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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

Some, like social-emotional learning and digital citizenship, have long been important—and they may require even more focus this year. You may be familiar with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) curriculum and how it prepares students to enter the workforce with practical, high-demand skills. Digital Citizenship.

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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning Sports and Games: Using Instructional Models in PE. a Book (or Two). If I want to push my re ading, I sign up with my local library’s reading club, but other times I set a goal of a book or two a month in the summertime and make time to sit and read. Reestablish.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. Modification: Technology allows for a significant change, e.g. using screencasts to explain a process. Free alternatives. Google Expeditions.

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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Students are digital natives, in the habit of learning via technology. Did I miss anything?

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Subscribers: Your February Special is Available

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Digital citizenship I. Digital citizenship II. Digital note-taking. Gamification of education. Grading Technology. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Class exit tickets. Class warm-ups. Differentiation—general. Differentiation—How to teach the hard-to-teach class.

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10 Virtual Teaching Tips For Beginners

TeachThought - Learn better.

While some teachers have experience with integrating technology into their lesson plans, for many other educators this is completely new territory. For example, language arts teachers can create literature circles and book clubs or use a STEAM approach to empower students to teach the class with a given role. Use gamification/contests.

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5 Resources to Gamify Student Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

Educade gives you gamification resources for science, math, social studies, language arts, business, health and wellness, engineering, and more. This is your doorway to gamification. As a bonus, there’s an integrated digital library of 600+ books. They get confused and intimidated since there are too many books to read.

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