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How close is this sort of thing to being an everyday reality?

High school boys using technology to see scantily clad women is very realistic.

Technology will only play an increasingly important role in the future.

The schools I have worked at and will be working at all have coding classes, use 3d printers, have robotics clubs and other forms of advanced technology.

These are also well funded private schools.

You can still do a lot of education without advanced technology, but it may progressively lower the ceiling and could lead to larger inequality gaps.

You do need to be technologically competent in today's society. (Type, use apps, online research)

I have been excited about the potential of virtual reality field trips for a long time. Walking with dinosaurs while learning about them can make education more exciting and immersive.

Augmented reality and hologram teachers take video calls to the next level and can increase access to education. It does allow for more expression and better communication from the teacher.

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How close to current reality/ your experience are these approaches as described?

Knowing how to use Google maps or any app navigation is incredibly helpful to everyday life. We may just assume everybody picks this up on their own but it may not be true and is worth covering in class.

It is also good to do activities students enjoy and can get excited about, making school overall a more positive experience.

What are the likely pros and cons of these approaches?

Pros:
Knowing how to use map apps
Getting exercise
Getting familiar to new tech
Highly immersive and exciting - real audio is cool
It is fun and exciting - how you incorporate the knowledge and reflection is key
Experiential learning

Cons:
Dangers of running in city
Competition > cooperation
Distractibility - a lot of time spent not learning
Makes bombing seem fun
Some students don't respond well to VR
Expensive tech that will be time consuming and problematic Only a few students can do at a time

Do you share the presenter and participants' breathless excitement about them?

They were trying to sell an idea and so they hyped it up, but yes I am really excited about the possibilities of educational technology and see huge potential.

It is a balance between entertainment and education, but you can absolutely get an education while being entertained. If you can get students to enjoy learning in an immersive experience, that is a good thing.

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BBC Two - Back in Time for School, Series 1, Episode 8, A history lesson with a difference

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The class learn about air raids in World War Two with the help of virtual reality.

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Watch this video and consider the argument. Do you agree? What are the implications (whether you do or not)?

So much of life is about balance and the same with ed tech.

The old ways can still be effective and you can use new technologies as well.

It would be a disservice to your students to only use old methods and you may end up wasting a lot of time always chasing the latest and greatest thing.

There will always be exciting new things and often it will take several more years before they become properly accessible and beneficial.

You do not want to completely fall behind and I think you can leave the innovation to big companies and get on board once they have worked out the kinks.

Technology can be great, but it is always having issues or some do not know how to properly use it.

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This year I have discovered how useful youtube can be. I used to barely use it and only used it for entertainment. Now I find it really helpful for introducing new concepts or getting more information. I like to search for a topic and put it on my watch later list, then watch the videos while I do other things. I still think reading and discussion is better, but if the alternative was engaging with something not educational, it helps a lot.

Google docs is amazing! It is so helpful to be able to collaborate and access from multiple devices. We used it at LIMUN this year to collaborate with 20 people at a time working on the same document. It can be a bit messy and chaotic, but once refined it is a great resource. It made group assignments in college so much easier.

Wordpress is a pretty easy way to make a website, I use it for my simple travel blog. Wherecolingoes.com

I liked using Newsela with my EAL students. It provides the same articles at different lexile ranges so students of different abilities can read about the same topic and have discussions after.

Lexile range does have some flaws, students reading ability is largely based on their domain knowledge. If a student knows about baseball or dinosaurs, they will understand better than a more advanced reader who knows nothing about baseball or dinosaurs.

Twinkle can be good for teaching resources like handouts, posters and lessons.

Quizlet is an easy way to share flashcards with students and do activities with the vocabulary. I used it to share the weekly vocabulary words, then had the students create their own real flashcard and hand write sentences using the vocabulary words. It was a good mix of technology and old school.

Kahoot is a fun way to do class games with multiple choice questions. It is worth considering if you want to put time pressure on students and encourage competition over cooperation.

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10 years old and living in Korea. Their dad is from Europe and their mom is from North America. They have lived in a few countries already and come from an affluent background. They can speak multiple languages and are learning Korean. English is not their first language, but they are competent. They are familiar with technology with access to a laptop, tablet, and smart phone. If they need something to aid their education they can get it.

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Using a flipped classroom approach, students watch Khan academy videos at home on their computer and sometimes review them again on their phone while going to school. We use class time to go over problems together, work on group projects, and collaborate. Learning how to multiple with decimal values is on the grade 5 math curriculum and an important life skill to have for everyday use ranging from shopping to understanding sports and filling your taxes.

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Students watch this video before class. We will then do more practice problems in class.

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We're asked to multiply 32.12, or 32 and 12 hundredths, times 0.5, or just 5 tenths. Now when you multiply decimals, you multiply them the exact same way you would multiply whole numbers, and then you count the number of spaces behind the decimal you have in your two numbers you're multiplying, and you're going to have that many spaces in your product. Let me show you what I'm talking about. So let's just multiply these two characters. So we have 32.12 times 0.5. And when you write them out, you can just push both of them all the way to the right. You could almost ignore the decimal. Right now, you should write the decimal where they belong, but you can almost pretend that this is 3,212 times 5, and then we'll worry about the decimals in a second. So let's get started. So if we were just multiplying 5 times 3,212, we would say, well, 5 times 2 is 10. Regroup the 1. 5 times 1 is 5, plus 1 is 6. 5 times 2 is 10. Regroup the 1. And then finally, you have 5 times 3 is 15, plus 1 is 16. And then we don't have any other places. If we were just doing this as 05, we wouldn't multiply 0 times this whole thing. We would just get 0 anyway. So just 5 times 3,212 gives us this number. But now we want to care about the decimals. We just have to count the total number of spaces or places we have behind the decimal point in the two numbers we're multiplying. So we have one, two, three spaces, or three numbers, to the right of the decimals in the two numbers that we're multiplying. So we need that many numbers to the right of the decimal in our answer. So we go one, two, three, put the decimal right over there. So 32.12 times 0.5 is 16.060. And this trailing zero right here we can ignore, because it's really not adding any information there. So we could just write this as 16.06. The last thing you want to do is just make sure that this makes sense. You have a number that's almost 32, and we're multiplying it by 0.5. Remember, 0.5 is the same thing as 5 over 10, which is the same thing as 1/2. So we're really multiplying 32.12 times 1/2. We're trying to figure out what one half of 32.12 is. And half of 32 is 16, and half of 0.12 0.06, so this makes complete sense.

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Multiplying decimals example (video) | Khan Academy

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Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

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We use a flipped classroom approach so that we can make the most of our class-time. Students have the resources they need, and live in a culture that has a high regard for education. Students enjoy working with their peers more in class than listening to the teacher lecture. Plus watching a few short videos is easy homework that make school time more enjoyable and effective. Since english is not their first language, being able to watch the videos with subtitles and audio is helpful for learning math and english. By having the videos online, students can move at their own pace and rewatch lessons when they need a better understanding. A flipped classroom allows for knowledge input to occur outside of the classroom and knowledge practice to occur with guidance inside of the classroom.