Voice Thread: A Social Learning Theory Tool

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 This week we are using Voice Threads for our assignment. I have never used a Voice thread before and found it very cool and super useful for my classroom. For my voice thread, I focused on a math lesson. We just began our unit on comparing numbers so I used a Voice Thread to record the anticipatory set for the students. 


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