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How our district is making math relevant

eSchool News

As in many other districts, our efforts to improve student achievement were hindered by curriculum materials that were not tightly aligned with the new standards and often lacked the tasks, norms, and routines needed to create problem-solving classrooms.

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5 Ways Video Games Transform Learning and Prepare Students for Tomorrow's Jobs

Edsurge

Maintaining engagement becomes simultaneously more crucial and difficult as classrooms try to keep up with today’s fast-paced world. Gamification —borrowing the motivating principles from games and applying them to a non-game setting—can rewire and bolster social dynamics in the classroom when properly implemented.

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Part Three: Beyond SAMR… Making Sure Technology Supports Content Standards

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

That’s right, the identified nouns can give you keywords that will allow you to search a wonderful world of OER (Open Education Resources) on the internet. Resources: “Finding the Nouns or Facts” How might your identification of the curriculum standard nouns along with OER fit into a classroom ?

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Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI

NeverEndingSearch

Next time around, I’ll share my notes on OER.). Google Spotlight Stories “G oogle Spotlight Stories means storytelling for VR. Enjoy the experience – look, listen, explore – and never worry that you’ll miss anything.” ( AASL Best Apps for Teaching and Learning 2018). Human Anatomy Atlas 2018.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

For example, a student could be assigned a slide on a Class Google Slide show to share some work while other students and the teacher provide critique. Could Google Draw be used for a collaborative visual thinking activity such as Chalk Talk, or Zoom breakout rooms be used for online critique and revision?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” ” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Government Will Travel to Latin America.”

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Virtual, augmented, and mixed reality in education: a NERCOMP workshop

Bryan Alexander

Interesting snapshot of VR etc in 2018: Some were doing nothing programatically, but people (faculty, admin, IT, librarians) were curious. Some technology in use: Augment , Unity , 360 video , Google Cardboard. rsrc for Capstone OER e-book produced by student on AR/VR + Marketing [link]. This suggests bottom-up work going on.

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