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Innovative Science Teaching in Grades 6-12

The CoolCatTeacher

gamification, VR/AR/MR, coding) to enrich my science curriculum. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Game Education: It’s in Their DNA – Guest Post from Courtney Pepe

EdTechTeacher

The iPad displays a picture of a word, and students play a guessing game, Wheel of Fortune Style, where they place Scrabble tiles that can be read in front of the iPad. Harry Moore School of NJCU recently received a grant from Sphero, a company that makes ball-size glowing robots that teachers can use to o teach literacy, coding, STEM.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

K-1 students have access to an iPad, 2-12 students have access to MacBook Airs. We created opportunities for teachers to use mentor texts — so anything related to Genius Hour, MakerSpace, gamification — a lot of most recently published texts through practitioners and facilitators in the education world right now.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification and Instructional Design by Mia MacMeekin includes a fantastic infographic to help understand some of the basics. Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. Serious Games: Rethinking Gamification in Education with Cat Flippen.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY COMPANY BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE 3D ( www.carolina.com/help/pressreleases/2018/building-blocks-of-science-3d ) Carolina Biological Supply Company launched the new Building Blocks of Science 3D hands-on unit kits for students in grades K to 5.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

Not just the loss of Seymour Papert and Prince and David Bowie and Phife Dawg and Harper Lee and Gwen Ifill and Alan Rickman and Gene Wilder and Ursula Franklin and Scott Erik Kaufman and Jerome Bruner and Elie Wiesel and Alvin Toffler and Leonard Cohen (and many more), but the grief and the pain that stems from these and so many other losses.