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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? She has been a presenter at ISTE 2019, NCCE 2016-19, the Southern Oregon EdTech Summit 2015-18, and IntegratED 2017-18.

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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

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. Buckley, P.,

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

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. Williams, K., and Williams, C. Buckley, P.,

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Why your young students love e-learning

Neo LMS

You’re probably familiar with the notion of gamification — the use of gaming principles and mechanics in a non-game context, like learning. Gamification is all about data. 78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. We created opportunities for teachers to use mentor texts — so anything related to Genius Hour, MakerSpace, gamification — a lot of most recently published texts through practitioners and facilitators in the education world right now.

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The 2018 Honor Roll: EdTech’s Must-Read K-12 IT Blogs

EdTech Magazine

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes. For five years, we’ve highlighted some of the best and brightest blogs within K—12 education. Texas Computer Education Association.

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Diary of a Techy Teacher: Why I’m Taking a One-Year Sabbatical with BetterLesson

Edsurge

With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student. When I was named the 2016 Montana Teacher of the Year, I became a voice for education in my state. Jessica Anderson ( @TriSciCurious ) is the 2016 Montana Teacher of the Year.