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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms. That doesn’t mean teachers have to turn over their classrooms to “Fortnite,” “Clash of Clans” and “Pokémon Go.” MORE FROM ED TECH : Find out how augmented and virtual reality expand the classroom! Get Your Gamification On. Break Out of the Digital Mold.

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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The following is cross-posted at Laura Fleming''s blog titled Worlds of Learning. I am proud to announce Worlds of Learning @ New Milford High School , a digital badge professional learning platform. The idea behind this platform is to provide professional learning with a pinch of gamification. ?For

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Their approach is good but way down the SAMR pyramid to what can be done today, easily, in classrooms. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Breakout EDU. Low-tech alternatives.

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5 Reasons to Use Digital Badges in Your Classroom

Fractus Learning

Digital badges do just that: they show when students have learned a skill or met a goal. They acknowledge the efforts of students both inside and outside of the classroom, whether it’s coming to class on time, or visiting a museum on the weekend. For teachers, badges make classroom goals visible to students.

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2016 Global Education Conference - 53 Live Sessions on Tuesday, Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are partnering with Chrome Warrior and using their gamification platform to provide an enhanced professional development experience for Global Education Conference attendees. If you reach a total of 300 points, you will be eligible for a special digital badge and a personalized certificate of participation from the GEC!

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How To Make Learning Visible: A Spectrum

TeachThought - Learn better.

In a learning ecology–as we use them now–digital badges usually cause little excitement and mean nothing. As levers of gamification , however, they have the potential to uncover the nuance of performance, as I explained in that post. This is also where most classrooms are today. It is setup here as a spectrum.

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