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Module 7 Blog Post 6

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  Integrating Gaming and Simulations:                                                            For this post I chose a game called ABCya's "Math Fact Basketball." When I was in school, I remember having worksheets with up to 100 math facts on it. Our teacher would time us and each time we would try and answer more facts than the previous time. At that time while answering these problems I had no clue if I was getting them right or wrong. We would then go over it after the time was up to correct our papers. This was not fun to me and because we were timed, I was always anxious. Fast forward many years and now there are so many online fun resources and games to use to supplement and reinforce these math facts. Math Fact Basketball is a fun and educational game which is designed to help students practice and master basic math facts. S...
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Module 6 Blog Post 5

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  The two digital platforms I chose to do a case study on are Class dojo and Google classroom. I became quite an expert using Google Classroom during covid. Not only was I using it as a form of teaching while working as a teaching assistant I also had the pleasure of using it during my student teaching semester in college. I do believe I lost out on a lot of opportunities while teaching online, but fortunately I had an amazing mentor teacher and Google Classroom to help guide me. Class dojo is a platform I had never heard of before working as a second-grade teacher in a Charter school. There are so many different uses and advantages to implementing these tools in any classroom.                                                    ...
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