Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2019

Despite popular myth, games actually discourage negative behaviors, benefit mental health and improve social skills. Of course, not all games are created equal. Certain elements are consistently present in quality games and quality learning tools. The best games are just fun, and the learning is almost invisible.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools? Using Google Tools to Help Improve Behavior and Increase Engagement. We knew that engagement had to increase, and so in came our G-suite tools. 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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Fun, exciting tools and techniques can help very young kids understand math and learn computational thinking. Sponsor: FREE MATH RESOURCE The US Matific Games are coming this February. Vicki: Steve, do you have any favorite tools that you like for the K-6 crew? Favorite tools to use with younger kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

And that’s definitely not the case. Alfred: They are definitely other ways of pulling computer science into other classes. He saw it as playing a game, but he was really learning how to tell stories but in a computational way. I like to see teachers integrate computer science tools in a lot of other subjects.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Today’s sponsor: Metaverse is a free simple augmented reality tool. The biggest reason, I think, it’s the tool to go to, is the ability for it to be in the cloud and accessible to a large number of students and to bring an unparalleled educational experience to them that you can’t re-create in the classroom. Students can program.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. Definitions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2017

Eric Curts @ ericcurts teaches us twenty-three ways to use Gsuite tools in our classroom. VICKI: It’s back to school and so many of us are getting ready to introduce the G-Suite of tools in the classroom for those of you who don’t know what that is. That’s all these Google tools. ERIC: Absolutely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Sometimes the best tools have been around awhile. Steve Dembo @ teach42 talks about the tried and true tools that teachers should still use. Tried and True Edtech Tools to Try in 2018. Steve, today for Ed Tech Tool Tuesday, what are some things that people need to try in 2018? Tool #1 Padlet. Tool #2: VoiceThread.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. But even as gamification has become a shorthand for engagement, edtech companies have found it challenging to draw a clear distinction between learning and just having fun.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Aditya: Oh, definitely. So you definitely get those naysayers, people who look at it with disdain because you’re really dumbing it down. Getting buy in from students, getting them excited to want to learn more — that’s deep learning, right? Deep learning is more conducive. Have you heard that?

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Thanks in large part to digital bombardment; the pervasive exposure to television, smartphones, computers, gaming consoles, and tablets regularly, today’s students are neurologically wired differently and prefer to learn using different methods and tools than learners of the past.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 3, 2016

So many of these tools are new to me. 36 Tools I’m Using Right Now in My Classroom and Life. It is a simple and powerful tool any teacher can use. At the bottom of this post, we’re giving away a sample including 5 tools just for the readers of this blog. These tools are not in any particular order.

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