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Cool Cat Teacher’s Gift List 2016 Edition

The CoolCatTeacher

When we meet and talk, I take notes and then snap a picture and it goes to our shared Google Drive immediately. Explore Like a Pirate: Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners with Gamification and Game-Inspired Course Design by Michael Matera is one of those books I keep by my desk as I become better at Game Based Learning.

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35 Take-aways from Summer 2016 Professional Development

Ask a Tech Teacher

Ask a Tech Teacher’s Summer PD 2016 just ended. Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. The Tech-infused Classroom. The Differentiated Teacher. Teach Writing with Tech. 20 Webtools in 20 Days. They are life long learners.

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Gaming The 2016 Election - Trading Cards & Virtual Interactives To Meet The Candidates

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Source: PBS Kids Educating younger learners about the 2016 presidential election poses a real challenge. Source: PBS Kids Fortunately, PBS Kids has assembled a terrific array of resources in its " You Choose 2016 " platform. The esoterica of the primary and caucus systems can be difficult to explain. presidency.

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

Technology in the classroom may not have reached its full potential yet, but both teachers and students know there’s more to it than meets the eye. You’re probably familiar with the notion of gamification — the use of gaming principles and mechanics in a non-game context, like learning. Gamification is all about data.

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Gaming The 2016 Election - Animations & Maps To Decode The Electoral College

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Source: PBS Learning Media As the national polls and the state-by-state predictions shake out in the final month of the 2016 campaign, the focus turns even more to the Electoral College as the actual arbiter of presidential glory. Some argue that the electoral vote misrepresents the true(r) popular vote.

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Storms over liberal education: notes on the 2016 AAC&U conference

Bryan Alexander

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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TEACHER VOICE: Three classroom trends gain ground

The Hechinger Report

One of my most exciting celebrity moments last year was the day I stepped into a colorful second-grade classroom in Ramallah, Palestine, to meet Hanan Al Hroub. Hanan was named the 2016 Global Teacher of the Year by the Varkey Foundation, and spending time with her revealed why. Social and emotional learning.

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