EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. The Basics of Digital Game-Based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science. 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 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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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Depending on whether that teacher is trying to pull in tech tools right while she’s doing direct instruction, or often teachers are using them more for independent word learning and practice. I’ll say that one of my favorite reference tools – I have a lot of favorites. [00:04:00]. I love Shahi.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 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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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 10, 2021

And by playing games, students can practice and revise their thinking as they move through the developmental stages of mastering math facts at their own pace (Bay-Williams & Kling 2014). Fluency was previously viewed in context with speed and assessed through timed tests. 11 Lessons on Game-based Learning and STEM Education.

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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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

Small, handheld devices like mobile phones are good for viewing static slides, but they’re epic for sending formative assessment data to the teacher and the whole class. Formative assessment is a not-so-secret of my own success, and the interactive display is part of this as I show certain items and hide others.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. If you prefer reading, see Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools (a post I wrote on Edutopia). Kecia: Oh yeah, absolutely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 9, 2018

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

CodeMonkey teaches programming basics in a language known as “CoffeeScript” through game-based learning. Their proven approach emphasizes learning a useful, real programming language through an intuitive and highly engaging online game.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

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