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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Michael Matera.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

Our list of Must-Read K—12 IT Blogs includes a mixture of teachers, instructional technology specialists, IT leaders, administrators and consultants. He's a writer, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all-around digital guy. FCPS Office of Instructional Technology. Content Length. Over 1000 words. by Ricky Ribeiro.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

With the advent of each new technology—like AI, automation, VR/AR, and nanotechnology—comes economic shifts that demand different skills from employees and creates new challenges for both employers and educators. Read academic research about how games are making a positive difference in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2020

Thorndike measured how quickly animals figured out how to get out of the box after being placed in it again and again and again -- their "learning curve." It has become a routine exercise to demonstrate this in classes in elementary psychology by conditioning such an organism as a pigeon.”. Gamification.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

At Valleyview Middle School in Denville, New Jersey, Matthew Farber -7th Grade Social Studies teacher and doctoral candidate in the Educational Technology Program at New Jersey City University – uses Minecraft and project-based learning to help his students make a deeper connection to the concept of the colonization of America.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. How kids work as learners varies dramatically depending on their age and developmental stage. Stick with mature technologies. gamification sxswedu'

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation. Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. To turn those numbers around, parents and teachers alike are looking to technology. More on gamification of education: 29 Online Educational Activities Kids Will Love This Summer. How to Gamify Your Classroom (a lesson plan).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today’s faculty is also tasked with something the school’s Jesuit founders could not have imagined: deciding not only which courses are taught but how to teach them—in person, online, or through a combination of both. Jack Shira’s go-to sites for keeping up with digital education trends.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2020

Louis is principal at SG Reinertsen Elementary School in Minnesota. Our conversation will focus on gamification and anywhere learning. Gamifying PD, gamification in our classroom and other innovative ideas! Let's talk about education and how to thrive! Maybe even talk about sketchnotes and fun ideas for anywhere learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

If you’re selected as a finalist, you’ll win technology and prizes to help your STEAM project come to reality. I taught you how to live life.”. As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. Bio as submitted.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2016

With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student. In conjunction with blended learning, I’ve used gamification to change the culture of my classroom—focusing on students becoming positive collaborators and self-managers of their learning.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 12, 2022

There are many resources available for students in all grade levels from elementary school through Higher Ed that will help them develop a greater awareness and build their knowledge of managing finances and everything related to long-term planning. How do I get my students into Financial Literacy? . FDIC Money Smart.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Most teachers don’t know how to contact the Georgia DOE or are hesitant to ask their questions. When we get our teachers on edWeb, edWeb gives them access to hundreds of other communities about things they’re interested in like gamification, 21st century learning, differentiation, and much more. With edWeb, we can control who joins.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Felix Jacomino , the school’s Director of Technology, managed to lead a team that pulled off an incredible learning event. Learn how to use the iPad apps “Book Creator” and “Creative Book Builder” to create and share enhanced/multimedia eBooks using DropBox for free cloud storage/distribution.

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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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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics. We went through every lesson elementary, middle, and high, to make sure that we had supports in there for every learner. Jennifer : We want to point out how edWeb helped during the pandemic.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Once they join edWeb, they can join communities for 21st century learning or gamification and many more topics. We went through every lesson elementary, middle, and high, to make sure that we had supports in there for every learner. Jennifer : We want to point out how edWeb helped during the pandemic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

This week I’ll be sharing the 7 Pedagogical Shifts That Make Interactive Displays a Key to a Student-Centered Classroom on the Cool Cat Teacher blog sponsored by SMART Technologies. We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. Shift #1 is that Students are collaborators.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

Show a fourth grader how to balance a checkbook and it won’t be long before her eyes start to glaze over or his mind starts to wander off to more interesting things. So in a push to make learning more relevant—and fun—a pair of startups, BitLearn and Pigzbe , are fusing gamification with finance, propped up by digital currency tokens.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21 Figuring out how schools should respond, however, remains an open question for many communities. Wondering how to teach and assess 21st century competencies? The more concrete, the better.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

If you want to prepare for the future of educational technology, start by exploring the past. If educate means to bring out rather than impose or give, how can audiovisual (AV) technologies help digitally savvy students make surprising connections or answer questions on their own?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Gold stars that seem exciting for elementary schoolers can fall flat with high schoolers. Yu-kai Chou, a gamification expert who developed the Octalysis design framework, describes eight “core drives” for human motivation that can be built into game design. Yu-kai Chou, developer of the Octalysis gamification design framework.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Education technology has become so bound up in arguments about the necessity of technology, that it’s forgotten how to be anything other than the most loyal of servants to ideologies of machines, efficiencies, capitalism. It’s always sunny in education technology. We need criticism at the center of our work.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! . Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! Nina Jeron?i? Publish your ePortfolio using Weebly - Valerie R.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Beheshti, IEEE Senior Member, Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing Sciences at New York Institute of Technology. — Babak D.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Equity remained front and center, too, raising issues of inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other.

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