Recently, the world of virtual reality was shaken up when the popular Merge Cube by Merge VR dropped in price from $15 to just a dollar at many Walmart stores. When using specific apps, these cubes showcase different experiences as you rotate the block around with your hands. If you haven’t held a Merge Cube yet, they're made of a soft rubber material that’s comparable to a stiffer stress ball. (If you want to test out the apps first, you can print out a temporary paper cube.)

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Learn English in virtual reality. Immerse yourself in 360 degrees to learn typical vocabulary and pronunication or real places around the world.

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Every year students all over the world celebrate the Hour of Code. The goal is to set aside one hour to give everyone a chance to learn about coding and its fun aspects. On code.org, organizers release a themed game to help build excitement. There have been Frozen, Star Wars and Moana coding themes, all to build students’ knowledge base but also to show them that coding really isn’t that difficult.

Coding helps to develop not only computer skills, but also logic, math, problem solving, design and more. Coding can happen in any classroom and touches every ­subject area. The skills that children acquire while learning to code can impact them far beyond the devices they program with.

Understanding the steps it takes to make a character move from one side of a maze to the other teaches students to analyze their thinking. If they fail, the code provides feedback to show them that they don’t have to be right every time — they just need to find out where they went wrong and try again.

The Hour of Code is a popular event. Just this past year, more than 164,000 individual coding events were held in classrooms around the world. However, in many of those classrooms, coding happens for just that hour, and then things get back to the normal routine. Coding doesn’t have to be a one-hour or one-time event, though. It can last all year long.

Here are five ways to make the Hour of Code last all year:

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Setting cell phone expectations early is key to accessing the learning potential of these devices and minimizing the distraction factor.

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Estas son las 10 mejores apps de matemáticas para tablet, perfectas para aprovechar la tecnología aprendiendo matemáticas en cualquier curso

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Google is working on a new augmented reality interface called Article, which will integrate AR into the company's Chrome browser.

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Microlearning is a new way of teaching without losing the attention of your students. Take a look at these 5 microlearning apps for in the classroom

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Amb milers d'aplicacions educatives disponibles, triar-ne una pot ser tot un repte. mSchools Toolbox et facilita l'accés a un contingut mòbil educatiu de qualitat per a l'aula.

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