ProfHacker

OCTOBER 29, 2015

iOS and Android) - Mark Sample highlighted this fantastic app in 2013 , and I’ve been using it on and off since to add some variety to my running. With gamification still getting some buzz in educational circles, this app is a great example of incentives through story done right. Zombies, Run! (iOS

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. It has been a leader for quite some time, in excellence and implementation of using technology to teach. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Always eager to associate itself with the latest tech craze, education technology embraced Pokémon Go with great gusto: “ Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification.” ” “ The Educational Potential of Pokémon Go.” ” “ Why Pokémon Go marks a new step forward in education.”

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

To begin with some definitions, game-based learning differs from gamification in several important ways. Sometimes the latter is reduced to bells and whistles such as gold stars and progress bars, but gamification is potentially a much more subtle and powerful teaching strategy.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Naomi Ganin-Epstein I speak meme! .

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Notes from a panel session at SXSWedu 2013 [link] Teaching is a complex undertaking. Who are students and teachers in 2013? Kids in 2013 have well developed game playing abilities, but they check those skills at the schoolhouse door b/c that''s not their school experience. Stick with mature technologies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

“Investors, particularly in China, are looking across the Pacific to check out innovative tools and models that they haven’t explored or implemented back home,” observes Victor Hu, Global Head of Education Technology and Services at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division. Last year, at least 10 U.S.-based Limited Partner, Global Reach.

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Class Tech Integrate

JANUARY 20, 2019

Kahoot was launched in September of 2013, so it's hardly a "new/cutting edge tool." However, with the speed of newly appearing (and quickly disappearing) EdTech tools, Kahoot still seems to be one of the top used. A simple question that implies an easy tweak of how students are engaged with the tool, but why does it matter?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Gamification. Activity-Based Learning.

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techlearning

JUNE 1, 2018

I decided to make student voice part of my life’s work in 2013, at the start of my 6th year teaching Sophomore English. At the same time I started the Innovation Lab in 2016, I was invited to a gamification conference at UPenn. I started that school year with one goal: to take what students loved and incorporate it into the classroom.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Felix Jacomino , the school’s Director of Technology, managed to lead a team that pulled off an incredible learning event. Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. If You Challenge Them.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Traveling to many schools, engaging with teachers, students and principals, we have seen first-hand the successful (and unsuccessful) introduction of a wide range of technologies. But there are still a number of limitations to the effective use of these technologies at the primary level. Gamification for Learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post). But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression. Game-Based Learning & Gamification. Tomorrow’s Learning Today: 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2017

All this is aided today, no doubt, by new computing technologies that create and collect massive amounts of personal data. Learning analytics are technologies that support and reflect the idea that we can collect and measure and analyze data about learners in order to know what they know, in order to optimize what and how they learn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This unusual school started in Paris in 2013 -- it’s the passion project of French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel, who donated $100-million to the effort. You know when it's over because we have a gamification system. They call the coding challenge the “piscine,” or swimming pool because students are thrown into the deep end.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But are we truly addicted to technology? “Technology addiction” doesn’t appear in the latest Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, the DSM-V, published in 2013. In today’s world, technology may be more like food than it is like alcohol. And what about our kids? Dueling diagnoses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 22, 2014

Both events are focused on four main themes from the NMC Horizon Report > 2013 Museum Edition : Bring Your Own Device, Location-Based Services, Crowdsourcing, and Makerspaces. Thursday: The Future of Museums Conference will be a free, online, collaborative global conversation about technology, museums, and the future.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Kennedy The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Just a reminder that there''s still time to sign up for the technology and app smackdown or Inspire presentations at the April 6th MiniCon. RSCON5 April MiniCon.

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