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Veative: A In Class VR Experience
By Alex Sellitsch Veative connects students with virtual reality, all within the classrooms. This VR experience can be used in K-12 classrooms, that allow the students to get emersed in various learning situations. There are so many different virtual settings students (and teachers) can choose from. These learning scenarios can range from a prokaryotic cell…
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Using Microsoft Sway
What is Microsoft Sway? Microsoft Sway is a design application, much like Power Point and Slides, but a more uniquely multifaceted tool. According to “Sail the 7Cs” Microsoft’s education textbook, “One of Sway’s features that stands out to us is the linear fluidity. There aren’t sections broken up by slides, content presented in pieces, or…
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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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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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Fostering Successful Collaboration
“I would rather work on my own,” is a statement I have thought a countless amount of times in the classroom as a student. However, going into education in college has opened my eyes to how different forms of collaboration are beneficial for both students and teachers. Below I have included a video of a…
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Getting the Most Out of Teacher Collaboration
Collaboration is a foundation of success in a school building. Collaboration between administrators, teachers, and students is equally important. In this article, author Ben Johnson discusses the importance of teacher collaboration as well as how to get the most out of teacher collaboration. The first piece of advice that Johnson gives us when it comes…