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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

A part of the Minecraft Education Edition and the entire Minecraft world, there are several Minecraft mentors – global mentors, which I am one of – and there’s just a huge plethora of resources out there that are available for other people who want to share their information or their worlds. Teacher as the Game Master. It has worlds.

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How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features

The CoolCatTeacher

Onboarding and Cascading Information Theory I also teach the concept of onboarding , which means what happens as you bring a new user into an app. Just like when entering a video game for the first time, a user doesn’t always need all of the information at once.

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Drones in the Classroom: Teaching Writing and Collaboration with Drones

The CoolCatTeacher

The idea of this unit was, “It’s All About Communication” — how we communicate with each other as a team, how we communicate with them best to get the information that we need to, to them. Do they want the other team to have as much information as they might give a team member? We brought in flying drones and jumping drones.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

They also have interactive — more learning type games — called Mr. Body, where you see a human body, and as you tap on different parts of the body, the organs will open up, and there will be some information about it. My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Visit www.coolcatteacher.com/econ for more information and remember to tweet out your pics about how you teach your students using #PowerofEcon. To join the celebration, tune into the Twitter chat with me, fellow teachers, and the CME Group’s chief economist on April 26th at noon Eastern Time, using #PowerofEcon. Listen Now.

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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. They are cautious and want their efforts informed by research if not best practices.

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What’s Hot in 2nd-Grade with #2ndchat moderator Carol McLaughlin

The CoolCatTeacher

For information on the guests and items mentioned in this show, scroll down to the bottom of this post. *. Check out TeacherVision today. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. Below is a transcript modified for your reading pleasure. Transcript for Episode 138.

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