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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning Sports and Games: Using Instructional Models in PE. Summer is a great time to read blogs and attend conferences about educational technology. You can discover how to connect games to learning in the classroom. a Book (or Two). with Technology. PD Connection.

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Learning Revolution Shows Today and Tomorrow: "Connected Classroom," "Exceptional Learners," "Thrive in EDU," and "REINVENTING.SCHOOL" #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Louis is principal at SG Reinertsen Elementary School in Minnesota. Our conversation will focus on gamification and anywhere learning. Gamifying PD, gamification in our classroom and other innovative ideas! The conference hashtag is #learningrevolution. Let's talk about education and how to thrive!

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Pigeon Pedagogy

Hack Education

It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”. Skinner believed that both of these flaws in school could be addressed through mechanization, and he built a prototype for his teaching machine which he demonstrated at a conference the following year.

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A State-Wide Model for Online Professional Learning

edWeb.net

Attending as many Georgia state conferences as possible. Joy and JoAnn are always looking for special opportunities for their virtual specialists, like presenting at conferences. Many are lurkers but we get feedback, we see the webinar clicks, they come up to us at conferences. Announcements in the GaDOE newsletter.

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Mix a little math into that bedtime story

The Hechinger Report

There are no fancy graphics, sound effects, scores, rewards or other gamification gewgaws. Last fall, she partnered with the Newark, New Jersey, public schools to pilot an introduction of the app to families in six elementary schools via parent-teacher conferences. Overdeck has kept the app simple.

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6 benefits of using apps with young children

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Most elementary school-age students don’t remember life without computers, tablets and mobile devices. Some of the more successful digital EdTech tools now also employ gamification concepts to encourage engagement and improve performance. Technology provides the opportunity for this critical connection to happen more efficiently.

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Resources from Miami Device

Learning in Hand

Stephen’s Episcopal Day School hosted Miami Device , a conference held on their campus November 6 & 7, 2014. The hallmark of a great conference is that there are too many concurrent sessions you want to attend, and that''s exactly what happened at Miami Device. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?