Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Play Like a Pirate by Quinn Rollins Reviewed by Erin Whalen In this 2016 book from Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc., author Quinn Rollins takes us on a journey of bringing fun back into our classrooms through play. Each of the three sections, Toys, Games, and Superheroes, Graphic Novels, & Comic Strips, reminds us of the…
A3. I turned my entire syllabus into a welcome back game. Now it’s a team challenge through 10 stations with action-oriented work products at each so we never have to read the class rules again. Day 1 empowerment. Please steal it! https://t.co/fNci7xbwnM #hacklearning pic.twitter.com/tf4dgK5ka7 — John Meehan (@MeehanEDU) August 19, 2018 A Gamified Syllabus Guest…
Quizizz Gamified Quizzes Guest blog post by Barton Keeler “I still don’t know how to use a semicolon,” “What’s the difference between a hyphen and a dash?” “I have no idea what parallel structure is!” Every year it’s the same. I have the students complete a survey in my English classes to find out what…
Have fun with Quizizz I Periscoped Steve Isaacs experiencing a Quizizz for the first time. Quizizz gamifies multiple choice questions. This is not substitution, Quizizz genuinely makes learning better. Unlike a worksheet, Quizizz builds in engagement. Engagement matters to make learning sticky. Unlike a worksheet, the student gets immediate feedback as to if they were right…
This post has been updated. Play Farkle in Google Slides Previously I had blogged on playing Farkle and provided a template in Google Slides and Google Sheets. The Google Sheets spreadsheet had a menu I coded to allow students to roll dice within the spreadsheet. I think using actual dice is better but when we…
Turn any Google Slides into a game with Slides Dice.
Game Board Template This is just for fun, I created a game board template and thought I would share it. Create a Game I didn’t make the game for you, so you (or as Catlin Tucker says, have the student’s do it!) will need to create an idea to have student’s use a game board….
What Can We Learn from Games Games, like 비트카지노, are educational, even if what we are learning is how to play the game. The problem is that, like lesson planning, designing a good game is hard. I like to have a few games on my phone that I can play when I’m waiting around for…
Review content with your class using this baseball template in Google Slides. A Google Baseball Game will be a fun way for students to engage in getting ready for the test!
Try this fun review game for class. Class Baseball in Google Slides. If you have been looking for a Google Baseball game here is a template for you!
Gamification To-Do List If you have ever had your students play Kahoot you know that the power of gamification is undeniable. Gamification adds gaming elements to a non gaming situation. A little competition in a to-do list can really help motivate you to get your stuff done. To-Do Gamification Template I created a Google Sheets spreadsheet to…
If you would like to create or use a badge created from Google Drawing I have created a Google Form to submit the badge. Feel free to reblog the templates and links. This project only works if we can get the word out to share the badges we create. tinyurl.com/submitabadge Any badges submitted should be…
Part of my lesson for this week is to introduce my students to Google Drive. Some of the students are adept at tech skills and others struggle with highlighting text. To help differentiate for the variety of Google Drive knowledge, I created a challenge list the students can choose from. The students choose the challenges…
Google Slides is an awesome tool for creating activity spaces. One of my favorite things about Google Slides is the ability to transform it from being a presentation tool to a collaboration or work space. One use for Google Slides is to create a game environment. Games can provide a context for a students learning,…
Are you ready for the #HourOfCode? Guest Blogger Steve Isaacs December 7–13 marks the 7th annual Computer Science Education week and the 3rd annual #HourOfCode Challenge spearheaded by Code.org. Code.org takes an approach to teaching coding by using iconic characters and the block.ly block based coding language to teach computer science concepts in a way…
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