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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

The CoolCatTeacher

For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. First, 3D bear is a free download for smartphones and tablets. Here’s one example of how 3D Bear can be used for a real world conversation. Then, they can take photographs, or film an example of what they want to do.

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How Can I bring Robotics Into My Curriculum? Programming Robots with SPRK Lightning Lab #AskTheTechCoach

TeacherCast

SPRK Lightning Lab hub uses CWIST’s online platform to offer a free virtual community that allows educators, students, makers and parents to communicate about their projects. To get started users download the mobile app to program their robot. CWIST is a leader in providing content and an online platform for the maker movement.

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What We Learn from Making

Digital Promise

AbD’s four downloadable thinking routines [available as PDFs from the educator resources page ] are short, deceptively simple strategies that can be used in a variety of classroom settings to encourage these capacities. offer more maker-related professional development experiences for educators.

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7 Things to Know About Coding in the Early Childhood Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

See coolcatteacher.com/ar or download the Metaverse app today. For example, if you have a faucet in the bathroom that has a sensor, and you put in your hands, water comes out. That’s just an example of one of the SMART objects that we have all around us. Today’s sponsor: Metaverse is a free simple augmented reality tool.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

So it is collaborative …download them and then upload them into Flipsnack and it will also create your book. Vicki: Cool, so it’s … you’re actually downloading a pdf, right? You’re downloading to pdf, so there are some limitations. For example, the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Mandy: Yeah, right.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

So what’s an example of something it might look like? They have probably about a dozen or so different apps that you can download — and many of them are free. OH, we can download this. They had to give some examples. Vicki: It could like like all different kinds of things. They just explored. How did you do that?”

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Google Jamboard

The CoolCatTeacher

You just download it on Google Play or iTunes and use it with your touch Chromebook or iPad after listening to Tom Mullaney share how it works. All you have to do is download a free app. A practical example of a way to use Jamboard. So let’s say we’re studying Andrew Jackson, just to throw an example out there.

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