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Fickett Elementary School: Making a Difference thorough Innovation and Collaboration

TeacherCast

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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Fickett Elementary School: Making a Difference through Innovation and Collaboration

TeacherCast

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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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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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson

The CoolCatTeacher

Elementary and primary students can learn to code. For Hour of Code week this week, learn how you can go past the Hour of Code and use coding all year long! How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. Why code in the elementary grades? Programming in the Primary Grades Book Contest.

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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 Corippo on episode 375 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Then, it becomes about the content and not the tools.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Select the Standard and Start Playing (and Learning!). In Legends of Learning, it is simple for teachers to select the standard and find games that they can add to student playlists. Signing up is free. Understandably, we teachers always need to find new ways of reinforcing and reviewing concepts.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

They run on a desktop client, but they have the beta that runs on a browser, so you could run it, say on a Chromebook. Chromebooks only run stuff that’s on browsers. Another one, SineSpace — which is completely web VR based. Edorble.com — which is a virtual environment, a virtual world made for instruction.

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