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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

3 – Social Media Tools in Teaching – Using Them the Right Way I’ve seen social media used in ways that aren’t very safe or effective. For example, when teachers post their video conferencing links publicly on social media, they are unknowingly allowing unwanted attendees to enter their online classrooms.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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Choose Your Own Adventure Professional Development

The CoolCatTeacher

Additionally, Laurie is a member of the NYSCATE Social Media Team and Volunteer Hall of Fame. In 2020, CoSN named Laurie one of the NextGen: Emerging EdTech Leaders. She is part of the first DigCit Institute Global Impactor Cohort. Website: [link] . Twitter: @smilelearning.

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Power Up Your Classroom with Game Play [interview with Cate Tolnai and Lindsay Blass] – SULS022

Shake Up Learning

They share their passion for gamifying the classroom with game-based learning and teaching through play. We discuss what types of classroom environments are appropriate for gamification and ways you can incorporate game-based learning today! Game-Based Learning. [13:43] Gamification v.

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VR & AR in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Davidson was an integral force in creating and providing Internet-based video-on-demand for classrooms. He has become a leading guru of virtual environments, learning with mobile devices, social media, and digital textbooks. serves on the board of the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE).

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

It’s one of the benefits of using social media as teachers – to say “These are positive ways that you can use social media,” and then have those students model and practice it… as opposed to saying, “Don’t do this,” or “Don’t do that,” because that leaves them with the gap of “What should I do, then?”. Vicki: Wow.

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

Learning with 'e's

But because students are saturated with media, the quality of the videos they consume need to be sleeker, more polished and to the point to maintain their interest. Video plays an important role in all of these alternative modes of learning experience (Brame, 2015) and will continue to do so with future developments.

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