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Top10 Web Stories

techlearning

From programming, STEM, and game-based learning to assessments and stories, there’s something for everyone in this best-of-2015 list.

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Top 50 Sites/Apps of 2015

Technology Tidbits

However, that does not mean there are not a lot of new items to look through, as sites/apps for programming/coding, Math/STEM, and Game Based Learning played a predominant role in this year's list. Also, has an abundance of lesson plans and students can learn how to create their own Minecraft style game.

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Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

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Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC) started collaborating on game-based learning (GBL) in developmental math and writing instruction in the mid-2000s, they had no idea what they were setting in motion. The CGN also has hosted three increasingly well-attended conferences, called the CUNY Games Festival.

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OPINION: Fewer students have to take college remedial math, data show

The Hechinger Report

Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. Plus the decline in remedial enrollments appeared in 2015, not long after the Common Core State Standards were implemented. Traditionally, students landed in remedial courses based on their placement test scores.

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Why It's Important to Teach Your Students Financial Literacy—and Three Ways to Do It

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we saw an opportunity to use video, animation, 3D gaming and avatars to bring financial concepts to life for the next generation. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI.

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This Standing-Room-Only Class Features Music Videos, a Gaming App and. Breathalyzers

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Among a slew of teaching awards, Garg has received UCLA’s Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and was named the 2015 California Professor of the Year. Getting a seat in Garg’s Chemistry 14D class—even one on the floor in the aisle—is for many undergraduates a cause for a victory dance, no doubt accompanied by the UCLA Eight Clap.

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Leveling Up: How Digital Game-Based Learning Is Altering Education

EdNews Daily

At the turn of the 21st century, public interest in games as learning tools took hold. In the eyes of digital game-based learning proponents, the general public and today’s teachers finally understood something that students and educational researchers knew all along. The Basics of Digital Game-Based Learning.