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How to Create Massive Multiplayer Kahoot Games

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, George Pearce, talks about how he streams Kahoot games, handles security and privacy, fights bots that allow cheating and attack his Kahoot games, and also how he deals with a lag to make game competitions more equitable even when hundreds of miles separate the learners. Stream by clicking here.

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Try SplashLearn for Summer Learning and Fall Success

The CoolCatTeacher

Instead of just points and leaderboards, SplashLearns’ Game-Based Learning approach starts with pedagogy, has students test the experience for fun, and only shares the final lessons that are fun and pedagogically sound. Parents have a dashboard to track progress. In-depth reports help parents know how their child is performing.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

I am a self-proclaimed “tech nerd” and love to have my hands on all the latest and greatest products and software. I love to share what I have learned with my fellow educators. I am the Technology Coordinator for Brinnon School District in Brinnon, WA. I love the camaraderie among other educators.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. Unity is a software required to make games. Most teachers — and I consider myself pretty tech savvy — Unity has a fairly steep learning curve. I mean, this is not a game.

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Active Learning in the Science Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

And so we got out some MacBooks, and we opened up LoggerPro which is a program for Vernier Software. We’re working a lot with STEM. You’re going to try something that you don’t know if it works?”. And I said, “I don’t know for sure!”. We connected up some motion detectors to those computers. Glen: It really was.

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Coding in the Classroom: Six Tips to Get Even Reluctant Teachers—and Students—Started

Edsurge

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Williams may have never considered herself to be a "tech person," but she recognized the value of code and discovered how a supportive community could empower her and her students to learn. “I can barely fix a printer. Andrew-Lamon faced her fears and brought Hour of Code to her classroom.

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Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program

The CoolCatTeacher

Most programmers who are just starting out, or anyone who is just jumping in to learn programming — this could be any age, from a 6-year-old onward up to an adult. I’m a software developer by my formalized profession. Before I started doing all this, I’d say that I learned programming for the same reasons.