The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Stay tuned to the end of the show to learn how to figure out if my friend Angela Watson’s 40 Hour Workweek Club is right for you. Today, the vocabulary doctors teach us how to teach vocabulary in the classroom. So check the show notes; you’ll see how to do that. [00:08:00].

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So there's all kinds of opportunities then to teach students how to coach someone in the answer. Help the coach know how to coach at the same time you're helping, helping both. Linda Kardamis (06:51) Definitely, yeah, for sure. This obviously is going to work really well with something like math. Yeah, you're right.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The news came as a surprise to educational game developers and researchers, many of whom credit the Institute of Play for supporting and growing the game-based learning industry. Quest to Learn remains in operation, although some of its original ambitions have been scaled back, she notes. educational institutions.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 16, 2018

10 Strategies To Make Learning Feel More Like A Game by TeachThought Staff We’ve talked about gamification quite a bit, which is different than game-based learning, if you’ll recall. Making your classroom work like a game may not be […].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

As a kid growing up, I loved board games. loved playing The Game of Life , Clue , and Sorry with my friends as a preteen and then Backgammon throughout my undergraduate years. I definitely liked the thrill of winning but equally so interacting with my friends while we played the games.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

While I have not read Marie’s book, and have so far avoided the guilty pleasure of her Netflix series, I do know that she uses a simple, definitive technique at the “decluttering” stage – of every item in your space, ask yourself, Does it spark joy? We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 23, 2019

They share their passion for gamifying the classroom with game-based learning and teaching through play. We discuss what types of classroom environments are appropriate for gamification and ways you can incorporate game-based learning today! Game-Based Learning. [13:43] Gamification v.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2023

Like people getting up early on a Monday, but the levels of, I mean, the interest has definitely increased. And it has really kind of shifted to more of a, I don't really know if I need to know how to do this, I don't know where to begin, you know, should we be using this? It was like a 90 minute workshop and it was a sold out session.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2022

It is their job to teach your children how to conduct mental math and help them succeed in their math exams. Also, experienced instructors know how to keep children interested and motivated to get the most remarkable learning outcomes. There is also an online classroom with high-definition video transmission available.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

Active learning is a teaching method that works wonders. Think about some things you’ve learned. How to drive, change a tire or prepare a meal. Or watched a how-to video. But it was through the process of actually changing that tire that you truly learned the skills. Active learning defined.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Topics include: How to get kids moving as you teach programming. What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science. How to engage young women in Computer Science Programming. And that’s definitely not the case. How to Bring Computer Science into Other Classes. You’re on the board for CSTA.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Pixel Press Floors - An amazing iOS app for Game Based Learning that allows students to create their own game by drawing. Stick Around - A great iPad app that can be used for Project Based Learning or Flipping a Lesson by creating puzzles/diagrams and having students label them. Teachley: Mt. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Tuniversitiy’s first offering is a book on how to reproduce Williams’ own song, “Happy,” and includes step-by-step tutorials on how students can create the song for themselves within Garageband. Upgrades also include Smarty Ants Español, a program designed to help K-2 Spanish-speaking students learn how to read in Spanish.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Last year, many teachers found themselves wrestling with the popularity of Fortnite—to the extent that teachers have written about how to best cope with the phenomenon and turn it into teachable math lessons. In fact, more than one in four teens said they’ve played the game in school, according to a recent Common Sense survey.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is also a gateway, she claims, to teach communication skills, like how to disagree respectfully. Boddle’s gameplay — with points, power-ups, leaderboards — is inspired by Robolox and Minecraft, two games familiar to its intended audience. In a game, you are 100 percent OK with failing.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 27, 2019

Thus, with digital technology, students can learn at their own pace, try out various activities and learn by doing. Gamification: Let’s be honest – given a choice between playing a game or solving Math problems, students would definitely prefer playing a game. Games can be used to liven up classroom teaching.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

But really, the start up cost for a club was not terrible as there’s so many free online sources now for D&D and other RPG games. There is math and probability in the dice rolling, and making those calculated risks based on their character statistics is vital to success. Responsible Collaborator: Team work!

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Enrique: Yeah, you definitely want to keep them seated. I mean I’ve seen people have the kids on stools that turn around. I mean, what’s the way that we handle the fact that I’m in a physical world, but I’m also in a virtual world in a headset? Keep your students seated so they are safe! Vicki: (laughs). Enrique: It can be disorienting.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2017

You’d definitely want to check the transcript and show notes for all of these ideas. You’ll definitely want to go to Eric’s website Control Alt Achieve and his YouTube channel. See Eric’s blog post on emojis in Google docs to learn how to do this. Idea #3: Use Emojis to Explain Math Variables.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We showed them how to use the paint can tool to put color in the cells, and we told them to create a jack-o’-lantern. But they didn’t know how to spell the compound word. We showed them how to use the Voice Notes in the Speaker Notes to type the word. Check out the interview with Christine Pinto on episode 142.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 12, 2015

Given the investments that the school’s administration has made in their students and teachers, it’s no surprise they jumped at the chance to participate in TeacherQuest —an 11-month professional development program that teaches educators how to design games and integrate game-like learning into their classrooms and curriculum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

But it’s definitely beyond the jobs. These are the things that we have to teach — how to interact with these intelligent machines, how to program, but also how to do these other things. You start to understand those algorithms, and I think it just makes you a “critical citizen,” I suppose… a critical thinker?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

Other than that, they said definitely work on your group collaboration at the front end. Like have a really clear conversation about who is going to be in charge of what, and how you are going to make sure it happens, first? So they would all be on a Remind group together so they could communicate when they were at home. Vicki: Yeah.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 31, 2023

You shared with me that you play a fantasy role-playing game called Pathfinder with your students during recess, which is definitely unique! However, before we get more into that story -- can you tell us about Pathfinder and how it is different than D&D?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Related: How to help students avoid the remedial ed trap. Related: New high score: Game-based learning is a winner in college remedial math. That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

Related: How to Improve Student Learning Outcomes with Digital Learning. School is a place where students are allowed to learn, experiment and make mistakes. Simulation-based scenarios can be created where students have to perform certain tasks and make decisions and then view the results in real-time.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 12, 2015

After reading the book fairly quickly, and taking lots of notes, I developed some ideas for how to transform my own classroom into a gamified space in order to develop cross-curricular learning. I realized that my old game master was onto something brilliant—but it was no easy feat. (As 6 Factors Of Success In Gamification.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Related: Best online tools and apps for creating quizzes ] You do not necessarily need an account to play Sporcle games, however, having an account will enable you to track your game plays, view your best scores, create quizzes, earn badges, comment on and rate games, follow users, and get email alerts for new games.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Games, however, add that fun element to make learning less of a chore. A study by Kyli White and Leah McCoy confirm that game-based learning can significantly enhance student achievement and engagment. Math Magician Games Here are some very good places where kids can access and play Math magician games: 1.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

Learning outside your primary area of study can help you make connections that may be useful when trying to help your own students see relevance beyond the classroom. The nice thing about summer learning is choice. Dive into blended and problem-based learning to deepen your understanding of how to use 1:1 computing in your classroom.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 2, 2022

But, what if our very definition of math is inaccurate? Despite having very limited supplies, Mark uses his math and science knowledge as well as problem-solving skills to plan out how to survive the next four years and get to the landing site of the next mission. Game-based Learning Explorations.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

4 [ Game-Based Learning Yields Empathetic Understanding ] Adopters You can take a personality test, a learning style inventory, or even a which-character-are-you quiz, but I would argue the power of meaningful self-perception. Innovators are risk takers, they learn from failure like a gamer.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Read How to Use Padlet. 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. If you’re not familiar with it yet, you should definitely — if nothing else — go to the website and look at their gallery.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

But while blended learning — a mix of teacher-led and computerized instruction — is proliferating across the country, schools that wholeheartedly embrace games-based learning remain rare. There were no games or role-playing. I definitely learned a lot, but it was not as fun, not as interesting,” he said.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. Terry Heick offers a definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 19, 2015

If you’re interested in the possibility of video games for learning–that is, teaching and learning with video games to master both academic and non-academic content–than the following collection may be of interest to you. To select each of these games, we focused on 3 basic criteria: 1.

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