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This Month at DE: May

Discovery Education

An editable Studio Board to showcase student creativity and evidence of learning. Minecraft: Education Edition uses game-based learning to prepare students for the future by building future-ready skills like creativity, problem solving, and systems thinking while nurturing a passion for play. Learn More.

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How Can K-12 Schools Improve Learning Outcomes with Technology?

Kitaboo on EdTech

What this means is that they add AR features to their books, for example, a lesson on the blood circulatory system may have a digitally-enabled heart that would come alive, showing its functioning in real time, when the students point the AR app to the diagram. Several quizzes are embedded in the platform which are actually games.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. So, teachers found a solution where they let the students learn about the technicalities of the topic and practice on an online virtual platform. For example, they can view the resulting solution after mixing four different chemicals together.

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Using the Real World Classrooms Model When Teaching Finance

The CoolCatTeacher

Let me use some basic examples. So if a student wants that privilege, for example, you get to use open notes on a test, well then you have to own that desk, you have to have that privilege. We’ve had a phenomenal experience at my school, for example. This model gamifies and puts the “personal” in personal finance.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

So what’s an example of something it might look like? I demoed it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. They had to give some examples. Karen’s website called “Creative APP-titude: iPad Multimedia Tools for Creativity” contains a wealth of iPad resources and student project examples.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

Edsurge

Additional Resources from eSpark Learning. Preview Frontier’s inquiry-based ELA lessons. Explore a demo of Frontier. Download How to Inspire Effective Teachers. Tour Frontier’s solution for extraordinary teaching. Consider the ways that technology can streamline these processes for teachers.

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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

Edsurge

It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt!

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