Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. More on SAMR and Gamification. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. 5 Resources to Gamify Student Writing.

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 3, 2023

Photo by Julia M Cameron: [link] All Inclusive Teacher Tools Digital The Ultimate Digital Toolbox for Teachers (2023)- Are you looking for innovative ways to enhance your teaching and engage your students in the digital age? Get ready to transform your teaching with these powerful digital tools! Look no further!

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STEM Education Shopping

AUGUST 3, 2023

Photo by Zain Abba: [link] Boost Engagement Your Classroom Better with Teacher Tools Digital – Are you looking for innovative ways to enhance your teaching and engage your students in the digital age? Get ready to transform your teaching with these powerful digital tools! This allows you to actively participate in your education.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MAY 16, 2022

Every summer since I’ve been teaching (20 years now), I don’t start feeling like myself until that first vacation. Art Based Strategies for Literacy Instructions The Learning Science of Music Teaching Life Skills and Financial Literacy Shaping Global Citizens through World Crisis Education. So, why not rest and do it early.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2018

Vivek Singh, education professional and contributor to Ask a Tech Teacher, has some interesting ideas on using your native LMS as a social learning platform. Education, thus, has its roots in the earliest social interactions. Gamification and Virtual Reality. Little has changed in today’s space-age. Back to the basics.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 16, 2022

SEL games can help you teach social-emotional learning skills and life skills. Understand that parents do not typically like the term social-emotional learning and prefer the term “life skills” but as you teach life skills, they want to partner with teachers in the process. Learn how games can be a powerful way to teach life skills.

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Cool Cat Teacher

JUNE 3, 2021

This summer, educators need to get some rest so that we can be our best. As I look ahead to this summer and listen to educators, here are 21 hot topics that I think we should consider including in our summer PD. We have to relate to educate. Students need us to understand them so we can teach them.

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STEM Education Shopping

MAY 14, 2023

Today we’re going to dive into a topic that’s been buzzing around the education world lately: Cue Robot ( 1 ). Is Cue robot in education the next big thing? With its ability to teach coding, problem-solving skills, and so much more, it’s no wonder educators are starting to take notice.

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CoderZ

MARCH 20, 2024

In order to support a diverse educational community, it’s crucial that schools find ways to foster inclusivity across the curriculum. Seeing people who look like them succeed also can help students picture their own success in future STEM educational endeavors and careers.

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Magic EdTech

APRIL 27, 2021

Conversations on modernizing education should provide strategies for keeping students motivated and ensuring that they are practicing strategic thinking, confidence, and creativity—skills that they will need in the future workplace. Gamification uses various motivational factors, such as scorecards that promote competition amongst users.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

In this case, efriend and fellow educator, Jessica Sanders from WhooosReading.org , shares her favorite tools for kick-starting readers. I think you’ll like her choices: Not every student is motivated to read—as you, as an educator, know better than anyone else. This is another tool that uses gamification to motivate students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 24, 2015

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened to the chapter being reviewed, homework as worksheets based on the text, tests regurgitating important facts. Did I miss anything? Our classrooms are more diverse.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 9, 2020

This is a question that I frequently think about and a term that gets tossed around in education. It's a smorgasbord of teaching strategies that uses analog and digital technologies to teach and learn. 4] Schools with blended learning models may also choose to reallocate resources to boost student achievement outcomes. [5]

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CoderZ

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

First introduced by the National Science Foundation as a more palatable version of their STEM efforts, STEM education quickly became a measure of school performance, as shown by the growing number of federal, state and private certifications available to schools with distinguished programs. Ideally, solutions should work for all people.

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Magic EdTech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gamification is the application of game elements and game-inspired design to learning content. Instructional designers can integrate reward systems like point systems, badges, and leaderboards to help motivate users and achieve a specific learning goal within the classroom. Gamification for an Inclusive Learning Environment.

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Magic EdTech

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Gamification is the application of game elements and game-inspired design to learning content. Instructional designers can integrate reward systems like point systems, badges, and leaderboards to help motivate users and achieve a specific learning goal within the classroom. Gamification for an Inclusive Learning Environment.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 3, 2019

We’ll show you how fundraising technology aimed at K-12 schools is effective because it is: Shareable Educational Adaptable User-Friendly Let’s get started with one of the most important aspects of any online fundraising effort: how shareable the campaign is! Want to motivate students to participate?

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Magic EdTech

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Classrooms are changing dramatically with the implementation of education technology. With the surge in eLearning products in the market, a proper evaluation of education products has never been more critical. But implementing education technology comes with its fair share of challenges. These changes impact how students learn.

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Stephen Wolfram

AUGUST 22, 2023

Ed was never officially a “test pilot”, but he told me stories about figuring out how to take his plane higher than anyone else—and achieving weightlessness by flying his plane in a perfect free-fall trajectory by maintaining an eraser floating in midair in front of him.

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