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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard. Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world.

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Searching for the Ability to Think: Training our Kids to Go Past Google

The CoolCatTeacher

In other words, they learned and built their own knowledge base. To expand their knowledge, they had to assemble a library and know how to find books in it. Classrooms need well-stocked maker spaces and creativity stations. In previous centuries, students had to build their own Google. The focus was on learning.

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