Neo LMS

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Following up on my previous post on social media as a tool for learning, I want to write something about social learning and gamification. Because really, this is so relevant these days – we spend hours and hours on social media and gamers spend billions of hours levelling up on their favorite video games.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2019

Companies are creating technology-based products specifically for the classroom, and many schools and institutions are requiring students to use tablets or computers for their assignments. Technology Is Creating New Social Problems. Many view technology as a mask of anonymity, especially when people use social media.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In this new interactive virtual experience created with Discovery Education, students discover first-hand the STEM activities and skills behind this resource powering our world,” said Tracy Bame, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Freeport-McMoRan. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 5, 2019

For example, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls not only empathize intellect but also social skills in their mission statement. This school recognizes that there is a gap in Millennials and Generation Z’s social skills fueled by growing up on mobile phones, social media, and online chatting.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

We wanted to create a digital experience for kids that allows them to create things together, but isn’t saturated with the usual social-media-like engagement tools. Not only have they eschewed a social media setting for their digital playground, they’ve also steered clear of “gamifying” the experience.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Instead, many turn to technology companies that aim to offer high-quality instruction to the masses. A startup with offices in New York and São Paulo, Brazil, the company has raised millions of dollars for its adaptive software designed to teach English to people who want to learn it for work. “That’s something we work hard at doing.”

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The metaverse, as a concept, focuses on the idea that virtual or digital worlds can replicate existing forms of social interaction or create new ones. Because of this idea, companies all over the world are investing in the metaverse either as a form of social media, eCommerce, and even an educational platform.

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techlearning

JUNE 1, 2018

Slack , the massive communication company, had seen pictures of the stuff students were creating on Twitter. At the same time I started the Innovation Lab in 2016, I was invited to a gamification conference at UPenn. Every company is a tech company now, influenced by the pervasiveness of the internet and social media.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

A quarter of my students want to develop the website, run the social media accounts, oversee the Twitch stream, run the in-game camera, manage team logistics, act as team journalists and videographers, and provide the color commentary and play-by-play of the games as casters. Read more at Teched Up Teacher.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Schools working in partnership with commercial companies will ensure it happens. We even mentioned the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0 ) as a potential horizon technology for learning.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There are the ones, overwhelmingly boys, who spend so much time playing video games that, in his words, they “fall behind in their social skills.” Then, there is a group of mostly girls who misuse and overuse social media. ” Often they are battling depression or anxiety, or may be on the autism spectrum.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2017

These errors are really important if someone else is making decisions about you based on this data – like your employer deciding whether your participation in the company wellness program is adequate. Or your health insurance company deciding whether to deny you coverage based on your physical activity or lack thereof.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Beanstack , an edtech platform that helps schools encourage kids to read through gamification, demonstrated the importance of engaging readers. The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 5, 2013

Blogs and wikis and other social media made an appearance, even though at the time they were still fairly nascent in compulsory education. Schools working in partnership with commercial companies will ensure it happens. We even mentioned the Semantic Web (or Web 3.0 ) as a potential horizon technology for learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 25, 2019

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do! Google has partnered with different EdTech companies , such as Seesaw and Kahoot!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2016

One of the avenues they are exploring is gamification – integrating games and their principles into learning. Our research has shown that gamification has the potential to boost student learning and motivation. To this end, some schools are turning to gamification. Gamification of the classroom. Crashing the game.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Games and gamification are not new to education. Everything around them—from social media to streaming—was becoming more exciting, yet education hadn't changed a bit. Well, if we look at all the data we collect, I would say that most companies have no idea what to do with it. We also partner with companies.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I have also learned how make a product and grow a company. I have learned how to run a business, especially how to use social media marketing. I have learned so far how to overcome obstacles by not just staying stuck on one problem and continue to work through them to be productive. I like running this business with my friends.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate. I treated my classroom like a business by investing in long-term purchases, I made an investment in my company.”. I’m the gamification guy,' come talk to me.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 8, 2019

But gamification does not mean the learning is less rigorous; it is just different. This cry for trials proving rigor has prompted a response from industry in the form of multiple companies doing evaluations of products. In the education social media platform Knowstory, little light bulbs are used as the ratings symbol.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Are You Prepared For The Future Of Social Learning? A formula detailing a chemical reaction, or the new math behind a social media outreach strategy? But now with the ascent of social media, not only has the delivery model markedly changed, but also the construction and development of content.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2017

Another surprise was a turn in public perception of giant technology companies, especially Facebook and Google, as well as Twitter and Amazon. They worry that the pedagogical benefits of having students participate in the open web and/or social media might be cancelled out by trolls, hate speech and other forms of online abuse.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bush ), and the invocation of facts, evidence, and expertise in political arguments (particularly those arguments on social media) is now interpreted as bias rather objectivity. Pokemon Go : “Why Pokemon Go shows the future of learning gamification,” according to Education Dive at least. So who do you believe?

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Don’t forget that you can also add custom badges to reward students for completing tasks in the platform if gamification is enabled. If needed, see if you can be trained by the company. You can also make a special announcement on the school’s website or social media pages. Prepare class content. Before the launch….

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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