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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

These fun, free reading games give students the foundational reading skills they need in a fun, engaging practice that you can use as an enrichment or alongside your current reading program. If you’re in elementary school, this tool is a win for you; the kids will love it. Parents will too! All opinions are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

Once you learn about the tech and the tools, and understand the research behind these electronic portfolios, you’ll be equipped to structure assessment in a way that encourages your students towards success. Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Powerful manipulatives for phonics, math and more (Elementary and kindergarten teachers will love this). The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. How you can edit on the fly (even after you've started delivering a lesson with students).

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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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Educational Technology Guy

JULY 18, 2019

To best prepare our kids for a tech-driven future, here are five innovative ideas that educators are testing out: Highly-Specialized Elementary Teachers As it stands now, math and science teachers are forced to cover a wide breadth of topics geared towards preparing students for the future.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

Instead of just points and leaderboards, SplashLearns’ Game-Based Learning approach starts with pedagogy, has students test the experience for fun, and only shares the final lessons that are fun and pedagogically sound. Parents have a dashboard to track progress. In-depth reports help parents know how their child is performing.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2016

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. The Basics of Digital Game-Based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Eduprotocols for kindergarten and early elementary with the book’s co-author Jon Corippo. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Then, it becomes about the content and not the tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2021

The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning – One of my favorite books for teachers who use iPads with young children. Using Book Creator in the Elementary Classroom – T his is a FREE Resource great for K-4 educators looking for ways to use Book Creator in their classroom. Related Resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2022

You can discover how to connect games to learning in the classroom. Let’s Play: Creating a Playful Classroom Game-Based Strategies for Language Instruction Level Up! Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning Sports and Games: Using Instructional Models in PE.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 12, 2018

Select the Standard and Start Playing (and Learning!). In Legends of Learning, it is simple for teachers to select the standard and find games that they can add to student playlists. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

While any subjects can use these games, there are many matching columns games already made for kindergarten teachers as you help students understand sounds and learn to read, like the “Qu” matching columns game shown below. Tip #12: Use Matching Column Games to Reinforce Letters and Letter Sounds.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Alana Stanton - Bio As submitted. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “ sponsored podcast episode.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

So this is also from Kagan Cooperative Learning. So once again, you could use this in elementary for just literally like working on times tables, but you can also have like your own set of questions, like we talked about with quiz, trade. So students pair up and use flash cards to review in three rounds. So here's how it works.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

Research formality ranges from classroom-based informal needs assessment and feedback regarding professional learning to high-level National Science Foundation-funded studies. Iterate on what works and learn from what doesn’t.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

That’s why I kind of refer to Google as being this gateway tool because it’s so easy to use that it can lead you to have more confidence in using technology and maybe trying some other stuff. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored blog post.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’ve included them on the image below as a quick reference. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. There are many more terminologies that I teach with Metaverse, but these are just some that we use at the beginning of the process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Many schools are moving to portfolios as a way to capture learning instead of a polished final product. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. Under her leadership, her school was the first to pilot HoloLens Mixed Reality from elementary through high schoo l. Vicki: Cool. Michelle: Yes. Vicki: Cool!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

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. I’ll say that one of my favorite reference tools – I have a lot of favorites. [00:04:00].

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

Recently, LEF partnered with LEGO Foundation to create a gamified learning experience, called SuperSkills! where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Just having those icons up there at the top of the toolbar as places for them to reference. The day that they learned to copy and paste (laughs) was a magical day because they were able to use that Ctrl-C and the Ctrl-V. As an elementary teacher, Lee Ann has a passion for teaching kids not only about content, but life lessons as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Aditya: So I personally find a beauty in learning computer architecture from the ground up, which I have done. Vicki: We’re also talking about teaching kids in elementary, middle, and high school. Reference: Hamari, J., But most programmers nowadays don’t practice that. Aditya: Exactly, exactly. Recently, Hamari et al.

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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. They are assigned a topic and divided into specific groups (as known as typical collaborative learning groups.) Students gather information using the web and are taught to reference and give credit to their resources.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

For students, call a "test" a "game" and it changes their level of excitement and investment increases. As they get older, their experiences narrow from elementary to middle school. So games can capitalize on this in the context of encouraging kids to engage in play and experimentation. Ex: photosynthesis.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 26, 2018

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Glen: I know that sounds crazy, but… I use the books now as a reference tool. We’re going to learn from that book, but then we’re going to put it back.”. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Vicki: Ohhhhh.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.” Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

10 Keys to Purpose Driven Learning. Vicki: Michael Matera @mrmatera is my favorite game-based learning guru, but today we’re going to talk about keys to purpose-driven learning. 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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Carol has been an elementary educator in the primary grades for 26 years. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. So, get out there. Be a remarkable educator. We’ve had so many wonderful ideas today. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford.

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