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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

The CoolCatTeacher

SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Today’s expert, Dr. Matthew Farber , gives us an interesting twist on games by integrating them with SEL. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. Founder - SEL Gaming LAb.

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Legends of Learning: The Game-Based Science Platform for Grades 3-8

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsored by Legends of Learning From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Students love to play games, and they also need real-world examples to help science come alive. With this in mind, Legends of Learning is a fantastic platform full of NGSS aligned science games that does both.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

They are examples of things he is using and that he has presented about virtual reality. Vicki: So what are some of your favorite examples when you’re trying to convince people that this is a great model? Enrique: Well, some examples that I’ve either done or suggested to them in the past have been….

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ #Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

JARROD: Yes, so let’s say you’re doing a gymnastics unit and you’ve got a display, some sort of gymnastics presentation of skills, for example. VICKI: But Jarrod, what kinds of things are they capturing to go in their phys Ed portfolio? And then that’s shareable.

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8 Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

I think Padlet is a perfect first example because everybody kind of knows what it does. Are there any other rock-solid examples besides Padlet? It’s one of the most full-featured video editing products out there, and considering that it will work on a Chromebook is just amazing. Vicki: OK, give us some of those well established.

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Five Ways Teachers Can Use—and Create—Augmented Reality Experiences

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A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. Many educators find that gamifying learning keeps students engaged. Team experiences teach collaboration skills, distribution of responsibilities, specialization and social and emotional learning skills.

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