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Simulations as a Teaching Strategy

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Simulations and games have grown from rote drills using a computer to challenging learning experiences for students that hone problem-solving and critical thinking skills. This is why gamification and wider simulation strategies hold huge value in educational facilities across the globe. What is a Simulation?

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The Top 5 AI Quiz Builder Tools That Can Transform Your Classroom and Their Benefits

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Tools like Siri, Alexa, ChatGPT, and a plethora of apps seem perfect for handling the repetitive and time-consuming aspects of education that take teachers away from the core of most lessons that require critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving.

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What’s Changed in Lesson Planning

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For example, spreadsheets should teach critical thinking and data analysis, not Excel or Sheets. Problem solving is integral to learning. Play is the new teaching though it’s beenrelabeled ‘gamification’. Lesson plans must reflect those skills. Conflate ‘knowing’ with ‘understanding’. I know—this is a lot.

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STEM-in-Action: How Video Games Can Bring STEM Concepts to Life

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With PCS Edventures, you’ll discover the secrets that turn your curriculum into an immersive adventure. Complete with live virtual instructors and a standards-aligned curriculum, the experience is full of technology, engineering design, art, math and robotics and coding. Video games are the ultimate game-changer in education!

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What is the 21st Century Lesson Plan?

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For example, when teaching spreadsheets, make the software or online tools a vehicle for practicing critical thinking, data analysis, and evidence-based learning, not for learning one brand of software or a particular spreadsheet tool. Problem solving is integral to learning. Play is the new teaching.

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Bring Digital Robotics Competition to Your Classroom with Spring CoderZ League

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There is no prior coding experience necessary and in fact, this is a fun way for students to dip their toes in the water before they begin coding curriculum next school year or enter the Fall League competition. In the meantime, check out our curriculum for advanced coders. Click here to get exclusive resources.

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All Inclusive Teacher Tools Digital – The Ultimate Digital Toolbox for Teachers (2023)

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Make learning fun games and interactive with gamification, and organize and share your curriculum resources with digital lesson planning. Working together using collaboration tools promotes teamwork and problem-solving skills, as solutions are found and decisions are made collectively.