A LOOK INSIDE a Digital Shop Class: Game Based Learning, Design Thinking and …

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Digital shop class! Igniting wonder! You can write on the desks. You can write on the walls; there are no grades! Learning is a game where students level up and earn experience points. Kids are building things to improve their community. Does this sound like a dream? No! It’s happening right now in Kevin Jarrett’s classroom.

Kevin is using game based learning and every cutting edge tool you can imagine to ignite curiosity and spur on student achievement. Listen to today’s episode to uncover the secrets, tools, and tips behind teacher Kevin Jarrett’s cutting edge classroom.

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What You’ll Learn When You Listen to Today’s Show

What is the structure of a classroom that ignites wonder?
How can you have a student centered classroom and still have empathy and technology work together?
Can you stop taking grades and still improve student achievement?
How you can use game based learning with a simple WordPress plug-in.
Why we shouldn’t use the term maker space anymore.

Educator Resources from this Episode

Here are links to the resource Kevin shared in the show. Listen to this show to learn how he used them.

@kjarrett
Game-on Wordpress Plugin uses game based learning in your classroom.
Ready, Set, Design curriculum from Cooper-Hewitt
The Extraordinaires Design Studio

Teacher Kevin Jarrett builds a digital shop class using game based learning, empathy, design thinking and more.

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and telling your friends about the work we do here! - Vicki

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