As a future elementary school teacher, I plan on using Augmented and Virtual reality in my classroom to engage my students and create successful global collaborations. To start, the terms VR and AR get thrown around a lot, and are often confused with one another. For starters, Virtual Reality completely takes over your vision, and…
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Kansas Students Collaborate with school in Kenya via Skype over Water Crisis
A middle school in Kansas heard about a water crisis in Nairobi, Kenya and wanted to do something to help. They reached out to Skype and Microsoft to help get connected and collaborate with an educator in Kenya named Livingstone Kegode. He connected with the teachers from the Kansas middle school and told them that…
Paul Salopek’s Out of Eden Walk-National Geographic
“Walking slows me down, it allows me to live among the ordinary citizens who inhabit headlines about forced migrations, about wars, about climate change and about cultural endurance.” Autumn Wars: Milestone 22- Back and Forth I found this point interesting on Paul’s 21,000 mile walk. BUT FIRST, In case you have no idea what I…
WE Teachers: Diversity and Inclusion Modules
I really enjoyed reading through this resource about how teachers can learn to understand and acknowledge diversity in the classroom and how they can implement an inclusive environment for all students. Diversity is an ongoing battle that teachers face in the classroom and it is extremely important for teachers to recognize when there are problems…
A Virtual Tour of Ellis Island
I have always been so interested and fascinated by Ellis Island and the amount of people from all over the world who took the risk to voyage over to America for a better life. The trip was not a smooth, peaceful ride over, though. The ships were dirty and crowded which made the spread of…
FRONT-A War Drama Series
This week, we had to watch a show with English subtitles and explore the different cultural aspects as well as similarities in our culture. I watched episode 1 of a war drama called FRONT which takes place during World War II. It was created by Epic Media English, one of the largest Russian production companies….
Communicating Using Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator allows you to be a part of the conversation regardless of the language you are speaking. It can be used for personal use, for business use and for education. We are making such strides breaking language barriers and Microsoft Translator makes it so easy for families to help their children in school, it…
World’s Greatest Lesson: End World Hunger
The goal is to end hunger and promote a sustainable place of living by achieving food security and nutritional improvements. There has been an increase of people suffering from the uncertainty of if they will be able to provide food for their families since 2015, and now due to the pandemic, there are still millions…
TakingITGlobal- Programs that help youth around the world become actively immersed and connected in shaping a more harmonious world
Lidia Ristea from Romania shares her story of how she got involved and what she is doing with her students now that she has the resources from TakingITGlobal, check out this link to read her story as well as many others. https://members.tigweb.org/lydya0103 This video is from founder Michael Furdyk, who explains the goals of TakingITGlobal…
A Digital Divide-How We Can Fix Internet Access Gaps NOW
“Children are only 20% of our population, but they are 100% of our future, and right now we’re leaving behind millions of them.” –@SenMarkey Millions of children are still without internet access and are not able to engage in online learning. It is crucial that steps are taken NOW to support these families and children….