The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll include the video unboxing tour that I recently had with the team at the Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection, and I’ll share some thoughts on how you can effectively use this collection in your classroom. Plus, I’ll tell you how to get your free 30-day trial. Digital Learning Collection.

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MARCH 6, 2013

Learning is a deep challenge. How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. Creating a common analogy that can be referred to later as the teacher covers the content later.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Stay tuned to the end of the show to learn how to figure out if my friend Angela Watson’s 40 Hour Workweek Club is right for you. Today, the vocabulary doctors teach us how to teach vocabulary in the classroom. So check the show notes; you’ll see how to do that. [00:08:00].

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

This Thursday, December 6 from 1-3 pm Eastern Time, Edweek is hosting an event about personalized learning. I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. Its learning games, “Kahoots”, are multiple-choice quizzes that allow user responses. More information about how to do this can be found at How to Make a Survey With Google Docs Forms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Additionally, when you launch a type of classroom games that you’ve not built before, Educaplay will share a short tutorial video to help you create that type of activity. ABC Games: For Comprehensive Vocabulary. This type of classroom game requires quite a few items because it goes through the alphabet to test knowledge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. Also, I’m able to easily assess and share their work in AR. Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn. This blog post is sponsored by 3D Bear.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

How to Get Started With Fire Forensics. Supplies and summaries of labs, including outcomes and assessment tips. Students will also use charts to learn how to analyze the burns. 3 – Learning From an Expert. They’ll learn to build a claim as they understand the cause of a fire and where it started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 1, 2018

They’re completing formative assessments. Bethany: Wow, EdPuzzle is just fabulous because you know you can embed that formative assessment right there in the video. In the classroom the formative assessment is extremely important, and those tools just make it fun. Use the tools as formative assessments and use that data.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

AT MIND, our technique consists of language-independent, animated representations of math concepts presented through a series of puzzles that make learning math fun and engaging. ST Math does not implement a "teaching by telling" approach but instead facilitates a "learning by doing" method. Spatial-Temporal Game-based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Topics include: How to get kids moving as you teach programming. What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science. How to engage young women in Computer Science Programming. How to Bring Computer Science into Other Classes. How to Get Students Moving in Computer Science Class. Vicki: Hmmmm.

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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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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 24, 2019

My goal is to provide you with Do’s and Don’ts regarding online learning programs that will help guide you in how to best assist the students in your life. For simplicity, I will refer to all computer-based instruction as digital learning. The Role of Parents and Teachers in Game-based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Glen: I know that sounds crazy, but… I use the books now as a reference tool. We’re going to learn from that book, but then we’re going to put it back.”. Vicki: So how have the Next Generation Science Standards transformed your classroom? What would you tell your younger self as a beginning teacher? Vicki: Ohhhhh. Or have they?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Those are real nice, but I think that there’s a lot more that we can do with it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After choosing Minecraft as an in-class resource, I found that not everyone knew how to play—including me! The solution was simple: I put the novices together, and we brainstormed questions about the game. Students recorded these reflections on a Google Doc as a reference for the next time we played.

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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. We’ll talk about how we want to respond to our friends around the world, and what questions we have. Vicki Davis: Wow.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Much of our instructional practices today have been informed by these tools, rather than good pedagogy informing how to use these tools. Schools easily assess the quantity of instructional hardware but often express concern that the devices are just not being used. Why choose a state of constant change… the way of innovativeness?

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

For a quick reference -- and for those of you #NotAtISTE who want to share in the learning -- here's a quick summary of our lightning sessions with links to the tools and resources each session covered. Available online or as an app, learn how to use this new student-guided interactive with students.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In every book on this list, the main focus is on the four C’s and putting student learning first. From time management to lesson ideas, to tech tools and how-to’s, each of these books reveals a wealth of knowledge and ideas. . Holly and Tanya included a table of tools and how they can be used. ” Visit Hyperdocs.co

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

Join ISTE’s senior director of standards, Carolyn Sykora, on May 28 for an information-packed webinar that will delve into all the ways Lead & Transform can help your school or district make the leap to a technology-rich learning environment. Learn more and register here. Shifting the Way We Talk About Success in the Classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 3, 2014

In our community’s next webinar, Dr. Jason Ohler helps us consider how to use digital citizenship to help our students and ourselves navigate our rapidly evolving world. Share your experience with game-based learning with an audience of game developers and peer educators! Classroom 2.0 Thanks, Karen!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Kasey: Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool. Adding those formative assessments in and preparing for those. Let’s look at it. Vicki: Yes. Kasey: Yes.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

I want every student to understand how they can share from every single electronic device or a photograph of physical objects on my interactive display. This is why, as part of my first and second day procedures, I teach students how to “throw” their screens (of all kinds) to my large screen at the front of the classroom.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. ” Game-Based Learning. Learning through games (from physical to digital). Mastery Learning. Personalized Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Learn more about our MiniCon events and how to sign up for these fun presentation opportunities here. Partner Spotlight New Media Consortium The New Media Consortium (NMC) is an international not-for-profit consortium of learning-focused organizations dedicated to the exploration and use of new media and new technologies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 9, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Mark: So… my students know which components of my classes are foundational and what components are collaborative, what components they will have choice on and what they’ll get to choose from when it’s time for assessments. Vicki: OK, did you say that they get to choose their assessment? Mark: I assess in other ways as well.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

We are fond of a quite in-depth approach on this blog, and try and drill down to the bare bones of a debate or subject, hoping to provide food for thought, as well as some unique references and sources. This is a mobile app that enables teachers to quickly assess their students. Today is different.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

AI-powered tools are used to personalize learning experiences, providing adaptive content tailored to individual student needs. This approach aims to enhance engagement and address diverse learning styles. Students are using AI to develop their own future-ready skills and to learn how to navigate an information-rich world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2014

Sunday, July 27th at 8:15pm Principalcast: Daisy Dyer Duerr on Summer Learning Opportunities , The Principalcast Podcast is weekly round table discussion about current topics in educational leadership. Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators!

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