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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. Your favorite thing is the solar system. Vicki: So here’s the question. Karen: Absolutely.

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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. Nova Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens in games that foster scientific inquiry.

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

techlearning

Champions are the organizational mavericks, they exist within a system but are given autonomy to explore alternative, creative solutions. For example if the topic was gaming in the classroom: who do you think you are? Innovators are interested in new ideas from outside of established local social system.

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Drones in the Classroom: Teaching Writing and Collaboration with Drones

The CoolCatTeacher

There was a 3-consequence system. So the balloon would actually be at eye level so that we could see it. We did drill safety the first couple of days. But we did drill safety the first couple of days. So they had a lot of tips to do the right thing.

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Bringing Literature to Life in Open Sim

The CoolCatTeacher

We overloaded our system. Our first experience, the very first time… I was so excited to get these students in the Open SImulator. We sat there on laptops in a classroom, and I tried to get all 25 students online at the exact same time. No one could get on. Everybody was raising their hands and kind of whining, “It’s not working.

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Literature Performance Odyssey with Drama and Student Leadership

The CoolCatTeacher

“If we fail, and we’re right back to where we started, where we have less time to read the full things, so, go, go!” And the kids would cheer each other on.

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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. Plagiarism detector TurnItIn was acquired for $1.75