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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

In today’s show, learn about Minecraft EDU and how it is being used to teach. Book Creator for Chrome. Previously on the 10-Minute Teacher, guests have mentioned Book Creator as one of their top apps for the iPad. Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. This is great news!

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What’s Hot in 2nd-Grade with #2ndchat moderator Carol McLaughlin

The CoolCatTeacher

It can be as simple as just solving a math problem with each other, or doing a science project, or doing a whole chapter book that we are sharing books and ideas with. We all read the same book at the same time, but we each shared ideas throughout it, and we had different things we talked about in the book.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

Karen: About a month ago, I started seeing stuff on social media. She was named as a 2015 PBS LearningMedia Digital Innovator and serves as a Book Creator Ambassador. Now, we had never heard of Merge Cube, and now all of a sudden, everybody started talking about Merge Cube. So how did this Merge Cube mania start? What happened?

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Conference Volunteering - Libraries! - Google Excitement - Common Core Film

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There is a full schedule of amazing sessions on game-based learning topics, and volunteers will be able to connect with these outstanding presenters. Sign up to volunteer at Gaming in Ed! Three Steps for Improving Students'' Self-Reliance in Learning. Library 2.014 - October 8th + 9th.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Typically this project has taken all of November and all of December to write, based on all the Friday "week-in-reviews" that I’d written over the course of the year. That's what a decade of ed-tech social media and PR have wrought: hashtag gurus and fake news. So much innovation and “edsurgency.”