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Using Teen Screen to Educate
Film Pittsburgh is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s independent film production company that has created several Academy Award-winning films, amongst receiving other high honor accolades. They pride themselves on their Teen Screen program, a free screening feature that educators can use either in theaters or in their intimate classrooms. Available films are about sensitive topics like Antisemitism, gun…
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Discovery Education
Image Link Here I am a Historical Studies major with a concentration in Education and want to teach grades 9-12. It is important to me that I make history classes as engaging as possible for my students. I want my students to discuss ideas with their classmates and understand the material. For these reasons, I…
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Minecraft: Education Edition
During this collaboration unit, I have read about Minecraft. Numerous students in this class have also recommended Minecraft to be used in classrooms to support collaboration with others. Minecraft: Education Edition is a page on Twitter that hosts an educational Minecraft game where students can enhance STEM skills, unleash creativity and engage students in collaboration…
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Why Collaboration is Important
Collaborating in class helps students brainstorm ideas and improves the way they work together, but the best part about collaborating with others is that those ideas that you thought were impossible to do by yourself actually come to life with the help of others. Collaboration is important because students can learn from each other and…
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Minecraft Partners with the Hispanic Heritage foundation
Minecraft Education edition has collaborated with the Hispanic Heritage foundation to create Latinexplorers: A Hispanic Heritage Journey. By now, as current or future educators, we are all aware of the power of the new Minecraft education world. It’s hard to deny that something as simple as a poplar game can have such an effect on…
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3 tips to balance the back-to-analog edtech transition
After the age of Covid, where the classroom became completely virtual, schools are struggling to keep the technical strides that have been made, while balancing the Pre-COVID educational norms. In this twitter article “Three tips to balance the back to analog Edtech transition”, shared by @ImFutureReady (EDTECH@UTRGV), And Published in ESchool News, EDTECH goes over…
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Finding your students voice
When searching on twitter for an article relating to educational technology, I stumbled upon this twitter thread posted by a primary teacher, Mr. Blair Minchin. Although it’s not an article, it was a really touching story and really shows the importance of digital technology in the classroom. Mr.Minchin was teaching a writing portion of class,…
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Culture of Healing in the Classroom
Culture, agency, transactional or transformative relationships, meaning, and aspirations are five ways that classrooms can develop a culture of healing. COVID did not help teachers and students in any way since 2020. Using these strategies can get classrooms back on track to how things used to be and let everyone heal as a whole. Celebrating…
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Technology Trends in Education
As the world is changing so is our school system and if Covid-19 has taught us anything it is that we need to be prepared. As I read in the ET article depicting current trends in educational technology some may have surprised you others certainly will not. The clear cut number one was certainly E-learning…