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#05: 5 Ideas for Using Game-Based Learning in your Classroom Today

The CoolCatTeacher

As a gamification guru and moonshot thinker, Michael transforms the traditional classroom into a high-energy environment where active student engagement is paramount. Ron Clark’s Harry Potter-like House System https://mrsbowley.wordpress.com/2012/09/30/the-ron-clark-challenge-sorting-students-into-houses/. Michael Matera.

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Dave Burgess Talks Student Engagement #MondayMotivation #tlap

The CoolCatTeacher

As a teacher in San Diego, California, he was a 2001 and 2012 Golden Apple winner in the Grossmont Union High School District and the 2007-2008 Teacher of the Year at West Hills High School. Explore Like a Pirate: Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners with Gamification and Game-inspired Course Design by Michael Matera.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

Bush ), and the invocation of facts, evidence, and expertise in political arguments (particularly those arguments on social media) is now interpreted as bias rather objectivity. Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. ” And here we are.

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Four game changers

Learning with 'e's

We can expect to see more projects of a similar nature taking hold in 2012. The emergence of massively networked communication and the subsequent collaborative possibilities excite him, as do the capabilities of new social media to enable sharing and rapid amplification of ideas across the globe. Wayne Mackintosh.

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