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Let's be honest, there are times in our teaching careers when we feel anxiety, frustration, trapped, and/or apathetic. These are hardly the hallmarks of a successful, well-loved career. So then what can we do to navigate our teacher journey successfully? First, we need to understand what is going on... and lucky for us there is …
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Now is the perfect time to reflect on this very important question... Why did you become a teacher? Or why did you get involved in education? Perhaps it was a person that made a difference in your life. Or maybe you just really like working with children or young adults. Take a minute and just …
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WanderlustEDU: An Educator's Guide to Innovation, Change, and Adventure is the perfect book to guide you in change. Available now on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle. Our journey in education is one of constant iteration, managing change both personally and professionally is what we have to do because the world is changing. WanderlustEDU is a …
When using virtual reality in my classroom I found it difficult to engage the entire class when only one student was engaged in a VR experience. One thing that's easy to do is to cast or stream what the user sees in their VR goggles, but it just does not do VR justice. What's more …
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I'm very excited to see where augmented reality technologies like the 8th wall are going. The future of education is very exciting! Check it out here: https://apps.8thwall.com/8w/jini/?s=o6kI
While our ELA students are reading the Diary of Anne Frank play which coincides with the World War 2 unit in Social Studies. Using our Oculus Go devices, my students visited the Secret Annex, from the Diary of Anne Frank. After training half of the students on how to use the Oculus Go headsets, the …
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One of my SUBSTITUTION steps in going paperless (see SAMR Model) is to convert meaningful paper-based activities and use them as a digital resources with products like Kami. Kami is a PDF annotation tool. When I post a PDF in Google Classroom, my students open it in Kami and make a copy for themselves. The …
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Both Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are emergent technologies primed to make a real impact on learning and training. The excitement around them is great for quickly engaging an audience on a topic or theme, but the challenge for fields focused on learning and training is to leverage these technologies to achieve meaningful …
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What is a paradigm shift? The simple dictionary definition is that a paradigm shift is an important change that happens when the usual way of thinking about or doing something is replaced by a new and different way. Emergent technology is not in and of itself a paradigm shift. We can, in fact, continue to …