It all started when one of our students brought in a frog for show and tell. We became very very interested in frogs. Mrs. Caldwell said that we could spend a couple of hours researching frogs and learning more about them. We watched a Brain Pop video on frogs and a Discovery Education video. We […]
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One of the greatest challenges when looking for appropriate gaming opportunities in middle years and high school classrooms is finding games that connect with curricular outcomes. Despite having a large selection of gaming consoles at my disposal (Original X-Box, PS2, Nintendo Wii), finding useful gaming experiences is difficult without buying games and playing them first.
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Thanks to funding from a Manitoba Teachers Society Reflective Professional Practice Grant, we are spending a second day working on the topic of game-based learning and focusing on how we can use gaming to improve student learning. Earlier in the school year, I had posted a comment on the Game-Based Learning Hot Topics Blog about
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The grade 1s held their Recycle for Good Garage Sale on April 18th & 19th. Their goal was to raise funds to help people in Africa (through World Vision) and to help animals (through the World Wildlife Fund Symbolic Adoption Program). The idea came from Lilly, a student who was watching television one night and
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Mrs. Caldwell and I have been very lucky to work with Microsoft Partners in Learning. Currently, we are part of the Microsoft Expert Educator program as a result of our success at the 2012 Microsoft Partners in Learning Global Forum. As a part of the program, we are working with our students to implement and share
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We were pleased to present at the Canadian Virtual Innovative Educator Forum this morning. Unfortunately, our slides did not work, so I have posted them below as reminders of our message!
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I was invited to contribute to Microsoft Partners in Learning Network’s Hot Topics blog on games based learning. Here’s one of my posts: As a Canadian kindergarten teacher, I spend my days immersed in the world of little people. Their brief attention spans, need for frequent movement breaks, and emerging 21st century skills require a
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I was invited to contribute Microsoft Partners in Learning Network’s Hot Topics blog on Games Based Learning. Here’s one of the posts: My first foray into games-based learning was completely…analog! Inspired by this article in NCTM’s Teaching Children Mathematics in April 2005, I was very excited to merge play and a unique new game with my
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Thanks to funding from a Manitoba Teachers Society Reflective Professional Practice Grant, we are spending a day researching game-based learning and developing game-based learning activities for our classroom. We will document findings, ideas and resources in this post. Microsoft Partners in Learning Network We visited the Hot Topics section to find out more about game-based
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Co-written by Mrs. Devon Caldwell, Mrs. Leah Obach & Mr. Chris Obach as follow-up to a conference call with Dr. Richard Van Eck, an expert in the area of gaming in education. Share your tips, tricks, ideas and questions related to gaming in the classroom on Twitter using #edugaming Where it all began… In 2008,
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