The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Generally speaking, this free interactive STEM lab takes 2-4 days to complete and includes extension science experiments that you could add to the unit. Fire Forensics: A Free STEM Module for Middle School Science. Each learning module is designed to connect classrooms to real-world science and engineering.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

What is STEM? The acronym STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. More recently, arts were added to this educational model, as educators believed that art and creativity play an important role in the understanding of the former subjects in the STEM Curriculum , thus changing the acronym from STEM to STEAM.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2022

In one year, I shifted from being an educator who didn’t value an expanded role of video games in schools to a teacher developing an elementary esports curriculum, running multiple esports summer camps, and developing an elementary esports after school club. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Students can design a game in any subject to assess their peers. When students design games they use a lot of creativity and critical thinking skills. Students must imagine and design worlds, characters, levels, sound effects, game elements, and more.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

This years list has quite the variety and covers a wide range of educational content, such as: game based learning, programming/coding, educational resources, and more. This is all done through an educational portal making it easy to assess student learning and differentiate instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Brian Aspinall, author of Code Breaker : 15+ Ways to Get Started with Coding, shares how students from kindergarten to high school can start to learn coding. SPONSOR: Join a Free Personalized Learning Session with Me and TextHelp! Get ready to talk about Personalized Learning. Enjoy Hour of Code week!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2018

Thirty-three-year Presidential Award Winning science teacher Glen Westbroek believes in creating active learning experiences in his science classroom. Today we kick off science week on the 10-Minute Teacher talking about active learning, Next Generation Science Standards, and what an engaging science classroom looks like. Listen Now.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools. My STEM class, iCreate, is a part of our K-12 STEM continuum.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The Future is STEM/STEAM. We celebrated National STEM/STEAM Day just a few weeks ago, a reminder of how important it is to foster our students’ curiosity around math and science endeavors. STEM/STEAM is everywhere you can imagine and is an indispensable part of our everyday lives. ST Math has been a game changer for our kids.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Netherlands-based Digipuzzle is an online educational resource that offers hundreds of G-rated learning games for younger audiences, many in both Spanish and English. Topics include math, animals, typing, geography, spelling, letter recognition, holidays, seasons, dinosaurs, USA, other games, and more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) started collaborating on game-based learning (GBL) in developmental math and writing instruction in the mid-2000s, they had no idea what they were setting in motion. Can a Classic Board Game Teach Writing Skills? Connecting the Dots Between Enjoyment and Learning.

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techlearning

JANUARY 28, 2016

From programming, STEM, and game-based learning to assessments and stories, there’s something for everyone in this best-of-2015 list.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 25, 2018

Flipping Awesome Physics with an Asynchronous Flipped Gameful Mastery Learning Classroom. Now, Jon, you have recently implemented an asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning classroom. What is asynchronous, flipped, gameful, mastery learning? Vicki: Do you feel like they’re learning physics better?

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. Book Creator - A fantastic mobile (iOS/Chrome) app for creating stunning eBooks/presentations, that can be used for digital storytelling, project based learning, and more. It's the time of year again for my favorite annual sites and apps.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Assessment in AR including classroom examples Effective ways to get started with AR Predictions on where AR will be in 5 years Who? Register Now AR Topics Some of the topics we will be discussing include: How teachers are teaching with augmented reality in the classroom Device configurations (does every student have to have one?)

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Educandy - A wonderful site for creating educational games where a teacher just enters the questions and Educandy creates the game. Walnut - A excellent new site/app for finding educational videos and then taking quizzes to assess learning (think BrainPop). brainstorming, assessing learning, etc.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update September 10th, 2014 The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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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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MIND Research Institute

JULY 19, 2016

moment about productive struggle—when we realized the truth about how our potential for growth and creativity is unleashed to the extent that we learn to persevere, figure things out on our own and bounce back from failure. By Lianna Nix Director, Rex Mill’s STEM Academy Program, Jonesboro, GA. I have seen tremendous improvement.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

What is the ideal blended learning environment? Many ask me what the best device is for learning. Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

Ordinarily, a drop in college remedial courses would herald an improvement in high school math learning. Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The reason for this as not as many new learning tools came out this year compared to years past, while more current tools focused on regular updates. Code Kingdoms - One of my favorite sites for learning how to program (Javascript) by drag-n-dropping blocks of code (i.e Xtranormal) by typing a script.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

Supplement At-Home Education with Digital Learning Digital financial education can—and does—play a role in providing students with the financial knowledge they may not receive at home. Finding these opportunities can help students bridge the gap from learning to application. From the 2018 interactive FutureSmart State Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 31, 2017

What happens when a school has every student learn Computer Science. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 6, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 6th, 2014 Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Fred Rogers The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Kimberly Tyson @ tysonkimberly and Dr. Angela Peery @ drangelapeery share their advice for helping students learn blended vocabulary. Learn more. Want to hear another episode on helping students learn? Listen to Ramona Persaud talk about 5 ways to adjust teaching to how the brain learns. Recording starts 0:00:00].

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Most teachers — and I consider myself pretty tech savvy — Unity has a fairly steep learning curve. What groups can listeners follow to learn more? I’ve got a lot to learn. Make it more immersive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 16, 2017

Learn about the challenges and advantages of breakout edu digital. Mari Venturino is a 7th-grade science and AVID teacher and Blended Learning Specialist at Mar Vista Academy in San Diego, CA. Today Mari Venturino @MsVenturino talks about breakout edu digital for edtech tool Tuesday. These challenges are free! Listen Now. Blog: [link].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But these efforts have fallen short of meaningfully transforming learning. Edtech initiatives that reduce teachers to the role of facilitator often overlook the important role the teacher plays in activating rich learning experiences for students.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 10, 2021

And by playing games, students can practice and revise their thinking as they move through the developmental stages of mastering math facts at their own pace (Bay-Williams & Kling 2014). Fluency was previously viewed in context with speed and assessed through timed tests. For example, take my personal journey to learn Spanish.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

We have a way where we can do basically an old-school version of this demo in class and make it fun because students learn about alcohol chemistry. I also make an effort to learn student names. I can typically learn more than 200 in a 10-week period. That’s the basics behind the technology of a modern Breathalyzer device.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 2, 2015

Educators know that students need hands on, engaging activities to help enhance their learning and the right video games are the best way offer this opportunity. You don’t have to master the game, but teaching with it without playing it yourself can be problematic. There Is A Learning Curve. by Michael Catelli.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Studies have shown that the highly social and collaborative nature of the popular fantasy role-playing game cultivates a range of social-emotional skills, which can lay the foundation for improved learning. David Simkins, a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology, is an expert on games and learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 29, 2018

From stop motion to video controls and cool add-ins for formative assessment and graphics, learn about this Swiss Army Knife of Google tools – Google Slides. Just go to coolcatteacher.com/shake to learn more. Kasey: Pear Deck is a formative assessment tool. We can keep learning more. Listen Now. Vicki: Yes.

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