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6 tips to begin an elementary esports program in your school

eSchool News

The benefits of esports are well documented. In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club.

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6 tips to help start an elementary esports program in your school

eSchool News

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. The benefits of esports are well documented. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

Edsurge

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Top 10 K–12 Educational Technology Trends

techlearning

Gone are the days of creating multiple versions of a document every time it’s saved, or saving important work to a flash drive that must be taken everywhere and is at risk of being left, stolen, or lost. 9 Game-Based LearningGame-based learning will continue to be a significant trend in K–12 education.

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How to Go from ChatGPT to Gimkit (or anything that uses a CSV)

The CoolCatTeacher

I used TextEdit on my Mac, but had to go into Preferences and set it to "plain text" before I opened a new document to paste in the CSV code. You can name it anything but it must, I mean MUST, end in csv. Then, after I saved it, it ended in CSV and I saved it on my computer.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

Technology Tidbits

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels. Edji - An innovative new site for annotating texts for collaborative learning.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2019

Technology Tidbits

Loop - An interesting new student response system where educators create an online classroom and then posting questions for students to answer making it easy to assess student learning and differentiate instruction. brainstorming, assessing learning, etc.).