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OTF Connects May 24 : Creating, Making, Exploring: Using Digital Breakout Rooms to Encourage Global Competencies
This webinar will allow teachers the chance to see and create digital breakout rooms (think of the escape rooms that you’ve visited but online) that can be combined with a multitude of curriculum. These interactive and collaborative breakout rooms will empower students to be creators, deep thinkers, and to challenge their creative juices, while accessing …
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Media: Entertainment to Education – May 7, 2018
We live in a society where people are using media to share their thinking on a daily basis. Funny videos, memes, Snapchat or Instagram stories, screencasts, gifs, texts, tweets, and good old blogs provide the opportunity for people to have their voices heard in a more creative and often engaging fashion. Presenters Andrew Bieronski and …
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OTF Connects: March 7 -Coding Purposeful Practice Activities in Elementary Mathematics
This session introduces Scratch projects that will encourage students to practice math operations such as addition/subtraction, and multiplication/division. Rather than simply playing the games, students can become active coders by modifying and tweaking the code in the programs. They will be able to build upon the math concepts demonstrated in the original game and can …
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OTF Connects: Feb 13 Plotting an Engaging Lesson in Math Through Coding- Coordinate Systems
Plotting in math can be as engaging as it is when storytelling. Working with coordinate systems can be more interactive and purposeful when students are coding. Participants in this session will be introduced to coding challenges in Scratch (a free web-based application) that help to enhance student understanding of the coordinate grid in math class. …
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OTF Connects: Feb 7 Coding Rich Math Stories in Elementary
In this webinar participants will learn how to build and create memory aids in Scratch to help students learn and remember important math concepts. Participants will code animations, and interactive stories that solidify important ideas in the math curriculum. They will learn how students will use their own voices, music, and animated sprites to increase …