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. Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online professional development courses for K-12 teachers. There’s gamification.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2022

But technology can be an incredibly useful educational tool for students of all ages, even young elementary-level learners. While technology is useful, it can be abused, or some students might simply not understand how to use it correctly without guidance. . The key to using edtech appropriately is to do so under supervision. .

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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. I’ve gotten emails saying some of you are having hard time figuring out how to leave a review. Today’s Give Away Contests! Selected Links from this Episode.

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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. Diane Myers, Ph.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

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. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

At Dayton Hall Elementary School in Charleston, South Carolina, kindergarten teacher and Apple Distinguished Educator, Kristi Meeuwse, chose to pilot Tangible Play by Osmo because it is hands on and manipulative in nature. In the words of Zachary, a 13 year old student in her class, “Sphero made learning how to measure distance fun.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2020

The irony, of course. I've just finished a book on the history of teaching machines — a book that argues that Skinner's work is fundamental to history, to how ed-tech is still built today. It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2022

Many schools across the United States are starting to include personal finance courses as part of high school graduation requirements. In my school, students are required to take Personal Finance and some also enroll in a course called “Entrepreneurship and Business Management.” How do I get my students into Financial Literacy? .

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When they start talking, in a student reflection, about how they’ve seen over the course that they’ve developed their own confidence in themselves and in their talents. I taught you how to live life.”. They see that it’s about applying themselves, it’s about putting focused effort toward a goal. Michael: (laughs) Yeah!

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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. In conjunction with blended learning, I’ve used gamification to change the culture of my classroom—focusing on students becoming positive collaborators and self-managers of their learning.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

Gamification. In a non-gamey, but quietly interactive approach, Kate Zaleski, Library Media Specialist at the Woodland School in Warren, NJ, reports that she plans welcome students with a read aloud of Kate Messner’s How to Read a Story. Of course, Andy led the welcome with his own gracious introduction. Engagement.

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Libraries Gamification iPhone Advocacy 54

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics. Each virtual specialist produces some monthly grade- or course-specific webinars. One of the reasons we chose edWeb to begin with is because it connects teachers not just with us. Look at the year of COVID.

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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. Each virtual specialist produces some monthly grade- or course-specific webinars. One of the reasons we chose edWeb to begin with is because it connects teachers not just with us. Look at the year of COVID.

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Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The GaDOE Social Studies Department and three of their virtual specialists presented an edWebinar on their three-year journey in creating and maintaining virtual learning communities for social studies for every grade level and course from K through 12. How they did it. Who is involved in their success. The results. Joy has an M.Ed.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

Show a fourth grader how to balance a checkbook and it won’t be long before her eyes start to glaze over or his mind starts to wander off to more interesting things. Only a third of states require high school students to take a course in personal finance , while less than half require them to take a course in economics before graduating.

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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. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Gold stars that seem exciting for elementary schoolers can fall flat with high schoolers. Yu-kai Chou, a gamification expert who developed the Octalysis design framework, describes eight “core drives” for human motivation that can be built into game design. Yu-kai Chou, developer of the Octalysis gamification design framework.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other. Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic. –Remco Bergsma, CEO, MiEN Company. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

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