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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

Its complexity is not necessarily because it is incomprehensible, but because it is a new concept for most students. Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. Platforms like CoderZ offer virtual programming services where children can learn code through games.

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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Re-create yourself for a better tomorrow. While it is great to paint the house and build a “she shed” in the backyard, how can you recover if you go from hard work at school to hard work at home? If you love art, take a class or go to a new place to draw, write, or create. Learn how to bring those in for students.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

This course will teach you how to plan and integrate social media into your classroom. The What, Why, and How of Universal Design for Learning is a course that will help you make your online lessons and blended classrooms accessible to all learners. In a flipped classroom, students watch lectures and other lesson content on video.

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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

The CoolCatTeacher

Games can help us! SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Today’s expert, Dr. Matthew Farber , gives us an interesting twist on games by integrating them with SEL. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. We must reengage students!

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

This summer, educators need to get some rest so that we can be our best. As I look ahead to this summer and listen to educators, here are 21 hot topics that I think we should consider including in our summer PD. We have to relate to educate. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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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. There’s gamification.

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5 Simple Ways to Gamify Your Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Sixth-grade teacher Jessica Gordon@ 1337teach gives us tips, ideas, and links for how to gamify our classrooms now. Game based learning can be simple and free. FAQ Guide and Reflective Journal for New Teachers ” is currently available in eBook and paperback through Amazon Kindle. Purpose Games – [link].

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