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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. Presently, beginning in January 2019, Mitch became US COO of 3DBear, a Finnish EdTech company that uses Augmented Reality to motivate students to engage and learn deeply.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman – Edtech and Social Emotional Learning – talks about this research.

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Literature Performance Odyssey with Drama and Student Leadership

The CoolCatTeacher

Like have a really clear conversation about who is going to be in charge of what, and how you are going to make sure it happens, first? Marynn: Several of them, I actually led some conflict resolution workshops because they found out the hard way that they didn’t know how to do conflict resolution. Vicki: (agrees). Vicki: Yeah.

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Teacher: Know Thyself – School Culture Shift is About the People

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4 [ Game-Based Learning Yields Empathetic Understanding ] Adopters You can take a personality test, a learning style inventory, or even a which-character-are-you quiz, but I would argue the power of meaningful self-perception. Innovators are risk takers, they learn from failure like a gamer.

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Simple Steps to Teach Kids to Program

The CoolCatTeacher

We’re talking about how to get people really excited about coding and interested in it. How can we condense down what we need to learn in coding to such a short period of time? He was a bit older than me, and he actually learned how to program in 1’s and 0’s. The name of the game is Potato Pirate.