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6 tips to begin an elementary esports program in your school

eSchool News

The benefits of esports are well documented. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. I teach an elementary STEM class called iCreate in South Haven Public Schools.

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6 tips to help start an elementary esports program in your school

eSchool News

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on creating an elementary esports program. The benefits of esports are well documented.

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Top 5 new EdTech tools that you might use in your university

Neo LMS

Game-based learning. The best way to acquire and retain knowledge is by learning through games. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. If you want to see the original Watergate Affair documents, you can find them on NewseumED.

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Top 10 K–12 Educational Technology Trends

techlearning

Gone are the days of creating multiple versions of a document every time it’s saved, or saving important work to a flash drive that must be taken everywhere and is at risk of being left, stolen, or lost. 9 Game-Based LearningGame-based learning will continue to be a significant trend in K–12 education.

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Building a Learning Company: Three Entrepreneurs Dish Out Advice

Edsurge

Playing games in the classroom is not a new concept. So, it’s perhaps not surprising that there are game-based edtech companies hoping to leave a mark in classrooms. But what goes into building a game-based learning startup—or any edtech startup?

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

Technology Tidbits

Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels. TypeTastic - The best site around for student's K-12 (w/ educational portal) learning how to type/keyboard. Edji - An innovative new site for annotating texts for collaborative learning.

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Merge Cube Mania in Middle School

The CoolCatTeacher

So you can actually video and document what it is that you are seeing through the augmented reality. They were just totally engrossed in learning how to use the cube, just exploring all the depths of it. Day 2 was they had to document it. They had to tell what they learned about how to use it. That was Part 1.

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