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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

8 – Adding Game-Based Learning and Gamification You can make learning fun by using gamification and game-based learning, but students need more than bonus points and badges to stay engaged. As you seek GBL and gamification tools for your classroom, I recommend this course to help you shine: Level Up!

Course 339
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Innovative Science Teaching in Grades 6-12

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. gamification, VR/AR/MR, coding) to enrich my science curriculum. Twitter: @ theisabellaliu.

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Differentiating Instruction Differentiating instruction is a vital aspect of my teaching, but it starts as you design your lessons and class work. If you go into lesson planning with an understanding of differentiating instruction, your assignments can engage learners and meet a variety of their needs.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning In this course, you will take an in-depth look at games, gaming culture, and game design to identify the characteristics of gameplay that make it such a powerful learning tool. If teachers continue to use the same approach for every student, some learners will disengage.

Course 487
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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Almost all of those companies went out of business. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. When was the last time you sent an online greeting card? The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40
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4 Important Lessons from 15 Years in EdTech

Gaggle Speaks

Almost all of those companies went out of business. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. When I started Gaggle back in 1999, we were free email for students. When was the last time you sent an online greeting card? The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40
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Top 100 Sites/Apps for Game Based Learning

Technology Tidbits

Gamification). Lure of the Labyrinth - Gamification at it''s best in this mysterious adventure Middle School based Pre-Algebra game. This is going to be one of my most ambitious posts yet, as I have curated a gigantic list of my favorite sites/apps for Game Based Learning (a.k.a Fractions, Plotting points on a graph, Tangrams, etc.)