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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

Cardboard is simply an inexpensive pair of VR goggles made from a cardboard cutout, magnets, and an Android phone. The cardboard goggles when combined with an Android phone, preloaded with any of Google’s Cardboard apps, are a simple way to bring classroom lessons to life. Find all the available Google Cardboard education apps here.

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How to Transform Teaching with Tablets – From Tom Daccord & Justin Reich

EdTechTeacher

Over the past century, radio, television, video cassette recorders, desktop computers, laptop computers, handheld devices, tablets, and cell phones have all been heralded as potentially transformative classroom tools (Cuban, 1986, 2003).

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PBS to Present “Spotlight Education,” A Special Week of Programming Featuring Reports About America’s Students and New Models of Learning, September 12-17

EdNews Daily

In addition, previews, clips and full episodes will be available on the PBS apps for iOS and Android devices and via station-branded digital platforms. Short-form and full episodes from the week, interactive content modules and a social hub for SPOTLIGHT EDUCATION will be available on PBS.org and Americangraduate.org.

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Three Thanksgiving Ideas

Learning in Hand

In 2003, I used iMovie to document the experience. This time I used the Quik app (free for iOS and Android ). I liked to film students as they carved because they looked super silly with the crackers in their mouths. I remember it took several hours to put together this video.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.).