Transform Teaching Through Teaching

by Kim Caise

Transforming Teaching Through Technology includes gamification techniques on how to gamify your classroom instruction through learning activities featuring technology. Numerous ways of incorporating technology and enriching instruction using web and technology tools are featured in this guide book. Learn what it means to teach using gamification learning activities including mystery adventure quests and technology to increase student engagement. Transform your teaching through technology!

Genres: Teaching

Kindle Edition

Published March 13, 2017

About the author

Kim has been an educator and technology specialist for over 20 years after graduating from the University of Texas at San Antonio with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Elementary Education and a Master of Education in Learning and Technology from Western Governors University. Kim is a Discovery Education STAR Educator and serves on the Texas Leadership Council for the Discovery Educator Network (DEN). In 2006 Kim became a National Board Certified Educator in the area of technology education. She is a FableVision Ambassador, was nominated for the 2005 Disney Teacher of the Year Award, and named the ‘2003 Digital Teacher Award’ from Digital Knowledge Curriculum (now Discovery Education) for her use of digital media in the classroom.


Kim’s passions include blogging, collaborating online with colleagues, reading, mentoring teachers, and spending time with her family and friends. She presents online webinars, conference presentations, and campus workshops. She recently published her book gamification and mystery adventure quests called, “Kid Detectives: Classroom Gamification Learning Activities - Mystery Adventure Quests”. Kim JUST published the holiday children’s book she wrote called “A December to Remember”. Message her on her website, facebook (kcaise), twitter (kcaise) or here if you are interested in purchasing the holiday book.

Reviews

[Kim Caise · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is chock-full of strategies incorporating technology in the classroom. There are a variety of activities enabling the teacher to pick and choose strategies to implement lessons that are student centered technology lessons. The book includes full page learning activities as samples, creative sparks for student learning and technology tools and resources to use in the classroom. This book is an extension of "Kid Detectives" and is an extremely useful book for planning, collaborating with students around the world, and engaging students in the learning process. You won’t be disappointed investing in this fabulous professional development content!