Remove Definition Remove Game-Based Learning Remove Google Remove STEM
article thumbnail

Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

Game-based learning might not be what you think. 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. Game-Based Learning in Action.

article thumbnail

Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Google Masters for Kids of All Ages. What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools?

Google 175
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

We were trying out Google Expedition with a full classroom kit. Enrique: Yeah, you definitely want to keep them seated. If you couple that with the cheap Google Cardboard headsets, and now you can have a Virtual Reality experience for — a hundred bucks — versus eight hundred bucks. They were like in space.

Education 193
article thumbnail

23 GSuite Ideas to Excite Your Students about Learning with Eric Curts

The CoolCatTeacher

With ideas for Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings for all subjects and ages, you’ll want to scroll down and follow the links in our enhanced show notes. That’s all these Google tools. And Eric Curts @ ericcurts from Control Alt Achieve and co-leader of their higher Google Educators group has so many fantastic ideas.

Google 95
article thumbnail

Computer Science Teaching Tips

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. And that’s definitely not the case. You know, the same projects work for everybody.

Course 177
article thumbnail

A Decade Into Experiments With Gamification, Edtech Rethinks How to Motivate Learners

Edsurge

But the pair also didn’t want to reduce collaboration online to a dry, empty Google Doc, either. By the end of the year, the Dhariwals had created a working prototype for CoCo Learn , which they describe as “a real-time, co-creative platform for young people.” . It’s definitely still a core strategy — only more nuanced than before.

article thumbnail

8 Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

It kind of defies definition. It almost defies definition, but it’s a way to publish something almost like a blog except that it is actually interactive. It can be collaborative ala Google Docs style. One of the other ones that has kind of flown under the radar is a site called Sutori. It’s sort of created its own genre.

EdTech 0