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How to Create Apps in the Classroom and Inspire Design Thinking

The CoolCatTeacher

I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. Master strongly believes that since we don't know what jobs are going to be available 10 years from now, we have to teach kids how to create their own. What that her name?

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Make the Most of Accelerator Demo Days and Improve Your Chance of Success

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

An ed-tech company CEO shares the pros and cons of demo day, and how to use these presentation as a springboard for investment and impact. The post Make the Most of Accelerator Demo Days and Improve Your Chance of Success appeared first on Market Brief.

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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

Edsurge

What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion. Imagine learning how the forum was built by actually watching the forum get built right in front of you.”

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A New Essential Formative Feedback Tool for Project Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

Notice that I only picked four of the elements of graphic design and that they had been taught that and then give them feedback labeled advanced Graphic design feedback for how to take their site further, talk to them as a cool find interesting high school teacher. Now, this is how I supervise what my students have done.

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I Worked for ESL Companies with Lousy Curriculums. Here’s What I Learned — And What You Should Look For.

Edsurge

Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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Unlock the Secrets: Expert Homework Hacks for Busy Parents

The CoolCatTeacher

I love how my students can edit together but can also view live changes on their smartphones using a QR code demo that is still private just to them and me. And so if you're looking at somebody who's learning, you're looking at somebody who's actually doing the second hack is how to get organized. It's this ongoing process.

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Can a Hollywood-Backed VR Company Make Science Labs More Effective?

Edsurge

As professors are redesigning a lab unit for an introductory biology course at Arizona State University, they’re getting advice from Steven Spielberg and other Hollywood veterans on how to help students form emotional connections with fictional “frog-cats.”

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