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Topic 9 – Designing for Learning Using Virtual Worlds for Learning in Science

Minecraft Education Edition in Science – Background Minecraft Education Edition is an online platform that has been designed to enable teachers and students to create and explore a virtual reality. The operations are similar to the mainstream game of Minecraft game except that teachers are given additional controls over their classes, specialty blocks, chat tools …

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Topic 7 – Designing for Learning Using Social Networking

Class Dojo – Background Class Dojo is a social networking platform has been specifically designed to enable teachers, students and parents to build a positive online learning community. Class Dojo requires students, parents and teachers to have a login on the website and to subscribe to a school community online and to be assigned to …

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Topic 5 – Design Thinking and Learning Design

Using “Learning Designer” to map out an existing lesson and assessing the helpfulness of this process. Overview: Something that comes quite naturally to teachers who have a wealth of experience, is the art of lesson planning or learning design. While all teachers should have access to a program for a unit of work, these programs …

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Topic 3 – Technology Affordances and Multimedia

Education Perfect – Background The Education Perfect platform has been reviewed by science teachers as a 21st Century interactive teaching and learning resource which students are enjoying using due to its visual appeal, accessibility for a wide range of students, its competitive nature and exciting visuals. (Ansourian, 2014, p. 57) The platform contains: The content …

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Topic 1 – Technology Imperatives and the TPACK Model

Overview of STILE App (Technology) STILE app is a platform designed by Stile Education. This platform enables teachers to use pre-made lessons linked to COSMOS articles. The platform also provides the ability to create new lessons. STILE App lessons often follows this format: A “lesson” – information about a certain topic area A “quiz” – …

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