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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. coolcatteacher.com/earth Check out their NGSS aligned Science games for grades 3-8. My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. My favorite one is the one about the solar system.

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8 maker tools to inspire next-gen innovation and design

eSchool News

The “maker movement” can play an important role in getting kids interested in innovation and design, and littleBits —which makes easy-to-use electronic building blocks—is finding itself at the center of this movement. “We Every week was a new project, a new learning challenge.

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Literature Performance Odyssey with Drama and Student Leadership

The CoolCatTeacher

We have a very collaborative classroom, I let the students lead their learning as much as possible. I did tell them, “I can’t find anybody else who’s done this before, so you are learning for all the schools in America, you might be, so who knows.”. It improved my comprehension, I learned a lot out of my comfort zone.

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Drones in the Classroom: Teaching Writing and Collaboration with Drones

The CoolCatTeacher

Learn how she does it, what standards she teaches, and technical issues of working with drones in the classroom. There was a 3-consequence system. There were grades associated with it, and I have a whole safety thing and a checklist of things they had to learn and all. Free Webinar! We did drill safety the first couple of days.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

Mary Howard’s students build and learn in Open Sim , a virtual world like Second Life. Then of course, the curriculum is gamified, so they have different levels of challenges that they have to engage in — which are knowledge based — in order to learn the curriculum, but also succeed in the virtual world.

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

techlearning

Perhaps it is this feeling that drives champions to keep learning and growing toward mastery. Champions are the organizational mavericks, they exist within a system but are given autonomy to explore alternative, creative solutions. Innovators are interested in new ideas from outside of established local social system.

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

That’s why stories about the golly-gee-whiz prospects of learning to code, game-based learning, social emotional learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain transcripts, and tutoring — by chatbots or by gig workers — still fill the pages of these publications. Something about "learning engineers".