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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

All you need is a special app that loads onto a tablet or smartphone. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Tom’s Digital Breakouts offer free games this teacher created and freely shares with others. Google Expeditions.

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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges. Hashtags are one of the most important inventions of our digital learning. Name a category like favorite dessert, cartoon, sports team and so forth for students to draw the answers to on their tablets.

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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 Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

edWeb.net

Apps and software are a boon for special needs students, but teachers shouldn’t download whatever they feel like. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders. About the Host.

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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. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market.

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