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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

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Gamification. Gamification , a learning strategy that involves using games and rewards to teach students, is a strategy with plenty of both advocates and critics. For elementary students, options for experiential learning may be limited. Play As You Learn: Gamification as a Technique for Motivating Learners. Dymnicki, A.,

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

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Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2] And finally, gamification can have an engaging place in the classroom if intrinsic motivation is prioritized.[4] Gamification and student motivation. Sources : Rovai, A., Wighting, M.,

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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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. Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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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.” Teaching and learning are increasingly being measured and quantified to enable analysis of the relationship between inputs (e.g.,

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Hack Education Weekly News

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wSnwQpCp0x — Daniel Pianko (@danielpianko) August 3, 2016. Via BoingBoing : “‘ After School Satan Club ’ could be coming to elementary schools in the U.S.” billion for the first half of 2016,” reports EdWeek’s Market Brief. “Anybody.” ” JFC.