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GlassLab Set Out to Prove Games Could Assess Learning. Now It’s Shutting Down.

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million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment). middle-school market.

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Alabama Department of Education Gives Students Free Summer Access to Fuel Education Solutions

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Herndon, Virginia, May 22, 2018 — To keep students actively learning over the summer and to help prevent summer learning loss, the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE), with the help of Fuel Education® (FuelEd®), is launching its sixth annual Alabama Summer Learning Challenge. Ryan, General Manager of Fuel Education.

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Amplify’s Games Find a New Home in Touch Press

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Today, Amplify announced that it is merging its games division—the team and its assets—with StoryToys, an Irish developer of children’s learning apps, into a new company: Touch Press. These include Edhesive (K-12 computer science company), Fluence (assessment technology) and School by Design (school resource planning).

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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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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

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million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. Challenges Students and Empowers Them to Learn from Their Mistakes. million as of 2017; the U.S.

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Summer Reads for Teachers

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Her writing is accessible and her recommendations offer parents actionable ideas for managing family media use. A classic of educational futurism, James Paul Gee’s book remains an important reminder of the unique and powerful ways games and play can help us learn and think. Not too much. Mostly with others.”

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

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She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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