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How can teachers use VR in the classroom?

Neo LMS

If you are as old as I am then you will remember the thrill of watching your teacher wheel the TV trolley into the classroom. How can teachers use VR in the classroom. Cardboard is simply an inexpensive pair of VR goggles made from a cardboard cutout, magnets, and an Android phone. Finally”, you thought, “some fun in class!”

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

EdTechTeacher

Getting computing devices into schools is relatively easy; changing classroom practice with technology is really, really hard. With every generation of computing technology, a small group of educators has been able to use new tools in transformative ways, but on the whole, classroom practices have proven stubbornly resistant to change.

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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

The “Teach Boldly” teacher support initiative will include a series of virtual and community training events and the launch of the new PBS Teachers’ Lounge, a creative digital space where teachers can share ideas, learn from peers, find daily inspiration and access the tools and resources they need to enhance their work in the classroom.

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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 ). If you post the Thank You card as an assignment in Google Classroom, then Google Classroom makes a folder that contains all the student documents. 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. Or the flipped classroom. Say, the Android device in Google’s Cardboard Viewer and Expeditions program.).