Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Arcademics - One of my favorite sites for game based learning (K-8th grade) in a wide range of subjects. Also, there is an educational portal that allows teachers to track/monitor students, generate detailed reports, and assess student's learning to make it easy to differentiate instruction.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

.” Short written responses are a great way to review materials and assess student understanding. Game-based learning. ” Passive learning is more the former than the latter. By contrast, active learning develops critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Peer review. Role playing.

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Kathy Schrock

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

These include digital game-based learning, online discussions, graphic organizers, learning-by-doing, simulation based learning, problem based learning, applied learning, and performance based learning.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Think Fluency - A wonderful iOS/Google Play app for assessing a student's reading fluency. Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels. Edji - An innovative new site for annotating texts for collaborative learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. The benefits of esports are well documented. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on creating an elementary esports program.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Educandy - A wonderful site for creating educational games where a teacher just enters the questions and Educandy creates the game. Walnut - A excellent new site/app for finding educational videos and then taking quizzes to assess learning (think BrainPop). brainstorming, assessing learning, etc.).

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 20, 2018

Pear Deck is an active learning and formative assessment tool that makes your presentations completely interactive! Pear Deck is fully loaded with templates for each stage of the assessment process, vocabulary games, Google tool integration, and helps teachers engage students and create collaborative conversations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Ordinarily, a drop in college remedial courses would herald an improvement in high school math learning. million to around 780,000.

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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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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Using her document camera and an iPad, the teacher demonstrated how to take a 2D image that one student had previously drawn and alter it to become a 3D image ready to be printed. I was in her classroom the first time that she pulled laptops into her instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Those teachers also having Scripture memory or memorization of passages like the Preamble of the Constitution or other important documents, Fill in the Blanks, will save time and encourage memorization even when time is short. Fill in the blanks games on Educaplay takes words from a word bank and students can drag them into the passage.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Learn about global Kahoots, how she tweets with her class and more global collaborative techniques in this show. Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Instantly scan and score with any mobile, desktop or document camera. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam can save you time!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

Learn about these tools and the teaching strategies that you need to know to improve writing in your classroom now. Reinventing Writing is written for any teacher using or trying cloud documents with students. Share your experience with game-based learning with an audience of game developers and peer educators!

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The Game Agency

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Nearly half (47%) of malicious documents are.zip files, and 40% of unknown or unmanaged devices get missed on a network. While Cloud Defense was created exclusively for Intuit employees, there are other games available for any company to leverage. They’re often the ones responsible for letting a hacker access private data.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). The application of game-like “encouragement” mechanics to non-game entities. Put another way, it is making a game out of something that’s not. Mastery Learning. Personalized Learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

” Of course, when all these narratives about “social emotional learning” get picked up by education technologists and education entrepreneurs, they don’t just turn policy mandates or even into TED Talks. For its part, Edsurge pushed hard with its marketing of SEL in 2017: “ Want Social-Emotional Learning to Work?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

However, remote learning highlighted a need for such programs, leading districts to quickly adopt these technology programs. Assessment tools and data analytics play a major role in education today, enabling educators to gauge students’ understanding and use data to determine what interventions students need to best learn.

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MindShift

JULY 29, 2015

ABCya : This app offers an interactive game-based learning environment for language. It’s also Web-based and uses Flash, but students can log in at home as well. SeeSaw : This is an easy portfolio tool that allows teachers, students and parents to see and access video, audio, photo and text artifacts of learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

For this reason, it is likely more important that kids learn to program apps than make web pages. . ClassCraft (for Tracking Game Based Learning Experiences). I got into game based learning. I moved all of my documents to Dropbox. Microsoft Word (Personal Wordprocessing for Basic Documents).

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 22, 2020

students reach the “proficient” standard on the NAEP Civics Assessment. Access to this document can be found below; six-proven-practices-for-effective-civic-learning Download. An article from the NEA had this to say about civics education in lower income schools: Only 25 percent of U.S.

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