The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2020

She has been a presenter at ISTE 2019, NCCE 2016-19, the Southern Oregon EdTech Summit 2015-18, and IntegratED 2017-18. Heather is passionate about integrating technology in education to amplify student voice, increase communication, and engage students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2016

100+ Game Based Learning Resources to Get Started in Your Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Games are fun. Game based learning excites learning in my classroom. Game Based Learning in My Classroom. By Jennifer Roland.

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The Game Agency

AUGUST 29, 2019

used a PlayStation to improve his surgical accuracy, the idea of games to improve clinical interventions has been of great interest to the industry. The often-competitive and extroverted nature of sales teams, for example, makes them ideal students for game-based learning training courses with gamification elements added.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 16, 2018

Jessica was awarded the NAESP/VINCI Digital Leader of Early Learning Award in 2016 and in 2017 was named the Minnesota National Distinguished Principal. She started her career as a Music Therapist and worked with adults with disabilities and adolescents in residential settings in Iowa and Illinois.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Karen has a student choice-driven hands-on approach to teaching which includes inquiry, project-based, and maker mindset. In 2016 Karen published Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning as a way to help educators see how technology can help students create their own content instead of consuming someone else’s.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2016

February 28, 2016 Learning math doesn’t have to be always boring. Kids can enjoy learning math through the use of a wide variety of game-based learning strategies. Some of these come in the form of.read more.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Today, Amplify announced that it is merging its games division—the team and its assets—with StoryToys, an Irish developer of children’s learning apps, into a new company: Touch Press. Across the gaming industry, educational titles have been panned for lacking visual polish, user-friendly mechanics and overall design.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Vicki: Yes, you can use Ed Tech and Social Emotional Learning! Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. Michelle, you’ve done some fantastic work with Social Emotional Learning and Ed Tech. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman @ mrzphd is with us today.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

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. The CGN also has hosted three increasingly well-attended conferences, called the CUNY Games Festival.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

If you want to keep your players in your game so that they can develop skills, you have to continually engage them.” Play, Explore, Study, Build In 2016, two researchers at Clemson University in South Carolina set out to see what the existing research really had to say about gaming’s impact on 21st-century skills.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While games focus on problem-solving abilities, he claims, most exams test for content and knowledge—things that require more memorization than problem-solving skills. “If If anyone can fundamentally change the nature of assessments in K-12, then there could be a big opportunity for game-based learning products,” White adds.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it. D2L's Resources for Teaching and Learning.

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MindShift

JUNE 28, 2018

Adapted from Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games by Matthew Farber published by Peter Lang. Educators must also play the game in advance and “think about the maturity of the students and the goals they have,” Schrier told me in 2016.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2016

New online professional development course focuses on increasing student achievement through engagement with game-based learning. Included for K-12 educators who enroll in the course by February 15, 2016, is a free DimensionU Class License (for up to 30 students), through the remainder of this school year.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Challenge encourages game-based learning to help kids learn to have fun with math. If they build it, they will learn from it. That’s the idea behind the national K-12 Game-a-thon, which invites students to let their imaginations and problem solving run wild as they design, build and share their own math games.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

However, sales of mobile learning, simulation-based learning, game-based learning, and “brain-training” software are all on the rise. These increases are cited as major factors in the global decline of computer-based educational and professional training software. billion in 2016.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. Schultz isn’t a stranger to technology for people with impairments.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 11, 2017

The skills learned could help them with not only online safety but a variety of life skills. Starting in the 2015-2016 school year, Vargas worked collaboratively with the classroom teachers as well as the technology teacher, Anthony Nuñez, to implement the Common Sense Digital Citizenship Curriculum school-wide.

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techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

Stride is an online, adaptive game-based learning platform that inspires students to practice and master concepts in math, reading, language arts, and science. While Big Universe is a new addition to the Alabama Summer Learning Challenge this year, there was a 55 percent increase in Stride usage from summer 2016 to summer 2017.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We caught up with Gee to learn about what games he’s currently playing, what he’s learning, why he doesn’t trust people who don’t finish games, and how it feels to be one of the most respected voices in the game-based learning community at the ripe age of 68. How has this community evolved over time?

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home. There are many ways that educators can embed digital financial education into the classroom.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I have been asked to return to teach summer enrichment classes on maker education for elementary-aged learners at a local school during the summer of 2016. The description is: Learn how to code first by playing games and then by coding some bots including Sphero, OZOBOT, and Dash and Dot.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Minecraft: Education Edition gets a place of honor on the exhibition’s timeline in November 2016, though it’s the Microsoft-sanctioned version and not the earlier MinecraftEdu modification, or mod, from TeacherGaming. While the Survival and Creative gameplay modes are well represented, Minecraft in education is not an afterthought.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2018

Bethany’s blog has been listed as one of EdTech Magazine’s 50 K-12 IT Blogs to Read (2016 and 2017). She has published posts on Edutopia, Fractus Learning, Sophia Learning, and Whoo’s Reading, and has presented at multiple technology conferences, including METC.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

She enjoys helping both students and teachers to creatively use technology tools to extend and share their learning in meaningful ways. Her recent learning adventures with her students have included exploring sketchnotes and 3D printing. In 2016, she was selected to be a Dremel 3D Printing Ideabuilder Ambassador.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Carol was a PBS 2016 Digital Innovator and also serves as the moderator for #2ndchat. Carol believes this is the best time to be a teacher and a student with the integration of technology to expand the classroom globally and to display learning in new and exciting ways. She holds a Masters Degree and a National Board Certification.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 Simulation-based scenarios can be created where students have to perform certain tasks and make decisions and then view the results in real-time. By creating game-based learning modules, publishers and educators can enable students to find solutions and solve problems.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Mrs. Yonker teaches in South Central Kentucky, and is a 2016 KY Teacher of the year nominee. Yonker is continuing her tech encouragement with the #MakingGoogleMasters to empower her older students to master G Suite tools, much like the Google Certified Educator Task for Level 1 & 2 certification. Blog: [link]. Twitter: @ leeannyonker.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 2, 2017

Video games can increase job performance and reverse age-related mental decline. It’s no surprise that game based learning has become a popular resource for education. The CYBERPOWERPC was given the PC Magazine 2016 Reader’s Choice Award for Overall Desktop PCs. Fisher-Price Fun-2-Learn Computer.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

A classic of educational futurism, James Paul Gee’s book remains an important reminder of the unique and powerful ways games and play can help us learn and think. It’s a great introduction to the field of game-based learning, and offers a refreshingly radical (even so many years later!)

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

That was a key area of focus at the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 7-10, and a number of ed-tech companies and organizations demonstrated possible solutions. Nova Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens in games that foster scientific inquiry. SXSWedu offered several ideas.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2017

classrooms and is becoming an increasingly popular choice for computers, while Apple’s iOS platform holds the lead on mobile devices, according to a new survey from game-based learning provider Kahoot! Google’s Chrome OS is spreading throughout U.S. Chrome OS accounted for 58 percent of the computer market in U.S.

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The Game Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

The Training Arcade was born in 2016 and was designed to enhance other training platforms including PowerPoint, the most popular authoring tools, and just about any LMS. A: We launched Motivate Cloud in 2012 and today the underlying platform has hundreds of thousands of employees using it with enterprise organizations reporting a 5.5X

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sarah Lynne Bowman and Anne Standiford conducted a 2016 mixed methods study of edularps at an L.A. Slota has since developed half a dozen class-as-games for subjects as far-flung as education technology, Latin, psychology and biology.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Is 2016 The Year That Progressive Education Returns? Developed in response to the rigid pedagogy of 19 th Century industrial society—methods that stressed uniform learning largely defined by social class—Progressive Education sought to break the mold with a more enlightened approach to public schooling. by Robert Sun.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The report notes, “Success in teaching is closely tied to test results, and teachers are not frequently rewarded for innovative approaches and improvements in teaching and learning, much less allowed to scale and replicate these breakthroughs.” This environment of stagnation frustrates many teachers and prevents good ideas from spreading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

2016) found in their study of high school students who were involved in gamification that flow and engagement had a positive association with learning. Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-based learning. Recently, Hamari et al.

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