Augmented, Virtual + Mixed Reality Immersive Technology in Education

Digital Breakout Rooms - Escape rooms are new pop-culture trend is escape rooms that are both fun and require critical thinking. Always at the cutting edge, teachers have found ways to edu-fy it. Here are some crowd-sourced resources curated by Quartz Hill High School English teachers Jordan Jenison and Richard Rosenblatt to help get you build your own. They also put together this planning guide.

Common Lit - Common Lit is one of the best new tools out there. I cannot heap praises on it enough! CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12, and allows the teacher to track student learning. Video.

Classcraft - Classcraft is a gamefication approach to teaching and behavior management. It’s designed to encourage participation, good behavior, and 21st-century skills like collaboration. Video.

The Differentiator - Based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu, the Differentiator helps you write objectives to individualize instruction in a jiffy.

EdPuzzle - EdPuzzle allows you to take any online video customize it to make it your lesson. It also allows you you track students' learning. Here's a sample.Imaginative, Immersive Education - Using storytelling RPGs to create immersive education experiences to help students understand storytelling, history and more.

Newsela - According to the site, “Newsela is an innovative way to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news. It's easy and amazing.” Newsela allows the teacher to assign a common reading assignment, but at one of 5 different reading levels, so every student can access the same content, but at a Lexile that is appropriate for them. The site also allows for annotating, collaborating and tracking.

PowToon - PowToon is an easy-to-use tool for making cartoon presentations.

Random Group Creator and Random Name Generator - These do what their names say, boo. These are pretty cool.

Ways to Clone Yourself

EdPuzzle - EdPuzzle allows you to take any online video customize it to make it your lesson. It also allows you you track students' learning. Here's a sample.

Explain Everything - Explain everything is an interactive and collaborative whiteboard platform that helps you do what the name indicates. Here's 2 samples: PRAW & Incredibles. Here's a how to guide.

G Suite, of course.

ScreenCastify - Screencastify is a free screen recorder extension for the Chrome browser. Capture, edit and share screencasts without installing any software required. Works on Mac, Windows and Chromebooks.

Screencast-o-Matic - An intuitive screen casting tool. (Video)