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Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners

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Technology is a tool that can be used to help teachers facilitate learning experiences that address the diverse learning needs of all students and help them develop 21st Century Skills. At it’s most basic level, digital tools can be used to help students find, understand and use information. When combined with student-driven learning experiences fueled by Essential Questions offering flexible learning paths, it can be the ticket to success. Here is a closer look at three components of effectively using technology as a tool for digital differentiation.

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Design Tabletop games with “Tabletop Forge”

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Tabletop Forge is a virtual tabletop for use with a Google+ Hangout. With use of the application you will be able to play tabletop roleplaying games on top of the excellent video and audio chat platform that Google provides. The current list of features are as follows:

UI flexibility. Most of the widgets in the application are both resizable and movable so you can layout things as you like them on your monitor. Resizable and movable video canvas. This lets you see whoever is actively speaking and you can place it wherever you want and resize it. Windows can be minimized to bottom of screen or the title bar can be double-clicked to collapse the window. Theming support. A dropdown menu of various themes to change the color and style layout of the text and widgets. And much more…
See on tabletopforge.com

 

100-Meter Dash, Every Medalist Ever

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Usain Bolt’s 9.63 set an Olympic record in the 100. So how far ahead of every Olympic medalist is he?

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Free Online Graphing, Statistics, Scientific, and Matrix Calculator

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Free Online Graphing, Statistics, Scientific, and Matrix Calculator: http://www.meta-calculator.com/online – Schools should do away with forcing students to buy expensive graphing calculators.  It’s all online and Free.

See on www.meta-calculator.com