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7 Global Project Ideas from a Leading 3rd Grade Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

I think we’ve learned how to use social media in just a really positive way, and learned to communicate and build a global audience, and shared our learning, and learned with others. How Vickie Morgado Uses Social Media in Her Classroom. We have connected with different classrooms. It was fun!

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

We see our kids do TikTok dances on their phones and posts from social media on their phones. Danielle Johnson (12:39.462) Yes, and it's submitted by video through Microsoft Flip, tools that we already use in the classroom. And if you watch enough streamers, you realize that some of them are just holding up their phones.

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This Month at DE: May

Discovery Education

We’re beyond excited to share a new phase in our partnership with Microsoft. Use this new set of learning resources to purposefully integrate Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE) into your math, SEL, and science lessons for grades 3-8. An editable Studio Board to showcase student creativity and evidence of learning. Learn More.

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Minecraft in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

He was actually recently featured on the Microsoft blog about what he’s doing. There’s tons of information on there, and if you want to know anything about it, please feel free to reach out to me on social media, through Twitter or my e-mail address. I love to share what I have learned with my fellow educators.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

It’s one of the benefits of using social media as teachers – to say “These are positive ways that you can use social media,” and then have those students model and practice it… as opposed to saying, “Don’t do this,” or “Don’t do that,” because that leaves them with the gap of “What should I do, then?”.

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Creative Writing and World-Building in Minecraft: Education Edition

Educator Innovator

As the world sheltered in place during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, stories of youth designing spaces in Minecraft popped up on social media. This was the question Meenoo Rami, a Philadelphia Writing Project teacher-consultant and now a Program Manager at Microsoft, posed to me and NWP’s Christina Cantrill.

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Making your Life Fun with Gamified Innovations

The Game Agency

When the company began in 2007, there was no IOS app store, social media was in its infancy and gamers just didn’t have a great reputation. Hence convincing the clients about the game-based learning was a challenge with limited resources back then. Start of the Journey. in one place.