The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2020

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

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. There’s gamification. So how would you classify the way that they teach with these games — and what kind of games? There are all kinds.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Google’s education solutions just keep expanding. Thankfully, there’s Alice Keeler, a Google Certified Teacher and self-described super-nerd. Keeler has more than 50 tips for Google Classroom under her belt, with an e-book on that series in progress. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Gamification —borrowing the motivating principles from games and applying them to a non-game setting—can rewire and bolster social dynamics in the classroom when properly implemented. Attend our ISTE 2018 session to learn about gamifying Google Classroom. Visit Classcraft at ISTE Booth #970. Games also teach us to be critical thinkers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

How do you decide what is best for your class? Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. Students start with a guide called Noot who explains how to progress through the game play.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 25, 2019

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do! Currently, I am the Computer and Technology teacher of over 400 elementary students.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

Gamification. In a non-gamey, but quietly interactive approach, Kate Zaleski, Library Media Specialist at the Woodland School in Warren, NJ, reports that she plans welcome students with a read aloud of Kate Messner’s How to Read a Story. This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Engagement. She will have students.

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