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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. Games4Ed facilitates collaborations between educators, researchers, game developers, publishers, and policymakers to further the use of games and other immersive strategies in schools.

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7 Ideas for Student Genius Hour and Passion Projects

The CoolCatTeacher

While I go into the full pitch process in the blog post, “ 7 Strategies I Use When Students Make Apps (or Do Any Genius Project) “, I have a “red light – yellow light – green light process.” However, the secret to preventing uniformity and spark creativity, I’ve found, is in the pitch process.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom. It will help.

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. What are some other strategies? Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it.

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5 Ways to Reach Even Resistant Writers with Writer’s Workshop

The CoolCatTeacher

Now we’re also going to do a giveaway of her book, Make Writing: Five Teaching Strategies That Turn Writer’s Workshop Into a Maker Space , where she has five more ideas. We do a lot of this, particularly in elementary schools, where we have kids celebrate the writing that they’ve accomplished. What’s our fifth? Angela Stockman.

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Its 2019. So Why Do 21st-Century Skills Still Matter?

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In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. More examples and practical strategies will help chart the way forward. For example, if the big goal is student-led inquiry, teachers might brainstorm “how to see if a kid is curious. The more concrete, the better.