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5 Meaningful Ways to Leverage the "MakeyMakey" in Your Teaching

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* Click here if your are not familiar with the MakeyMakey Rather than simply developing video game controllers, empower your students to use the MakeyMakey to create Assistive Technology for individuals with various physical disabilities (Quadriplegia, Cerebral Palsy, etc.).

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Libraries Ready to Code Beta Collection Release

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A high school librarian collaborating with a local music mentorship program to teach youth in special education classes how to code music with assistive technology. Public librarians in a rural community teaching coding languages to help youth engineer and operate a FarmBot robotic gardener.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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The Marketplace also includes free curriculum content from its partners, including Google Classroom, Newsela, and more. Britannica Insights is available for free download and works with major search engines – Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others – on the Chrome browser.

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Increasing Engagement, Creativity, and Innovation with Minds-On/Hands-On Activities

User Generated Education

Learner-Initiated and Directed – When presented as self-directed learning, educators, as mentioned above, give learners an open ended task, like develop a new type of transportation for use on another planet or design an assistive technology for someone with a disability. Puppet Making and Green Screen Recording.

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What Technology Helps Students Learn?

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Virtual reality applications like Google Expeditions provide immersive experiences. Digital textbooks offer interactive content, and assistive technologies like speech-to-text tools support diverse learning needs, collectively creating a dynamic and enriched learning environment for students.