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Roblox, PLTW team up for immersive STEM experience

eSchool News

Key points: Immersive learning experiences are highly engaging and give students another way to grasp key STEM concepts Roblox and Project Lead The Way are offering 3D immersive learning with a new STEM experience See related article: Are you teaching with Roblox?

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4 Ways to promote collaboration in digital spaces

Neo LMS

If you are using Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, or Zoom, allow students to collaborate in breakout rooms. We can use game-based learning and have students play on teams or create games for students to participate in these breakout room spaces. Read more: Why students love a game-based learning experience.

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How Online Camps Help Kids Stay Connected to STEM Skills and Mentors Year-Round

MindShift

It embodies the idea of social constructivism , whose premise is that knowledge is built through social interactions, and its closely allied theory of computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) that extends the principles of social learning to networked and online environments.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

Technology Tidbits

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels. Edji - An innovative new site for annotating texts for collaborative learning.

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The Trends and Challenges Shaping Technology Adoption In Schools

MindShift

Many schools are moving toward these goals by adopting pedagogies like project-based learning and competency-based learning that allow students to move more organically between academic tasks and rely less on rigid bell schedules and siloed disciplines.

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Five Ways Teachers Can Use—and Create—Augmented Reality Experiences

Edsurge

A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. On the screen, she saw her classroom just as though she were using the camera, but with one startling difference: There was a zombie floating in front of her.

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