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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Once you learn about the tech and the tools, and understand the research behind these electronic portfolios, you’ll be equipped to structure assessment in a way that encourages your students towards success. As you seek GBL and gamification tools for your classroom, I recommend this course to help you shine: Level Up!

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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. You may want to include assignments that help students manage stress and make time for your own self-care as a teacher. Gamification.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Research also suggests that online learning can encourage intrinsic motivation.[1] 1] In part, this is because online learning often involves some level of independence—and independent learning is also linked to motivated students.[12] Five Key Ingredients for Improving Student Motivation. Williams, K., Buckley, P.,

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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

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How Can the Metaverse Transform Learning?

Edsurge

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Mirecka-Jakubowska has a contagious passion for learning and urges educators to embrace this new technology. Did we have failures?

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7 Edtech Trends to Watch in 2022: a Startup Guide for Entrepreneurs

Edsurge

Game-based learning is transforming how students learn Integrating game-based solutions into the learning experience through the use of tablets, laptops and virtual reality (VR) can increase engagement and result in positive learning outcomes.

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Strategies and Tools to Improve Student Behavior and Engagement – SULS0175

Shake Up Learning

When so many teachers are struggling with behavior management, student engagement is at an all-time low. Shawn shares the importance of building relationships with students (Ted Lasso style) and managing behavior with positive reinforcement through gamification. Gamification . Teachers are burnout.