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5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ #Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

Today Jarrod Robinson @mrrobbo gives us the apps, tools, and mindset to rock physical education class. In today’s show, Jarod Robinson geeks out Physical Education Class: Replay apps to help kids see what to improve. Founder of www.connectedpe.com & over 100 educational software products & services. Listen Now.

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Using the Real World Classrooms Model When Teaching Finance

The CoolCatTeacher

SMART wants to recognize educators across the globe who inspire greatness in their students, peers or community. Nominate your favorite educator at coolcatteacher.com/greatness. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Brian Bean, 14-year Texas educator, about real-world classrooms. I mean, I was supposedly an educated man.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

Edsurge

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) started collaborating on game-based learning (GBL) in developmental math and writing instruction in the mid-2000s, they had no idea what they were setting in motion. Connecting the Dots Between Enjoyment and Learning. When four professors from the.

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with 'e's

Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.

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Strategies and Tools to Improve Student Behavior and Engagement – SULS0175

Shake Up Learning

After weighing the life of a laboratory researcher and the life of a physics educator, Shawn enjoyed the interactive classroom setting much better. Deciding to stay in the classroom meant furthering his education for certification. In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. on Corippo is the Chief Innovation Officer for CUE, leading CUE’s professional learning throughout California and Nevada. Every week day you’ll learn powerful practical ways to be a more remarkable teacher today. Quizlet Live.

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Digital classrooms

Learning with 'e's

It was published by Routledge in 2008 and is now also available as a Kindle reader version. Everyone in the world of education it seems, has an interest in how technology is going to influence what we do in the classroom. We even mentioned the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0 ) as a potential horizon technology for learning.