The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Generally speaking, this free interactive STEM lab takes 2-4 days to complete and includes extension science experiments that you could add to the unit. Fire Forensics: A Free STEM Module for Middle School Science. This online, free STEM module is interactive and engaging and is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can design a game in any subject to assess their peers. When students design games they use a lot of creativity and critical thinking skills. Students must imagine and design worlds, characters, levels, sound effects, game elements, and more.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This years list has quite the variety and covers a wide range of educational content, such as: game based learning, programming/coding, educational resources, and more. This is all done through an educational portal making it easy to assess student learning and differentiate instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Brian Aspinall is an educator, best selling author and three times TEDx speaker who is considered one of the brightest STEM innovators in education. His book, Code Breaker – 15+ Ways to Get Started With Coding, continues to top the charts in STEAM Education with a focus on rethinking assessment and evaluation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Future is STEM/STEAM. We celebrated National STEM/STEAM Day just a few weeks ago, a reminder of how important it is to foster our students’ curiosity around math and science endeavors. STEM/STEAM is everywhere you can imagine and is an indispensable part of our everyday lives. ST Math’s Impact on Waterloo Students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

make themed puzzles and games available during sponge time — right before lunch or at the end of the day. if you’re just getting into game-based learning, this is a great starting point. More games and simulations: Lots more web-based puzzles. Lots of web-based simulations.

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techlearning

JANUARY 28, 2016

From programming, STEM, and game-based learning to assessments and stories, there’s something for everyone in this best-of-2015 list.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) started collaborating on game-based learning (GBL) in developmental math and writing instruction in the mid-2000s, they had no idea what they were setting in motion. The CGN also has hosted three increasingly well-attended conferences, called the CUNY Games Festival.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. 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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Assessment in AR including classroom examples Effective ways to get started with AR Predictions on where AR will be in 5 years Who? Register Now AR Topics Some of the topics we will be discussing include: How teachers are teaching with augmented reality in the classroom Device configurations (does every student have to have one?)

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

The other ones have all been very good about allowing me to have autonomy, as long as I am following through with the scope and sequence that our PLC has developed and making sure that I prepare my students for the common assessments that we create. We’re working a lot with STEM. So why does it make people uncomfortable?

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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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MIND Research Institute

JULY 19, 2016

By Lianna Nix Director, Rex Mill’s STEM Academy Program, Jonesboro, GA. I believe intensely in allowing a healthy measure of struggle in learning, which engages the pre-frontal cortex in sense-making. This culture is developed when mistakes are honored and analyzed as a significant part of the learning cycle.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Ordinarily, a drop in college remedial courses would herald an improvement in high school math learning. Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. Traditionally, students landed in remedial courses based on their placement test scores.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The reason for this as not as many new learning tools came out this year compared to years past, while more current tools focused on regular updates. Also, has an abundance of lesson plans and students can learn how to create their own Minecraft style game. myBlee Math - A nice free iOS app 5-12 yrs old learning Math.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

Her classroom was, and remains, a lively and engaged place for learning across many platforms. How does digital learning work with electives? An art teacher I am working with has students bring laptops from a STEM lab with them to art class. This is another frequently asked question. She divides her class into two groups.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

GBLNYC has over 500 members and hosts monthly events ranging from networking socials, educational game demonstrations, expert presentations, and game design workshops. Are you overwhelmed with the idea of integrating STEM tools in the classroom? Do you need help evaluating which tool is the best fit for you and your students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home. There are many ways that educators can embed digital financial education into the classroom.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Those are real nice, but I think that there’s a lot more that we can do with it. Make it more immersive. Make the experience more all-inclusive.

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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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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

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Kimberly Tyson @ tysonkimberly and Dr. Angela Peery @ drangelapeery share their advice for helping students learn blended vocabulary. A conversation with Dr. Kimberly Tyson and Dr. Angela Peery on episode 94 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2017

A conversation with Mari Venturino on episode 77 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. These challenges are free!

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 2018

Students start with a zero and level up as they use videos, one on one help, and game-based mastery to master physics. Jonathan Thomas-Palmer on episode 298 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Jonathan Thomas-Palmer teaches physics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 6, 2014

We’ll cover a range of features including the online games portal GameUp; My BrainPOP, which lets you track student learning; and the Mixer, which helps you create customized assessments. Education Revolution Google+ Community Game Based Learning in the Classroom. Great idea, Karen! Share them here.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students. At the end of the day, edtech can feel like one more thing on a teacher’s plate.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

If organic chemistry were easy, an old joke goes, it would be called biology. Getting a seat in Garg’s Chemistry 14D class—even one on the floor in the aisle—is for many undergraduates a cause for a victory dance. For some, O-chem is where med school dreams go to die. Many see it as an impossible maze of ceaseless memorization.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 2, 2015

Beyond the structured game the player s can also design their own test c hambers , which is what m ost educators have used with their students. There are a lot of lessons that bring Portal 2 into your classroom , though designing test chambers and the general structure of the game typically lends itself to a STEM classroom.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In this case, learning was meaningful for the students because it had traction in a fantasy world that stood in as a facsimile for the real one, the central dynamic of play and a key feature of its value for development and learning. Sorcery for STEM.

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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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