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Game Based Learning in Action

The CoolCatTeacher

Game-based learning might not be what you think. 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. Game-Based Learning in Action.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning.

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How I Teach About Big Data and Lesson Plan

The CoolCatTeacher

I take a topic that isn’t super simple — databases — and show how I teach it with 2 simple projects, some game-based learning, concrete examples, and how my students all master the topic in five days. Of interest to most of you, however, will be how I plan lessons. This may sound impossible but it can be done.

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5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

Teacher Mike Roberts give five strategies that can help us with formative assessment AND classroom management. Sponsor: The US Matific Games are coming this February. Try Matific free now and sign up to join their Math games. 5 Formative Assessment Strategies to Help with Classroom Management. And its free! Listen Now.

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Game-Based Learning Is Changing How We Teach. Here's Why.

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I have to do a lot of the same strategic thinking that I enjoyed doing in that game.” He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. “Now I run a 40-person ‘empire’ at Filament.

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FREE Webinar: 11 Reasons to Love Lumio

The CoolCatTeacher

What will I learn? Formative assessment tips. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. If you're not familiar with this powerful tool, you'll want to take a look! Register Now to Attend. Simple exit tickets. Simple exit tickets.

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150+ Digital Activities for the K-2 Classroom Inside One Simple App

The CoolCatTeacher

Personalized Game-Based Learning for the K-2 Classroom. I think the ability to personalize learning while also seeing what students do with it gives us some powerful insight. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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