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Using Games to Help Reluctant Readers and Writers (and More)

The CoolCatTeacher

Lee Graham on Episode 569 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lee Graham is working with teachers to teach them principles of game-based learning to teach writing. Her anecdotes of classroom behavior-changing results are – pardon the pun – game-changing.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. Coming soon: the Hack Education Ed-Tech Decade in Review). Of course, the latter is just wishful thinking.

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8 Epic Edtech Tools to Try This School Year

The CoolCatTeacher

Today, Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, talks about eight edtech apps that you should try. (He He also shares a bonus fitness opportunity for educators.) Listen to the show and learn how it is used and follow the links in the show notes below. He also shares a bonus fitness opportunity for educators.)

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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Jeff: Ah, yeah… So I’m using Minecraft Education Edition in my technology classroom with my students. So with Minecraft Education Edition, that’s what I was able to accomplish. It’s all about technology. It’s all about gaming. That’s what Minecraft Education Edition does. We’re a very small rural K-8 school.

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Webinar: Teaching with Augmented Reality with #ARVRinEDU Classroom Enthusiasts

The CoolCatTeacher

I’m excited to be interviewing some leading Augmented Reality experts who are doing far more than this in their classroom to talk about changing pedagogies and practices surrounding this fantastic technology. Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher Register This webinar is sponsored by 3D Bear.

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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching in augmented reality (AR) for the past several years has been a bit of a challenge, in my opinion, as is often the case with new technologies. For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

eSchool News

That was a key area of focus at the 2016 South by Southwest Education ( SXSWedu ) conference in Austin, Texas, March 7-10, and a number of ed-tech companies and organizations demonstrated possible solutions. We need to find ways of approaching STEAM education differently.”. I didn’t know that word when I was in the third grade.”.