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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The following is cross-posted at Laura Fleming''s blog titled Worlds of Learning. Laura is the new media specialist at NMHS and has been challenged to develop innovative ways to create structures to recognize informal learning of both teachers and students. Teachers must register to access all features of the site. ?Once

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3 ways gamification engages students

eSchool News

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. Because online learning cannot easily foster the social and emotional connections that in-person learning does, students have a more difficult time staying motivated in classes.

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3 ways to use gamification to engage students

eSchool News

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning. Because online learning cannot easily foster the social and emotional connections that in-person learning does, students have a more difficult time staying motivated in classes.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Instead, there are clever ways to use games to engage and enthuse students in learning. Get Your Gamification On. Several years ago, gamification was an emerging trend and even named one of the Horizon Report’s Top 10 things driving educational change. Break Out of the Digital Mold. Teachers Learn Something, Too.

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Make Badges with Google Apps

Teacher Tech

Gamification Works!! We know when we gamify activities it increases student engagement and increased engagement increases student learning. In my webinar today I went over how to create digital badges using Google Slides and Google Drawings.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Redefinition: Technology allows for the creation of completely new ways of learning that were previously not possible. Breakout EDU.

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One Year Later: 2nd Cohort of New Innovators Finish Their Yearlong Cohort

EdTechTeam

Things like kindness, empathy, tenacity and creativity can now be acknowledged, celebrated and captured using a digital badge! Play is a powerful teaching and learning practice, because all cultures in the world play games and most students love to learn through play. Fanny was always so inspiring and encouraging.