Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

I envied the kids who’d discover Little Red Riding Hood through that book. I had discovered the story through a book with no pictures. I’ll only go into two options: Visual storytelling through gamification. Kids of all ages love to play games. Colors and interactive elements are the salt and pepper of games.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

Take, for example, the distributive property in third grade, helping kids to understand that you can think about 6 x 7 as 5 groups of 7 and one more 7. It is really hard for kindergarten students to understand—and many adults forget this was once hard—that when adding 5 + 2, I don’t need to count the 5 again.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 24, 2017

Lesson plans are delivered via a granular combination of rigorous critical thinking activities, real-world problems, and interactive digital games that make implementing the curriculum easy and flexible for any type of classroom and fully supportive of a schoolwide goal of college and career readiness. How to use Stepping Stones.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

He and I were going through a couple of clarifying questions after reading his recent white paper unpacking the underlying scientific concepts of ST Math. In that case, they won't have the foundational understanding to tackle more complex concepts in the future, such as adding fractions whose common denominators are multiples of two.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Students become proficient in persevering and problem-solving, and they understand that mistakes are learning opportunities. She described her experience with a student from Thailand who did not yet speak English and had her play ST Math’s “Fractions on a Number Line.” When the JiJi culture is strong on campus, it’s contagious.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

He and I were going through a couple of clarifying questions after reading his recent white paper unpacking the underlying scientific concepts of ST Math. In that case, they won't have the foundational understanding to tackle more complex concepts in the future, such as adding fractions whose common denominators are multiples of two.

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The Mobile Native

APRIL 27, 2016

Try these game-based educational apps that make math a whole lot of fun! YodelOh Math Mountain ( Spinlight Studio ) - This app, reminiscent of The Price is Right game show, takes place in the Alps. This fast-paced, interactive game holds student interest by putting a twist on the memorization of fast facts.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In this blog post and podcast episode, my guest, Craig Klement, will share free tools, templates, and lesson ideas you can use across grade levels. Google Slides tip : Give everyone edit access to a Google Slide deck through Google Classroom. The goal of the game is to create two groups of cards, each with the same sum.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2014

Arts integration can also bring content to life through the infusion of instructional technologies. Use Skitch when discussing fractional parts of the whole and relating benchmarks fractions to food, building and construction, and rhythmic notation. I have students play a game called "problem maker, problem solver."

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N2Y

MAY 1, 2020

Will you be sharp enough to save your proposal for after the kids’ bedtime so you can be present now to help your 11-year-old divide fractions? It’s exhausting to watch the mental movie of these scenes and think through all the tasks on any given day. Choose a letter and make a game for your child to find many examples of the letter.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

When I put together this list of top-rated games of 2015, I noticed that though the tools varied in target grades and subjects, they shared some key things. Some of these tools explicitly help kids make things while others foster thinking and reflection skills that complicate and expand their understanding of themselves and their worlds.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

He likens these practices to taking away students’ encyclopedias, through which they find knowledge and begin to make choices that will lead to advocacy for others and for themselves. Equity is not that everyone knows how to write a loop but that they understand why it matters and how a loop can help people,” says Wybrant.

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The PL2C Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

There were several games and fun activities for students to begin exploring how accessible block-based programming can be. As we worked through different words, ideas, and implementation strategies, we began to understand that CT has always been a part of a strong, metacognitive classroom environment. Why does this matter?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Now that robots are flipping burgers and reading X-rays—for a fraction of the cost of human labor—learners need to prepare for careers that employ uniquely human traits like self-regulation and communication. Blogs, wikis and social media, on the other hand, are distributed across networks.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

The problem is, no person can sort through all of this without collapsing in a sweaty, dizzied heap. And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science. Check out Boreal Tales.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The problem is, no person can sort through all of this without collapsing in a sweaty, dizzied heap. And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 27, 2018

The problem is, no person can sort through all of this without collapsing in a sweaty, dizzied heap. And of course, only a small fraction of the world's teachers get the luxury of going to ISTE and seeing the expo. A uniquely ambitious project, Tyto Online is a multiplayer online game focused on science.

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Assessment Robotics Tools Digital Citizenship 40

MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

And How ST Math will Prepare Your Students for Success As we’ve made it halfway through the 2022-23 school year, the STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) test has been redesigned to align more closely with the classroom experience.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2016

Math instruction can be the most resistant to changes in pedagogy — even schools that have had success with project-based learning or inquiry-centered approaches can struggle to teach math in ways that help students understand the rich connections and complexity of the subject.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Ramona Persaud on episode 211 [A special encore episode] of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. VICKI: So we don’t want the brain stressed, we want to understand that the brain likes patters, what’s our third? And the key is to not have it feel like repetition.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Elevated Math –Elevated Math provides initial instruction or intervention on math topics that cover place value, estimation, large digit addition all the way through Algebra I (two years of math instruction!). Fraction Basic –free video app provides a quick and simple way for you to learn and understand the basics behind fractions.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Check out my Booking Page and please share and subscribe to this Blog. Engineering firms want people who have passion, are willing to be life-long learners, are systems thinkers, have multicultural values, and can understand interdisciplinary context. Learn how to use Art to teach fractions, decimals, and percent equivalents.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2019

There are numerous benefits to homework, such as developing positive study skills, fostering independence, and deepening student understanding of concepts. It is vital to have an open line of communication with your student’s teacher in order to understand tasks, homework, and the teacher’s expectations. Implement a homework routine.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 28, 2019

I also think schools and parents, and the world in general back then wasn’t really set up to understand kids like me. The one thing everyone did understand was that I was a good reader. Other times I’d create a game where I’d time myself to see how fast I could complete a worksheet. My favorite question was “Why?”

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Listen to the interview starting at 3:25 above, and read the transcript below.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 14, 2021

I remember just sitting at home, because I think I had just walked in through my door when I got the email going, “Okay, well, I guess it’s a break.” ” And then of course it became this incredibly long waiting game where we ended up teaching virtually for 331 days. ” And then the world just stopped.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

And I want to do it worldwide… Personally, my goal is not to provide less expensive access to the same teaching and learning experience to more people – access and affordability have never been my end game. Even at $8 per book, most people in the would cannot afford even a small fraction of the world’s literature.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 24, 2021

” For instance, I would really like to go through and add commentary to all these different kids’ projects or I would like to respond to all of their flip grids today or something, but that’s actually not necessary. That feeling of getting through a whole stack of papers or projects all at once is a great feeling.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

2) I wanted to have a blog post that I could point people to so that I’m not explaining the same thing over and over again. The more interesting things I was making for my students–math games, center materials, and so on–weren’t created digitally so there was no way to share them.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 24, 2021

” For instance, I would really like to go through and add commentary to all these different kids’ projects or I would like to respond to all of their flip grids today or something, but that’s actually not necessary. That feeling of getting through a whole stack of papers or projects all at once is a great feeling.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Many teachers are faced with the hard task of teaching a really complex math concept to kids: fractions. Not only is it a hard concept to grasp, it is an essential building block for understanding algebra later on. In the game, students learn by experimenting with fractions.

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