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Cool Cat Teacher’s Gift List 2016 Edition

The CoolCatTeacher

I know many are going with the Fitbit and just doing biometrics, but if you have an iPhone or iPad, the Apple watch just makes more sense. We set up the app on Dad’s iphone with location awareness. A great gift for a person who uses the cloud but loves to take hand written notes. Apple Watch. I love my Apple Watch. I love jokes!

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Orientation Inspiration 2017

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This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Gamification. Using GoosechaseEDU scavenger hunt platform for iPhone or Android , you can create a new game or copy and adapt games from templates in the Game Library. Check out Orientation Inspiration (2013) and Orientation Attitude (2016). Engagement.

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Epic Guide To Game Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Does Gamification in Education Really Improve Learning? Gamification and Instructional Design by Mia MacMeekin includes a fantastic infographic to help understand some of the basics. Gamification in Education – a piece I wrote for Edutopia on this topic. Serious Games: Rethinking Gamification in Education with Cat Flippen.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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published a new report which addresses latest trends in EdTech in the U.S. will include a fresh new look, upgraded adaptive keyboarding curriculum, more gamification for students, a Digital Citizenship curriculum aligned to ISTE standards, more Learn to Type Code, ADA Compliance Features and much more! K-12 market.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.