie, Karen Lirenman and Tracy Poelzer.

Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen have written the definitive book on using iPads in the elementary classroom, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom. In this episode, they share their favorite apps and the biggest mistake they made when getting started with iPads in their classrooms. The problem with iPads is there are so many apps and so many choices. It is easy for teachers to get overwhelmed and not know where to start. Even worse, some teachers just use them for “game day” and miss the opportunity they have to do help students learn with them. Today’s show will help settle the dust and bring clarity to iPads in the elementary classroom. I love their book, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom, so much that we bought it for every teacher at my school. And here’s the most exciting thing! We’re hosting a giveaway of this book in the next 24 hours! A full transcript of this show and the show notes are available at www.coolcatteacher.com/podcast as well as details on this month’s giveaway contest to win a MakerBot mini replicator 3D and Kristen and Karen’s book!

Classroom 2.0 LIVE webinar with special guest presenters, Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen, Innovate with iPads, October 1, 2016. We are so excited to have two outstanding educational leaders sharing with us in this webinar, Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen! They are prepared to inspire and "wow" us with ways to get students and teachers creating with iPads. Webinar description: In this webinar, participants will learn to use iPads to transform teaching and learning. Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen, authors of Innovate with iPad, will share five key content creation iPad apps and how they can be used for numeracy, literacy, socials, science, and student self-assessment. They will explore what's possible with iPad and how it can be used as a tool for content creations instead of a tool for content consumptions. Each participant will leave the session with new ideas of how to transform teaching and learning with iPad. Karen is an award winning primary school teacher who is transforming education by connecting her students with the world through Twitter, blogs, and video conferencing. She takes a hands-on approach to teaching by including inquiry, projects, and the maker mindset in her classroom. Her students choose how they learn, show, and share their knowledge. Karen earned her bachelor of arts degree, bachelor of education degree, and a diploma in Teaching English as a Second Language from the University of British Columbia. Karen has taught in both Australia and Canada. Karen is an Apple Distinguished Educator and a Google for Education Certified Innovator. She blogs regularly at www.klirenman.com. Kristen has spent her career teaching and engaging primary school children in the United States and Canada. Through her innovative, student-driven projects, she teaches classes to take chances and develop the skills necessary to succeed in the twenty-first century. Kristen encourages her students to create, collaborate, and be open to trying new things in her classroom every day. She earned her bachelor’s degree in education through the University of Windsor, completed her master’s in the art of teaching at Marygrove College in Detroit, Michigan, and was recognized as an Apple Distinguished Educator. She frequently writes about her educational journey at www.mrswideen.com, and enjoys inspiring educators to use technology in innovative ways by speaking at conferences.

Our guest today has received national honors for the amazing work she is doing with education technology and first graders. Tune in and see what strategies, tool and tactics you can take way for use in your early childhood classroom. Follow:@coolcatteacher @klirenman @bamradionetwork Karen Lirenman is a grade one teacher in Surrey, British Columbia Canada, who loves to provide her students with choice in how they learn, show, and share their knowledge. She engages them globally through video conferencing, twitter, and blogging and uses technology as seamlessly as possibly to make this all happen. Twitter. @klirenman.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE: Dec. 8, 2012. Karen is a primary teacher in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. She has taught Kindergarten, Grade One, Kindergarten/Grade One Combined, Grade One/Grade Two Combined, and ESL K-7. Karen shared her 2 year journey into using ipods, ipads and other technology in her Grade One classroom for communication, collaboration, and creativity.

Classroom 2.0 LIVE: Dec. 8, 2012. Karen is a primary teacher in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. She has taught Kindergarten, Grade One, Kindergarten/Grade One Combined, Grade One/Grade Two Combined, and ESL K-7. Karen shared her 2 year journey into using ipods, ipads and other technology in her Grade One classroom for communication, collaboration, and creativity.