Online collaboration is required in many workplaces. In fact, with the shift to remote work, co-workers may be communicating solely at a distance. Today it is commonplace for team members to jointly complete a project by working on the same file. This may happen synchronously, in which everyone is working on it together at the […]
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Digital footprint management is the ability to control the tracks left behind by online interactions. A digital footprint is a record of Internet activities that can be traced to a person. The data might be public, private, or available only to a specific group. For example, a digital footprint could be something intentionally shared such
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Self-awareness is a life skill. Life skills are the abilities people need to confidently manage the demands and challenges of life. They provide the competencies required to solve problems, develop healthy relationships, communicate effectively, deal with emotions, and be mindful. Since we want kids to be happy and successful, it is important for educators to
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Digital empathy is the ability to be aware of, be sensitive to, and be supportive of one’s own and other’s feelings, needs, and concerns online according to the DQ Institute. It is considered a key component of digital emotional intelligence. Digital emotional intelligence includes self-awareness, relationship management, and digital empathy. Although, each competency is equally
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To personalize a game or story, you can import a sound into Scratch. It is true that Scratch, has more than 350 sounds. That is a lot of effects and music from which to pick! However, your students may want to produce a unique game by downloading sounds from an external source. This allows them
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Consider phases of game development when planning a programming curriculum unit. This framework provides a learning experience that simulates the real-world. For this reason, divide game development tasks into three phases: pre-production, production, and post-production. Now, it is important to realize that there is little agreement on how many phases are in game development. Some
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Design thinking careers are everywhere. If you are an educator, it is essential that you prepare students for their future. It is likely their future career may require them to be design thinkers. Design thinking is a model used by organizations when performing creative problem-solving. It has five steps including emphasize, define, ideate, prototype, and
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Do you need practical tips to create a project-based curriculum unit that follows a design thinking model? This post provides activities for each of the five steps including empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. All ideas are for children and will fit easily into your lesson plans. To start, let’s review the purpose of design
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When teaching a game development curriculum unit use a Game Development Rubric. A rubric is an efficient way to consistently grade student work. Especially when teaching multiple classes. Moreover, this tool makes it easy to rate students’ performance from beginner to expert. What is a Rubric? To clarify, a rubric is an assessment tool that
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Design thinking is a five-step model for creative problem solving that focuses on understanding people’s needs to develop products, services, policies, or strategies. This process finds solutions that balances what humans desire with what is possible and affordable. Design thinkers work in diverse fields including engineering, architecture, graphic design, game development, advertising, animation, video production,
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