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Literature Performance Odyssey with Drama and Student Leadership

The CoolCatTeacher

Other than that, they said definitely work on your group collaboration at the front end. So they would all be on a Remind group together so they could communicate when they were at home. That way, they didn’t need to know each other’s numbers, but they could still talk. Vicki: Yeah. Marynn: Yeah, I thought that was good.

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Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

The CoolCatTeacher

But it’s definitely beyond the jobs. You start to understand those algorithms, and I think it just makes you a “critical citizen,” I suppose… a critical thinker? I think those are the things that we’re not quite focusing on yet, with coding and computational thinking.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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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.

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Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program

The CoolCatTeacher

Aditya: Oh, definitely. So you definitely get those naysayers, people who look at it with disdain because you’re really dumbing it down. Challenging games help students learn: An empirical study on engagement, flow and immersion in game-based learning. Have you heard that?