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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

The gaming industry thrived, and educators looked for ways to capitalize on that. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals. The topic of gamifying a classroom isn’t new.

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Ozobot Classroom - STEAM learning management system coming this Fall

Educational Technology Guy

From there, educators can manage students and bots, access standards-aligned lesson recommendations, assign activities and digital badges, and use real-time insights into students’ online and offline activity to inform their teaching strategies. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

The authors will dissect an approach to unlocking tomorrow's schools so that today's modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems. In addition to the digital badge awarded at the end of the course, once all requirements have been met we can also send a signed certificate of completion.

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StudyBlue announces annual teacher appreciation program “Thank a Teacher a Latte.”

Educational Technology Guy

As the largest digital library of peer-sourced study materials, StudyBlue is inviting students, parents and industry leaders nationwide to join in building a virtual Wall of Thanks to give back to the educators who have made a difference in their lives. With one click, a digital thank-you card is created and displayed as a keepsake.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. Open digital badges. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves?

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Open Learning Opportunities for All Young People

Educator Innovator

This article was originally featured on BoingBoing. Khan Academy has been the darling of the tech industry because of its potential to disrupt existing models of educational content delivery. Khan Academy has been the darling of the tech industry because of its potential to disrupt existing models of educational content delivery.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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