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10 Popular Educational Trends and What You Need to Know

Waterford

While we don’t fully know what the 2020–2021 school year will look like yet, it’s sure that taking care of your overall health and well-being will be essential for students, teachers, and parents alike. But adding the arts alongside these subjects (thus creating STEAM: STEM plus arts) can improve your students’ academic performance.

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The critical link between scholastic esports and career pathways education

eSchool News

When I first approached my administration back in August 2021 about implementing a scholastic esports program at school, I had imagined facing significant opposition to the idea, and, in preparation, had rehearsed my talking points and done my research in order to be persuasive.

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Discovery Education’s EdTech News Roundup – May 15

Discovery Education

Learn More Learn More --> Conversations with Amy Nakamoto: Teacher Appreciation Week Amy Nakamoto, Discovery Education’s General Manager of Social Impact, sat down with 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year, John Arthur, who teaches 6th grade in Salt Lake City, Utah to talk about what appreciation looks like to him.

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Why Games are Central to Building Math Fluency

MIND Research Institute

Worse, gamification can send the wrong incentives that math is something to move through to get to the fun prizes or obtain points. 11 Lessons on Game-based Learning and STEM Education. Game-based Learning vs Gamification: What’s the Difference? June, 2021. Further Reading: MathMINDs: Create Real-world Math Connections.

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35 edtech innovations we saw at FETC 2023

eSchool News

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. For The Win Robotics focuses on fostering critical thinking and lifelong curiosity through the power of experiential STEM and computer science education through drone technology.

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65 ways equity, edtech, and innovation shone in 2022

eSchool News

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Schools are turning to creative solutions such as immersive technology and gamification in the classroom. Schools will make changes to provide systematic instruction and stem the bleed of learning loss. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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61 predictions about edtech, equity, and learning in 2022

eSchool News

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Schools are turning to creative solutions such as immersive technology and gamification in the classroom. Schools will make changes to provide systematic instruction and stem the bleed of learning loss. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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