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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? But if I’m teaching how to use Scratch Jr.,

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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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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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5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ #Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

VICKI: Yeah, because you’re teaching a kid how to shoot a basketball shot and they say, “No, I am doing it right, I am doing it right.” So you can imagine, it’s sort of like having an instant replay in your classroom and that brings out this enormous array of possibilities. [00:02:00].

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

We showed them how to use the paint can tool to put color in the cells, and we told them to create a jack-o’-lantern. But they didn’t know how to spell the compound word. We showed them how to use the Voice Notes in the Speaker Notes to type the word. Check out the interview with Christine Pinto on episode 142.

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@Quizizz : Say Goodbye to Worksheets and Crosswords

The CoolCatTeacher

So I taught my kids how to self-correct. The kids come in, I say, get out your phones, or get out your Chromebooks or your iPads; boom, we’re going to do the test. Now, based on how many they got right, I’m going to give them a mini lesson and I’m going to hit them again. So on Monday, I give them the test. What grade?

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Removing the Limitations in a Digital Environment

Fractus Learning

Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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