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Why Game Based Learning Is the Right Choice for Remote Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

It’s called Game Based Learning (GBL). It simply means teachers include games in their lesson plans to teach curricular concepts. By using the games kids already love–want to play–GBL has an opportunity to turn students into lifelong learners who enjoy learning. More on Game-based Learning.

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Cybersecurity to Be Taught to K-8 students across North America for Free

eSchool News

This has become more critical as students use laptops, mobile devices, and home computers routinely. The reports are easily tailored to a teacher’s specific focus and also helps guide the assessment process. Westover, Technology Enabled Learning and Teaching Coordinator at Rainy River District School Board. and Canada.

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Removing the Limitations in a Digital Environment

Fractus Learning

Good teaching and sound student-directed learning is not, and should not be, device dependent. High-quality learning can happen on laptops, Chromebooks, tablets, or cell phones. In many cases, it’s not the device that makes the difference, often the best learning occurs with no device.

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What a Game Jam Taught Los Angeles Teens—and Their Teachers

Educator Innovator

But it wasn’t just the students picking up new game design skills, as the jam was the culmination of a year-long series of events aimed at helping teachers further incorporate games-based learning into their classrooms. Kids redeemed these points for awards like a laptop to use at the game jam.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Physical Education w/ #Edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

And what they enable you to do is complete a performance and then you’ve for a given delay period to get back to the device whether it’s a laptop or an iPad or an android tablet and see that. That’s actually got some real evidence there to drive your assessment and drive what they’ve been able to achieve in your classroom.

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Top 8 Advantages of an Interactive STEM Curriculum

Kitaboo on EdTech

But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. By creating game-based learning modules, publishers and educators can enable students to find solutions and solve problems.

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Best Websites and Apps for Creating Online Quizzes

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

These are simple and easy to use applications that will enable you to create different quiz types and formative assessment activities. Socrative Socrative helps you engage your students through personalized formative assessments using quizzes, interactive activities, question polls, exit tickets, and more.