The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Isabella Liu is a science teacher in Hong Kong who is using technology with her grade 6-12 classrooms. From augmented reality to game-based learning and online portfolios, she has a variety of ideas to share about how she amps up her science teaching with technology. Cospaces ( 5 Ways to Use Augmented Reality in the Classroom ).

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. In today’s show, Michael gives us five simple ideas for implementing game-based learning in your classroom. Today’s Give Away Contests! Mini Games.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

That’s one of the reasons why there are many tech tools every student should have to help them learn at home and in the classroom. . Still, despite the digital age we are living in, some adults question how much exposure to tech kids should have before they reach a certain age.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

And when you’re ready, consider how to bring your passions (and your students’) into the classroom with passion projects and student interest projects. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom. Learn how to bring those in for students. PD Connection. PD Connection. Sabbatical.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

On today’s show Matthew Farber, author of Game-Based Learning In Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games , talks about how to use games in the classroom effectively. They are practical courses that have teachers developing tangible resources to use in their classrooms immediately. There’s gamification.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 16, 2022

The harsh reality of classroom life is that students and teachers both report lower motivation and morale right now. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. Understand the concept of situational game design and how it can open up conversation in the classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

WEDNESDAY'S SHOWS (July 22) : 10:00 AM - The Connected Classroom with Rusty May - "Creating A Climate of Trust & Support" with Guest Josh St. Louis is principal at SG Reinertsen Elementary School in Minnesota. We welcome your participation and perspective as the mics are always open in the Connected Classroom.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Keeler has more than 50 tips for Google Classroom under her belt, with an e-book on that series in progress. Curriculum and ed tech consultant Monica Burns offers up her expert advice on the best ways to implement tech tools in the classroom. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. Gamification —borrowing the motivating principles from games and applying them to a non-game setting—can rewire and bolster social dynamics in the classroom when properly implemented.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If we want our learners to have that — the knowledge, the skills, the dispositions — we know that we need to transform our classrooms. We also have adopted a set of learning beliefs to help us better articulate what we want our classrooms to look like in the future as we approach 2020. Vicki: Wow. You have learning beliefs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today’s faculty is also tasked with something the school’s Jesuit founders could not have imagined: deciding not only which courses are taught but how to teach them—in person, online, or through a combination of both. Evenchik knew that delivering top-notch, online graduate-level courses required finding the right LXD team.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

Jean Piaget once said that “play is the answer to how anything new comes about.” As educators in the digital age, it is important that we embrace the power of play in our classrooms. In the words of Zachary, a 13 year old student in her class, “Sphero made learning how to measure distance fun. Game #1 – Minecraft.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. Focus on player experience rather than classroom ecology. How kids work as learners varies dramatically depending on their age and developmental stage.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. Content aligns with Common Core, state standards and classroom instruction. More on gamification of education: 29 Online Educational Activities Kids Will Love This Summer. How to Gamify Your Classroom (a lesson plan).

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2020

Thorndike measured how quickly animals figured out how to get out of the box after being placed in it again and again and again -- their "learning curve." It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”. Gamification.

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Buncee

JULY 2, 2020

At this time, preservice teachers learned about different disability categories and how to best teach all students. But all students wanted to learn more about what they were and how to create one. The audio along with the text assists the audio learners, as well as those learning how to read. Meet the Authors : Tessa Carlin.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Michael Matera @ mrmatera , author of Explore Like a Pirate , talks about Purpose Driven Learning in the classroom. Now, Michael or Mr. Matera as he’s known everywhere (Twitter, YouTube, and everywhere) teaches history in a sixth-grade classroom. I taught you how to live life.”. Got 5 minutes? I’m super excited to be here.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2016

With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student. As a result, after each event, I'd return to my classroom with a confining feeling in the back of my mind. But, the strategies I use in my classroom aren’t enough.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In the next part of the presentation, Joy led the discussion about how they set the program up. “We We created a framework for professional learning for every grade level for inquiry in the social studies classroom. The webinars provide an opportunity to see inside the classrooms and how the resources work.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2022

There are many resources available for students in all grade levels from elementary school through Higher Ed that will help them develop a greater awareness and build their knowledge of managing finances and everything related to long-term planning. How do I get my students into Financial Literacy? . FDIC Money Smart.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

Gamification. students will work in teams of two to four to collect the Seesaw emojis posted around your classroom. Andy Plemmons and the Barrow (GA) Elementary faculty and staff are talking with their Barrow Buddies about what inspires them, how they hope they inspire you, and a few special pieces of trivia on this Flipgrid board.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Create Multimedia eBooks in a 1 iPad Classroom by Wesley Fryer Enhanced eBooks on iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches can include audio, video, and interactive animations in addition to digital text, images and links. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics. We focus our webinars on best practices in social studies, and we link to resources that will be useful for classroom teachers and leaders of social studies. We called them the “Ideas Ready to Use” webinars.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics. We focus our webinars on best practices in social studies, and we link to resources that will be useful for classroom teachers and leaders of social studies. We called them the “Ideas Ready to Use” webinars.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 25, 2019

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do! Currently, I am the Computer and Technology teacher of over 400 elementary students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 14, 2015

Part 1 “ A Guide For Questioning In The Classroom.” ” Its dice-form not only offers a whiz-bang manipulative, but also introduces a level of gamification and playful uncertainty into the process, and its open-ended and universal stems make it practical for a wide variety of classroom applications.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I’ll be sharing the 7 Pedagogical Shifts That Make Interactive Displays a Key to a Student-Centered Classroom on the Cool Cat Teacher blog sponsored by SMART Technologies. Recent research shows that large interactive displays are vital to the classroom ecosystem. Shift #1 is that Students are collaborators. Listen Now.

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MindShift

JULY 1, 2018

Practice is an important part of math and is perhaps the best candidate for gamification and careful use of extrinsic rewards. This is where understanding how the brain responds to different reward schedules is important. That’s one reason early elementary classrooms are filled with math manipulatives.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Translating from vision to classroom implementation “is the journey we’re all on now,” says Ken Kay.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Combined, this enables students to share and develop their ideas together, as if they were in the same classroom. Most recently, this included replacing older whiteboards and failing projectors in the ISD’s three elementary schools with new BenQ RP653 Interactive Flat Panels (IFPs). The results have been compelling.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At a time when schools are using more and more data to drive decision-making, from the central office to the classroom, giving students a look at their own data is the next frontier. These badges can be secured for classroom participation, academic improvement, attendance, getting the highest grade in a given class and more.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Education technology has become so bound up in arguments about the necessity of technology, that it’s forgotten how to be anything other than the most loyal of servants to ideologies of machines, efficiencies, capitalism. And in teaching the computer how to think, children embark on an exploration about how they themselves think.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

ec Surfing safe on the net - Eva Buyuksimkesyan 5:00pm Project Based Learning - giving it a go in the English Classroom - Jenny Luca Six Degrees of Separation: Using Our Connections to Improve Global Learning - Jen Marten Student-generated apps, animations, & infographics – can they lead to higher levels of understanding? Marijana Smol?ec

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