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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

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But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy.

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New Research Proves Game-Based Learning Works—Here's Why That Matters

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A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. Enders Game by Orson Scott Card—A novel that conceptualizes a variety of game-based learning mechanics.

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How to Roll Out Game-Based Learning—and Boost Engagement—in Your Classroom

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When Vadim Polikov—my childhood friend and a successful entrepreneur—approached me with a game-based learning business idea in the summer of 2015, I jumped at the idea. . Many of the teachers described the games as “transformative.”. This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform.

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

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From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Teaching online and blending classrooms is a hot topic, but there’s always room for improvement. As teachers, we need to constantly refresh and update topics to improve our distance learning skills.

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5 Things I Learned About AI, PBL, and Creativity at #ISTELive

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The ISTE Mainstage event today had several great takeaways relating to AI, creativity, Game based Learning, and more. Here are the things I learned from this event. Project Based Learning. They talk about projects, games, and also being treated with respect. for Learning. Curriculum from ISTE.

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Research Quest: Free Middle School Science Project-Based Learning

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Transform Your Classroom with Project-Based Learning and the Scientific Method We all know that hands-on exploration is the best way to engage students in the scientific method. Students learn about early ceramics as well as how to understand history and how it relates to science, as well. All opinions are my own. So why wait?

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Using Games to Help Reluctant Readers and Writers (and More)

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Lee Graham on Episode 569 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Dr. Lee Graham is working with teachers to teach them principles of game-based learning to teach writing. Her anecdotes of classroom behavior-changing results are – pardon the pun – game-changing.