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Chapter in Handbook of Mobile Learning: Team and Community Building Using...
The Handbook of Mobile Learning has just been published through Routledge: Taylor and Francis – see http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415503693/. I am excited to have a chapter in this edited...
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Team Building Activities That Support Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM
Working as a productive and sensitive member of a team is looked upon by STEM-based companies as being a requirement to being an effective and contributing employee: As technology takes over more of...
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Tangrams: A Cross Curricular, Experiential Unit
Now that I am back in the classroom two days a week teaching gifted elementary students, I can do and report on the cross curricular units I plan and implement. There are several guiding factors that I...
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Team-Building with Elementary Students
Yes, there are mounds of curricula students must master in a wide breadth of subjects, but education does not begin and end with a textbook or test. Other skills must be honed, too, not the least of...
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Beginning the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content
Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and...
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Beginning the School Year With Connections: 2018
I have written before about the beginning of the school year, Beginning the School Year: It’s About Connections Not Content. I begin all classes focusing on having the students make connections between...
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Virtual Team Building Activities
I, like many others, was forced to move a face-to-face college class to virtual synchronous meetings in Zoom. This term I am teaching a group dynamics course. One of my goals is to have my students...
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Video Games for Relationship- and Team Building
I had the privilege of taking a workshop on Fortnite Creative facilitated by Steven Isaacs. I decided to take this workshop because I knew that many of my students (3rd-7th grade gifted students) were...
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Virtual Improv Activities for Remote Learning
https://jonathonleiner.medium.com/improv-games-for-virtual-space-66cbf4b77c97 Given my experiential education background, I’ve always been fond of and have used group team building and problem-solving...
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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content
Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and...
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