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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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XplorLabs Fire Forensics: A Free STEM Module for Middle School Science

The CoolCatTeacher

You can have students watch the video module on their iPads, Chromebooks, or other devices, or you can project it on your board and go through it as a class. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Bethany Petty: Using Edtech to Enhance Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

This is my tenth year teaching, but about four years ago, my building went one-to-one with Google Chromebooks. I was like, “I have got these ChromeBooks. So really the ability to kind of break down barriers, traditional classroom learning barriers, has just been amazing for me and my students. I am going to use them!”

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Eduprotocols for Littles with Jon Corippo #kinderchat

The CoolCatTeacher

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Legends of Learning: The Game-Based Science Platform for Grades 3-8

The CoolCatTeacher

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. ” The post Legends of Learning: The Game-Based Science Platform for Grades 3-8 appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

They run on a desktop client, but they have the beta that runs on a browser, so you could run it, say on a Chromebook. Chromebooks only run stuff that’s on browsers. Another one, SineSpace — which is completely web VR based. Edorble.com — which is a virtual environment, a virtual world made for instruction.

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Just having those icons up there at the top of the toolbar as places for them to reference. The day that they learned to copy and paste (laughs) was a magical day because they were able to use that Ctrl-C and the Ctrl-V. Of course, we talked about our line tool, how you can use that to create shapes and things like that.

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