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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Jeff: Ah, yeah… So I’m using Minecraft Education Edition in my technology classroom with my students. It’s all about technology. It’s all about gaming. Jeff: So one of the things I did with science this year was I worked very closely with the other teachers and what they were doing in their normal classroom versus technology.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. But we can't do so if we keep cultivating an ed-tech (information) ecosystem that fosters inaccuracies and inequalities.

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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? You can use technology in any classroom.

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Metaverse for Augmented Reality: Program and Breakout in Augmented Reality

The CoolCatTeacher

Until now, however, we haven’t really had apps to help us see the possibilities of this technology. To me, this technology leap is similar to when Marc Andreessen programmed Mosaic, the very first web browser, and showed us how we could “browse the web.” People launch them to get the clue or information.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

Engaging Kindergarteners with Technology: Augmented Reality, iPads, QR Codes and More. 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.

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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. Mary: I think that just comes with technology. So, what’s your pep talk to teachers for utilizing this type of immersive technology? Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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