The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

How Dave feels about leaving the classroom. What Dave would do differently if he was in the classroom now. Michael Matera talks about how to gamify your classroom in Explore Like a Pirate. (One he was awarded the BAMMY for Secondary School Teacher of the Year by the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Our objective for this technological transformation of the school desk was to ensure that the classroom would remain physically unchanged, but changed utterly in terms of new pedagogical and interaction affordances. Gamification for Learning.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2016

And, since 2014, the nonprofit has been piloting an app called Moneythink Mobile, to push these lessons beyond classroom walls, track their impact, and use “likes” and other social nudges to encourage better real-world money habits. Typically, several mentors split a class so each works with no more than five students.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Discussion went in some interesting angles, such as secondary education.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Gaming and gamification should continue to attract experimental and creative faculty, plus allied staff, but that looks like a very slow growth area for now. Let’s see if 2016 doesn’t see more tv-studio-style classrooms.

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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. Use math as a secondary element of a project. That’s one reason early elementary classrooms are filled with math manipulatives. Each day they checked for mold, graphing the percentage of mold each day.

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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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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 29, 2019

She is my go-to resource for all things Google Classroom. This one is geared more toward higher-education, but still a great resource for secondary students and teachers to learn more about career opportunities and products at Google. Math Antics has free video math lessons that you can use in your classroom. Alice Keeler.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Thursday''s sessions will be delivered by teachers, librarians, game developers, and gamification fans - don''t miss out! Teachers sometimes struggle over what to teach in the STEM classroom. We''re getting really excited about the upcoming Gaming in Ed Conference! Check out our short video about why you should attend the conference.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As learning in the digital age progresses, online platforms, interactive simulations, and virtual classrooms have become essential tools, promoting and supporting self-directed and personalized learning experiences. Gamification elements are also employed to make learning more enjoyable and to incentivize student participation.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. SHEG also offers two other fabulous portals filled with resources to help classroom teachers and teacher librarians inquiry and historical analysis. You can now find out. But wait, there’s more! .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Always eager to associate itself with the latest tech craze, education technology embraced Pokémon Go with great gusto: “ Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification.” Or is this simply about classroom management and efficiency – making it as simple as possible to log students into their machines?

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