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Gamification Stage Three: The Constraint

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What I am saying is when I think about video games, I remember all the good times I had with people I care about. That is why the highest form of gamification, what I call stage 3 , is using video game techniques to create experiences for students. Specifically, the transmedia, networked narrative that video games do so well.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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And the top e-learning trends for 2016 are.

Neo LMS

Second, the introduction of gamification. Initially thought by some experts and even teachers as a gimmick , gamification quickly caught the interest of the ed tech world, because the best way to teach students is to play games. And mixing up gaming with learning makes the latter even more fun.

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Shall We Play a Game (& Learn)?

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Since chatting with Tom Driscoll via Google Hangout and Brian Germaine at the EdSurge RIDE event in the Fall , meeting up with Chris Aviles at Techspo14 , viewing Mr. Lewis'' Edmodo Webinar on Gamification , and engaging with my #TeamMAITs in class, I''m intrigued by the didactic nature of games. How many levels are in Candy Crush ?

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Could technology ever be part of Montessori education?

Neo LMS

The video below explains the concept in a comprehensive manner: If you do more research into the Montessori approach to education, undoubtedly you’ll come across the many ground rules for classrooms or how lessons are structured.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Gamification , one of the biggest trends in education, is the process of making learning more fun and engaging for students by reorienting lessons to feel more like games. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Using Google Forms to Streamline Feedback & Document Growth

techlearning

In the video, I talk about how the type of long term lessons I taught as an English teacher, such as essays, and the long terms lessons I teach now in Fair Haven Innovates , like design thinking, can benefit from the use of this type of Google Form. Below is the show. Read more at Teched Up Teacher.

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