article thumbnail

5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Blog: [link] Twitter: @ hmarrs24 Resource: I’ve created a Google site that accompanies a three-day workshop that I do on gamifying your classroom at the elementary level. It’s called Next Level Gamification: [link] Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

article thumbnail

The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

EdTech 80
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

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.

Trends 56
article thumbnail

Three Career Paths for Educational Innovators—How to Get There and Where the Jobs Are

Edsurge

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. Website • Twitter.

article thumbnail

mLevel’s Top 3 Learning and Development Lessons Of 2017

EdTechTeam

As a team, we’ve all expanded our knowledge over the last year, from how to make business more efficient, to learning new technologies, to hosting company-wide brainstorming sessions, to expanding our internship programs. It is very likely that that content was also delivered in multiple formats using gamification.

article thumbnail

What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

CAROLINA BIOLOGICAL SUPPLY COMPANY BUILDING BLOCKS OF SCIENCE 3D ( www.carolina.com/help/pressreleases/2018/building-blocks-of-science-3d ) Carolina Biological Supply Company launched the new Building Blocks of Science 3D hands-on unit kits for students in grades K to 5. Set to be launched in the summer of 2018, Typing Agent 5.0

Tools 58
article thumbnail

What’s New

techlearning

Students are driven to succeed by QwertyTown’s gamification features, social motivation and engaging lessons and challenges. These workshop modules offers efficiency, flexibility, and choice to Texas teachers. SECOND NATURE QWERTYTOWN 2.0 ( qwertytown.com ) QwertyTown 2.0