Teacher Resources
Getting Ready for an Hour of Code – Webinar Wednesday, December 4 at 3:30 pm ET
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Wednesday, December 4 at 3:30 pm ET
Getting Ready for the Hour of Code
Learn how to work an “Hour of Code” into your day during Computer Science Education Week, December 9-15. CSEdWeek aims to sho...
Image Prompt: What Are They doing?
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Describe what's happening in the three action pictures in this image prompt, using the present progressive tense....
Discovering Digital Tools for Learning With Graphite.org
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Pinpointing the best digital tools for your students can be pretty overwhelming. Thankfully, there’s Graphite.org, a free service from the non-profit Common Sense Media. Through rigorous ratings and p...
Four Dogs Image Prompt
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Use these image prompts to practice simple adjectives....
De-“Mist”-ifying Cloud Computing
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In our newest BrainPOP technology movie, Tim introduces Moby to the wonders of cloud computing. Discover how the "cloud" is really a network of powerful data centers connected by the Internet. Learn h...
A Digital Age: K-12 Market Map and Investment Analysis
Posted by Laura Gatto on
This article, by John Richards, Leslie Stebbins and Kurt Moellering, 2013, explores the current reality of the games market. It draws a K-12 market map of learning initiatives based on games and analy...
Proceedings from Games + Learning + Society Conference
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Originally published in the Games + Learning + Society 2012 Conference Proceedings 8.0, this research represents a partnership between Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Carnegie Learnin...
Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom
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BrainPOP teamed up with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop to lead a research project, Teacher Attitudes about Digital Games in the Classroom. 500 teachers nationally were surveyed for the...
Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman
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Written for game designers, interaction designers and game scholars, "Rules of Play" is a pioneer in offering a theoretical model for understanding and designing games. Here you can download the third...
Good Video Games, Good Learning Games
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Written by James Paul Gee (2007), this article explores 16 learning principles that are incorporated in good learning games. The author argues educators could make use of these principles to make lear...
