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Writing For Purpose: 5 Ways To Use Technology To Give Children A Genuine Audience.

EdTech4Beginners

Tip: work in exercise books is easy to display on the blog – just take a photo of the page it is on. 4) Wiki websites. Wiki’s are websites collaboratively created by the public. Anyone can visit a Wiki and edit it or add new content. 2) Online competitions. There are so many competitions on the internet.

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A Fuller Framework for Making in Maker Education

User Generated Education

Corresponding to these activities were three types of knowledge: theoretical, the end goal being truth; poietical, the end goal being production; and practical, the end goal being action ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ). ”( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process) ).

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The Great Student AI Writing Experiment with Steve Dembo

The CoolCatTeacher

And my hunch is if you do the same exercise in 50 different schools, we're going to get very different results. But it's sort of like back when we were, you know, in the old days, we were talking about the value of creating a Wiki textbook. They were the ones who were ultimately creating the rules for themselves.

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Hour of Code: Minecraft Review

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Minecraft empowers players to exercise their imagination and take pride in their digital creations as they learn basic building concepts. And then this teaching wiki about educational uses of Minecraft, Welcome to the Minecraft in School Wiki! Subjects covered include: Math: estimation, geometry, shapes. Requires a fee.

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Subscribers: Your June Special is Available–Summer Online Keyboarding

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membership in the Keyboarding Wiki for one year. a couple of times a week, exercise fingers to remind yourself they are all there–not just pointers or thumbs. For most students who follow all the exercises as presented, that’s about 20%. What You Get. an overarching K-8 keyboard curriculum (good for involved adults).

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Practical examples of social media in elementary school

The Innovative Educator

Here is how we use it at PS 10 Webpages and wikis - Teachers have class webpages and wikis to help foster the home-school connection. I often post assignments for either in-class exercises or vacation homework. In addition, some teachers aren''t comfortable editing a wiki, web page or maintaining a blog.

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Engaging online learners 5

Learning with 'e's

Set up collaborative writing exercises around course content. This can be done using shared digital spaces such as group blogs, wikis or Google Docs. Engaging with problems enables them to apply the knowledge they have gained from the content into direct practice.

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