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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Student digital badges show knowledge they’ve acquired that can then be posted to their personal webpage, blogs, LMSs, or anywhere else that takes digital input. Breakout EDU. Google Expeditions.

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Marketplace trend update: 6 ed-tech developments

eSchool News

ClassFlow automatically processes the sales transactions and delivers instant downloads of purchased materials to purchasers. Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS. Don’t just download the latest app — help design it.

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