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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

5 – Technology and Students with Special Needs Students with special needs can thrive if you know how to use the tools to help them succeed. As a mother of children with learning differences, I have personally found a wide variety of tools (available by all subject areas) that have helped my own children learn via technology.

Course 337
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Using Games to Help Reluctant Readers and Writers (and More)

The CoolCatTeacher

Lee Graham on Episode 569 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lee Graham is working with teachers to teach them principles of game-based learning to teach writing. Her anecdotes of classroom behavior-changing results are – pardon the pun – game-changing.

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Innovative Science Teaching in Grades 6-12

The CoolCatTeacher

Isabella Liu is a science teacher in Hong Kong who is using technology with her grade 6-12 classrooms. From augmented reality to game-based learning and online portfolios, she has a variety of ideas to share about how she amps up her science teaching with technology. Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw.

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Elementary Technology Favorites by Grade Level

Tech Helpful

Recently one of our fifth grade teachers, Alice Sikkema, was chosen to present in the poster sessions at Georgia Education Technology Conference (GaETC). One of the things shared was the list of "tried and true" technology usage by grade level at our elementary school. She rocked it! It was eye opening and very beneficial.

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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. Student Anxiety in Online Learning In this course, you’ll analyze anxiety brought about by technology immersion as an overactive fight–flight–freeze survival response. Learn More. Students are ghosting.

Course 486
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5 Reasons Teachers Using Tech are Super Heroes with Kecia Ray

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t “get” why technology is important, or know people who don’t, take a listen to understand and learn about transformative practices that work in education. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. Idea #1: Use Formative Data to Improve Learning.

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Eduprotocols for Littles with Jon Corippo #kinderchat

The CoolCatTeacher

Eduprotocols for kindergarten and early elementary with the book’s co-author Jon Corippo. Jon is the co-author of The Eduprotocol Field Guide and loves sharing better ways to teach and use technology. Instead of selecting many apps, many are now recommending just a few tools/protocols for how things are taught with edtech.