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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson

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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. But if I’m teaching how to use Scratch Jr., app is designed to help people learn how to use it. I’ll spend about a month noodling around in Scratch, learning how it works, and then I’ll bring it to my fourth grade students. Enhanced Transcript.

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How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features

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” e The post How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features appeared first on Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis @coolcatteacher helping educators be excellent every day.

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Augmented Reality Lessons You Can Use Now

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Furthermore, we share how to design lessons with a personal interest to engage students who struggle to engage. In today’s show Mitchell Weisburg, cofounder of the nonprofit Games4Ed, shares pedagogical best practices for using augmented reality in the classroom.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

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How did you do that?” They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. and learn about it on their own. Did you know you could do this?”. They started discovering things. “OH, We can do that.”.

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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

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Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn.

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Computational Thinking and Math for Elementary Grades

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These are the things that we have to teach — how to interact with these intelligent machines, how to program, but also how to do these other things. I think that it’s more than just coding. It’s more than just computer science. And Steve, I like what you said about, “It’s not just about having jobs and all that.”.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

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They were in this world together, and they basically – it was a simulated world – had to learn to work together on how to survive Mars. There are a lot of those practices about how to really engage kids. Dr. Michelle Zimmerman – Edtech and Social Emotional Learning – talks about this research.

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