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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

The CoolCatTeacher

SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Today’s expert, Dr. Matthew Farber , gives us an interesting twist on games by integrating them with SEL. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. Founder - SEL Gaming LAb.

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Five Ways Teachers Can Use—and Create—Augmented Reality Experiences

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Digital puzzle boxes — breakouts Teachers can create activities similar to those in BreakoutEDU, but instead they configure a set of challenges on a computer, and students engage with these challenges via a smartphone, tablet, or Chromebook.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

eSchool News

Laptops and Chromebooks are not new, but they have a strong spot in many K-12 classrooms today. Enhanced data analytics for personalized insights: Data analytics tools will likely become more sophisticated, providing educators with deeper insights into student performance and learning patterns.

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Gaming, VR Exploring, and App Building: The Ellis Island Hack-A-Thon

techlearning

5) As with all gaming in my classes, students were asked to identify, fact, fiction and the methods used by the game designers to demonstrate key facts. Following the game and discussion, we investigated more about Ellis Island. We kept notes on our Mission US City of Immigrants Notes (Google Slides).