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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

To discuss a real life scenario or case study. This can be done in a jigsaw strategy whereby different groups are given different case studies. is a game-based learning platform, used as educational technology in schools and other educational institutions. To do online research about a given topic.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

Edsurge

Before entering the game, students would outline their plans for the day—a great way to get them using the “going to” future tense and conditional form for hypotheses. Students recorded these reflections on a Google Doc as a reference for the next time we played. Language Learning and Minecraft. IrvSpanish. Vance Stevens.

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Gaming, VR Exploring, and App Building: The Ellis Island Hack-A-Thon

techlearning

5) As with all gaming in my classes, students were asked to identify, fact, fiction and the methods used by the game designers to demonstrate key facts. Following the game and discussion, we investigated more about Ellis Island. In this final lesson we will publish our apps and test them with immigrant case studies.