The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Unleashing students to help with this tool. Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. The difference is pedagogy. But I’m going to tell you why Quizizz is my favorite here. The correct answer of this is this, and this is why, and here’s a picture that goes with it.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

The “normal” classroom is not one where every 8-year-old is meeting 8-year-old developmental markers, or where every 15 year old has the same reading level. We assess young students for phonemic awareness and if they can rhyme words and segment and blend sounds. This is reality. As he says in his video, “This is reality.”.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. Some students will blossom more online than in a class of 25.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In summary, serious games done right can engage students and help us become better teachers. Not only do we want our students to be excited about learning but we also want them to be intrinsically motivated. In the final analysis, it is demotivating to “point-ify” everything students do. By Jennifer Roland.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist. For us in education, and although the schools are opening back their doors and students are back to their classrooms, a new hybrid modus operandi is in place where both synchronous and asynchronous modes of teaching are harmoniously working together.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Writing in the Columbia Journalism Review , Anya Kamenetez described articles about tech-free rich kids as “howling missed opportunities.

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