The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 16, 2022

SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Today’s expert, Dr. Matthew Farber , gives us an interesting twist on games by integrating them with SEL. He has practical ideas for understanding and using game-based learning in the classroom. Founder - SEL Gaming LAb.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades. Vicki: Steve, do you find that there are teachers that think that kids can’t really understand these concepts — like elementary kids really understanding XY coordinates? You just realized, “Perhaps we’re underestimating the abilities of our elementary kids.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Sixth-grade teacher Jessica Gordon@ 1337teach gives us tips, ideas, and links for how to gamify our classrooms now. Game based learning can be simple and free. Jessica Ratliff-Gordon is an elementary educator, author, and doctoral student at Northcentral University. Game based learning can be simple and free.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 3, 2018

From augmented reality to game-based learning and online portfolios, she has a variety of ideas to share about how she amps up her science teaching with technology. SPONSOR: Join a Free Personalized Learning Session with Me and TextHelp! Creating Elementary Portfolios with SeeSaw. Stream by clicking here.

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User Generated Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Below is a video clip of its soft start where she and another students are teaching some of their classmates how to play. To be able to fulfill larger tasks in life, kids need to learn how to create a ‘plan of attack’ and outline plausible, step-by-step ways to achieve goals. Some Academic and SEL Benefits of Chess.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

A course to help support your learning goal of using social media effectively is Social Media Tools for Teaching and Learning. This course will teach you how to plan and integrate social media into your classroom. You can best help your students implement these tech tools by learning how to use them yourself.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. She regularly contributes literacy insights at Dr. Kimberly’s Literacy Blog and has collaborated in writing classroom curriculum and language arts sections as well as chairing the Elementary Reading National Evaluation Preparation Committee for Pearson Education. FlashCard Stash.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In this blog post, I’ll include the video unboxing tour that I recently had with the team at the Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection, and I’ll share some thoughts on how you can effectively use this collection in your classroom. Plus, I’ll tell you how to get your free 30-day trial. Digital Learning Collection.

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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2019

To meet this demand, there has been ongoing discussion on how to best educate our kids for a STEM-focused future. How can we best equip our kids with the necessary skills to face future challenges? Game-Based Learning Educators have long been using game-based learning strategies to boost student engagement.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

” e The post How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Learn how money operates in the real world. Learn how to read maps. Play lots of math games to reinforce. In-depth reports help parents know how their child is performing. In this summer camp adventure, students will: Create and analyze code. Discover the role math plays in cooking. Solve math quests.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So there's all kinds of opportunities then to teach students how to coach someone in the answer. Help the coach know how to coach at the same time you're helping, helping both. So this is also from Kagan Cooperative Learning. So here's how it works. This obviously is going to work really well with something like math.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

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. Personal interests engage students in learning. Personal interests engage students in learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted. Today’s Sponsor: Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. The Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection is here! She shares her thoughts on innovation and how to stay motivated when you’re exhausted.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 22, 2020

To learn how to create bitmojis for your learners, see this post by Matt Miller, [link]. I start all my classes, both elementary school and college classes, with an emotional check in. I show them how to do image searches with each platform and my own personalized feelings made with Adobe Spark as an example: Lego Selfie.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

I understand and believe in value of learning through board games, and have incorporated them into my classrooms – both elementary and higher education – throughout my decades long teaching career. Research indicates that there is power in using board games in the classroom.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Developers have naturally found a niche for “joyful” tech in the elementary phases, where the idea of allowing younger kids to have fun while learning is all but a credo. We prepare children to learn how to learn, not how to take a test. Read more: Why students love a game-based learning experience.

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User Generated Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

a program from a play, a scorecard, a trading card, a how-to book, directions for a favorite game) Any special letter or e-mail received Favorite song lyrics A diary or a journal Any special certificates or awards you’ve won A favorite dish recipe Any books that you love to read over and over. Kahoot Selfie. Fake Instagram Account.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. But Alana, we are talking about how to end the school year. Well, what are some of those secrets you plan so that, especially this year, how are you going to end the school year well, this year? Alana Stanton - Bio As submitted.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

We engage in several research-practice partnerships to learn what works and how to overcome barriers to spread and scale techniques and innovate when needed. Research formality ranges from classroom-based informal needs assessment and feedback regarding professional learning to high-level National Science Foundation-funded studies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

This Thursday, December 6 from 1-3 pm Eastern Time, Edweek is hosting an event about personalized learning. 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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Read How to Use Padlet. It’s sort of the reason why it doesn’t seem new and sexy to talk about blogging or to evangelize blogging anymore or show people how to use EduBlog , or how to use WordPress. I think Padlet is a perfect first example because everybody kind of knows what it does. Tool #7 & 8 WordPress and Edublogs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Learning is a deep challenge. 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. For students, call a "test" a "game" and it changes their level of excitement and investment increases.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

VICKI: Yeah, because you’re teaching a kid how to shoot a basketball shot and they say, “No, I am doing it right, I am doing it right.” So you can imagine, it’s sort of like having an instant replay in your classroom and that brings out this enormous array of possibilities. [00:02:00].

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

I did a study , several years back about some of the older children working with younger children, (pre-kindergarten), just very basic digital inking, starting with colors and talking to 3 and 4-year-olds about their favorite colors, showing them how to use the tool. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2019

Rob Donatelli on episode 510 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Want to help students learn and be more refreshed? Students need breaks too. That is why brain breaks are becoming so popular. Teacher Rob Donatelli @DTown_MrD talks about the brain breaks phenomenon.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

I recently took on a new position teaching 400+ elementary students Computer and Technology. I’m taking the time before we go into coding to help students learn about giving instructions, since the most important thing all my elementary students learned this past week is that a computer works by following instructions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

His latest book, Hacking Classroom Management – How to be the Type of Teacher They Make Movies About, is scheduled to be released in December of 2017. He has served on many educational committees, is an adjunct education professor, and has had his work published numerous times.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. and learn about it on their own. Did you know you could do this?”. They started discovering things. “OH, We can do that.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

I want every student to understand how they can share from every single electronic device or a photograph of physical objects on my interactive display. This is why, as part of my first and second day procedures, I teach students how to “throw” their screens (of all kinds) to my large screen at the front of the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

When Roanoke County Public Schools gathered educators for their first training in how to teach with Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE), “you could hear the rumble in the room,” says Jeff Terry, the district’s director of technology. And in our elementary schools, every classroom has five laptops and Minecraft is being used there as well.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 29, 2016

One of the things shared was the list of "tried and true" technology usage by grade level at our elementary school. Viewpure (free) web based www.Viewpure.com ViewPure removes all comments and related videos, allowing videos to be watched without distractions, or more likely, without "inappropriate content" from Youtube. She rocked it!

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

With game-based learning , students’ intrinsic motivation and love for play can lead them toward complex problem solving. Take a look at a few ST Math games below, and see for yourself how trial and error allots students the opportunity to further develop their conceptual understanding. Gameplay With a Purpose.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

Could you give us a thirty-second pep talk about how to progress and advance using Google with our kids? How can educators progress and advance using Google with our kids? If you expect to learn something, say, in a training, step-by-step directions and that would be it for the next year or two years? Kasey: Yes.

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