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How to Create Massive Multiplayer Kahoot Games

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, George Pearce, talks about how he streams Kahoot games, handles security and privacy, fights bots that allow cheating and attack his Kahoot games, and also how he deals with a lag to make game competitions more equitable even when hundreds of miles separate the learners. Stream by clicking here.

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5 Basic ingredients to online learning success

Neo LMS

5 Basic ingredients to online learning success. At the bottom line, each teacher needs to find the perfect recipe of blended learning for each of their classes. Anyway, no matter how diverse these recipes turn out to be, there are a few ingredients that blend smoothly into online learning success.

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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

Edsurge

In high school, students might be asked to design a building using drafting software, math, and physics skills to create their final product. D2L's Resources for Teaching and Learning. Webinars —covering topics such as using video in K-12 classrooms, game-based learning, and journaling.

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Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Enrique Cachafeiro talks about the hardware, software options, and future of virtual reality. Unity is a software required to make games. Most teachers — and I consider myself pretty tech savvy — Unity has a fairly steep learning curve. I mean, this is not a game. Twitter: @8bitbiologist.

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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

The CoolCatTeacher

Or you can use Tinkercad or any other 3D modeling software. Explore 3D Bear Now So, for example, if a student goes into Sketchup (formerly Google Sketchup) and you’ve added Sketchup’s STL extension, they can create or import items and then export them.

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How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features

The CoolCatTeacher

I like to use Kanban Boards and Agile Software Development principles (something outside the scope of this article). Ideation and Planning The top student mistake in a larger build is starting without first ideating , or generating ideas, for their app or experience. Then, after they ideate, they have to plan what will be in the experience.

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We must not shut low-income students out of computer sciences

The Hechinger Report

Related: New high score: Game based learning is a winner in college remedial math. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Implementing programs like this does not require hiring a fleet of computer scientists – teachers can learn alongside their students, making it a fun learning experience for everyone.