User Generated Education

MAY 4, 2017

In order to support interest and passion driven learning (all – I mean all – of my students play video games) as well as address cross-curricular content area integration of language arts, science, and technology standards, I had my gifted elementary learners, grades 2 through 6, do a semester long project on video game design.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2020

While interactive 3D was once solely the domain of video games, today the same tool that’s used to make “Fortnite” is used to create immersive experiences that can train surgeons , plan urban infrastructure , sell unbuilt real estate and even configure luxury cars. You can walk around, look anywhere you choose.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

In this post, I share with you 10 of the best puzzle games for kids. The glittering rainbow in the background makes the horse stand out, and kids will love puzzling through the pieces to see the whole scene come together. The colors are bright and vibrant, and the matte finish makes them easy to clean. It measures 15” long x.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? The “Black Girls Code the Future” coloring book was created by Nia Asemota, a New York University student and mentor with the nonprofit Black Girls Code. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Ideas to Promote Creativity in Your Classroom – Show Notes 1 – Make a Digital Learning Launchpad Hyperdocs.co 5- Create a Library of Maker Materials Make it easy to tinker and invent with a rich library of resources and materials.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I moved closer, trying not to disturb the scene unfolding before me. On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. Tengo Andres Guardado?” “Sí… Sí… ¿Tengo Mbappe?”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Well, imagine reading a story where the characters randomly shift from one scene to another without any context. Think of these as different colors in a painter’s palette, each serving its unique purpose. They’re like the invisible threads that weave the fabric of your essay. Why do they matter, you ask? Confusing, right?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

I recommend playing the video first without any sound and looking at each scenario in the video and talk about what is happening in each scene. Your students can work in pairs and write what each scene is about or you can have a class discussion about this. The video shows a young awkward stages in adolescents life.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Of course you do, it’s the game the internet won’t let you forget. Microsoft acquired Minecraft from Swedish game developer Mojang in 2014. Activities might take students out of the game and experiment with concepts like raft buoyancy (to ford those treacherous rivers) or the carbonation process that helped create Soda Springs.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Engaging features include 50+ animated stickers, sound effects, interactive games, and a variety of tracing activities from uppercase and lowercase letters to numbers and words. Its unique approach includes customizable learning paths, multiple font support, and engaging animated scenes to maintain interest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Students now write directions for which color is poured into what squares to create their drawing. BallBounce Game app. Here are three alternative popular app-creation sites: Game Salad . When done, create an animated avatar as follows: Choose “room” template, then “Setup Scene.” Apps Geyser .

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

with a background of two decades in the education space as an education technologist, teacher, and school administrator, as well as the co-author of Reality Bytes: Innovative Learning Using Augmented and Virtual Reality and The Esports Education Playbook: Empowering Every Learner Through Inclusive Gaming. Vicki Davis Yeah. Oh yeah.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2016

Each panel flows into the next, just as story paragraphs and scenes flow. Students map out ideas using a huge library of backgrounds, characters, text boxes, shapes, and images (over 325 characters, 225 scenes, 45,000 images, and who knows how many props). Like games, comics are a proven approach to learning. Insider Tips.

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Neo LMS

JULY 19, 2018

Keeping kids active on a rainy day is a real trick these days, considering the temptation to plop down in front of the TV, switch on the gaming console, or spend hours on Facebook sharing the latest gossip with friends. It’s the easy way out for adults, many of whom are willing to leave kids to their own sedentary activities.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 8, 2016

charities, media stations, landmarks, excavation sites, animal refuges or farms, museums, national and state parks, factories, local businesses, or behind the scenes of theatres, the orchestra, or amusement parks. Many site’s websites will provide printables or classroom/online games for students to play.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The resulting paper begins: “Symbols are objects, characters, figures, and colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. The practice apparently originated in marketing, used by companies trying to game search engine results by stretching the number of web pages on their sites by making pages of similar (but not identical) content.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

MARCH 18, 2024

Beyond simple text and graphics, these Interactive eBooks include interactive games, puzzles, interactive graphics, haptic aspects, augmented reality, and much more. Interactive Features: These books offer elements like quizzes, puzzles, games, exercises, clickable elements, and interactive navigation to engage readers actively.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2021

Super Duper’s autism-related games, cards, books, worksheets, programs and resources, reinforcers, and supplies to support skills in: Language & Pragmatics, Motor Skills, Emotions & Behavior, Sensory Activities, and Social Skills. Cards include the Webber Photo Cards – Emotions , and the Webber BIG Nouns Photo Cards.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

Because as Weaver and the film make clear, these failing efforts to teach reading disproportionately impact children of color. We shared scenes. And that's a color-blind thing. And the same thing with the families that we followed. We really tried to work closely with them. And I don't think it makes us look bad.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Here are 24 different games and structures you can use that will infuse laughter and joy into your classroom. when games are incorporated into learning. Why play games? For me, that’s a lot of art, creativity, and games. When leading a whole class game, students can bond as a classroom community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

But some students there had a very different reaction as they watched scene after scene of students working and playing around campus, since almost every one of the students shown was white. As a student of color, personally we always feel erased or forgotten about as if we're not here. There's only 1.8 So that's what it's like.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2018

Elemental Order ($1.99) The Elemental Order app is similar to Simon game, but instead of tapping the colors that you see and hear, you rotate the cube around to find each color and select the same pattern. App Store | Google Play 9. Elemental Order draws on memory, focus and more importantly, repeating patterns.

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N2Y

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mind Games. For concrete learners, this can be something as simple as completing a matching activity (color matching, shape matching) or coloring a picture of a preferred image (think of a high-interest character or topic), or it could be a fine motor activity like stringing beads or stacking blocks.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Entrance to Minecraft: The Exhibition (Photo credit: Frank Catalano) “A block in the game is one meter on a side,” explained Brooks Peck, senior curator at MoPOP and co-curator of the exhibition. “So In the game you are literally picking these things up and moving them around and you’re putting them in your pocket and stuff,” Peck said. “A

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

That’s why I tell the parents and caregivers of children in my Mississippi kindergarten classes that instead of simply allowing children to spend screen time playing games without any educational value, they can access inexpensive — and even free — apps that will develop skills to lay the foundation for future reading success.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 9, 2018

Please note that if you use a Chromebook or desktop, you will only be able to view the creations by using your mouse and keys to navigate through the scene instead of true AR or VR experience. The tool allows the user to create true virtual reality scenes that can be viewed with VR goggles to fully interact and move around the scene.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This particular magazine followed the month’s theme: it included articles on rainbows, science experiments, crafts, games and more! This part of the Koala Crate project was a great opportunity to work on her colors. She was very interested in getting the rainbow colors in the right order – and she did an awesome job.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JULY 11, 2019

A child of age four picks up an iPad and starts a game. Although this isn’t really a game, but rather, it’s a digital learning session. A friendly voice from the iPad says, click on the word bake, which is colored red. This type of coordination is usually found in game-based or video-based pre-k learning applications.

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NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 9, 2018

Microsoft’s free Seeing AI app may be a game changer for people with visual impairments. an experimental feature offers scene descriptions. the app also generates an audible tone corresponding to your surrounding brightness and can perceive color. On scene descriptions (an experimental channel to turn on in settings).

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Neo LMS

JULY 11, 2019

One of my favorite movie scenes ever is when Hogwarts students first learn how to fly in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. It is used all the time in movies, but also in news-casting, video games, and even photography. Green is a lovely color, but make sure you and your students are not wearing it while filming.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Students now write directions for which color is poured into what squares to create their drawing. BallBounce Game app. Here are three alternative popular app-creation sites: Game Salad . When done, create an animated avatar as follows: Choose “room” template, then “Setup Scene.” Apps Geyser .

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

Esports, or electronic sports, is the term used to describe the sport of competitive video game playing. Every teacher’s favorite game, Fortnite , just announced they’ll be putting 100 million dollars ( about two weeks of revenue! into their esports scene this year as it brings competitive Fortnite to their 125 million players in 2019.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

Try one–or more–of these next ten options to spice up your classes without adding hours to your day: Offer a backchannel device–a student-drive behind-the-scenes chat about the lesson that’s going on. Audio, video, text, color, and images are often the perfect medium to get the message out. See–simple.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But as the foundation began to consider its impact—namely whether teachers were actually using any of the professional development in their classrooms—it decided to transition to a model that required districts to have a bit more skin in the game, says mindSpark CEO Kellie Lauth. You can put a new name and a shiny face on anything.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In setting up the data spreadsheet for the Google Form, I can have it automatically color-code responses which makes it much easier for me to get a sense of who my students are (big picture), group students, etc. Perhaps a student chose “cautious” on the Google Form but colored their upper left corner half red and half blue.

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techieMusings

JUNE 21, 2023

This initiative was led by Faith Darling, Bullis’s Dean of Faculty, who coordinated everything behind the scenes and continuously strives to celebrate the accomplishments of faculty and actively fosters their professional growth. Read article IT Integration in Chinese Class – Let’s Build a Board Game Ms.

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