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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? What if everything students learn could gain them XP (experience points?)

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Before we explore how to motivate your students to learn, let’s go over the difference between two types: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. How to Motivate Students: Encourage Intrinsic Motivation. Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2]

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. We created opportunities for teachers to use mentor texts — so anything related to Genius Hour, MakerSpace, gamification — a lot of most recently published texts through practitioners and facilitators in the education world right now.

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Diary of a Techy Teacher: Why I’m Taking a One-Year Sabbatical with BetterLesson

Edsurge

With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student. In conjunction with blended learning, I’ve used gamification to change the culture of my classroom—focusing on students becoming positive collaborators and self-managers of their learning.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Learn how to use the iPad apps “Book Creator” and “Creative Book Builder” to create and share enhanced/multimedia eBooks using DropBox for free cloud storage/distribution. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Come play along and learn how. Receive practical tips to implement your own PBL projects.

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Georgia Model for Virtual Professional Learning: Supporting Educators During COVID

edWeb.net

When the social studies standards changed in 2015 – 2016, we needed a way to support teachers throughout Georgia without having specific district or RESA social studies specialists to do that. Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics.