The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2020

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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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

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 CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. I’ve gotten emails saying some of you are having hard time figuring out how to leave a review. Dates : February 3, 2017 – February 5, 2017 at midnight EST.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

On today’s show Matthew Farber, author of Game-Based Learning In Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games , talks about how to use games in the classroom effectively. There’s gamification. So how would you classify the way that they teach with these games — and what kind of games? There are all kinds.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

Gamification. In a non-gamey, but quietly interactive approach, Kate Zaleski, Library Media Specialist at the Woodland School in Warren, NJ, reports that she plans welcome students with a read aloud of Kate Messner’s How to Read a Story. This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Engagement. She will have students.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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