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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. Consequently, on a recent benchmark assessment, students made significant growth within that domain, which is typically seen at the end of the school year after that unit is taught. With numerous programming languages available, it can take time to pick a starting point.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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5 Tech tools every student should have

Neo LMS

But technology can be an incredibly useful educational tool for students of all ages, even young elementary-level learners. While technology is useful, it can be abused, or some students might simply not understand how to use it correctly without guidance. . The key to using edtech appropriately is to do so under supervision. .

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

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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5 Simple Ways to Gamify Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Sixth-grade teacher Jessica Gordon@ 1337teach gives us tips, ideas, and links for how to gamify our classrooms now. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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