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How robotic gamification helped my elementary students love STEM

eSchool News

Educators have found a solution to this problem: gamification. I found the CoderZ virtual robotics program to be an excellent teaching tool due to its carefully curated platform. Related : 6 tools to help kids learn coding and robotics This teacher uses story coding to spark creativity and collaboration.

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5 Tech tools every student should have

Neo LMS

That’s one of the reasons why there are many tech tools every student should have to help them learn at home and in the classroom. . Still, despite the digital age we are living in, some adults question how much exposure to tech kids should have before they reach a certain age. Top five picks for tech tools every student should have .

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Just remember, there are effective ways to not only assess but provide automated and rapid feedback to students so that assessment becomes a teaching tool in itself. This course will teach you how to plan and integrate social media into your classroom.

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Innovative Science Teaching in Grades 6-12

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room. Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw. Stream by clicking here.

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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. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University. You might also be interested in a tool I use to quickly create games that I blogged about yesterday. .

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10 Ways to Rejuvenate and Learn This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

And when you’re ready, consider how to bring your passions (and your students’) into the classroom with passion projects and student interest projects. As you do, consider how to bring these types of interests into your classroom. Learn how to bring those in for students. PD Connection. PD Connection. a Book (or Two).

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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

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.