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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

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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. Once back in the whole group.

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

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Both women are committed to making education more equitable and technology fields more diverse, especially in the face of a pandemic that has disproportionately affected the populations they seek to elevate. Instead of saying, ’These are your learning objectives,’ we just have #goals. Also there’s a game-based learning element to it.

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How PS1X in the Bronx Does Digital Citizenship

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Regardless of their access to devices or internet at home, she aims to give students at PS1X Courtlandt School in the South Bronx, New York, the tools they need to thrive and succeed in a world of media and technology. The skills learned could help them with not only online safety but a variety of life skills.

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Summer Reads for Teachers

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Affinity Online: How Connection and Shared Interest Fuel Learning. In this collection of in-depth case studies, cultural anthropologist Mizuno (Mimi) Ito and her colleagues shine a light on the positive ways kids are using new technologies to connect around shared interests, learn from one another, engage in creative production, and more.

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

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Digging Deeper: Learning and Re-learning with Student and Teacher Minecraft Communities. Language Learning and Minecraft. Learning English in Minecraft: a case study on language competences and classroom practices. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - ISTE Unplugged + Hack Education - AERO - Gaming in Ed Call for Proposals - Students Driving Change

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Go behind the scenes with game designers from the Museum of Science and Industry Chicago, makers of the GameUp title Code Fred, for an inside look at their creative process. See how they identified the goals of the game and what went into the development and evaluation of teaching resources. Learn more and join the event here.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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In a December 2016 letter by Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to Kelly about the pilot program, Skorkowsky noted that students enjoyed lessons about data literacy from the product’s visualizations and about science from real-world case studies. Students also liked the avatar-based 3-D games. “I